Reading Material I Love

These are some of the sources I've used in writing this blog (with links and previews).

BOOKS

Thinking: Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman

Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst, Robert Sapolsky

The Betters Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, Steven Pinker

The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us, Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons

Influence, The Psychology of Persuasion, by Robert B. Cialdini

Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World — And Why Things Are Better Than You Think, by Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund

The Believing Brain: From Spiritual Faiths to Political Convictions – How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths, Michael Shermer

The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science, Norman Doidge 

The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives, Leonard Mlodinow

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion, Jonathan Haidt

The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home, Dan Ariely

Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness, Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein

God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
, Christopher Hitchens

The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins

The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason, Sam Harris

Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto), Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, Nassim Nicholas Taleb

You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, and 46 Other Ways You're Deluding Yourself, David McRaney

Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts, Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson

The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales, Oliver Sacks (All the books written by Sacks are wonderful and enlightening.)

THE GREAT COURSES

Your Deceptive Mind: A Scientific Guide to Critical Thinking Skills, Professor Steven Novella, M.D.

Optimizing Brain Fitness, Professor Richard Restak, M.D.

Biology and Human Behavior: The Neurological Origins of Individuality, 2nd Edition, Professor Robert Sapolsky, PhD.

The Art of Conflict Management: Achieving Solutions for Life, Work, and Beyond, Professor Michael Dues, PhD.

FROM THE WEB

The Stanford Prison Experiment, Philip Zimbardo

On visual illusions:
Seen Any Red Pandas Lately? by Charles Wynn

On the Dunning-Kruger effect:
We are All Confident Idiots, David Dunning

On scarcity:
The Science of Scarcity, Cara Feinberg

On seeing what we want to see:
See what you want to see: motivational influences on visual perception, Emily Balcetis and David Dunning

On cognitive dissonance:
Festinger & Carlsmith's Study

On daydreaming:
Dreams of Glory, Scott Kaufman

On drawing inferences:

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