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Psychology
Psychology (lit. "study of the mind", from Greek: ψυχή psukhē "breath, spirit, soul"; and -λογία, -logia "study of") is an academic and applied discipline involving the systematic systematic, and often scientific, study of human or animal mental functions and behavior. Occasionally, in addition or...
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The Evolution of Cooperation
The Evolution of Cooperation generally refers to:
This article is an introduction to how game theory and computer modeling are illuminating certain aspects of moral and political philosophy, particularly the role of individuals in groups, the ...
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The Bell Curve
The Bell Curve is a controversial, best-selling 1994 book by the late Harvard psychologist Richard J. Herrnstein and American Enterprise Institute political scientist Charles Murray. Its central point is that intelligence is a better predictor of...
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- Sep 1994
The Mismeasure of Man
The Mismeasure of Man is a 1981 book written by the Harvard paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould (1941–2002). The book is a history and critique of the methods and motivations underlying biological determinism, the belief that "the social and economic...
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- 1981
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- 955742
How the Self Controls Its Brain
How the Self Controls Its Brain is a book by Sir John Eccles, proposing a theory of philosophical dualism, and offering a justification of how there can be mind-brain action without violating the principle of the conservation of energy.
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Moral Politics
Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think is a 1996 book by cognitive linguist George Lakoff. It argues that conservatives and liberals hold two different conceptual models of morality. Conservatives have a Strict Father morality in which...
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The Primal Scream
The Primal Scream (1970) is a book by Arthur Janov Ph. D, the inventor of Primal Therapy. It is subtitled Primal Therapy: The Cure for Neurosis.
Some editions of The Primal Scream featured Edvard Munch's painting The Scream on the cover. See, for...
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Consciousness Explained
Consciousness Explained (published 1991) is a book by the American philosopher Daniel Dennett which offers an account of how consciousness arises from interaction of physical and cognitive processes in the brain.
The book puts forward a "multiple...
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- 1991
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Metamagical Themas
Metamagical Themas is an eclectic collection of articles written for Scientific American during the early 1980s by Douglas Hofstadter, and published together as a book in 1985 by Basic Books (ISBN 0-465-04566-9).
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The Anatomy of Melancholy
The Anatomy of Melancholy (Full title The Anatomy of Melancholy, What it is: With all the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, and Several Cures of it. In Three Maine Partitions with their several Sections, Members, and Subsections....
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- 1621
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The Myth of Mental Illness
The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct is a controversial book by Thomas Szasz and published in 1961. It is highly influential in the anti-psychiatry movement. In it, Szasz argues that mental illness is a social...
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The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, first published in 1989, is a self-help book written by Stephen R. Covey. It has sold over 15 million copies in 38 languages since first publication, which was marked by the release of a 15th anniversary...
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- 1989
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Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life
Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life, published in 1998, is a motivational book by Spencer Johnson written in the style of a parable or business fable. It describes change in one's work and life, and...
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- 1998
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Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution
Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution is a book by Peter Kropotkin on the subject of mutual aid, written while he was living in exile in England. It was first published by William Heinemann in London in October 1902. The individual chapters had...
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The Society of Mind
The Society of Mind is a book and theory of natural intelligence as written and developed by Marvin Minsky.
In a step-by-step process, Minsky constructs a model of human intelligence which is built layer by layer from the interactions of simple...
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- 1986
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales is a 1985 book by neurologist Oliver Sacks describing the case histories of some of his patients. The title of the book comes from the case study of a man with visual agnosia. The Man...
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- 1985
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The Dragons of Eden
The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence is a Pulitzer prize winning 1977 book by Carl Sagan. In it, he combines the fields of anthropology, evolutionary biology, psychology, and computer science to give a well...
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- 1977
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Civilization and its Discontents
Civilization and Its Discontents is a book by Sigmund Freud. Written in 1929, and first published in German in 1930 as Das Unbehagen in der Kultur ("The Uneasiness in Culture"), it is one of Freud's most important and widely read works (e.g., Gay,...
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- 1930
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Zen and the Brain
Zen and the Brain: Toward an Understanding of Meditation and Consciousness is a book authored by James H. Austin. First published in 1998, the book's aim is to establish links between the neurological workings of the human brain and meditation. For...
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The Interpretation of Dreams
The Interpretation of Dreams is a book by psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. The first edition (in German, and bearing the title Die Traumdeutung) was published in November 1899 (post-dated as 1900 by the publisher). The book inaugurated the theory of...
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- Nov 1899
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Principles of Psychology
The Principles of Psychology is a monumental text in the history of psychology, written by William James and published in 1890.
There were four methods in James' psychology: analysis (i.e. the logical criticism of precursor and contemporary views of...
