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Robert B. Cialdini
Robert Cialdini sets out six mechanisms that move people to say yes: reciprocity, commitment, social proof, liking, authority and scarcity. ... (Automatically generated book description)
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Nicholas Carr
Nicholas Carr argues that the internet is fundamentally changing how we think: it promotes shallow browsing at the expense of deep, concentr... (Automatically generated book description)
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Michael Argyle
Social psychologist Michael Argyle examines what money does to people: status, saving behaviour, satisfaction and class. Not to be confused ... (Automatically generated book description)
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Richard Wiseman
Richard Wiseman tests self-improvement advice against the research and keeps only what holds up, each piece short enough to act on within a ... (Automatically generated book description)
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Jordan B. Peterson
Jordan B. Peterson's major early academic work examines why cultures develop similar myths and religious stories. The book combines neuropsy... (Automatically generated book description)
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Peter A. Levine
Peter A. Levine explains trauma as something that stays stuck in the body, and derives from the behaviour of wild animals how it can be rele... (Automatically generated book description)
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Thomas Gilovich
Thomas Gilovich explains why people believe things that are demonstrably untrue, from hot streaks to miracle cures, and traces it back to en... (Automatically generated book description)
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Sigmund Freud
Freud extends his theory to groups and explains why people act differently in a crowd, through attachment to a leader and the suppression of... (Automatically generated book description)
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Sebastian Junger
Sebastian Junger asks why those returning from war miss the closeness of the unit and find home cold, and what that says about modern societ... (Automatically generated book description)
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Edward M. Hallowell
Edward Hallowell distinguishes useful worry from the kind that paralyses, and describes how the second can be turned back into the first. Fr... (Automatically generated book description)
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Ken Wilber
Ken Wilber arranges models of consciousness from psychology, philosophy and religion within a single grid. Foundational to his integral appr... (Automatically generated book description)
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Mark Regnerus
Mark Regnerus argues that contraception and dating apps have lowered the price of sex and thereby lengthened the road to marriage. Contentio... (Automatically generated book description)
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Daniel J. Siegel
A collected volume from leading authors on training the mind for greater health and resilience, with contributions from Deepak Chopra, Jack ... (Automatically generated book description)
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Kevin Dutton
Kevin Dutton, psychologist at the University of Oxford, makes an uncomfortable argument: many traits associated with psychopaths are conside... (Automatically generated book description)
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Jordan B. Peterson
Jordan B. Peterson, clinical psychologist and professor, has formulated twelve rules for life drawn from a wide range of sources: ancient my... (Automatically generated book description)
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Richard E. Nisbett
Richard E. Nisbett assembles the thinking tools developed in the sciences that also help in daily life: statistics, logic, cost-benefit reas... (Automatically generated book description)
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Kevin Dutton
Kevin Dutton examines the human tendency toward binary thinking: good or bad, us or them. He explains how this evolutionary programming fuel... (Automatically generated book description)
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Matthew D. Johnson
Matthew D. Johnson clears away the commonest errors about love and partnership: opposites attract, living together before marriage helps, an... (Automatically generated book description)
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Jesse Bering
Jesse Bering was a psychologist and a successful writer and spent years wanting to kill himself. On the science of suicide, written from ins... (Automatically generated book description)
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Kevin Dutton
Kevin Dutton on persuasion that works in seconds, and on the people who can do it, from confidence tricksters to infants. (Automatically generated book description)
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Lee Ross
Lee Ross and Richard Nisbett show how strongly the situation determines behaviour, and how stubbornly we attribute it to character. (Automatically generated book description)
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Kevin Dutton
Kevin Dutton examines a special kind of persuasion: flipnosis, a technique that works in seconds and can disarm even the most discerning min... (Automatically generated book description)
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Henry E. Adams
An academic handbook of psychopathology for researchers, clinicians, and students. The volume covers general foundations and specific clinic... (Automatically generated book description)
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Robin S. Rosenberg
Two dozen psychologists examine superheroes: why do they set out, and what keeps them going? Edited by Robin S. Rosenberg. (Automatically generated book description)
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Edward M. Hallowell, M.D.
Edward Hallowell and John Ratey on ADHD in children and adults: recognising it, understanding it, living with it. The book that made the dia... (Automatically generated book description)
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Edward M. Hallowell, M.D.
Hallowell and Ratey with what they know about ADHD twenty years after Driven to Distraction: diagnosis, medication, daily life. (Automatically generated book description)
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Thomas Ramge
Thomas Ramge on the tricks of retail: bait prices, quantity discounts, and why we fall for them. (Automatically generated book description)
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Garry Belsky
Gary Belsky and Thomas Gilovich on the thinking errors with which we regularly lose money. (Automatically generated book description)
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Manfred Spitzer
Manfred Spitzer on loneliness as an illness with measurable consequences for the body and for life expectancy. (Automatically generated book description)
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Manfred Spitzer
Manfred Spitzer on the smartphone and on what it does to five billion people. (Automatically generated book description)
