New Books in Psychology
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Fay Bound Alberti, "A Biography of Loneliness: ...
Fay Bound Alberti argues that loneliness is not an ahistorical, universal phenomenon. It is, in fact, a modern emotion: before 1800, its language did not exist...
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Caroline Stokes, "Elephants Before Unicorns: Em...
How does avoidance of conflict ultimately create more conflict in the workplace?
44 min
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Saul J. Weiner, "On Becoming a Healer: The Jour...
Weiner argues that joy in medicine requires more than idealistic aspirations―it demands a capacity to see past the "otherness" that separates the well from the sick,...
48 min
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Evy Poumpouras, "Becoming Bulletproof" (Atria P...
Former Secret Service agent and star of Bravo’s Spy Games, Evy Poumpouras, shares lessons learned from protecting presidents...
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Ruth Leys, "The Ascent of Affect: Genealogy and...
Leys focuses on the post–World War II period, when interest in emotions as an object of study began to revive...
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S. Moskalenko and C. McCauley, "Radicalization ...
The authors propose twelve mechanisms that can move individuals, groups, and mass publics from political indifference to sympathy and support for terrorist violence...
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Charlene Li, "The Disruption Mindset: Why Some ...
What does it take for a company’s culture to enable ongoing growth?
45 min
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Ben Cohen, "The Hot Hand: The Mystery and Scien...
Do streaks exist?
40 min
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Pehr Granqvist, "Attachment in Religion and Spi...
Granqvist focuses on the connections between early caregiving experiences, attachment patterns, and individual differences in religious cognition, experience, and behavior...
48 min
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Cressida J. Heyes, "Anaesthetics of Existence: ...
How should we think about the relationship between subjectivity and experience?
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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?
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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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Susie Hodge, "The Short Story of Architecture" ...
What makes a building’s design come alive as it helps shape our existence?
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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?
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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)...
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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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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...
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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...
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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?
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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...
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