Deirdre Barrett is an evolutionary psychologist at Harvard Medical School’s Behavioral Medicine Program. She is the author of several books, including Waistland, Trauma and Dream, and Supernormal Stimuli. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
"The concept of a supernormal stimulus is essential to
understanding the influence of evolution on organisms in artificial
environments—which in the case of humans is almost every aspect of
our surroundings. In this clear and thoughtful book, Deirdre
Barrett offers the first comprehensive overview of the many ways in
which we stimulate ourselves in ways that the forces of evolution
never anticipated."
*Steven Pinker, Harvard College Professor, Harvard University, and
author of How the Mind Works and Enlightenment Now*
"Supernormal Stimuli is just super. The reader is shown how by
understanding our evolutionary past we can see how our lives are
guided today. This book is a great example of the ancient wisdom
that to ‘know thyself’ is the key to the good life."
*John Ratey, MD, Associate Clinical Professor, Harvard Medical
School, and author of Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of
Exercise and the Brain*
"Deirdre Barrett’s new book is a super stimulus to our normal
imagination. She shows us that biology will be our destiny if we do
not recognize our inherited tendency to overvalue supernormal
color, size, and taste. She travels effortlessly from the pioneers
of ethology—the study of animal behavior—to our current exaggerated
preoccupations with sex, food, and war. She lucidly helps us to see
the ordinary in an extraordinary new light."
*David Spiegel, MD, Willson Professor and Associate Chair of
Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of
Medicine*
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