Psychology / Movements / Behaviorism

Democratic Reason: Politics, Collective Intelligence, and the Rule of the Many

by Hélène Landemore

Individual decision making can often be wrong due to misinformation, impulses, or biases. Collective decision making, on the other hand, can be surprisingly accurate. In Democratic Reason, Hélène Landemore...

The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns

by Sasha Issenberg

The book Politico calls “Moneyball for politics” shows how cutting-edge social science and analytics are reshaping the modern political campaign.

Renegade thinkers are crashing the gates of a venerable American...

Sounds: A Pathway to World Peace

by Alvin S. Yusin

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International terrorism and the development of weapons of mass destruction have given war an unlimited capability that can cause total destruction of all living things as well as the world in which...

Cognitive Behavior Therapy: Core Principles for Practice

by William T. T. O'Donohue & Jane E. E. Fisher

Learn and apply the 14 core principles of cognitive behavior therapy

In this invaluable guide, clinicians will find—identified and summarized by leading researchers and clinicians—fourteen core principles that...

The Placebo Response and the Power of Unconscious Healing

by Richard Kradin

Placebo responses are automatic and unconscious and cannot be predicted based on conscious volition. Instead, they reflect complex interactions between the innate reward system of the nervous system and encoded...

Rick Perry and His Eggheads: Inside the Brainiest Political Operation in America, A Sneak Preview from The Victory Lab

by Sasha Issenberg

A fascinating, never-before-reported look into how Rick Perry, in his 2006 reelection campaign in Texas, had academics conduct real-time experiments to study what makes people vote--revealing a new side of a...

The Science of Sin: The Psychology of the Seven Deadlies (and Why They Are So Good For You)

by Simon M. Phd Laham

Pride, lust, gluttony, greed, envy, sloth, and anger.

They’re considered “deadly” because of their capacity to generate other evils.  The truth is, we all sin and we do it all the time—in fact, usually...

The Two-Second Advantage: How We Succeed by Anticipating the Future--Just Enough

by Kevin Maney & Vivek Ranadive

What made Wayne Gretzky the greatest hockey player of all time wasn’t his speed on the ice or the uncanny accuracy of his shots, but rather his ability to predict where the puck was going to be an instant...