TY - BOOK AU - Rosenberg,Alexander TI - How history gets things wrong: the neuroscience of our addiction to stories SN - 9780262537995 (pbk.) AV - D16.16 .R67 2019 PY - 2019/// CY - Cambridge, Mass. PB - The MIT Press KW - Psychohistory KW - Cognitive neuroscience KW - History, Modern KW - Psychological aspects N1 - Reprint. Originally published: 2018; Includes bibliographical references and index; Besotted by stories -- How many times can the German Army play the same trick? -- Why ever did Hitler declare war on the United States? : That's easy to explain, too easy -- Is the theory of mind wired in? -- The natural history of historians -- What exactly was the Kaiser thinking? -- Can neuroscience tell us what Talleyrand meant? -- Talleyrand's betrayal : in inside story -- Jeopardy! "question" : "It shows the theory of mind to be completely wrong" -- The future of an illusion -- Henry Kissinger mind reads his way through the Congress of Vienna -- Guns, germs, steel--and all that -- The Gulag Archipelago and the uses of history -- The back(non)story ER -