Perception, Dennis Proffitt
Perception, Dennis Proffitt
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Perception
How Our Bodies Shape Our Minds

Author: Dennis Proffitt, Drake Baer

Narrator: Angela Dawe

Unabridged: 7 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/28/2020


Synopsis

A groundbreaking popular psychology book that explores the deep connection between our body and our brain.

Over decades of study, University of Virginia psychologist Dennis Proffitt has shown that we are each living our own personal version of Gulliver’s Travels, where the size and shape of the things we see are scaled to the size of our bodies, and our ability to interact with them. Stairs look less steep as dieters lose weight, baseballs grow bigger the better players hit, hills look less daunting if you’re standing next to a close friend, and learning happens faster when you can talk with your hands.

Written with journalist Drake Baer, Perception marries academic rigor with mainstream accessibility. The research presented and the personalities profiled will show what it means to not only have, but be, your unique human body. The positive ramifications of viewing ourselves from this embodied perspective include greater athletic, academic, and professional achievement, more nourishing relationships, and greater personal well-being. The better we can understand what our bodies are—what they excel at, what they need, what they must avoid—the better we can live our lives.

A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Press

About Dennis Proffitt

DENNIS PROFFITT has helped develop the field of embodied cognition in his near 40-year tenure at UVA. He is a highly sought speaker, and his research has been widely covered in the press. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia with his wife, Deborah Roach.

About Drake Baer

DRAKE BAER is a deputy editor at Business Insider, where he leads a team of 20+ journalists in covering the shifting nature of organizations, wealth, and demographics in the United States. He has been a senior writer at New York Magazine, contributing writer at Fast Company, and the director of content for a human resources consultancy. A speaker at the Aspen Ideas Festival and other conferences, he circumnavigated the globe before turning 25. Perception is his second book.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Daniel on January 24, 2021

One of the best books about perception I had ever read, incorporating the latest scientific findings and its mind-blowing! 1. Our perception is not an objective camera and screen system. It changes with our body and what it is doing 2. Fitter people see distances smaller, hills less steep. A good ba......more

Goodreads review by Cav on May 27, 2024

"...Yet, as a current strain of perceptual research is showing, the way we think, feel, and exist is inexorably shaped by our physical being. The body and brain are indivisibly coupled, and this book is a celebration of—and investigation into—that fact. The better we can understand what our bodies a......more

Goodreads review by Mehtap on May 10, 2021

Unsere Wahrnehmung anderer Menschen und Lebewesen ist maßgeblich von ihrer Form und Farbe beeinflusst. Aber auch Düfte. So wählen wir im Unterbewusstsein unsere Partner:innen nach dem Geruch aus. Die Wahrnehmung wird natürlich auch vom medialen Bild geprägt. So assoziieren in den USA die Menschen BP......more

Goodreads review by Jill on October 01, 2020

Super disjointed and all over the place. Not focused or narrowed, and difficult to follow.......more

Goodreads review by Nursebookie on September 23, 2020

Perception By Dennis Proffitt and Drake Baer I enjoyed this book a lot - really made me look at things a little different - changing my perceptions and understanding of things. As a nurse specializing in injuries of the brain I really found this book completely fascinating and my kind of a read I real......more