Books, Summer Reading, and a Long List

Tsundoku: The Japanese word for buying books that you'll never read. This is me (this is Chuck posting). I possess all the books below. I've purchased most of them in the past year in order to read them "sometime soon." So many book, so little time. I have a habit of purchasing books when I see them recommended in podcasts, in articles, on Facebook or Twitter. This is one of way too many shelves filled with books. Wait, that's not right. There are never too many books!

Most of these can be used by students who are doing summer reading. Apparently, the last time we did a summer reading list was 2013 and can be found here.


My Psychology Summer Reading 

• Hit Makers: The  Science of Popularity in an Age of Distraction
• The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
• The Hidden Brain 
• Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do
• The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
• Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
• A Field Guide to Lies and Statistics: A Neuroscientist on How to Make Sense of a Complex World
• The 3 Dimensions of Emotions: Finding the Balance of Power, Heart, and Mindfulness in All of Your Relationships
• Ghost Boy: The Miraculous Escape of a Misdiagnosed Boy Trapped Inside His Own Body
• Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School
• The Gift of Fear and Other Survival Signals that Protect Us from Violence
• The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less
• Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness 
• This is Your Brain on Music 
• The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons
• You Are Not That Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory is Mostly Fiction, and 46 Other Ways You're Deluding Yourself
• Brain Bugs: How the Brain's Flaws Shape Our Lives
• How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens
• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 
• To Sell is Human 
• The Myth of Repressed Memory 
• Witness for the Defense: The Accused. the Eyewitness and the Expert Who Puts Memory on Trial
• The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
• The Emotional Brain 
• Nurture Shock: New Thinking About Children
• The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success
• Payoff: The Hidden Logic That Shapes Our  Motivations
• Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
• Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
• Thinking Fast and Slow 
• The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
• The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload
• Minds on Trial: Great Cases in Law and Psychology 
• The Three Christs of Ypsilanti 
• Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics 
• The End of Average: How We Succeed in a World That Values Sameness
• Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning 
• Learn Better: Mastering the Skills for Success in Life, Business, and School, or, How to Become an Expert in Just About Anything
• The Memory Illusion: Remembering, Forgetting, and the Science of Memory

posted by Chuck Schallhorn

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