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This is Your Brain on Sports: The Science of Underdogs, the Value of Rivalry, and What We Can Learn from the T-Shirt Cannon

By L. Jon Wertheim, Sam Sommers
Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka
Unabridged — 8 hours, 48 minutes
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By L. Jon Wertheim, Sam Sommers
Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka
Unabridged — 8 hours, 48 minutes
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This is Your Brain on Sports is the audiobook for sports fans searching for a deeper understanding of the games they watch and the people who play them.  Sports Illustrated executive editor and bestselling author L. Jon Wertheim teams up with Tufts psychologist Sam Sommers to take readers on a wild ride into the inner world of sports.  Through the prism of behavioral economics, neuroscience, and psychology, they reveal the hidden influences and surprising cues that ins…