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The Stories of Your Life: The Eight Masterplots That Explain Human Behaviour

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內容簡介 每天早起一小時為孩子準備早餐的母親？她正在上演「犧牲」的情節。那支在所有困難中仍然贏得大獎盃的業餘體育隊？他們屬於「逆襲」的故事。我們透過「故事」來理解世界。我們所有的經歷、所有洞察——在心理上，其實是透過人類歷史上精心策劃、不斷完善，並傳承下來的特定視角來解釋它們。作者安柏瑞吉教授將這些視角分類為八種主要敘事框架，這些情節適用於任何經歷；更藉由虛構故事、現實生活和流行心理學研究的例子，證明人類不僅自然傾向於這些主要敘事框架，還很會利用這些敘事來操控我們的世界。We understand the world through stories. All of our experiences, all of our insights – psychologically, we interpret them through specific lenses that have been curated, perfected and passed down throughout human history. Professor Ben Ambridge has quantified those lenses into eight distinct masterplots that can apply to any experience.The mother who wakes up an hour early every day to prep her child's breakfast? She's playing out the Sacrifice plot. The amateur sports team who go on to win the big trophy against all the odds? They're part of the Underdog narrative.Ambridge uses examples from fiction, real life, and popular psychology research to demonstrate how we not only naturally gravitate towards the masterplot narratives, but how we actually use those narratives to manipulate the world around us – like the addict who uses the Monster plot to paint their illness as something to overcome, or the boxer who relies on the Revenge narrative to motivate themselves to fight their way back after an embarrassing defeat.These masterplots do more for us than to help us understand the world; they’re vehicles through which humans have survived. In showing us how our brains work, The Story of Your Life teaches us fascinating lessons about the nature of humanity, the power of psychology and - most importantly - the way we see ourselves.

各界推薦

各界推薦 Stories are essential for human beings. They allow us to learn, to connect, to empathize. The best stories follow structures that catalyze and amplify their power. In The Stories of Your Life, Ben Ambridge decodes and deciphers these master plots so we all can benefit and grow -- Matt Abrahams, author of Think Faster, Talk Smarter and host of Think Fast, Talk SmartLife - and the quite appalling behaviour of everyone I know - finally makes sense. Read this remarkable book -- Andrew Gold, author of The Psychology of Secrets and host of Heretics

作者介紹

作者介紹 Ben AmbridgeBen Ambridge is Professor of Psycholinguistics at the University of Manchester and the ESRC International Centre for Language and Communicative Development (LuCiD). His first two books, Psy-Q: You Know Your IQ – Now Test Your Psychological Intelligence and Are You Smarter Than a Chimpanzee have sold over 100,000 copies across sixteen language editions. These books led to regular columns in The Observer and The Big Issue, appearances on Channel 4’s Sunday Brunch, BBC Radio 2’s Chris Evans Breakfast Show, the BBC’s Tiny Happy People website, talks at Google, The Royal Institution, Oxford Literary Festival, Wilderness Festival and Bestival, and a TEDx talk, 'Nine Myths About Psychology', that has had over 3 million views.Ben’s day job as a prolific researcher of experimental psycholinguistics keeps him up to date with findings from the psychology, linguistics and neuroscience literature; knowledge that will prove extremely valuable when undertaking a writing project at the intersection of these disciplines.

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最佳賣點 : 透過八種主要敘事框架，行為心理學家教你看懂人們上演的戲碼，以及更了解自己