Artir Kel has posted a 21K word review of our book, over 1/6 as long as the book itself! He has a few nice things to say: What the book does is to offer deeper (ultimate) explanations for the reasons (proximate) behind behaviours that shine new light on everyday life. … It is a good book in that it offers a run through lots of theories and ways of looking at things, some of which I have noted down for further investigation. It is because of this thought-provokingness and summarisation of dozens of books into a single one that I ultimately recommend the book for purchase.
You are of course right. But the disheartening effect still worries me. So in the interest of balance I hope your third book is heartening, even if it i more wrong than right :-)
One need not see as noble the quest to uncover key influences on human behavior. Especially if those influences are hard to pin down re specific individual behaviors.
I'll come with a short review of the book. I didn't like it. There is something awry with this perspective on people. It is sort of like talking about averages, but no one individual fits the average profile. So the insights can probably be used to market detergents, but they can't be used to talk with another person, because they will not recognize themselves, and nor do they behave as the book suggests they do. No psychologist could ever have written this book, as the roots of psychology reject the book's economic presuppositions. That doesn't mean the book is wrong; but it does not symbolize a very noble endeavor and is thus disheartening.
Added a reply in my post.
I replied to that in an added to the post above.
Hi,
Thank you for your reply. I wrote some further comments in my blog, herehttps://nintil.com/2018/01/...
You are of course right. But the disheartening effect still worries me. So in the interest of balance I hope your third book is heartening, even if it i more wrong than right :-)
One need not see as noble the quest to uncover key influences on human behavior. Especially if those influences are hard to pin down re specific individual behaviors.
I'll come with a short review of the book. I didn't like it. There is something awry with this perspective on people. It is sort of like talking about averages, but no one individual fits the average profile. So the insights can probably be used to market detergents, but they can't be used to talk with another person, because they will not recognize themselves, and nor do they behave as the book suggests they do. No psychologist could ever have written this book, as the roots of psychology reject the book's economic presuppositions. That doesn't mean the book is wrong; but it does not symbolize a very noble endeavor and is thus disheartening.
Curses for having such a thorough indexer!
>Note that our book never uses “hypocrisy”.
I note that the index pointed me to several uses of "hypocrisy". They appear to be fairly accurate descriptions of what's happening.
Hi Robin,Thank you for your reply.I think we are closer to agreement than I initially thought, which is by all counts a good thing!
In a few days I'll have a rejoinder up in my blog (It will be short, I promise :)
Artir