《阿加莎·克里斯蒂失踪了》内容简介
为什么神秘感和悬念总是会让人欲罢不能？
为什么神秘感会让人产生一种“不挠不快的精神之痒”？
神秘感究竟有什么魔力？
为什么人们对拆盲盒那么上头？为什么阿加莎·克里斯蒂要自导自演一场失踪案？为什么“差一点就赢了”的错觉会让人如此难以抗拒？为什么魔术如此难以破译?魔术是如何创造神秘的？创造神秘有哪些策略？我们可以在日常生活中怎样利用这些策略？
要想找到这些问题的答案，我们得先了解人类大脑非常古老的部分——多巴胺系统。多巴胺能让我们感受到愉悦，有了多巴胺的作用，大脑会告诉我们，要留心这个，关注那个。那么，究竟是什么会让大脑分泌大量的多巴胺？刺激多巴胺分泌的并不是可以预测到的快乐，而是那种由神秘感所带来的快乐，也就是神经科学家所说的“预测误差”（prediction error）。
这本书将揭示神秘感带来吸引力的五大策略，告诉我们为什么神秘感总是会吸引人们的注意，并带领我们解锁未知，让神秘感为我所用。
作者简介
【美】乔纳·莱勒（Jonah Lehrer）
畅销书作家。于哥伦比亚大学学习神经科学，曾跟随诺贝尔生理学或医学奖得主埃里克·坎德尔（Eric Kandel），在他的实验室里做有关记忆的生物学研究实验。
曾获得有“全球青年诺贝尔奖”美誉的罗德奖学金（Rhodes Scholarship），成为牛津大学罗德学者，始终关注20世纪的文学艺术，对艺术与科学的关系进行了深入研究。
曾多次为《纽约客》《华盛顿邮报》等媒体撰稿。擅长用通俗易懂的语言向大众介绍神经科学、心理学等方向的研究，尤其关注艺术与科学的关系。
Agatha Christie is Missing
Why is mystery and suspense so addictive?
Why does mystery create an "untickled spiritual itch"?
What is the magic of mystery?
Why do people get so uptight about opening blind boxes? Why would Agatha Christie stage her own disappearance? Why is the illusion of "almost winning" so hard to resist? Why is magic so hard to decipher? How does magic create mystery? What are the strategies for creating mystery? How can we use these strategies in our daily lives?
To answer these questions, we need to understand a very old part of the human brain - the dopamine system. Dopamine is what makes us feel good, and with dopamine, the brain tells us to pay attention to this, pay attention to that. So what exactly makes the brain flood with dopamine? It's not the predictable pleasure that stimulates dopamine, but the pleasure that comes from the mystery, what neuroscientists call a "prediction error."
This book will reveal the five strategies of mystery for attraction, show us why mystery will always attract people's attention, and guide us to unlock the unknown and make mystery work for us.
About the author
Jonah Lehrer
Best-selling author. He studied neuroscience at Columbia University and worked with Eric Kandel, a Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine, in his lab on the biology of memory.
He was awarded the Rhodes Scholarship, the "Global Nobel Prize for Young people", and became a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford. He has always been concerned about the literature and art of the 20th century, and has conducted in-depth research on the relationship between art and science.
He has written for The New Yorker, The Washington Post and many others. He is good at introducing research in neuroscience, psychology and other fields to the public in plain language, especially focusing on the relationship between art and science.
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