Join STEPHEN M. FLEMING—a Sir Henry Dale Wellcome Trust/Royal Society fellow at the department of experimental psychology at University College London—for a discussion of his book “Know Thyself: The Science of Self-Awareness.”
BOOK DISCUSSION DETAILS
Monday April 4, 2022 12:00 PM ET
Harvard Book Store
Get Tickets: https://www.harvard.com/event/virtual_event_stephen_m._fleming/
About the Author:
Steve Fleming is Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and Wellcome/Royal Society Sir Henry Dale Fellow at the Department of Experimental Psychology, University College London. He leads research groups at UCL’s Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging and Max Planck Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research. He has published over 75 papers in scientific journals, and won multiple awards for his research on metacognition, including the Wiley Prize in Psychology from the British Academy in 2016, the Philip Leverhulme Prize in Psychology from the Leverhulme Trust in 2017 and the Spearman Medal from the British Psychological Society in 2019.
About the Book:
How do you know when you’ve studied enough to pass an exam?
Should you accept the testimony of an eyewitness?
How do you know when to trust a doctor’s orders?
The answer is self awareness.
Self awareness is humans’ greatest superpower. Like the conductor of an orchestra, self awareness guides the musicians of the mind – memory, creativity, intelligence and skill – to perform at their best. So why do we so often get it wrong?
Drawing on his own pioneering studies, as well as cutting-edge research in computer science, psychology and evolutionary biology, Stephen Fleming shows how we can learn from this groundbreaking new science, and gain the edge in a rapidly changing world.
