Warm temperatures make us temporarily friendlier. The colour red causes us to perform poorly on tests. Heavy clipboards make the CVs clipped to them seem more impressive. Clean smells promote moral behaviour. Sports teams in black jerseys are given more penalties than teams in other colours.
Thalma Lobel is an internationally recognised psychologist, a member of the Executive Board of Tel Aviv University and director of the child development center there. She has also been a visiting scholar at Harvard, Tufts, UC San Diego, and NYU. She appears frequently on television and radio.
Thalma Lobel ... has written an intriguing, sometimes funny,
sometimes rather alarming overview of just how much we are
influenced by what our senses tell us.
*Sunday Times*
An intriguing look at how our sensory perceptions affect our
language and ability to understand abstract concepts but can also
sway judgment. Shelve alongside Malcolm Gladwell, Dan Ariely and
others in the pop-psych realm.
*Kirkus*
Thalma's research is among the most innovative in psychology. Her
lively, thoughtful book will reframe our view of how our minds work
and how we become who we are.
*Dan Ariely, author of Predictably Irrational*
Sensation is a delightful collection of the most interesting ideas,
experiments, and anecdotes from the world of psychology today. A
terrific read if you're interested in why some people fall in love,
some fall afoul of the law, and others fall prey to clever
marketing ploys.
*Adam Alter, New York Times bestselling author of Drunk Tank Pink:
And Other Unexpected Forces That Shape How We Think, Feel, and
Behave and Assistant Professor of Marketing and Psychology, New
York University’s Stern School of Business*
Professor Lobel draws on rigorous science and makes it accessible,
interesting, and actionable. By raising our awareness of the
influence the external environment has on us, this wonderful book
can help us live more fully, more sensually.
*Tal Ben-Shahar, author of Happier and Choose the Life You Want*
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