Category - Psychology
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Flicker: Your Brain on Movies
HardcoverOriginal price $36.99Original price $36.99 - Original price $36.99Original price $36.99Current price $30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /How is it that a patch of flickering light on a wall can produce experiences that engage our imaginations and can feel totally real? From the ver...
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What Is Intelligence?: Beyond the Flynn Effect
PaperbackOriginal price $31.99Original price $31.99 - Original price $31.99Original price $31.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Professor James Flynn is one of the most creative and influential psychologists in the field of intelligence. The 'Flynn Effect' refers to the ma...
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This Is Your Brain on Sex: The Science Behind the Search for Love
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Previously published as Dirty Minds: How Our Brains Influence Love, Sex, and Relationships.PHILOSOPHERS, THEOLOGIANS, ARTISTS, AND BOY BANDS HAVE...
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Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models Of The Fundamental Mechanisms Of Thought
PaperbackOriginal price $23.99Original price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Readers of earlier works by Douglas Hofstadter will find this book a natural extension of his style and his ideas about creativity and analogy; i...
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A Natural History of Human Thinking
PaperbackOriginal price $23.00 - Original price $23.00Original price $23.00$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /A Wall Street Journal Favorite Read of the YearA Guardian Top Science Book of the Year Tool-making or culture, language or religious belief: ever...
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Your Creative Brain: Seven Steps to Maximize Imagination, Productivity, and Innovation in Your Life
HardcoverOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Research-based techniques that show everyone how to expand creativity and increase productivity Harvard psychologist Shelley Carson's provocati...
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The Manipulated Mind: Brainwashing, Conditioning and Indoctrination
PaperbackOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Ever since American prisoners of war in Korea suddenly switched sides to the communist cause, the concept of brainwashing has continued to fascin...
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The Power of Mindful Learning
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Radical in its implications, this original and important work may change forever the views we hold about the nature of learning. In The Power of ...
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Intelligence and How to Get It: Why Schools and Cultures Count
PaperbackOriginal price $23.95Original price $23.95 - Original price $23.95Original price $23.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /“[Nisbett] weighs in forcefully and articulately . . . [using] a thoroughly appealing style to engage . . . throughout.”—Publishers Weekly Who ar...
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Our Tribal Future: How to Channel Our Foundational Human Instincts into a Force for Good
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Winner of the 2023 Balsillie Prize for Public PolicyAn astounding and inspiring look at the science behind tribalism, and how we can learn to har...
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Language Unlimited: The Science Behind Our Most Creative Power
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Language Unlimited explores the many mysteries about our capacity for language and reveals the source of its endless creativity.All humans, but n...
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The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
HardcoverOriginal price $28.95Original price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction: “Nicholas Carr has written a Silent Spring for the literary mind.”—Michael Agger, Sla...
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Learning: A Very Short Introduction
PaperbackOriginal price $11.95 - Original price $11.95Original price $11.95$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /What is learning? How does it take place? What happens when it goes wrong? The topic of learning has been central to the development of the scien...
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Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 5: Symbols of Transformation / Edition 2
PaperbackOriginal price $42.00Original price $42.00 - Original price $42.00Original price $42.00Current price $38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /A complete revision of Psychology of the Unconscious (orig. 1911-12), Jung's first important statement of his independent position. Product Deta...
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Third Millennium Thinking: Creating Sense in a World of Nonsense
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Based on a wildly popular UC Berkeley course, how to use scientists’ tricks of the trade to make the best decisions and solve the hardest problem...
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Animals of the Four Windows: Integrating Thinking, Sensing, Feeling and Imagery
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00$20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /This is a profoundly important, provocative, and groundbreaking book - the first clear and comprehensive introduction to the four modes of human ...
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Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind: How Intelligence Increases When You Think Less
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /In these accelerated times, our decisive and businesslike ways of thinking are unprepared for ambiguity, paradox, and sleeping on it." We assume ...
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A Theory of Human Motivation
PaperbackOriginal price $11.99 - Original price $11.99Original price $11.99$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /This book is an attempt to formulate a positive theory of motivation that will satisfy these theoretical demands and, at the same time, conform t...
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Prisoners of Hate: The Cognitive Basis of Anger, Hostility, and Violence
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Why We Love: The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"If you want flashes and particular experiences of romantic love, read novels. If you want to understand this central quality of human nature to ...
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Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Why attractive things work better and other crucial insights into human-centered designEmotions are inseparable from how we humans think, choose,...
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Cognitive Evolution: The Biological Imprint of Applied Intelligence
PaperbackOriginal price $25.95 - Original price $25.95Original price $25.95$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /In a bold, reasoned, and meticulously researched knowledge leap, Cognitive Evolution erases the demarcation between life and intelligent life, de...
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When Prophecy Fails
PaperbackOriginal price $7.75 - Original price $7.75Original price $7.75$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /2009 reprint of 1956 First edition. When Prophecy Fails [1956] is a classic text in social psychology authored by Leon Festinger, Henry Riecken, ...
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The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Whether it's in a cockpit at takeoff or the planning of an offensive war, a romantic relationship or a dispute at the office, there are many oppo...
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