Why Don't You Understand Me?: The Surprising Science Behind Connecting in a World of Missed Signals

In Why Don’t You Understand Me? behavioral scientist and clinical psychologist Yael Schonbrun shows that misunderstanding is a problem of perception, not of communication. Solving it means looking in places most of us never think to look.

In an increasingly “connected” world, misunderstanding is disconnecting us more than ever. Too often, we solve for the wrong problem. Understanding happens inside people, in how we filter, interpret, and make meaning of what we hear, not between people in t...