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Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as cognitive)
avg rating 4.16 — 621,522 ratings — published 2011
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as cognitive)
avg rating 3.96 — 632,777 ratings — published 2005
How the Mind Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as cognitive)
avg rating 3.99 — 21,449 ratings — published 1997
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as cognitive)
avg rating 4.11 — 133,664 ratings — published 2008
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as cognitive)
avg rating 4.28 — 54,320 ratings — published 1979
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as cognitive)
avg rating 3.88 — 95,784 ratings — published 2011
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as cognitive)
avg rating 4.21 — 186,181 ratings — published 1984
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as cognitive)
avg rating 4.01 — 22,799 ratings — published 1994
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as cognitive)
avg rating 3.91 — 11,312 ratings — published 2007
The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as cognitive)
avg rating 4.20 — 41,407 ratings — published 2007
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as cognitive)
avg rating 4.09 — 183,659 ratings — published 2006
Metaphors We Live By (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as cognitive)
avg rating 4.09 — 7,230 ratings — published 1980
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as cognitive)
avg rating 4.04 — 256,014 ratings — published 1985
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as cognitive)
avg rating 4.13 — 580,144 ratings — published 2012
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as cognitive)
avg rating 4.09 — 25,754 ratings — published 2002
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as cognitive)
avg rating 4.12 — 36,209 ratings — published 2016
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as cognitive)
avg rating 4.35 — 208,078 ratings — published 2018
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as cognitive)
avg rating 4.37 — 34,889 ratings — published 2017
How We Decide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as cognitive)
avg rating 3.85 — 41,999 ratings — published 2009
Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts
by (shelved 9 times as cognitive)
avg rating 4.04 — 29,817 ratings — published 2007
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as cognitive)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,339,611 ratings — published 2011
The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as cognitive)
avg rating 4.15 — 11,021 ratings — published 2010
Stumbling on Happiness (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as cognitive)
avg rating 3.82 — 64,501 ratings — published 2006
I Am a Strange Loop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as cognitive)
avg rating 3.95 — 8,987 ratings — published 2007
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as cognitive)
avg rating 3.89 — 34,012 ratings — published 2010
The Mind’s I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as cognitive)
avg rating 4.15 — 6,029 ratings — published 1981
Consciousness Explained (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as cognitive)
avg rating 3.90 — 8,826 ratings — published 1991
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as cognitive)
avg rating 4.15 — 201,018 ratings — published 2016
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as cognitive)
avg rating 4.36 — 948,984 ratings — published 1946
Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as cognitive)
avg rating 4.07 — 23,220 ratings — published 2015
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as cognitive)
avg rating 3.84 — 97,331 ratings — published 2008
The Art of Thinking Clearly (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as cognitive)
avg rating 3.84 — 43,367 ratings — published 2011
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as cognitive)
avg rating 4.10 — 92,161 ratings — published 1990
Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as cognitive)
avg rating 4.27 — 21,004 ratings — published 1998
Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as cognitive)
avg rating 4.09 — 35,319 ratings — published 2011
Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as cognitive)
avg rating 4.21 — 85,930 ratings — published 2022
Why Don't Students Like School?: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as cognitive)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,067 ratings — published 2009
Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action, and Cognitive Extension (Philosophy of Mind)
by (shelved 6 times as cognitive)
avg rating 3.90 — 336 ratings — published 2008
You Are Now Less Dumb: How to Conquer Mob Mentality, How to Buy Happiness, and All the Other Ways to Outsmart Yourself (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as cognitive)
avg rating 3.95 — 4,846 ratings — published 2013
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as cognitive)
avg rating 4.07 — 487,563 ratings — published 2012
The Giver (Giver, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as cognitive)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,917,719 ratings — published 1993
Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as cognitive)
avg rating 3.95 — 10,327 ratings — published 1994
The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as cognitive)
avg rating 4.03 — 36,111 ratings — published 2010
The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as cognitive)
avg rating 3.91 — 15,062 ratings — published 2010
Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About the Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as cognitive)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,133 ratings — published 1987
MindHub: Personality Profiler (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 5 times as cognitive)
avg rating 4.22 — 76 ratings — published
Cognitive Psychology: Connecting Mind, Research and Everyday Experience (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as cognitive)
avg rating 3.81 — 655 ratings — published 2010
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as cognitive)
avg rating 4.36 — 241,090 ratings — published 2017
The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as cognitive)
avg rating 3.99 — 65,620 ratings — published 2016
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as cognitive)
avg rating 3.96 — 125,759 ratings — published 2007
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