Social Animal
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The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
by:
Steven Pinker
4.09 avg rating β 25,079 ratings 
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Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are
by:
Joseph E. LeDoux
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 5,134 ratings 6. 
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An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain
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Diane Ackerman
3.95 avg rating β 1,240 ratings 8. 
The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently... and Why 3.82 avg rating β 3,555 ratings
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Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious
by:
Gerd Gigerenzer
3.70 avg rating β 2,281 ratings 10. 
Your Brain at Work: Strategies for Overcoming Distraction, Regaining Focus, and Working Smarter All Day Long
by:
David Rock
4.09 avg rating β 11,659 ratings 11. 
The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
by:
Jonathan Haidt
4.09 avg rating β 43,675 ratings 
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Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life
by:
Steven Johnson
3.90 avg rating β 5,690 ratings 
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The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
by:
Iain McGilchrist
4.35 avg rating β 3,767 ratings 19. 
Why We Love: The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love
by:
Helen Fisher
3.75 avg rating β 3,357 ratings 
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Why We Make Mistakes: How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds, and Are All Pretty Sure We Are Way Above Average 3.90 avg rating β 9,048 ratings
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The Tangled Wing: Biological Constraints on the Human Spirit
by:
Melvin Konner
4.12 avg rating β 216 ratings 27. 
The Mind & the Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force 4.10 avg rating β 6,714 ratings
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The Neuroscience of Human Relationships: Attachment And the Developing Social Brain (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)
by:
Louis Cozolino
4.32 avg rating β 533 ratings 29. 
Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness
by:
Alva NoΓ«
3.59 avg rating β 849 ratings 30. 
The Rise and Fall of Soul and Self: An Intellectual History of Personal Identity
by:
Raymond Martin
3.93 avg rating β 61 ratings 31. 
Brain and Culture: Neurobiology, Ideology, and Social Change (A Bradford Book)
by:
Bruce E. Wexler
3.67 avg rating β 60 ratings 32. 
Why Us?: How Science Rediscovered the Mystery of Ourselves
by:
James Le Fanu
3.67 avg rating β 126 ratings 33. 
The Way We Think: Conceptual Blending and The Mind's Hidden Complexities 3.98 avg rating β 257 ratings
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Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School (Book & DVD)
by:
John Medina
4.01 avg rating β 34,187 ratings 37. 
The Talent Code: Unlocking the Secret of Skill in Sports, Art, Music, Math, and Just About Everything Else
by:
Daniel Coyle
4.03 avg rating β 26,515 ratings 38. 
Intuition: Its Powers and Perils (Yale Nota Bene)
by:
David G. Myers
3.65 avg rating β 153 ratings 39. 
Smart World: Breakthrough Creativity And the New Science of Ideas
by:
Richard Ogle
3.60 avg rating β 72 ratings 40. 
Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else
by:
Geoff Colvin
3.93 avg rating β 20,656 ratings 
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On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not
by:
Robert A. Burton
3.90 avg rating β 2,330 ratings 43. 
Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life
by:
Annette Lareau
4.15 avg rating β 3,384 ratings 44. 
Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life 3.94 avg rating β 5,194 ratings
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Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection
by:
John T. Cacioppo
3.93 avg rating β 2,218 ratings 46. 
Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation
by:
Daniel J. Siegel
4.14 avg rating β 11,318 ratings 
48. 
Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life
by:
Dacher Keltner
3.58 avg rating β 713 ratings 49. 
Moral Minds: How Nature Designed Our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong
by:
Marc Hauser
3.74 avg rating β 1,188 ratings 
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Trust: The Social Virtue and the Creation of Prosperity
by:
Francis Fukuyama
3.96 avg rating β 734 ratings 
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What Intelligence Tests Miss: The Psychology of Rational Thought 4.12 avg rating β 284 ratings
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Sparks of Genius: The Thirteen Thinking Tools of the World's Most Creative People 3.89 avg rating β 467 ratings
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Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness 3.84 avg rating β 92,726 ratings
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Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
by:
Dan Ariely
4.12 avg rating β 129,361 ratings 62. 
Emerging Adulthood: The Winding Road from the Late Teens Through the Twenties 3.78 avg rating β 237 ratings
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Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitledβand More Miserable Than Ever Before
by:
Jean M. Twenge
3.58 avg rating β 2,781 ratings 64. 
Your Brain Is (Almost) Perfect: How We Make Decisions
by:
Read Montague
3.52 avg rating β 153 ratings 65. 
Born for Love: Why Empathy Is Essential--and Endangered
by:
Bruce D. Perry
4.33 avg rating β 2,871 ratings 66. 
Why We Believe What We Believe: Uncovering Our Biological Need for Meaning, Spirituality, and Truth really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 326 ratings
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The Wayward Mind: An Intimate History of the Unconscious
by:
Guy Claxton
4.07 avg rating β 41 ratings 68. 
Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism 3.77 avg rating β 5,115 ratings
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The Roads to Modernity: The British, French, and American Enlightenments 3.77 avg rating β 363 ratings
71. 
Equity and Excellence in American Higher Education (Thomas Jefferson Foundation Distinguished Lecture Series)
by:
William G. Bowen
3.91 avg rating β 33 ratings 72. 
The Healthy Aging Brain: Sustaining Attachment, Attaining Wisdom (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)
by:
Louis Cozolino
3.84 avg rating β 43 ratings 73. 
Aging Well: Surprising Guideposts to a Happier Life from the Landmark Harvard Study of Adult Development 3.93 avg rating β 593 ratings
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The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being
by:
Daniel J. Siegel
4.11 avg rating β 1,249 ratings 75. 
Culture Counts: Faith and Feeling in a World Besieged
by:
Roger Scruton
3.95 avg rating β 368 ratings 76. 
Making Up the Mind: How the Brain Creates Our Mental World
by:
Chris Frith
4.10 avg rating β 1,317 ratings 77. 
