![]() ![]() ![]() Dias emphasises that these are not neat categories people can be pigeon-holed in to easily – it would be more accurate to say these are all aspects of human drives and behaviour which overlap with each other along with the influence of many other factors, but that would make for a less catchy book title.Ĭomparisons to another giant non-fiction bestseller Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari will be inevitable, particularly as both books share a global view and wide anthropological scope of what it is to be human. ![]() The ten “types” are the Perceiver of Pain, the Ostraciser, the Tamer of Terror, the Beholder, the Aggressor, the Tribalist, the Nurturer, the Romancer, the Rescuer and the Kinsman. ![]() ‘The Ten Types of Human’ is the result of years of research combining psychology, philosophy and the neuroscience of decision-making in which Dias seeks to explain the factors which led this to happen. ‘The Ten Types of Human: Who We Are and Who We Can Be’ by Dexter Dias explores the best and worst of human behaviour – how and why people can be utterly selfless and also commit terrible atrocities. Dias is a human rights lawyer and part-time judge who was presented with a case in which a 15-year-old boy died in a young offender institution when three officers restrained him. ![]()
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