Social Psychology
Why do we follow the crowd, obey authority or change our minds to fit in? Listen to books on group behavior, conformity and social pressure, and notice these forces in your own day.
Social Psychology Library
Age of Propaganda: The Everyday Use and Abuse of Persuasion
Acting with Power: Why We Are More Powerful Than We Believe
A Trick of the Mind: How the Brain Invents Your Reality
A Geography of Time: The Temporal Misadventures of a Social Psychologist
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
Can You Learn to be Lucky?: Why Some People Seem to Win More Often Than Others
Black-and-White Thinking: The Burden of a Binary Brain in a Complex World
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
Crowds and Power
Collective Illusions: Conformity, Complicity, and the Science of Why We Make Bad Decisions
Click: The Forces Behind How We Fully Engage with People, Work, and Everything We Do
Drunk Tank Pink: And Other Unexpected Forces that Shape How We Think, Feel, and Behave
Defy: The Power of No in a World That Demands Yes
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds
Escape from Freedom
Games People Play: The Psychology of Human Relationships
Flipnosis: The Art of Split-Second Persuasion
Hope for Cynics: The Surprising Science of Human Goodness
Helping: How to Offer, Give, and Receive Help
Happy Ever After: A Radical New Approach to Living Well
Humankind: A Hopeful History
How You Say It: Why We Judge Others by the Way They Talk―and the Costs of This Hidden Bias – A Social Psychology Study of Speech Prejudice, Identity, and Social Justice
How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion
Killing the Witches: The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts
Intelligent Disobedience: Doing Right When What You’re Told to Do Is Wrong
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
Magic Words: The New Science of Language for Persuasion, Communication, and Driving Action
Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them
Mindwise: How We Understand What Others Think, Believe, Feel and Want
Messengers: Who We Listen To, Who We Don't, and Why
Out of Character: Surprising Truths about the Liar, Cheat, Sinner (and Saint) Lurking in All of Us
Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View
Not Born Yesterday: The Science of Who We Trust and What We Believe
Nonsense: The Power of Not Knowing
Quirkology: The Curious Science of Everyday Lives
Public Opinion
Psych: The Story of the Human Mind
Powers of Two: How Relationships Drive Creativity – The Social Foundations of Creative Collaboration
Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations
Plays Well with Others: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know about Relationships Is (Mostly) Wrong
Sex, Murder and the Meaning of Life: A Psychologist Investigates How Evolution, Cognition, and Complexity Are Revolutionizing Our View of Human Nature
Selfless: The Social Creation of “You”
Science of Evil: On Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty
Ritual: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living
Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering
Rebel Ideas: The Power of Diverse Thinking