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Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking
by
Malcolm Gladwell
3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 143,293 ratings
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Outliers: The Story of Success
by
Malcolm Gladwell
4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 141,947 ratings
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
by
Steven D. Levitt
3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 270,198 ratings
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Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
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Dan Ariely
4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 21,843 ratings
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
by
Malcolm Gladwell
3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 222,273 ratings
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Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
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Robert B. Cialdini
4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 11,925 ratings
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Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ
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Daniel Goleman
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 18,303 ratings
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SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
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Steven D. Levitt
3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 37,483 ratings
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Stumbling on Happiness
by
Daniel Gilbert
3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 14,352 ratings
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The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil
by
Philip G. Zimbardo
3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 3,963 ratings
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Man and His Symbols
by
C.G. Jung
4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 7,200 ratings
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The Interpretation of Dreams
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Sigmund Freud
3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 17,576 ratings
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Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts
by
Carol Tavris
3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 4,011 ratings
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Games People Play
by
Eric Berne
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 7,642 ratings
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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Mark Haddon
3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 425,269 ratings
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Motivation and Personality
by
Abraham Harold Maslow
4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 298 ratings
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The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
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Steven Pinker
4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 7,037 ratings
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The Psychology of Intelligence
by
Jean Piaget
3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 393 ratings
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Please Understand Me: Character and Temperament Types
by
David Keirsey (Author)
4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 3,312 ratings
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Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
by
Chip Heath
3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 15,181 ratings
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Walden Two
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B.F. Skinner
3.4 of 5 stars 3.40 avg rating — 2,752 ratings
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The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious (Collected Works 9i)
by
C.G. Jung
4.22 of 5 stars 4.22 avg rating — 1,696 ratings
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Modern Man in Search of a Soul
by
C.G. Jung
4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 1,838 ratings
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Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
by
Chip Heath
4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 9,734 ratings
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
by
Daniel Kahneman
4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 20,232 ratings
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Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind
by
V.S. Ramachandran
4.28 of 5 stars 4.28 avg rating — 4,903 ratings
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Civilization and Its Discontents
by
Sigmund Freud
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 10,095 ratings
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The Millionaire Next Door
by
Thomas J. Stanley
3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 14,324 ratings
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The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window Into Human Nature
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Steven Pinker
3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 3,522 ratings
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The Varieties of Religious Experience
by
William James
4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 4,034 ratings
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Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High
by
Kerry Patterson
3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 6,410 ratings
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Touched With Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament
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Kay Redfield Jamison
3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 2,089 ratings
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The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less
by
Barry Schwartz
3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 6,952 ratings
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Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 9,285 ratings
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Totem and Taboo
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Sigmund Freud
3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 2,635 ratings
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The Sociopath Next Door
by
Martha Stout
3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 7,750 ratings
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The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness
by
R.D. Laing
4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 1,432 ratings
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You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation
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Deborah Tannen
3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 2,443 ratings
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The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
by
Jon Ronson
3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 23,880 ratings
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Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
by
Sigmund Freud
3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 2,056 ratings
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How the Mind Works
by
Steven Pinker
3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 6,564 ratings
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Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus
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John Gray
3.38 of 5 stars 3.38 avg rating — 57,149 ratings
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The Portable Jung
by
C.G. Jung
4.16 of 5 stars 4.16 avg rating — 1,596 ratings
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The Red Book: Liber Novus
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C.G. Jung
4.59 of 5 stars 4.59 avg rating — 651 ratings
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
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Oliver Sacks (Goodreads Author)
4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 43,083 ratings
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Escape from Freedom
by
Erich Fromm
4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 2,605 ratings
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The Mismeasure of Man
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Stephen Jay Gould
4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 3,454 ratings
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Science and Human Behavior
by
B.F. Skinner
3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 340 ratings
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The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us
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Christopher Chabris
3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 3,029 ratings
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Why Is Sex Fun? The Evolution of Human Sexuality
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Jared Diamond
3.65 of 5 stars 3.65 avg rating — 1,800 ratings
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The Dysfunctional Relationship Manual: A Checklist and Workbook
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Stanley M. Giannet (Goodreads Author)
4.32 of 5 stars 4.32 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Freedom to Learn
by
Carl R. Rogers
4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Telling Lies: Clues to Deceit in the Marketplace, Politics, and Marriage
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Paul Ekman
3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 662 ratings
