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Title: Insightful but relies on college perception
Review: A fascinating and ego bruising journey through our self-centered brains in which Cordelia Fine lays bare our `true human nature' to protect our identity constructs and fantasy beliefs and our need to be `right'. However, the reliance on college population studies undermines the validity of generalization to every brain. Different personal, cultural, and religious experiences of individuals, particularly in later stages of development would provide a wider range of responses and reactions than the her overreliance on the narrow college populations in her book.That said it is an important work that punctures the veil of an altruistic human nature and frames a much more complicated and ambiguous human nature that can only further our understanding of the "real" human brain.
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