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        The Bias That Divides Us

        The Bias That Divides Us

        The Bias That Divides Us

        The Science and Politics of Myside Thinking

        by Keith E. Stanovich

        ISBN: 9780262053952

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: March 17, 2026

        Why we don't live in a post-truth society but rather a myside society: what science tells us about the bias that poisons our politics.
        The Unconscious

        The Unconscious

        The Unconscious

        A Cultural History from Hippocrates to Philip K. Dick and Beyond

        by Antonio Melechi

        ISBN: 9780262051026

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: February 10, 2026

        A highly original first anthology on the cultural history of the unconscious that is destined to become definitive.
        Syntax

        Syntax

        Syntax

        A Cognitive Approach

        by Edward A. F. Gibson

        ISBN: 9780262553575

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: December 16, 2025

        A simple grammar formalism—dependency grammar—motivated by the observation that longer distance connections between words are harder to make.
        Wired for Words

        Wired for Words

        Wired for Words

        The Neural Architecture of Language

        by Gregory Hickok

        ISBN: 9780262553414

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: November 25, 2025

        A critical synthesis of over 150 years of research on the brain’s networks that enable us to communicate through language.
        Active Inference

        Active Inference

        Active Inference

        The Free Energy Principle in Mind, Brain, and Behavior

        by Thomas Parr, Giovanni Pezzulo and Karl J. Friston

        ISBN: 9780262553995

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: August 5, 2025

        The first comprehensive treatment of active inference, an integrative perspective on brain, cognition, and behavior used across multiple disciplines.
        Psychopathy Unmasked

        Psychopathy Unmasked

        Psychopathy Unmasked

        The Rise and Fall of a Dangerous Diagnosis

        by Rasmus Rosenberg Larsen

        ISBN: 9780262552202

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: June 17, 2025

        Why our fascination with psychopaths is scientifically wrongheaded, and how the criminal justice system has misused the controversial science of psychopathy.
        The Cost of Conviction

        The Cost of Conviction

        The Cost of Conviction

        How Our Deepest Values Lead Us Astray

        by Steven Sloman

        ISBN: 9780262049825

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: May 20, 2025

        A timely and important perspective on how people frame decisions and how relying on sacred values unwittingly leads to social polarization.
        The Invisible Hand

        The Invisible Hand

        The Invisible Hand

        Neurocognitive Mechanisms of Human Hand Function

        by Matthew R. Longo

        ISBN: 9780262551878

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: April 15, 2025

        How the “invisible hand” of the nervous system makes the human hand such an evolutionary success.
        Natural Neuroscience

        Natural Neuroscience

        Natural Neuroscience

        Toward a Systems Neuroscience of Natural Behaviors

        by Nachum Ulanovsky

        ISBN: 9780262044998

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: April 15, 2025

        A new approach to brain research that emphasizes studying the brain under naturalistic conditions.
        Deflating Mental Representation

        Deflating Mental Representation

        Deflating Mental Representation

        by Frances Egan

        ISBN: 9780262551601

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: March 11, 2025

        A novel account of the explanatory role of representation in both the cognitive sciences and commonsense practice that preserves the virtues without the defects of the prevailing two views about mental representation.
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