Rationality - What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters by Steven Pinker
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Category: Psychology & Brain Science | Reading Level: very good
A user's guide to rationality acts as a follow-up to the bestselling Enlightenment Now Humans today are often portrayed as cavemen out of time, poised to react to a lion in the grass with a suite of biases, blind spots, and illusions. But cognitive scientist and rational optimist Steven Pinker argues th ...Show more
The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog, 3rd Edition: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook--What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing by Bruce D. Perry, Maia Szalavitz
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Category: Psychology & Brain Science
A renowned psychiatrist reveals how trauma affects children--and outlines the path to recovery How does trauma affect a child's mind--and how can that mind recover? In the classic The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog, Dr. Perry explains what happens to the brains of children exposed to extreme stress and sh ...Show more
What's Your Type? - The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing by Merve Emre
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Category: Psychology & Brain Science
A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR 'History that reads like biography that reads like a novel - a fluid narrative that defies expectations and plays against type' New York Timesn'Brilliant and savage' Philip Hensher. An unprecedented history of the personality test conceived a century ago by a mother and her ...Show more
Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ by Daniel Goleman
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Category: Psychology & Brain Science
A 25th anniversary edition of the number one, multi-million copy international bestseller that taught us how emotional intelligence is more important than IQ - 'a revolutionary, paradigm-shattering idea' (Harvard Business Review)Featuring a new foreword from the authorDoes IQ define our destiny? In his ...Show more
Fully Human: A New Way of Using Your Mind by Steve Biddulph
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Category: Psychology & Brain Science
A mother of small children avoids a murderer in broad daylight. A young dad is able to grieve for his lost baby - using a song. And it saves his marriage. What if there were parts of our minds which we never use, but if awakened, could make us so much happier, connected and alive? What if awakening thos ...Show more
Bliss Brain: The Neuroscience of Remodeling Your Brain for Resilience, Creativity, and Joy by Dawson Church
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Category: Psychology & Brain Science
Neural plasticity-the discovery that the brain is capable of rewiring itself-is now widely understood. But what few people have grasped yet is how quickly this is happening, how extensive brain changes can be, and how much control each of us has over the process.In Bliss Brain, famed researcher Dawson C ...Show more
Is Shame Necessary?: New Uses for an Old Tool by Jennifer Jacquet
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Category: Psychology & Brain Science
In Is Shame Necessary? rising star Jennifer Jacquet shows that we have to use shame if we want to bring about political change and hold the powerful to account. In cultures that champion the individual, guilt is seen as the cornerstone of conscience yet it proves impotent in the face of corrupt corporat ...Show more
50 Psychology Ideas You Really Need to Know by Adrian Furnham
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Category: Psychology & Brain Science | Series: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know Series
How different are men and women's brains? Does altruism really exist? Are our minds blank slates at birth? And do dreams reveal our unconscious desires? Psychology is everywhere in today's society. No crime fiction, documentary, chat show or medical consultation is complete without the introduction of a ...Show more
Trauma and Memory by Peter A. Levine
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Category: Psychology & Brain Science
In Trauma and Memory, bestselling author Dr. Peter Levine (creator of the Somatic Experiencing approach) tackles one of the most difficult and controversial questions of PTSD/trauma therapy: Can we trust our memories? While some argue that traumatic memories are unreliable and not useful, others insist ...Show more
Joined-Up Thinking: The Science of Collective Intelligence and its Power to Change Our Lives by Hannah Critchlow
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Category: Psychology & Brain Science
At a time of existential global challenges we need our best brainpower to solve them.We can no longer rely on the myth of the lone genius to create a breakthrough.As neuroscientist and bestselling author of The Science of Fate Hannah Critchlow shows, two heads have always been better than one. Almost ev ...Show more
Different Kinds of Minds: A Guide to Your Brain by Temple Grandin
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Category: Psychology & Brain Science
Adapted young readers' edition of New York Times bestseller Visual Thinking by sensational author and autism advocate Temple Grandin 'We're so lucky to have Temple Grandin' - New York Times Albert Einstein, Steve Jobs, Elon Musk and Maya Lin - what do they all have in common? They're visual thinkers. Do ...Show more
Switch: How to change things when change is hard by Chip & Dan Heath
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Category: Psychology & Brain Science
We all know that change is hard. It's unsettling, it's time-consuming, and all too often we give up at the first sign of a setback. But why do we insist on seeing the obstacles rather than the goal? This is the question that bestselling authors Chip and Dan Heath tackle in their compelling and insightfu ...Show more