The Cultural Animal: Human Nature, Meaning, and Social Life

by Roy F. Baumeister

Book Overview

What makes us human? Why do people think, feel and act as they do? What is the essence of human nature? What is the basic relationship between the individual and society? These questions have fascinated both great thinkers and ordinary humans for centuries. Now, at last, there is a solid basis for answering them, in the form of accumulated efforts and studies by thousands of psychology researchers. We no longer have to rely on navel-gazing and speculation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195167031
• ISBN13: 9780195167030
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.5"