Psychology - Cognitive Psychology & Cognition

The surprising science that explains how and why your dog thinks and acts from Jen Golbeck, the "internet's dog mom" behind the popular Golden Ratio Squad online community and the author of the "fascinating" (First for Women) The Purest Bond. Do dogs' brains work...

In this major national bestseller and follow-up to Superfreakonomics, the Freakonomics authors are back to take us behind the phenomenon and unveil the tools for thinking like a freak.With their trademark blend of captivating storytelling and unconventional analysis, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J....

"An INVALUABLE RESOURCE to anyone who wants to think better." --Gretchen Rubin Award-winning YALE PROFESSOR Woo-kyoung Ahn delivers "A MUST-READ--a smart and compellingly readable guide to cutting-edge research into how people think." (Paul Bloom) "A FUN exploration." --Dax Shepard Psychologist Woo-kyoung Ahn devised a...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - Poker champion turned business consultant Annie Duke teaches you how to get comfortable with uncertainty and make better decisions as a result in "the ultimate guide to thinking about risk" (Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habit). "A big favorite...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - Poker champion turned business consultant Annie Duke teaches you how to get comfortable with uncertainty and make better decisions as a result in "the ultimate guide to thinking about risk" (Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habit). "A big favorite...

*Major New York Times Bestseller*More than 2.6 million copies sold*One of The New York Times Book Review's ten best books of the year*Selected by The Wall Street Journal as one of the best nonfiction books of the year*Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient*Daniel Kahneman's work...

*Major New York Times Bestseller*More than 2.6 million copies sold*One of The New York Times Book Review's ten best books of the year*Selected by The Wall Street Journal as one of the best nonfiction books of the year*Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient*Daniel Kahneman's work...

Based on a wildly popular UC Berkeley course, how to use scientists' tricks of the trade to make the best decisions and solve the hardest problems in age of uncertainty and overwhelming information. In our deluge of information, it's getting harder and harder to...

This Is What It Sounds Like is a journey into the science and soul of music that reveals the secrets of why your favorite songs move you. But it's also a story of a musical trailblazer who began as a humble audio tech in...

Featuring a foreword by DavidBrooks, ThisWill Make You Smarter presents brilliant--but accessible--ideasto expand every mind.Whatscientific concept would improve everybody's cognitive toolkit? Thisis the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org, posed to the world's mostinfluential thinkers. Their visionary answers flow from the frontiers ofpsychology, philosophy,...

The primacy of words over images has deep roots in Western culture. But what if the two are inextricably linked in meaning-making? In this experiment in visual thinking, drawn in comics, Nick Sousanis defies conventional discourse to offer readers a stunning work of graphic...

The fascinating psychology of blindspots, their complex causes, and the alarming consequences of looking without seeing. Can we believe our eyes? Most of us are confident that we can, but we shouldn't be so sure. Every day, we fail to see things that are...

* Financial Times Business Book of the Month * Next Big Idea Club Nominee * One of Bloomberg's "52 New Books That Top Business Leaders Are Recommending" * Aleo Review of Books 2022 Book of the Year *A groundbreaking exploration of why we want...

2009 reprint of 1956 First edition. When Prophecy Fails [1956] is a classic text in social psychology authored by Leon Festinger, Henry Riecken, and Stanley Schachter. It chronicles the experience of a UFO cult that believed the end of the world was at hand....

This groundbreaking book investigates the human tendency to follow, as well as the occasional defiance of this norm. This is the first work to focus not on why people with power and authority behave as they do, but on why people without respond as...

"If you want flashes and particular experiences of romantic love, read novels. If you want to understand this central quality of human nature to its roots, read Why We Love." --Edward O. Wilson In Why We Love, renowned anthropologist Helen Fisher offers a new...

From celebrated business school professor and author of Edge, a research-backed framework for honing and harnessing your intuition to make the right decisions and attain greater levels of achievement. What sets the most successful people apart? You may think that the correct answer is...

A groundbreaking guide showing us how being "out of control" (and admitting it) is the first step to living a truly better, more meaningful life. Raise your hand if you've ever wanted to "self-improve" but, for some reason, you just can't follow through. Turns...