🧠2021 is continuing to offer some amazing books about human brains and behaviour 🧠
Here's a thread of some recent and forthcoming titles that have caught by eye. Please add to it with your own recommendations! (1/n)
Here's a thread of some recent and forthcoming titles that have caught by eye. Please add to it with your own recommendations! (1/n)
Being You, by @anilkseth, explores the new science consciousness and the role of prediction in the brain. I've been following Anil's work for years and from the rave reviews, I'm sure that this won't disappoint (2/n) uk.bookshop.org/books/being-yo…
The Painful Truth by @monty_lyman is an eye-opening examination of pain and the way it is created by the brain and the body. It beautifully handles the complexities of the research (3/n) uk.bookshop.org/books/the-pain…
What Lies Buried by @KerryDaynes is the much anticipated follow-up to The Dark Side of the Mind. Kerry's an absolutely brilliant story-teller and I found this book challenging my preconceptions about the criminal mind with the turn of each page (4/n) uk.bookshop.org/books/what-lie…
The Status Game by @wstorr presents a bold new theory of human nature. It's a gripping mix of psychology and history and helps to explain so many culture wars, old and new. If you're a fan (like me) of Will's previous work you are going to love this. (5/n) uk.bookshop.org/books/the-stat…
You Have More Influence Than You Think, by @profbohns, shows how even small gestures can have a big impact - for good and bad. We're often ignorant of our power to affect other people but this book guides us to wield our influence more constructively (6/n) uk.bookshop.org/books/you-have…
Four Thousand Weeks by @oliverburkeman - a refreshingly realistic guide to time management and the ways that we can live our lives more meaningfully, without falling into the "producitivity trap" (7/n) uk.bookshop.org/books/four-tho…
The Extended Mind by @anniemurphypaul - a fascinating examination of the thinking that happens outside the brain. It's got deep philosophical underpinnings but also presents many eminently practical ways of puting the theory to use (8/n) hmhbooks.com/shop/books/the…
Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters by @sapinker. Sure to be thought-provoking, like all Pinker's books, and promises to help us understand much of the apparently chaotic decision making around us (9/n) uk.bookshop.org/books/rational…
Feeling and Knowing, by @damasiousc. Antonio Damasio's research has transformed our understanding of the body's role in mental processes. I've just received some early proofs and I'm already hooked penguinrandomhouse.com/books/572664/f… (10/n)
Noise by Daniel Kahneman, @SibOliv and @CassSunstein. This one really needs no introduction, but I'm adding for completeness. It's a truly enlightening examination of the unwanted variability in human judgement and the ways to control it (11/n) penguinrandomhouse.com/books/598266/n…
(You can see my recommendations from earlier in the year in this thread:
https://twitter.com/d_a_robson/status/1379404018250887169?s=20)
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