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- 1890
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Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets is a book written by Nassim Nicholas Taleb about the fallibility of human knowledge.
The book was selected by Fortune as one of "The Smartest Books of All Time".
The book's...
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- 2001
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The Social Animal
The Social Animal is Elliot Aronson's book about social psychology. Originally written in 1972, The Social Animal covers, in a style written for the general audience, what modern psychology has deduced about the reasons for certain aspects of human...
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Verbal Behavior
Verbal Behavior is a 1957 book by psychologist B. F. Skinner, in which he analyzes human behavior, encompassing what is traditionally called language, linguistics, or speech. For Skinner, verbal behavior is simply behavior subject to the same...
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Think and Grow Rich
Think and Grow Rich is a motivational personal development and self-help book written by Napoleon Hill and inspired by a suggestion by Scottish-American billionaire Andrew Carnegie. It was published in 1937 during the Great Depression. It remains...
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (ISBN 0-316-31696-2) is a book by Malcolm Gladwell, first published by Little Brown in 2000.
Tipping points are "the levels at which the momentum for change becomes unstoppable."...
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- 2000
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Quantum Psychology
Quantum Psychology: How Brain Software Programs You & Your World was written by Robert Anton Wilson and originally published in 1990.
Some consider Quantum Psychology a follow-up to Wilson's earlier volume Prometheus Rising, mainly for the presence...
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Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human (Menschliches, Allzumenschliches), subtitled A Book for Free Spirits (Ein Buch für freie Geister), is a book by 19th century philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, originally published in 1878. A second part, Assorted Opinions and...
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- 1878
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The Seven Sins of Memory: How the Mind Forgets and Remembers
The Seven Sins of Memory: How the Mind Forgets and Remembers is a book (ISBN 0-618-21919-6) by Daniel Schacter, former chair of Harvard University's Psychology Department and a leading memory researcher.
The book revolves around the theory that "the...
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- 2001
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Seduction of the Innocent
Seduction of the Innocent is a book by American psychiatrist Fredric Wertham, published in 1954, that warned that comic books were a negative form of popular literature and a serious cause of juvenile delinquency. The book was a minor bestseller...
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The Concept of Mind
The Concept of Mind (1949) is a book by the philosopher Gilbert Ryle. In it, he describes what he saw as a "fundamental mistake" made by Descartes' dualism, which underlies much of western philosophy. In the work, Ryle coined the phrase, "the dogma...
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The Sickness Unto Death
The Sickness Unto Death (Danish Sygdommen til Døden) is a book written by Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard in 1849 under the pseudonym Anti-Climacus. It is about Kierkegaard's concept of despair, which he equates with the Christian concept of...
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- 1849
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On Intelligence
On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines is a book by Palm Pilot-inventor Jeff Hawkins with New York Times science writer Sandra Blakeslee. The book explains Hawkins' memory...
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- 2004
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The Varieties of Religious Experience
The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature is a book by the Harvard psychologist and philosopher William James that comprises his edited Gifford Lectures on "Natural Theology" delivered at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland...
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Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality is a 1905 work by Sigmund Freud which advanced his theory of sexuality, in particular its relation to childhood. Together with Interpretations of Dreams, these essays are one of Freud's most momentous and...
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- 1905
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Emotional Design
Emotional Design is both the title of a book by Donald Norman and of the concept it represents. The main issue is that emotions have a crucial role in the human ability to understand the world, and how they learn new things. For example:...
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Liberation by Oppression: A Comparative Study of Slavery and Psychiatry
Liberation by Oppression: A Comparative Study of Slavery and Psychiatry (ISBN 9780765801456) is a 2002 work on, and a critique of, psychiatry by Thomas Stephen Szasz. The text compares the justification of psychiatry with the justification of...
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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking is a 2005 book by Malcolm Gladwell. It popularizes research from psychology and behavioral economics on the adaptive unconscious; mental processes that work rapidly and automatically from relatively...
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- 2005
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- Jan 11, 2005
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- 2005
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The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature is a best-selling 2002 book by Steven Pinker arguing against tabula rasa models of the social sciences. Pinker argues that human behavior is substantially shaped by evolutionary psychological...
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- 2002
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Delusion and Dream in Jensen's Gradiva
Delusion and Dream in Jensen's Gradiva (1907) is an essay by Sigmund Freud that analyzes the novel Gradiva by Jensen from a psychoanalytical point of view.
The novel is about a young archaeologist who comes to realize his love for his childhood...
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Influence Science and Practice
Influence: Science and Practice (ISBN 0-321-18895-0) is a Psychology book examining the key ways people can be influenced by "Compliance Professionals". The book's author is Robert B. Cialdini, Professor of Psychology at Arizona State University....
