5 books on psychology to read this summer
The summer sultryness is already beginning to appear in the northern hemisphere and with it also appear the hours of free time that are crying out for a book , a magazine or a Martini.
Books for you to learn Psychology in an entertaining way
Following in the wake of that article about books on psychology with which to accompany Christmas , in Psychology and Mind We are aware of this and for that reason we want to propose some recommendations to cover the first of these needs: the books with which to accompany stretches stretched in the shade. Here you have five titles that will delight any person interested in psychology.
Good reading!
1. Why we lie ... especially to ourselves, by Dan Ariely
Dan Ariely He is known for explaining lines of research in psychology as if they were narratives, and this book perfectly follows that norm. Entertainment and scientific dissemination go hand in hand in this interesting text.
Here you will find a compendium of chapters in which Ariely dismantles the idea that people lie by responding to purely rational criteria, seeking material benefits at the expense of the ignorance of others, and provides some evidence on the relationship between the lie and our way of perceiving ourselves to ourselves.
And all without abandoning the sense of humor that characterizes him. A light and entertaining reading on one of the most uncomfortable topics: dishonesty.
More information about the book, here.
2. What makes us human ?, by Michael Gazzaniga
Our way of thinking and feeling does not exist in a vacuum. It has its reason for being in the biological processes that run through our body and our brain and give shape to what we understand as "our mind".
The famous Californian neuroscientist Michael S. Gazzaniga explains in this book the biological foundations of human thought and behavior and some of its similarities and differences with what other animals do and feel.
It also does so through clear explanations that reflect the fascination with which the author addresses the big questions that face the neuroscience .
You can know more about this book by clicking here.
3. From Animals to Gods, by Yuval Harari
Many psychological processes are shaped by culture, and this in turn can not be understood apart from the History: the line in which human beings have been developing life, with its advances and regressions, suppose the foundation of the culture , which emerges from all these variables.
From animals to gods it is the perfect union between a compressed narrative of the history of humanity, the cultural drifts that have taken place in it and the ways of thinking that have been shaped. An authentic jewel for its concretion and for explaining difficult things in a clear and enjoyable way.
In this book you will not find a cold analysis about what humanity is and has been , but an interpretation about our journey as a species based on material evidences and inspiring reflections behind it.
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4. The tricks of the mind, by S. L. Macknik and S. Martúnez-Conde
The human mind is not only discovered through its capabilities; you can also glimpse its operation from its failures .
The deceptions of the mind It is a book in which the Blind spots of our ways of thinking and understanding reality and these are exposed to the view of all, almost almost to our shame. For this, these authors tell anecdotes located in the class of situations in which our brain is more prone to be in evidence: before the scenario of a magician.
Here you can read the explanations to the most Martian magic tricks and the psychological processes that explain that they are capable of deceiving to all the people in the audience.
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5. The Lucifer Effect: The Why of the Evil, by Philip Zimbardo
One of the most renowned psychologists talking about one of the best-known experiments in the world : the case of Stanford Prison.
The result, of course, is one of the books on psychology par excellence about the morality and its relation to the circumstances in which we find ourselves. The importance of the context in our personality and how we behave is greater than we might suppose.
In this extensive work you will find both the narrative of Stanford's experience and the reflections it produced in Philip Zimbardo and its relationship with other cases of moral corruption from the context, as happened in Abu Ghraib during the war in Iraq.
More about this book here.
