**‘Fascinating, entertaining and deeply smart’ – Will Storr, bestselling author of The Status GameFeaturing an updated introduction from the author.**Wars, pandemics, Brexit, Elon Musk, the impending doom of our species, the enduring popularity of Ted Lasso – we live in confusing and uncertain times. Won’t someone make it all make sense?In The Stories of Your Life, bestselling author Ben Ambridge explains that the often-bizarre behaviour of individ...

Psychology is everywhere. Our emotions and desires, the decisions we make on a daily basis - absolutely every aspect of the way we think and feel has been studied by psychologists. Through dozens of interactive puzzles, IQ tests, quizzes, jokes, puns and visual illusions, Ben Ambridge guides us through this wealth of research, showing us how we can better understand ourselves.Debunking tabloid speculation, revisiting old favourites such as the Stanford Prison Experiment and unearth...

Êtes-vous plus futé qu’un chimpanzé ? Plus rusé qu’un chat ? Plus intelligent qu’une chauve-souris ? Plus perspicace qu’un pigeon ?À travers soixante-dix tests, exercices ou devinettes, mesurez-vous à divers animaux, tous plus malins les uns que les autres ! Vous découvrirez que les fourmis sont capables de trouver l’itinéraire le plus court pour visiter plusieurs lieux différents, que les dauphins peuvent apprendre une langue étrangère, que les mésanges savent mémoriser tous les endroits ...

Animal science is bizarre and wonderful. At the extreme end of zoology, psychologists are designing personality tests for dogs and logic problems for pigeons. They're giving fish spatial reasoning problems and asking cockatoos to keep a beat.Now, through dozens of interactive puzzles, IQ tests and quizzes, Are You Smarter Than a Chimpanzee? lets you test yourself against the best nature has to offer. So: are you more than a match for a marmoset? Or a bit of a birdbrain?

Every aspect of human behaviour is part of a story – by understanding the stories, you can understand life itself. Read by the author, Ben Ambridge.'Fascinating, entertaining and deeply smart' – Will Storr, bestselling author of The Status GameWars, pandemics, Brexit, Elon Musk, the impending doom of our species, the enduring popularity of Ted Lasso – we live in confusing and uncertain times. Won’t someone make it all make sense?...

Is children's language acquisition based on innate linguistic structures or built from cognitive and communicative skills? This book summarises the major theoretical debates in all of the core domains of child language acquisition research (phonology, word-learning, inflectional morphology, syntax and binding) and includes a complete introduction to the two major contrasting theoretical approaches: generativist and constructivist. For each debate, the predictions of the competing accounts ...