Supernormal Stimuli: How Primal Urges Overran Their Evolutionary Purpose
The record for Deirdre Barrett's book gives its table of contents, which moves from the idea of supernormal stimuli to sex, cuteness, food courts, defending home and wealth, social settings from Shakespeare to reality television, and intellectual pursuits, and ends with a call to get off the plaster egg. It is cited here as a book, so the page reports the scope of the work and no findings.
The record for Deirdre Barrett's book gives its table of contents, which moves from the idea of supernormal stimuli to sex, cuteness, food courts, defending home and wealth, social settings from Shakespeare to reality television, and intellectual pursuits, and ends with a call to get off the plaster egg. It is cited here as a book, so the page reports the scope of the work and no findings.
Written from the abstract as shown on the OpenAlex record, read 2026-11-04.
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New York: W. W. Norton. ISBN 978-0-393-06848-1. Cited for its subtitle only.