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Conditioned Reflexes
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Ivan Petrovich Pavlov
4.13 of 5 stars 4.13 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
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Daniel H. Pink (Goodreads Author)
3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 15,986 ratings
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Self-Analysis
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Karen Horney
3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 128 ratings
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Love Is Stronger Than Death: Encountering Our Struggle with Grief
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Stanley M. Giannet (Goodreads Author)
4.58 of 5 stars 4.58 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit
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John E. Douglas
4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 4,757 ratings
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The Art of Loving
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Erich Fromm
3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 10,443 ratings
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Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy
by
David D. Burns
3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 5,883 ratings
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Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria
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Sigmund Freud
3.39 of 5 stars 3.39 avg rating — 1,225 ratings
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The Basic Writings of Sigmund Freud
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Sigmund Freud
3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 188 ratings
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Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior
by
Leonard Mlodinow
3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 789 ratings
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Girl, Interrupted
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Susanna Kaysen
3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 68,572 ratings
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Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You
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Sam Gosling (Goodreads Author)
3.22 of 5 stars 3.22 avg rating — 1,999 ratings
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The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation
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Matt Ridley
4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 1,038 ratings
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A Mind of Its Own: How Your Brain Distorts and Deceives
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Cordelia Fine
3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 524 ratings
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Man for Himself: An Inquiry into the Psychology of Ethics
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Erich Fromm
4.1 of 5 stars 4.10 avg rating — 529 ratings
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Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases
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Daniel Kahneman (Editor)
4.25 of 5 stars 4.25 avg rating — 120 ratings
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True Competition: A Guide To Pursuing Excellence In Sport And Society
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David Light Shields (Goodreads Author)
4.38 of 5 stars 4.38 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
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Richard H. Thaler
3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 9,081 ratings
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What's Behind Your Belly Button? A Psychological Perspective of the Intelligence of Human Nature and Gut Instinct
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Martha Char Love (Goodreads Author)
4.67 of 5 stars 4.67 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life
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Martin E.P. Seligman
3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 3,812 ratings
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Personality: What Makes You the Way You Are
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Daniel Nettle
3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 240 ratings
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The Feeling Good Handbook
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David D. Burns
3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 1,616 ratings
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Changing Minds: The Art And Science of Changing Our Own And Other People's Minds
by
Howard Gardner
3.47 of 5 stars 3.47 avg rating — 205 ratings
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Listening to Prozac: A Psychiatrist Explores Antidepressant Drugs and the Remaking of the Self
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Peter D. Kramer
3.53 of 5 stars 3.53 avg rating — 640 ratings
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What You Can Change and What You Can't: The Complete Guide to Successful Self-Improvement
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Martin E.P. Seligman
3.65 of 5 stars 3.65 avg rating — 213 ratings
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The Spirit in Man, Art and Literature (Collected Works 15)
by
C.G. Jung
4.28 of 5 stars 4.28 avg rating — 114 ratings
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The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
by
Norman Doidge
4.23 of 5 stars 4.23 avg rating — 8,011 ratings
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Thoughts Without A Thinker: Psychotherapy From A Buddhist Perspective
by
Mark Epstein
4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 1,084 ratings
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Sexual Homicide: Patterns and Motives
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Robert K. Ressler
4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 240 ratings
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An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
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Kay Redfield Jamison
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 19,355 ratings
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Society Of Mind
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Marvin Lee Minsky
3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 949 ratings
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The Prehistory of Sex: Four Million Years of Human Sexual Culture
by
Timothy Taylor
3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 79 ratings
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Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time
by
Michael Shermer
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 3,801 ratings
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Human: The Science Behind What Makes Us Unique
by
Michael S. Gazzaniga
3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 325 ratings
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Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior
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Ori Brafman (Goodreads Author)
3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 5,469 ratings
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The Principles of Psychology Vol 1
by
William James
4.32 of 5 stars 4.32 avg rating — 130 ratings
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The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature
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Geoffrey Miller (Goodreads Author)
4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 566 ratings
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Human Givens
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Joe Griffin
4.35 of 5 stars 4.35 avg rating — 23 ratings
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The g Factor: The Science of Mental Ability (Human Evolution, Behavior, and Intelligence)
by
Arthur R. Jensen
4.78 of 5 stars 4.78 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Existentialism and Sociology: A Study of Jean-Paul Sartre
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Ian Craib
5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Mindset: How You Can Fulfil Your Potential
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Carol S. Dweck
4.01 of 5 stars 4.01 avg rating — 4,099 ratings
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Witchcraft in the Southwest: Spanish and Indian Supernaturalism on the Rio Grande
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Marc Simmons
3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
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Mary Roach (Goodreads Author)
3.52 of 5 stars 3.52 avg rating — 13,384 ratings
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Human Cognitive Abilities: A Survey of Factor-Analytic Studies
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John B. Carroll
4.5 of 5 stars 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Cognitive Neuroscience
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Michael S. Gazzaniga
3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 126 ratings
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How We Decide
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Jonah Lehrer (Goodreads Author)
3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 14,475 ratings
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50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology: Shattering Widespread Misconceptions about Human Behavior
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Scott O. Lilienfeld
3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 322 ratings
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