The Hidden Brain: How Our Unconscious Minds Elect Presidents, Control Markets, Wage Wars, and SaveOur Lives: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Hidden Brain: How Our Unconscious Minds Elect Presidents, Control Markets, Wage Wars, and SaveOur Lives runs 10.6 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Steve West (about 7.1 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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Based on 10.6 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 22 days |
| 1 hour / day | 11 days |
| 2 hours / day | 6 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 8 days |
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What our data says
- At 10.6 hours, it runs longer than 76% of the 9,905 Social Science audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Steve West
Steve West narrates 248 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 3,042 hours in all.
About as long, on the Social Science shelf
1,590 Social Science audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
The Hidden Brain: How Our Unconscious Minds Elect Presidents, Control Markets, Wage Wars, and SaveOur Lives is an audiobook by Shankar Vedantam: a 10.6-hour unabridged recording, read by Steve West, released January 19, 2010, on the Social Science and Mental Health & Psychology shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 10.6 hrs
- Narrated by
- Steve West
- Released
- January 19, 2010
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Social Science, Mental Health & Psychology
- ISBN
- 9780307715616
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Hidden Brain: How Our Unconscious Minds Elect Presidents, Control Markets, Wage Wars, and SaveOur Lives as an audiobook?
The Hidden Brain: How Our Unconscious Minds Elect Presidents, Control Markets, Wage Wars, and SaveOur Lives runs 10.6 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 7.1 hours.
Is The Hidden Brain: How Our Unconscious Minds Elect Presidents, Control Markets, Wage Wars, and SaveOur Lives free as an audiobook?
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Who narrates The Hidden Brain: How Our Unconscious Minds Elect Presidents, Control Markets, Wage Wars, and SaveOur Lives?
The Hidden Brain: How Our Unconscious Minds Elect Presidents, Control Markets, Wage Wars, and SaveOur Lives is narrated by Steve West.
Is The Hidden Brain: How Our Unconscious Minds Elect Presidents, Control Markets, Wage Wars, and SaveOur Lives worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 7.1 hours, saving 3.5 hours.