Hope and Despair: How Perceptions of the Future Shape Human Behavior (Hardcover)

Preface
Introduction
Part I: The Anatomy of Expectation
Chapter 1. The Nature of Hope
Chapter 2. Predicting the Future
Chapter 3. The Internal Representation of the External World
Part II: The Machinery of the Mind
Chapter 4. The Processing of Information
Chapter 5. The Role of Learning and Memory
Chapter 6. The Impact of Consciousness
Chapter 7. Emotion as Information
Part III: A Blueprint for Uniqueness
Chapter 8. The Evolution of Human Behavior
Chapter 9. The Gift of Language
Chapter 10. The Development of Symbolic Thought
Chapter 11. The Concept of Time
Part IV: The Human Condition
Chapter 12. Science and Religion as Ways of Knowing
Chapter 13. Shared Expectations
Chapter 14. Despair
Chapter 15. Human Nature?It's About Time
Notes
References
Index