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Recovery from Cults
Recovery from Cults: Help for Victims of Psychological and Spiritual Abuse a 1995 book edited by Michael Langone, director of the International Cultic Studies Association (formerly the American Family Foundation), published by W. W. Norton & Company...
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- Jun 1995
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Snapping
Snapping: America's Epidemic of Sudden Personality Change is a 1978 anti-cult book which describes the authors' theory of religious conversion, called snapping in terms of mind control, a mental process which the authors argue by which a person is...
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- 1978
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How the Mind Works
How the Mind Works (ISBN 0-393-31848-6) is a book by Canadian-American cognitive scientist Steven Pinker, published in 1997. The book attempts to explain some of the human mind's poorly understood functions and quirks in evolutionary terms. Drawing...
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- 1997
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The Eden Express
The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity (ISBN 1-58322-543-9) is a 1975 book by Mark Vonnegut, son of American writer Kurt Vonnegut, about Mark's experiences in the late 1960s and his major psychotic breakdown and recovery. After his recovery, he...
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The Feeling Good Handbook
The Feeling Good Handbook, written by Dr. David D. Burns, was used in a program at PARC (Palo Alto Research Community) for the rehabilitation of veterans who were homeless. It uses the principles of Cognitive Psychology to change a person's mood. It...
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Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development
Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development is an 1883 book by Francis Galton, in which he covers a variety of psychological phenomena and their subsequent measurement. In this text he also references the idea of eugenics and coined the term...
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The Ghost in the Machine
The Ghost in the Machine is a 1967 non-fiction work by Arthur Koestler. The title refers to British philosopher Gilbert Ryle's negative description of René Descartes' mind-body dualism. While himself rejecting what he refers as "crass dualism",...
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- 1967
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My Secret Garden
My Secret Garden: Women’s Sexual Fantasies is a 1973 book compiled by Nancy Friday, who collected women's fantasies through letters and taped and personal interviews. She organized these narratives into "rooms". The book revealed that women...
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The g Factor: The Science of Mental Ability
The g Factor is a book by Arthur Jensen on the general factor of human mental ability (or g).
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- 1998
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Time for a Change
Time for a Change (disambiguation)
Time for a Change is a 1993 book by Richard Bandler. It is a book of positive suggestions regarding use of slow time in trance and how to clean out existing bad beliefs in one's brain. It contains different recipes...
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Man and His Symbols
Man and His Symbols is the last psychological work undertaken by Carl Jung before his death in 1961. First published in 1964, it is divided into five parts, four of which are written by associates of Jung: Joseph L. Henderson, Marie-Louise von Franz...
The Sadist
The Sadist (German: "Der Sadist") is a book published by psychiatrist Karl Berg, following the confessions of Peter Kürten, a well-known serial murderer in the late 1920s in Germany.
The book was originally written in German. The first English...
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Codependent No More
Codependent No More was the debut book of self-help author Melody Beattie. It was originally published in 1987 by the publishing division of the Hazelden Foundation. The book became a phenomenon of the self-help movement, going on to sell over eight...
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Powers of Horror
Powers of Horror: an Essay on Abjection is a 1982 book by Julia Kristeva. The book is an extensive treatise on the subject of abjection and all it entails. Starting with Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan's theories, Kristeva examines horror,...
Studies on Hysteria
Studies on Hysteria (German: Studien über Hysterie) was a book published in 1895 by Sigmund Freud and Josef Breuer. It contained a number of Breuer and Freud's case studies of "hysterics". It included one of their most famous cases, Breuer's Anna O....
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Totem and Taboo
Totem and Taboo: Resemblances Between the Mental Lives of Savages and Neurotics is a book by Sigmund Freud published in German in 1913 under the title Totem und Tabu: Einige Übereinstimmungen im Seelenleben der Wilden und der Neurotiker. It is a...
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Personality Plus
Personality Plus is the name of a book by Florence Littauer (ISBN 1-85424-509-0). This article summarises the profiles of the Personality Plus system, and relates them to some other well-known personality system.
Personality Plus talks about four...
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On Narcissism
On Narcissism was a 1914 book by Sigmund Freud, widely considered an introduction to Freud's theories of narcissism. In this paper, Freud sums up his earlier discussions on the subject of narcissism and considers its place in sexual development....
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How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School
How People Learn is the title of an Educational Psychology book edited by John D. Bransford, Ann L. Brown, and Rodney R. Cocking and published by the United States National Academy of Sciences' National Academies Press. The committee on How People...
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Future of an Illusion
The Future of an Illusion (Die Zukunft einer Illusion) is a book written by Sigmund Freud in 1927. It describes his interpretation of religion's origins, development, psychoanalysis, and its future.
Freud describes religion as an illusion, wishes...
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- 1927
