{"product_id":"when-everyone-knows-that-everyone-knows-common-knowledge-and-the-science-of-harmony-hypocrisy-and-outrage-paperback","title":"When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: Common Knowledge and the Science of Harmony, Hypocrisy and Outrage (Paperback)","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eSteven Pinker, one of the world's greatest thinkers and\nbestselling author of \u003ci\u003eEnlightenment Now\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Better Angels\nof Our Nature\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Language Instinct\u003c\/i\u003e, reveals the power\nand perils of thinking alike\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eAs a cognitive scientist, the ultimate subject of Steven\nPinker’s fascination is how we think about each other’s thoughts, ad infinitum.\nIt sounds impossible, but Steven Pinker shows that we do it all the time. This\nawareness, which we experience as something that is public or “out there,” is\ncalled common knowledge, and it has a momentous impact on our social,\npolitical, and economic lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eCommon knowledge, Pinker shows, can make sense of many of\nlife’s enigmas: financial bubbles and crashes, revolutions that come out of\nnowhere, the posturing and pretence of diplomacy, the eruption of social media\nshaming mobs and academic cancel culture, the awkwardness of a first date. But\npeople also go to great lengths to avoid common knowledge?to ensure that even\nif everyone knows something, they can’t know that everyone else knows they know\nit. And so we get rituals like benign hypocrisy, veiled bribes and threats,\nsexual innuendo, and pretending not to see the elephant in the room.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eIn exploring the paradoxes of human behaviour, When Everyone\nKnows that Everyone Knows… invites us to understand the ways we try to get into\neach other’s heads, and the harmonies, hypocrisies, and outrages that result.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eSteven Pinker\u003c\/b\u003e is an experimental cognitive\nscientist. Currently Johnstone Professor of Psychology at Harvard, he has also\ntaught at Stanford and MIT. He has won many prizes for his research, teaching,\nand his eleven books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Language Instinct\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHow\nthe Mind Works, The Blank Slate, The Better Angels of Our Nature, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eEnlightenment\nNow. \u003c\/i\u003eHe is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a two-time\nPulitzer Prize finalist, a Humanist of the Year, a recipient of nine honorary\ndoctorates, one of \u003ci\u003eForeign Policy\u003c\/i\u003e's 'World's Top 100 Public\nIntellectuals' and \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e's '100 Most Influential People in the World\nToday'.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TIMES DISTRIBUTION PTE LTD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46098770952399,"sku":"9781802061864","price":29.98,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0574\/5662\/3823\/files\/download_5e60bbc0-b7bc-4227-bf76-1491585c6f3b.jpg?v=1788749490","url":"https:\/\/popular.com.sg\/products\/when-everyone-knows-that-everyone-knows-common-knowledge-and-the-science-of-harmony-hypocrisy-and-outrage-paperback","provider":"Popular Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}