Category - Psychology
-
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...
View full details -
The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /What happens in our brains to make us feel fear, love, hate, anger, joy? Do we control our emotions, or do they control us? Do animals have emoti...
View full details -
The Moral Molecule: How Trust Works
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"This is an important book. Empathy, cooperation, trusting, heroism, stinginess, skepticism, anger, tough mindedness: Paul Zak unpacks these and ...
View full details -
Better in Every Sense: How the New Science of Sensation Can Help You Reclaim Your Life
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Renowned neuroscientist Dr. Norman Farb and clinical psychologist Dr. Zindel Segal reveal how to break out of negative patterns by engaging your ...
View full details -
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...
View full details -
The Evolution of Consciousness: The Origins of the Way We Think
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /A provocative look at how our mind evolved and what this means for the human future What is your mind? How is it that, like the proverbial fish ...
View full details -
Supernormal Stimuli: How Primal Urges Overran Their Evolutionary Purpose
HardcoverOriginal price $42.95Original price $42.95 - Original price $42.95Original price $42.95Current price $38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /How our once-helpful instincts got hijacked by our garish modern world. Have you ever wondered why some men choose pornography over actual women?...
View full details -
The Pattern Seekers: How Autism Drives Human Invention
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A groundbreaking argument about the link between autism and ingenuity.Why can humans alone invent? In The Pattern Seekers, Cambridge University p...
View full details -
The Nature of the Beast: How Emotions Guide Us
HardcoverOriginal price $29.00Original price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A pioneering neuroscientist offers a new way of understanding how emotions drive behaviorDoes your dog get sad when you leave for the day? Does y...
View full details -
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...
View full details -
Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization
HardcoverOriginal price $29.00Original price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /An "entertaining and enlightening" deep dive into the alcohol-soaked origins of civilization—and the evolutionary roots of humanity's appetite fo...
View full details -
Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain
PaperbackOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A tour through the groundbreaking science behind the enigmatic, but crucial, brain developments of adolescence and how those translate into teena...
View full details -
What's Going on in There?: How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00Original price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /As a research neuroscientist, Lise Eliot has made the study of the human brain her life's work. But it wasn't until she was pregnant with her fir...
View full details -
Embracing the Wide Sky: A Tour Across the Horizons of the Mind
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Owner of "the most remarkable mind on the planet," (according to Entertainment Weekly) Daniel Tammet captivated readers and won worldwide critica...
View full details -
Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /WINNER OF THE 2014 BRAIN PRIZE From the acclaimed author of Reading in the Brain and How We Learn, a breathtaking look at the new science that ca...
View full details -
Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Two New York Times–bestselling authors unveil new research showing what meditation can really do for the brain. In the last twenty years, medit...
View full details -
The Harmonic Mind: From Neural Computation to Optimality-Theoretic Grammar Volume II: Linguistic and Philosophical Implications
PaperbackOriginal price $50.00 - Original price $50.00Original price $50.00$66.99$66.99 - $66.99Current price $66.99| /Despite their apparently divergent accounts of higher cognition, cognitive theories based on neural computation & those employing symbolic co...
View full details -
Understanding Behaviorism: Behavior, Culture, and Evolution / Edition 3
PaperbackOriginal price $51.95 - Original price $51.95Original price $51.95$68.99$68.99 - $68.99Current price $68.99| /Understanding Behaviorism is a classic textbook that explains the basis of behavior analysis and its application to human problems in a scholarly...
View full details -
Homosexual Behaviour in Animals: An Evolutionary Perspective
PaperbackOriginal price $62.99 - Original price $62.99Original price $62.99$70.99$70.99 - $70.99Current price $70.99| /Behavioural observations from both the field and captivity indicate that same-sex sexual interactions are widespread throughout the animal kingdo...
View full details -
Primate Cognitive Studies
HardcoverOriginal price $130.00 - Original price $130.00Original price $130.00$151.99$151.99 - $151.99Current price $151.99| /Researchers have studied non-human primate cognition along different paths, including social cognition, planning and causal knowledge, spatial co...
View full details -
Laughter: A Scientific Investigation
PaperbackOriginal price $24.00Original price $24.00 - Original price $24.00Original price $24.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Do men and women laugh at the same things?Is laughter contagious?Has anyone ever really died laughing?Is laughing good for your health? Drawing u...
View full details -
The Altruistic Urge: Why We're Driven to Help Others
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Ordinary people can perform acts of astonishing selflessness, sometimes even putting their lives on the line. A pregnant woman saw a dorsal fin and...
View full details -
How the Mind Changed: A Human History of Our Evolving Brain
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /The extraordinary story of how the human brain evolved... and is still evolving. We've come a long way. The earliest human had a brain as small as...
View full details -
Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness
HardcoverOriginal price $26.99Original price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /A concise, elegant, and thought-provoking exploration of the mystery of consciousness and the functioning of the brain. Despite decades of research...
View full details