Psicología / Psicología social

Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior

de Leonard Mlodinow

Leonard Mlodinow, the best-selling author of The Drunkard’s Walk and coauthor of The Grand Design (with Stephen Hawking), gives us a startling and eye-opening examination of how the unconscious mind shapes...

Outliers: The Story of Success

de Malcolm Gladwell

There is a story that is usually told about extremely successful people, a story that focuses on intelligence and ambition. Gladwell argues that the true story of success is very different, and that if we want...

The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We do in Life and Business

de Charles Duhigg

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY

The Wall Street Journal • Financial Times

A young woman walks into a laboratory. Over the past two years, she has transformed almost every aspect of her life. She has...

Question Authority; Think for Yourself

de Beverly A., Ph.D. Potter & Mark James, Ph.D. Estren

We have freedom of speech but we’re afraid to speak. Our lives have become subjected to PC tyranny—a constant fear of “offending” someone. We think that we are independent and that it is the other guy...

The 33 Strategies of War

de Robert Greene

Brilliant distillations of the strategies of war—and the subtle social game of everyday life—by the bestselling author of The 48 Laws of Power and Mastery

Robert Greene’s groundbreaking guides, The 48...

The Psychology of Twilight

de Alexis Black, David Klonsky & David Frederick

You’ve read the books. You’ve seen the films. Now get inside the heads of your favorite Twilight characters (just like Edward can!) in The Psychology of Twilight.

Explore the minds and motives of Bella, Edward,...

The Sociopath Next Door

de Martha Phd Stout

Who is the devil you know?

Is it your lying, cheating ex-husband?

Your sadistic high school gym teacher?

Your boss who loves to humiliate people in meetings?

The colleague who stole your idea and passed it off...

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

de Jonathan Haidt

Why can’t our political leaders work together as threats loom and problems mount? Why do people so readily assume the worst about the motives of their fellow citizens? In The Righteous Mind, social psychologist...

Redirect: The Surprising New Science of Psychological Change

de Timothy D Wilson

What if there were a magic pill that could make you happier, turn you into a better parent, solve a number of your teenager's behavior problems, reduce racial prejudice, and close the achievement gap in education?...

Obsessives, Pioneers, and Other Varieties of Minor Genius: Part One from What the Dog Saw

de Malcolm Gladwell

What is the difference between choking and panicking? Why are there dozens of varieties of mustard-but only one variety of ketchup? What do football players teach us about how to hire teachers? What does hair...

Out of Character: Surprising Truths About the Liar, Cheat, Sinner (and Saint) Lurking in All of Us

de Piercarlo Valdesolo & David Desteno

Have you ever wondered why a trumpeter of family values would suddenly turn around and cheat on his wife? Why jealousy would send an otherwise level-headed person into a violent rage? What could drive a person...

Filipino American Psychology: A Handbook of Theory, Research, and Clinical Practice

de Kevin Nadal

Praise for Filipino American Psychology: A Handbook of Theory, Research, and Clinical Practice

"Filipino American Psychology: A Handbook of Theory, Research, and Clinical Practice is destined to make a major...

Women's Reflections on the Complexities of Forgiveness

de Wanda Malcolm & Nancy DeCourville

This book by women represents a diversity of opinions about every aspect of forgiveness, embodying a tolerance for differing perspectives. The contributors are researchers and therapists who have dedicated themselves...

Sociological Trespasses: Interrogating Sin and Flesh

de James Aho

Racism, collective violence, sickness, environmental catastrophe, body obsession, greed, and accelerated life concern everyone. In this book, however, they are not viewed as social problems to be solved by technical...

Towards Fairer University Assessment

de Nerilee RA Flint & Bruce Johnson

This book goes beyond the superficial consideration of university assessment as a 'necessary requirement ' by unravelling the underlying issues that really count - what is considered fair assessment and what...

The Blame Game: How the Hidden Rules of Credit and Blame Determine Our Success or Failure

de Ben Dattner & Darren Dahl

FROM HIS YEARS OF EXPERIENCE CONSULTING to leading companies, psychologist Ben Dattner has discovered that at the root of the worst problems we confront at work is the skewed allocation of blame and credit....

The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently...and

de Richard Nisbett

Everyone knows that while different cultures may think about the world differently, they use the same equipment for doing their thinking. Everyone knows that whatever the skin color, nationality, or religion,...

The Cult of Personality: How Personality Tests Are Leading Us to Miseducate Our Children, Mismanage Our Companies, and Misunderstand Ourselves

de Annie Murphy Paul

Millions of Americans take personality tests each year: to get a job, to pursue an education, to settle a legal dispute, to better understand themselves and others. But where did these tests come from, and what...

The Copycat Effect: How the Media and Popular Culture Trigger the Mayhem in Tomorrow's Headlines

de Loren Coleman

VIOLENCE BEGETS VIOLENCE BEGETS VIOLENCE...

A disturbed student shoots up his classroom -- and suddenly a wave of mass murder is sweeping through our nation's schools. A young child is taken from her home --...

The Thoughtful Dresser: The Art of Adornment, the Pleasures of Shopping, and Why Clothes Matter

de Linda Grant

“You can’t have depths without surfaces,” says Linda Grant in her lively and provocative new book, The thoughtful Dresser, a thinking woman’s guide to what we wear. For centuries, an interest in clothes...