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....

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)...

To what degree did each of The Beatles exhibit emotional intelligence in the band’s final year?

How did Donald Trump’s leveraging of emotions get him to The White House?

Schwartz details the decade she spend taking Adderall to help her pay attention (or so she thought)...

How is the retail sector going to be best able to survive the Amazon juggernaut?

What makes a building’s design come alive as it helps shape our existence?

Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...

Stress is our internal response to an experience that our brain perceives as threatening or challenging...

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?

The authors consider the case for using drugs to alter our love relationships...

How involved with slavery were American universities? And what does their involvement mean for us?

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...

Alzheimer's disease has not only profound medical consequences for the individual experiencing it but a life-changing impact on those around them...

Do nonhuman animals have phenomenally conscious mental states?

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.

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...

Brain diseases are now the world's leading source of disability...

Arstein-Kerslake discusses situations where people with cognitive impairments are unjustifiably denied the right to make their own choices...

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.

Why does an estimated 5% of the general population intentionally and repeatedly hurt themselves?

According to Cook, a paradox paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick...

You can't always get what you want, Freud noted in his 1930 short book, Civilization and its Discontents...

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...

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