The Elephant in the Brain

The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life

First edition
Authors	Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson
Language	English
Subjects	Human behaviour, signalling (economics)
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Publication date	2018
Pages	416
ISBN	9780190495992
Preceded by	The Age of Em

The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life is a 2018 nonfiction book by Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson. Simler is a writer and software engineer, while Hanson is an associate professor of economics at George Mason University. The book explores self-deception and hidden motives in human behaviour. The publisher's website describes the aim of the book as 'to track down the darker, unexamined corners of our psyches and blast them with floodlights'.^[1]