Category Archives: Psychology
How we think, decide and make sense of the world.
The Scout Mindset Review: A Practical Guide to Seeing Clearly
The best practical book on honest thinking: clear, fair and full of usable tests, arguing [...]
The Paradox of Choice Review: Why More Options Can Mean Less Joy
A lucid, useful case that too many options can make us miserable; the maximizer and [...]
The Anxious Generation Review: A Bold Case, Fiercely Contested
A persuasive, highly practical case against phone-based childhood whose causal claims remain disputed; parents should [...]
Think Again Review: Adam Grant’s Case for Changing Your Mind
A lively, well-researched guide to rethinking your own views and helping others rethink theirs; familiar [...]
The Body Keeps the Score Review: Powerful, Popular and Contested
Van der Kolk's bestseller on trauma is compassionate and eye-opening for many readers, but several [...]
Attached Review: A Useful Map of Love, Drawn Too Simply
A clear, practical introduction to adult attachment styles that has helped many readers understand their [...]
The Righteous Mind Review: Why Politics Divides Good People
Haidt's account of moral intuition is one of the best books for understanding political and [...]
The Psychopath Test Review: Jon Ronson Doubts His Own Checklist
Funny, curious and unexpectedly self-critical, Ronson's tour of psychopathy and psychiatry entertains more than it [...]
Quiet Review: A Persuasive Defense of Introverts
Susan Cain's well-researched case for introverts is warm, readable and often eye-opening, though it stretches [...]
Behave Review: Sapolsky’s Brilliant, Sprawling Tour of Why We Act
The best single book on the biology of human behavior: huge, funny and demanding, and [...]
The Undoing Project Review: The Friendship Behind Behavioral Economics
Michael Lewis turns the Kahneman and Tversky partnership into a gripping, moving story; lighter on [...]
Noise Review: The Other Half of Human Error, Told at Length
An important idea stretched across a book twice as long as it needs to be: [...]

