过去，我们常常认为人是理性的动物，但越来越多的行为学研究告诉我们，人类行为中存在很多非理性的表现 ，比如我们自认为坚定的喜好、浪漫的爱情就常常被证明前后不一、变化莫测。在《思维是平的》这本书中，英国行为科学家尼克·查特从经典小说《安娜·卡列尼娜》主人公跳下站台后的心理动机入手，通过对21点错觉、大脑解读者操纵实验等视觉案例和反直觉实验的分析，揭示了人类大脑在解释某一事物时的过程以及局限。 他基于神经科学和行为心理学方面的全新发现，认为潜意识和心理深度只是一场骗局；我们的想法、动机和思维不过是即兴发挥的结果。查特认为，意识到这一点本身就是一种解放，因为它将帮助我们更好地做出改变，缓解被机器取代的焦虑，从而促使我们重新认识自己，更好地做出决策。
A radical reinterpretation of how your mind works – and why it could change your life
‘An astonishing achievement. Nick Chater has blown my mind’ Tim Harford
‘A total assault on all lingering psychiatric and psychoanalytic notions of mental depths … Light the touchpaper and stand well back’ New Scientist
We all like to think we have a hidden inner life. Most of us assume that our beliefs and desires arise from the murky depths of our minds, and, if only we could work out how to access this mysterious world, we could truly understand ourselves. For more than a century, psychologists and psychiatrists have struggled to discover what lies below our mental surface.
In The Mind Is Flat, pre-eminent behavioural scientist Nick Chater reveals that this entire enterprise is utterly misguided. Drawing on startling new research in neuroscience, behavioural psychology and perception, he shows that we have no hidden depths to plumb, and unconscious thought is a myth. Instead, we generate our ideas, motives and thoughts in the moment. This revelation explains many of the quirks of human behaviour – for example why our supposedly firm political beliefs, personal preferences and even our romantic attractions are routinely proven to be inconsistent and changeable.
As the reader discovers, through mind-bending visual examples and counterintuitive experiments, we are all characters of our own creation, constantly improvising our behaviour based on our past experiences. And, as Chater shows us, recognising this can be liberating.
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