Fantastic read!

The best "don't be a dick" guide ever published is in the epilogue of this book--should be required reading before you can join ANY community!

This is a completely fascinating book--the author describes inappropriate behavior caused by mental functions and then demonstrates them with his own social bias! it is CLASSIC and super fun experience! The appendix's on proteins, neurotransmitters, etc are all VERY good. the Scientific Literature review is playful and insightful. Well written for a general reader with snappy snarky footnotes...After amazing overviews of the field, the author (who, like most Stanford intellectuals, is clearly traumatized by Trump and the sins of the world) makes ridiculous claims about Conservatives...demonstrates standard YUPPIE generational hand wringing about Vietnam and other violent situations...provides outstanding & dismissive summaries of academic rivals...In his writing, he does all the things he warns will happen if you do not understand brain physiology and chemistry. The book is profoundly self referential--think Finnegan's Wake as a Freshmen Neurology text book...

Infinitely quotable & required reading for suburban dinner parties, I cannot recommend this book enough!

Seriously, read this thing--it is GREAT!