Section A: Cautionary Tales
- Where has the Good Samaritan gone?
- Why some people get away with murder
- The dangers of obedience
- The Stanford prison experiment: Zimbardo’s hell
- Who says who is mad?
Section B: What can we learn from animals
- The gentle art of conditioning
- The chimp who grew up as a child
- All you need is love
Section C: Brains, behaviour and biology
- Brains waves do happen
- Can we inherit personality?
- Brain surgery: the unkindest cut of all
- Where do emotions come from?
Section D: Making sense of our world
- Can we remember what we see?
- Doing two things at once
- Why do we forget?
- Privacy and intimacy
- Justifying ourselves to ourselves
Section E: The uses of psychology
- How not to bring up children
- Realizing educational potential
- Biofeedback: mind over matter?
- Can criminals be cured?
- Personality politics