{"product_id":"when-everyone-knows-that-everyone-knows","title":"When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows…","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e'One of the most insightful books I've read about what makes\nus human and how we understand each other' Bill Gates\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nSteven Pinker, one of the world's greatest thinkers and bestselling author of\nEnlightenment Now, The Better Angels of Our Nature and The Language Instinct,\nreveals the power and perils of thinking alike\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nAs a cognitive scientist, the ultimate subject of Steven Pinker's fascination\nis how we think about each other's thoughts, ad infinitum. It sounds\nimpossible, but Steven Pinker shows that we do it all the time. This awareness,\nwhich 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.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nCommon knowledge, Pinker shows, can make sense of many of life's enigmas:\nfinancial bubbles and crashes, revolutions that come out of nowhere, the\nposturing and pretence of diplomacy, the eruption of social media shaming mobs\nand academic cancel culture, the awkwardness of a first date. But people also\ngo to great lengths to avoid common knowledge—to ensure that even if everyone\nknows something, they can't know that everyone else knows they know it. And so\nwe get rituals like benign hypocrisy, veiled bribes and threats, sexual\ninnuendo, and pretending not to see the elephant in the room.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nIn exploring the paradoxes of human behaviour, When Everyone Knows that\nEveryone Knows... invites us to understand the ways we try to get into each\nother's heads, and the harmonies, hypocrisies, and outrages that result.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TIMES DISTRIBUTION PTE LTD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44800145064143,"sku":"9780241618837","price":35.95,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0574\/5662\/3823\/files\/download_e7dd3cf2-ad80-4128-8e79-9d6857ba8a2e.jpg?v=1777004984","url":"https:\/\/popular.baby\/products\/when-everyone-knows-that-everyone-knows","provider":"Popular Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}