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The most-recommended psychology titles in our index, ranked by how many people recommend each.
- 51 people
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition
Robert B. Cialdini, PhD · 2006
51 recommenders
- 28 people
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
Matthew Walker · 2017
28 recommenders
- 25 people
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Jonathan Haidt · 2021
25 recommenders
- 18 people
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
Jonathan Haidt & Greg Lukianoff · 2018
18 recommenders
- 17 people
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
Steven Pinker · 2018
17 recommenders
- 12 people
The Elephant in the Brain
Robin Hanson and Kevin Simler · 2017
12 recommenders
- 12 people
The Way of the Superior Man : A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire
David Deida · 2004
12 recommenders
- 10 people
The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma
Bessel A. van der Kolk · 2014
10 recommenders
- 8 people
The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance
David Epstein · 2013
8 recommenders
- 6 people
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
Malcolm Gladwell · 2015
6 recommenders
- 6 people
The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal
Jim Loehr · 2003
6 recommenders
- 5 people
How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain: How We Create Emotions Through Brain, Body, and Culture
Lisa Feldman Barrett · 2018
5 recommenders
- 5 people
Black Box Thinking: Why Most People Never Learn from Their Mistakes--But Some Do
Matthew Syed · 2015
5 recommenders
- 5 people
Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
David Eagleman · 2011
5 recommenders
- 4 people
Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion
Paul Bloom · 2016
4 recommenders
- 4 people
What Every Body Is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People
Joe Navarro · 2014
4 recommenders
- 4 people
The Coddling of the American Mind
Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff · 2019
4 recommenders
- 4 people
Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger
Soraya Chemaly · 2018
4 recommenders
- 4 people
Self Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself
Dr. Kristin Neff · 2011
4 recommenders
- 3 people
The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us (Chinese Edition)
Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons · 2016
3 recommenders
- 3 people
Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases
Daniel Kahneman & Paul Slovic and Amos Tversky · 1982
3 recommenders
- 3 people
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
Erving Goffman · 1952
3 recommenders
- 3 people
Triumphs of Experience: The Men of the Harvard Grant Study
George E. Vaillant · 2012
3 recommenders
- 3 people
Why Don't Students Like School?: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom
Daniel T. Willingham · 2009
3 recommenders
- 3 people
Finding Your Element
Ken Robinson & Lou Aronica · 2013
3 recommenders
- 2 people
Age of Propaganda: The Everyday Use and Abuse of Persuasion
Anthony R. Pratkanis · 2001
2 recommenders
- 2 people
The Person and the Situation: Perspectives of Social Psychology
Lee Ross and Richard E. Nisbett · 2011
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things
Don Norman · 2003
2 recommenders
- 2 people
The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It . . . Every Time
Maria Konnikova · 2016
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Dataclysm: Love, Sex, Race, and Identity — What Our Online Lives Tell Us about Our Offline Selves
Christian Rudder · 2015
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Our Bodies, Ourselves
The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective · 1998
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Sleep Paralysis: Night-mares, Nocebos and the Mind-Body Connection
Shelley R Adler · 2011
2 recommenders
- 2 people
The Afterlife is Where We Come From
Alma Gottlieb · 2003
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Seeing Gender: An Illustrated Guide to Identity and Expression
Iris Gottlieb · 2019
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Affective Neuroscience: The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions (Series in Affective Science)
Jaak Panksepp · 2004
2 recommenders
- 2 people
On Having No Head: Zen and the Rediscovery of the Obvious
Douglas Edison Harding · 2002
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Mind: A Journey to the Heart of Being Human
Daniel J. Siegel · 2016
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the Mind
David M Buss · 1998
2 recommenders
- 2 people
First, We Make the Beast Beautiful
Sarah Wilson · 2017
2 recommenders
- 1 person
Clinical Versus Statistical Prediction: A Theoretical Analysis and a Review of the Evidence
Paul E. Meehl · 2013
1 recommender
