Social Psychology category: 7378 books
Dataclysm
Love, Sex, Race, and Identity--What Our Online Lives Tell Us about Our Offline Selves
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
**A New York Times Bestseller
An audacious, irreverent investigation of human behavior—and a first look at a revolution in the making**
Our personal data has been used to spy on us, hire and fire us, and sell us stuff we don’t need. In Dataclysm, Christian Rudder uses it to show us who...
My Grandmother's Hands
Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017
The body is where our instincts reside and where we fight, flee, or freeze. My Grandmother’s Hands is a call to action for Americans to recognize that racism is not about the head, but about the body. Author Resmaa Menakem introduces an alternative view of what we can do to grow beyond our entrenched racialized divide.
by Rolf Dobelli
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Have you ever . . .
Invested time in something that, in hindsight, just wasn't worth it?
Paid too much in an eBay auction?
Continued to do something you knew was bad for you?
Sold stocks too late, or too early?
Taken credit for success, but blamed failure on external circumstances?
Backed the...
Get Up, Stand Up
Uniting Populists, Energizing the Defeated, and Battling the Corporate Elite
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
Polls show that the majority of Americans oppose recent US wars and Wall Street bailouts, yet most remain passive and appear resigned to powerlessness. In Get Up, Stand Up, Bruce Levine offers an original and convincing explanation for this passivity. Many Americans are deeply demoralized by decades...
Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me)
Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2008
“Entertaining, illuminating and—when you recognize yourself in the stories it tells—mortifying.” —Wall Street Journal
“Every page sparkles with sharp insight and keen observation. Mistakes were made—but not in this book!” —Daniel Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness
Why...
The Honest Truth About Dishonesty
How We Lie to Everyone--Especially Ourselves
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
The New York Times bestselling author of Predictably Irrational and The Upside of Irrationality returns with thought-provoking work to challenge our preconceptions about dishonesty and urge us to take an honest look at ourselves.
Does the chance of getting caught affect how likely we are to cheat?
How...
On Killing
The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
A controversial psychological examination of how soldiers’ willingness to kill has been encouraged and exploited to the detriment of contemporary civilian society.
Psychologist and US Army Ranger Dave Grossman writes that the vast majority of soldiers are loath to pull the trigger in battle....
Don't Call Me Inspirational
A Disabled Feminist Talks Back
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
For psychotherapist, painter, feminist, filmmaker, writer, and disability activist Harilyn Rousso, hearing well-intentioned people tell her, "You're so inspirational!" is patronizing, not complimentary.
In her empowering and at times confrontational memoir, Don't Call Me Inspirational,...
by Tom Vanderbilt
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2008
A New York Times Notable Book
One of the Best Books of the Year
The Washington Post • The Cleveland Plain-Dealer • Rocky Mountain News
In this brilliant, lively, and eye-opening investigation, Tom Vanderbilt examines the perceptual limits and cognitive underpinnings that make us...
The Irrational Bundle
Predictably Irrational, The Upside of Irrationality, and The Honest Truth About Dishonesty
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Dan Ariely's three New York Times bestselling books on his groundbreaking behavioral economics research, Predictably Irrational, The Upside of Irrationality, and The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty, are now available for the first time in a single volume.
Mindware
Tools for Smart Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
"The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world." -Malcolm Gladwell, New York Times Book Review
Scientific and philosophical concepts can change the way we solve problems by helping us to think more effectively...
Against Empathy
The Case for Rational Compassion
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
New York Post Best Book of 2016
We often think of our capacity to experience the suffering of others as the ultimate source of goodness. Many of our wisest policy-makers, activists, scientists, and philosophers agree that the only problem with empathy is that we don’t have enough of it.
Nothing...
Who Can You Trust?
How Technology Brought Us Together and Why It Might Drive Us Apart
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
If you can't trust those in charge, who can you trust?
From government to business, banks to media, trust in institutions is at an all-time low. But this isn't the age of distrust--far from it.
In this revolutionary book, world-renowned trust expert Rachel Botsman reveals that we are...
Promise Land
My Journey through America's Self-Help Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
“A funny yet surprisingly nuanced look at the legends and ideas of the self-help industry” (People, 3.5 stars), Promise Land explores the American devotion to self-improvement—even as the author attempts some deeply personal improvements of her own.
Raised by a child psychologist who...