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Psychology

Research on how the mind works: thinking errors, personality, emotion, influence and how people act in groups. Each summary shows what the studies found and what it means for everyday choices.

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People

5 Types of People Who Can Ruin Your Life: Identifying and Dealing with Narcissists, Sociopaths, and Other High-Conflict Personalities

59 Seconds: Change Your Life in Under a Minute

A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking with Statistics and the Scientific Method

A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness

A Geography of Time: The Temporal Misadventures of a Social Psychologist

A Liberated Mind: How to Pivot Toward What Matters

A Trick of the Mind: How the Brain Invents Your Reality

Acting with Power: Why We Are More Powerful Than We Believe

Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion

Age of Propaganda: The Everyday Use and Abuse of Persuasion

Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and Life

Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions

Alone Together: Why We Expect More From Technology and Less From Each Other

Altruism: The Power of Compassion to Change Yourself and the World

Anatomy of a Breakthrough: How to Get Unstuck When It Matters Most

Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience

Attention Span: A Groundbreaking Way to Restore Balance, Happiness and Productivity

Autism: Explaining the Enigma

Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life

Becoming Attached: First Relationships and How They Shape Our Capacity to Love

Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

Being You: A New Science of Consciousness

Beyond the Pleasure Principle

Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

Black Box Thinking: The Surprising Truth About Success (And Why Some People Never Learn from Mistakes)

Black-and-White Thinking: The Burden of a Binary Brain in a Complex World

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

Born Liars: Why We Can’t Live Without Deceit

Bounce: The Myth of Talent and the Power of Practice

Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain

Buddha’s Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom

Can You Learn to be Lucky?: Why Some People Seem to Win More Often Than Others

Captivology: The Science of Capturing People’s Attention

Charlatans: How Grifters, Swindlers, and Hucksters Bamboozle the Media, the Markets, and the Masses

Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It

Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results

Clearer, Closer, Better: How Successful People See the World

Click: The Forces Behind How We Fully Engage with People, Work, and Everything We Do

Collective Illusions: Conformity, Complicity, and the Science of Why We Make Bad Decisions

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