New Books in Psychology
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Ben Cohen, "The Hot Hand: The Mystery and Scien...
Do streaks exist?
40 min
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Cressida J. Heyes, "Anaesthetics of Existence: ...
How should we think about the relationship between subjectivity and experience?
59 min
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E. Lonergan and M. Blyth, "Angrynomics" (Agenda...
How are we going to address inequality and put the economy on a sounder footing?
44 min
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E. Lonergan and M. Blyth, "Angrynomics" (Agenda...
How are we going to address inequality and put the economy on a sounder footing?
44 min
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Zena Hitz, "Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasur...
Hitz explores the interior world and shows that intellectual endeavor is not simply a matter of reading...
102 min
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David R. Grimes, "The Irrational Ape: Why Flawe...
What are some of the prevalent ways in which we lie to ourselves and limit our flexibility?
39 min
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Kurt Braddock, "Weaponized Words" (Cambridge UP...
Braddock applies existing theories of persuasion to domains unique to this digital era, such as social media, YouTube, websites, and message boards to name but a few....
55 min
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Lori Gottlieb, "Maybe You Should Talk to Someon...
Gottlieb offers a hilarious, thought-provoking, and surprising new book that takes us behind the scenes of a therapist's world-where her patients are looking for answers (and so is she)...
40 min
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Casey Schwartz, "Attention: A Love Story" (Pant...
Schwartz details the decade she spend taking Adderall to help her pay attention (or so she thought)...
39 min
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Kenneth Womack, "Solid State: The Story of Abbe...
To what degree did each of The Beatles exhibit emotional intelligence in the band’s final year?
44 min
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Susie Hodge, "The Short Story of Architecture" ...
What makes a building’s design come alive as it helps shape our existence?
38 min
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S. E. Schier and T. E. Eberly, "How Trump Happe...
How did Donald Trump’s leveraging of emotions get him to The White House?
37 min
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B. J. Pine II and J. H. Gilmore, "The Experienc...
How is the retail sector going to be best able to survive the Amazon juggernaut?
45 min
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Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Mat...
Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...
117 min
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Elizabeth A. Stanley, "Widen the Window" (Avery...
Stress is our internal response to an experience that our brain perceives as threatening or challenging...
60 min
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Cailin O’Connor, "The Misinformation Age: How F...
Why should we care about having true beliefs? And why do demonstrably false beliefs persist and spread despite bad, even fatal, consequences for the people who hold them?
40 min
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B. Earp and J. Savulescu, "Love Drugs: The Chem...
The authors consider the case for using drugs to alter our love relationships...
68 min
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Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: ...
How involved with slavery were American universities? And what does their involvement mean for us?
56 min
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Richard G. Tedeschi, "Posttraumatic Growth: The...
Tedeschi provides a wide range of answers to questions concerning knowledge of posttraumatic growth (PTG) theory, its synthesis and contrast with other theories and models, and its applications in diverse settings...
57 min
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Baptiste Brossard, "Forgetting Items: The Socia...
Alzheimer's disease has not only profound medical consequences for the individual experiencing it but a life-changing impact on those around them...
48 min
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Peter Carruthers, "Human and Animal Minds: The ...
Do nonhuman animals have phenomenally conscious mental states?
60 min
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George Scialabba, "How To Be Depressed" (U Penn...
In the place of dispensable banalities—"Hold on," "You will feel better," and so on—Scialabba offers an account of how it's been for him, in the hope that doing so might prove helpful to others.
32 min
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Amy Koerber, “From Hysteria to Hormones: A Rhet...
Koerber shows that the boundary between older, nonscientific ways of understanding women’s bodies and newer, scientific understandings is much murkier than we might expect...
61 min
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Anna Arstein-Kerslake, "Restoring Voice to Peop...
Arstein-Kerslake discusses situations where people with cognitive impairments are unjustifiably denied the right to make their own choices...
52 min
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Ray Dorsey, "Ending Parkinson's Disease: A Pres...
Brain diseases are now the world's leading source of disability...
39 min