Psychology

How minds work — from cognitive biases to trauma, attachment and flow.

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Relationships

Attached

Amir Levine & Rachel Heller · 2010

How attachment science explains adult romantic relationships.

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Positive Psychology

Flow

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi · 1990

The psychology of optimal experience and what makes life worth living.

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Social Psychology

Influence

Robert B. Cialdini · 1984

The six universal principles of persuasion and how to defend against them.

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Existential Psychology

Man's Search for Meaning

Viktor E. Frankl · 1946

A Holocaust survivor's meditation on finding meaning in suffering.

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Personality

Quiet

Susan Cain · 2012

The power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking.

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Positive Psychology

Stumbling on Happiness

Daniel Gilbert · 2006

Why we mispredict what will make us happy.

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Trauma

The Body Keeps the Score

Bessel van der Kolk · 2014

Brain, mind and body in the healing of trauma.

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Psychoanalysis

The Interpretation of Dreams

Sigmund Freud · 1899

Freud's founding text of psychoanalysis on the meaning of dreams.

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Behavioral Science

The Power of Habit

Charles Duhigg · 2012

Why we do what we do in life and business, and how habits change.

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Cognitive Psychology

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman · 2011

The two systems that drive the way we think, from a Nobel laureate.

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