New Books in Psychology
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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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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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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?
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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
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Owen Whooley, "On the Heels of Ignorance: Psych...
Whooley’s book is no anti-psychiatric screed; instead, he reveals a field that has muddled through periodic reinventions and conflicting agendas of curiosity, compassion, and professional striving.
59 min
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Baptiste Brossard, "Why do We Hurt Ourselves? U...
Why does an estimated 5% of the general population intentionally and repeatedly hurt themselves?
47 min
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Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Parad...
According to Cook, a paradox paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick...
51 min
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Great Books: Peter Brooks on Freud's "Civilizat...
You can't always get what you want, Freud noted in his 1930 short book, Civilization and its Discontents...
49 min
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Elise Berman, "Talking Like Children: Language ...
Berman shows us the complexities of Marshallese life and reveals the way that age, a central part of Marshallese culture, is not biologically given but culturally constructed...
60 min
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Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Bo...
How does the world of book reviews work?
39 min
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Sarah Fawn Montgomery, "Quite Mad: An American ...
If you live in America, chances are good you’ve heard the term “mental health crisis” bandied about in the media...
35 min
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Matthew Gutmann, "Are Men Animals? How Modern M...
Gutmann examines how cultural expectations viewing men as violent and sex driven becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy...
58 min
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Carol Gilligan and Naomi Snider, "Why Does Patr...
Carol Gilligan and Naomi Snider use psychoanalysis and psychology as frameworks for understanding the vexingly enduring power of this social structure...
40 min
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David Adger, "Language Unlimited: The Science B...
Adger brings foundational ideas in the cognitive science of language to a popular audience...
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K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alt...
If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change...
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