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Cognition Books
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Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.17 — 604,213 ratings — published 2011
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as cognition)
avg rating 3.96 — 627,345 ratings — published 2005
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.12 — 132,366 ratings — published 2008
How the Mind Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as cognition)
avg rating 3.99 — 21,275 ratings — published 1997
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.01 — 22,679 ratings — published 1994
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as cognition)
avg rating 3.88 — 94,991 ratings — published 2011
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.05 — 250,827 ratings — published 1985
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.29 — 53,364 ratings — published 1979
Consciousness Explained (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as cognition)
avg rating 3.90 — 8,749 ratings — published 1991
Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.15 — 23,248 ratings — published 2014
Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as cognition)
avg rating 3.95 — 10,141 ratings — published 1994
The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.03 — 35,987 ratings — published 2010
Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.09 — 34,921 ratings — published 2011
This Is Your Brain on Music (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as cognition)
avg rating 3.89 — 68,632 ratings — published 2006
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as cognition)
avg rating 3.84 — 96,024 ratings — published 2008
On Intelligence (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,987 ratings — published 2004
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.37 — 233,761 ratings — published 2017
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.37 — 33,285 ratings — published 2017
Other Minds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as cognition)
avg rating 3.88 — 28,941 ratings — published 2016
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.13 — 571,067 ratings — published 2012
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.09 — 25,540 ratings — published 2002
Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.27 — 20,789 ratings — published 1998
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as cognition)
avg rating 3.97 — 16,745 ratings — published 2016
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,130 ratings — published 1976
The Society of Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,375 ratings — published 1985
The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.09 — 45,899 ratings — published 2006
Metaphors We Live By (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.09 — 7,076 ratings — published 1980
Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts
by (shelved 12 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.04 — 29,432 ratings — published 2007
Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as cognition)
avg rating 3.67 — 16,889 ratings — published 2021
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.21 — 181,179 ratings — published 1984
How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as cognition)
avg rating 3.96 — 7,843 ratings — published 2012
The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.15 — 10,963 ratings — published 2010
How We Decide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as cognition)
avg rating 3.85 — 41,752 ratings — published 2009
Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.12 — 152,825 ratings — published 2021
How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.09 — 13,571 ratings — published 2017
The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as cognition)
avg rating 3.65 — 14,762 ratings — published 2014
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,298,885 ratings — published 2011
Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.19 — 67,906 ratings — published 2012
The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as cognition)
avg rating 3.91 — 14,980 ratings — published 2010
The Mind’s I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.15 — 5,992 ratings — published 1981
The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,306 ratings — published 1991
Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as cognition)
avg rating 3.82 — 24,393 ratings — published 2018
The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as cognition)
avg rating 3.99 — 64,826 ratings — published 2016
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.34 — 297,364 ratings — published 2014
Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,003 ratings — published 2014
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.07 — 481,164 ratings — published 2012
The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.20 — 40,848 ratings — published 2007
Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,291 ratings — published 1998
Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.06 — 138,208 ratings — published 1995
The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as cognition)
avg rating 3.83 — 37,285 ratings — published 2004
“If the brain was simple enough to be understood - we would be too simple to understand it!”
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“There are two circumstances that lead to arrogance: one is when you're wrong and you can't face it; the other is when you're right and nobody else can face it.”
― Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
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