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How That Robot Made Me Feel

Edited by Ericka Johnson

ISBN: 9780262550949

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: May 20, 2025

An edited collection that explores what emotions we have when encountering robots, how we react emotionally to them in different contexts, and why these emotional responses are so important.

Hard Talk

When Speech Is Difficult

by Jonathan Cole

ISBN: 9780262049566

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: May 13, 2025

A moving, patient-centered portrait of the social importance of speech, from a medical expert known for his humanizing explorations of health.

Good Will Corrupting

Social Norms and the Trouble of Intervention

by Adam Moe Fejerskov

ISBN: 9780262552301

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: May 6, 2025

A fascinating investigation of the social norm movement and the implications of a powerful collective pursuing radical social change through contentious interventions across the Global South.

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.

The Invisible Hand

Neurocognitive Mechanisms of Human Hand Function

by Matthew 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.

The Science of Weird Shit

Why Our Minds Conjure the Paranormal

by Chris French

Foreword by Richard Wiseman

ISBN: 9780262553025

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: April 1, 2025

An accessible and gratifying introduction to the world of paranormal beliefs and bizarre experiences.

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.

Laws of Human Behavior

Steps Toward Hard Science

by Donald Pfaff and Sandra Sherman

ISBN: 9780262550895

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: March 4, 2025

How scientific studies of human behavior can be replicated with the consistency and rigor characteristic of the physical sciences, yielding scientific “laws.”