Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters
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Behavioral Scientist’s Notable Books
104 recognized books, each paired with conversations featuring the author.
The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality
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The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
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The Pattern Seekers: How Autism Drives Human Invention
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How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion
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Don’t Trust Your Gut: Using Data to Get What You Really Want in LIfe
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Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nature’s Secrets to Longevity
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Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less
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Engaged: Designing for Behavior Change
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A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload
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The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win
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How You Say It: Why You Talk the Way You Do―And What It Says About You
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The Kindness of Strangers: How a Selfish Ape Invented a New Moral Code
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Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth
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Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
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Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why it Matters, and How to Harness It
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The Social Biome: How Everyday Communication Connects and Shapes Us
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Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know
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The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World
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The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another
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Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace
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Breaking the Social Media Prism: How to Make Our Platforms Less Polarizing
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Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
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10 Rules for Raising Kids in a High-Tech World: How Parents Can Stop Smartphones, Social Media, and Gaming from Taking Over Their Children’s Lives
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A Trick of the Mind: How the Brain Invents Your Reality
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After the Spike: Population, Progress, and the Case for People
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Anointed: The Extraordinary Effects of Social Status in a Winner-Take-Most World
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Change the Wallpaper: Transforming Cultural Patterns to Build More Just Communities
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Choose Wisely: Rationality, Ethics, and the Art of Decision-Making
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Decisions: Studying and Supporting People Facing Hard Choices
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Deficit: How Feminist Economics Can Change Our World
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Defy: The Power of No in a World That Demands Yes
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Four Days a Week: The Life-Changing Solution for Reducing Employee Stress, Improving Well-Being, and Working Smarter
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Having It All: What Data Tells Us About Women’s Lives and Getting the Most Out of Yours
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How to Change a Memory: One Neuroscientist’s Quest to Alter the Past
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How to Fall in Love with Questions: A New Way to Thrive in Times of Uncertainty
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Inside an Academic Scandal: A Story of Fraud and Betrayal
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Inspire: The Universal Path for Leading Yourself and Others
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Life in Three Dimensions: How Curiosity, Exploration, and Experience Make a Fuller, Better Life
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Make Work Fair: Data-Driven Design for Real Results
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Me, But Better: The Science and Promise of Personality Change
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Mindmasters: The Data-Driven Science of Predicting and Changing Human Behavior
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Moral Ambition: Stop Wasting Your Talent and Start Making a Difference
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My Tax Dollars: The Morality of Taxpaying in America
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Ordinary Magic: The Science of How We Can Achieve Big Change with Small Acts
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Outraged: Why We Fight About Morality and Politics and How to Find Common Ground
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Patriarchy Inc.: What We Get Wrong About Gender Equality—and Why Men Still Win at Work
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Reset: How to Change What’s Not Working
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Shift: Managing Your Emotions—So They Don’t Manage You
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Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart
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Talk: The Science of Conversation and the Art of Being Ourselves
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The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life
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The Arrogant Ape: The Myth of Human Exceptionalism and Why It Matters
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The Call of the Honeyguide: What Science Tells Us about How to Live Well with the Rest of Life
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The Doors You Can Open: A New Way to Network, Build Trust, and Use Your Influence to Create a More Inclusive Workplace
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The Explorer’s Gene: Why We Seek Big Challenges, New Flavors, and the Blank Spots on the Map
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The Forgotten Sense: The New Science of Smell—and the Extraordinary Power of the Nose
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The Grieving Body: How the Stress of Loss Can Be an Opportunity for Healing
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The Hypocrisy Trap: How Changing What We Criticize Can Improve Our Lives
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The Ideological Brain: The Radical Science of Flexible Thinking
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The Joy of Solitude: How to Reconnect with Yourself in an Overconnected World
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The Period Brain: The New Science of Why We PMS and How to Fix It
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The Science of Racism: Everything You Need to Know but Probably Don’t—Yet
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The Unbuilt Bench: Experimental Psychology on the Verge of Science
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The Winner’s Curse: Behavioral Economics Anomalies, Then and Now
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There’s Got to Be a Better Way: How to Deliver Results and Get Rid of the Stuff That Gets in the Way of Real Work
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Unforgiving Places: The Unexpected Origins of American Gun Violence
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What We Value: The Neuroscience of Choice and Change
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What’s Real about Race? Untangling Science, Genetics, and Society
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What’s on Her Mind: The Mental Workload of Family Life
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When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows . . .: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life
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Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist
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Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents―and What They Mean for America’s Future
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The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos
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An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
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Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions
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Evolutionary Ideas: Unlocking ancient innovation to solve tomorrow’s challenges
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Freely Determined: What the New Psychology of the Self Teaches Us About How to Live
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Get It Done: Surprising Lessons from the Science of Motivation
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How to Stay Smart in a Smart World: Why Human Intelligence Still Beats Algorithms
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Influence Is Your Superpower: The Science of Winning Hearts, Sparking Change, and Making Good Things Happen
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Ritual: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living
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Streets of Gold: America’s Untold Story of Immigrant Success
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The Voltage Effect: How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale
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Thinking like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy
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This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You
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Trigger Points: Inside the Mission to Stop Mass Shootings in America
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Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions
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Clearer, Closer, Better: How Successful People See the World
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Mine!: How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives
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Of Sound Mind: How Our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World
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The New Breed: What Our History with Animals Reveals about Our Future with Robots
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The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet
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Don’t Believe a Word: The Surprising Truth About Language
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Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain
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The Catalyst: How to Change Anyone’s Mind
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The Passion Economy: Nine Rules for Thriving in the Twenty-First Century
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The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again
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Time Smart: How to Reclaim Your Time and Live a Happier Life
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Under the Influence: Putting Peer Pressure to Work
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Upstream: The Quest to Solve Problems Before They Happen
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