Bas Kast

Bas Kast (born 1973 in Landau ) is a German psychologist and author.

Life

Kast studied psychology and biology at the Universities of Konstanz and Bochum as well as Marvin Minsky at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, and was a scholar of the Foundation of the German people. He was honored by the Körber Foundation and the German Academic Award in 1996.

He received his training as a journalist for the magazines GEO, Nature and the daily newspaper Der Tagesspiegel in Berlin; there he began in 2000 as a volunteer at, in 2002, and was editor of the science section 2005-2008 reporters. Kast was among others the Axel Springer Prize (2002), the Eureka Prize for Journalists (2004 ) and the European Science Writers Award ( 2006) awarded.

Was published in 2003 under the title Revolution in the head, his first book, in which he describes how the brain research our humanity and picture of reality changed. The following year he published his book The love and how can we explain passion. With him he stood for several weeks on the bestseller list of Der Spiegel news magazine and also landed an international success. In 2007 the book How the belly helps the head while thinking on the market, which also developed a bestseller.

After Kast the freshwater snail Tylomelania baskasti was named.

Publications

  • Revolution in the head. The future of the brain ( = instructions for the 21st century). Berlin paperback Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 978-3-4427-6150-0
  • The love and how can we explain passion. S. Fischer, Frankfurt 2004, ISBN 978-3-10-038301-3; Fischer -Taschenbuch -Verlag, Frankfurt 2006, ISBN 978-3-596-16198-0
  • As the stomach helps the head while thinking. The power of intuition. S. Fischer, Frankfurt 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-038302-0; Fischer -Taschenbuch -Verlag, Frankfurt 2009, ISBN 978-3-596-17451-5
  • I do not know what I want to. Why we can decide so difficult and where to find happiness. S. Fischer, Frankfurt 2012, ISBN 978-3-10-038303-7; Fischer -Taschenbuch -Verlag, Frankfurt, 2013, ISBN 978-3-596-19192-5

Pictures of Bas Kast

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