
Why do you like what you like? Vanderbilt's New York Times bestseller explores the hidden psychology behind our preferences in this Kirkus Best Book of 2016. Discover the "hipster effect" and why algorithms know your taste better than you do.
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A man with frontotemporal dementia suddenly falls in love with Italian pop music-the same "mere noise" he'd dismissed his entire life. His neurological condition rewired his aesthetic preferences overnight. If brain chemistry can transform our tastes so dramatically, how much do any of us truly understand about what we like and why? This question haunts our age of algorithmic recommendations, where Netflix suggests your next binge and Spotify curates your soundtrack. We've become accustomed to machines predicting our desires, yet the machinery of preference formation remains far more mysterious than the algorithms designed to exploit it. Our tastes appear deceptively straightforward but prove maddeningly complex upon examination. They're categorical (loving blue everywhere except on cars), contextual (red pants acceptable in Madrid but mortifying in Manhattan), and constructed (we invent reasons after choosing). Rarely are they truly inherited-children seldom share parental preferences despite identical genetics. Bottle-fed Germans unconsciously prefer ketchup containing vanillin found in infant formula, while breast-fed Germans favor regular ketchup. Neither group has any idea why. We labor under an illusion of authenticity, convinced we understand our preferences when we're often strangers to our own desires. Expert violinists, tested blindly, typically prefer new instruments to supposedly superior Stradivarius violins. Much of our preference behavior occurs in what psychologist Timothy Wilson calls the "adaptive unconscious"-yet we construct elaborate post-hoc explanations for feelings that seem authentically ours. Like Woody Allen's character strategically arranging intellectual books before a date, we perform our tastes as much for ourselves as for others.
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