Spite: The Upside of Your Dark Side by McCarthy-Jones, Simon
Spite: The Upside of Your Dark Side by McCarthy-Jones, Simon

Spite: The Upside of Your Dark Side

Spite angers and enrages us, but it also keeps us honest. In this provocative account, a psychologist...
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Author: Simon McCarthy-Jones
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Spite: The Upside of Your Dark Side by McCarthy-Jones, Simon

Spite: The Upside of Your Dark Side

€43,86
Spite: The Upside of Your Dark Side by McCarthy-Jones, Simon

Spite: The Upside of Your Dark Side

€43,86
Author: Simon McCarthy-Jones
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
Spite angers and enrages us, but it also keeps us honest. In this provocative account, a psychologist examines how petty vengeance explains human thriving.

Spite seems utterly useless. You don't gain anything by hurting yourself just so you can hurt someone else. So why hasn't evolution weeded out all the spiteful people?

As psychologist Simon McCarthy-Jones argues, spite seems pointless because we're looking at it wrong. Spite isn't just what we feel when a car cuts us off or when a partner cheats. It's what we feel when we want to punish a bad act simply because it was bad. Spite is our fairness instinct, an innate resistance to exploitation, and it is one of the building blocks of human civilization. As McCarthy-Jones explains, some of history's most important developments--the rise of religions, governments, and even moral codes--were actually redirections of spiteful impulses.

A provocative, engaging read, Spite shows that if you really want to understand what makes us human, you can't just look at noble ideas like altruism and cooperation. You need to understand our darker impulses as well.

Author: Simon McCarthy-Jones
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 04/13/2021
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.80w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781541646995


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 03/01/2021 pg. 99
Booklist 03/15/2021 pg. 19
Shelf Awareness 04/20/2021

About the Author
Simon McCarthy-Jones is associate professor of psychology at Trinity College Dublin. His research has appeared in Nature Communications, Clinical Psychology Review, and elsewhere. He has been featured in Newsweek and New Scientist and on BBC News, ABC Radio, and the BBC World Service. He lives in Dublin, Ireland.
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