This book is always fascinating but frequently mind-blowing * Marina Hyde, Guardian columnist and co-host of The Rest Is Entertainment * With a wealth of intriguing data, Munthe explains why robust debate is essential for a creative and healthy society. As he vividly puts it: thinking is a contact sport * Timothy Garton Ash, author of Free Speech and Guardian columnist * Fizzing with insights and ideas that will challenge the foundations of all you think you believe... I loved it * Jenny Kleeman, author of The Price of Life * Fascinating, incredibly valuable and accessible Munthe knits together the wide and deep influences on our perceptions into a compelling view of why we see the world and each other the way we do * Bobby Duffy, author of The Perils of Perception * A thoughtful and expansive book about the roots of our most private beliefs. Written with a journalists curiosity and a storytellers verve, Why We Think What We Think explores how psychology, biology, history, and culture shape our opinions in surprising ways. Every reader will come away entertained, enlightened, and a little humbled -- and hopefully more prepared to face our polarising times * Leor Zmigrod, award-winning scientist and author of The Ideological Brain * If you think of yourself as a rational and thoughtful individual, who has spent time, care and energy weighing up the evidence, brace yourself. This book will peel the scales from your eyes. Entertaining as well as erudite, Munthe is the perfect guide to the murky underworld where our beliefs take shape. * Jackie Higgins, author of Sentient * In this lively and indispensable exploration of the origins of our opinions and the nature of our beliefs, Munthe reveals that engaging our differences is essential to human flourishing. A powerful defence of reasoned, civil disagreement * Robert B. Talisse, Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University * In this provocative, wide-ranging, and wonderfully written book -- a delightful marriage of Jared Diamond and Charles Darwin -- Munthe shows that understanding the true source of our views is possible only by incorporating geology, humidity, food preferences, physiology, and genetics * John Hibbing, co-author of Predisposed * What if we hold most of our opinions for no rational reasons? Munthe takes this question head-on in his fun and fearless book, and shows us what to do about it * Alexandre Lefebvre, author of Liberalism as a Way of Life *
