The Choosing Brain

The Hidden Neuroscience Behind Every Decision You Make

von Dorian Vance

136 Seiten, Taschenbuch

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By the time you feel you have "decided" something, your brain has often already been building toward that choice for a while.

The Choosing Brain takes you inside the real neuroscience of decision-making - from the split-second brain activity that precedes conscious awareness, to the dopamine circuits that quietly assign value to every option you consider, to the prefrontal cortex's very real but surprisingly limited power to override impulse.

Drawing on decades of research from Benjamin Libet's landmark experiments to Kahneman and Tversky's Nobel Prize-winning work on bias, this book explains why willpower alone so often fails - and what actually works instead. You'll learn why decision fatigue is more nuanced than the popular "ego depletion" story suggests, why emotion is not the enemy of good judgment but an essential ingredient in it, why stress hijacks your prefrontal cortex in measurable, predictable ways, and how habits quietly convert yesterday's choices into today's automatic defaults.

Written in clear, accessible language and grounded throughout in peer-reviewed science - with a full bibliography for readers who want to go deeper - The Choosing Brain replaces vague advice to "just try harder" with a precise, evidence-based map of how choice actually happens in the brain, and practical, research-backed strategies for making better decisions starting today.

Inside you'll discover: Why conscious awareness often arrives after your brain has already started decidingHow dopamine really works (it's not the "pleasure chemical" you think it is)Why decision fatigue is real, but not in the way most people believeThe surprising reason patients who lose emotional processing make worse decisions, not better onesThe specific cognitive biases most likely to be costing you money, time, and relationshipsHow acute stress reshapes your brain's decision-making circuitry in minutes>If you've ever wondered why you keep making the same decisions you know aren't serving you, this book will change how you understand your own mind - and give you a genuine, science-backed toolkit for choosing differently.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798176051384
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 21.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Independently published