{"product_id":"the-world-inside-your-head-charles-maurer-9780231223478","title":"The World Inside Your Head: How Perceptions Build Society","description":"\u003cp\u003eTo socialize, your brain needs to see and hear other people, yet your brain is sealed inside a bony box: your skull. How does an internal mass of tissue comprehend the world outside? How does it form social relationships? This groundbreaking book answers those questions and reveals the perceptual underpinnings of society. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCharles and Daphne Maurer provide a clear explanation of how the brain interprets sensory inputs, showing how rudimentary sensations evolve into social interactions at every scale from nursery to nation. Their novel approach shows how sights, sounds, and smells build social and political worlds. They offer fresh insights into broad swaths of the social sciences. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe World Inside Your Head\u003c\/i\u003e brings science to life, interweaving cutting-edge research with eye-opening examples across cultures and eras. Its style is lively and free of jargon, yet its argument is rigorous and scholarly. It is an accessible and iconoclastic rethinking of conventional psychology.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Charles Maurer,Daphne Maurer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0231223471\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780231223478\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Columbia University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/16\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 268\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Charles Maurer","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48454294700287,"sku":"9780231223478","price":100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_399c87f5-1b2d-42a0-888d-50ed23d2a7bf.jpg?v=1777305330","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-world-inside-your-head-charles-maurer-9780231223478","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}