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Cognition Books
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Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 593,680 ratings — published 2011
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as cognition)
avg rating 3.96 — 624,002 ratings — published 2005
How the Mind Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as cognition)
avg rating 3.99 — 21,126 ratings — published 1997
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.12 — 131,546 ratings — published 2008
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.01 — 22,566 ratings — published 1994
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as cognition)
avg rating 3.88 — 94,440 ratings — published 2011
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.05 — 247,767 ratings — published 1985
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.29 — 52,766 ratings — published 1979
Consciousness Explained (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as cognition)
avg rating 3.90 — 8,705 ratings — published 1991
Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as cognition)
avg rating 3.95 — 10,025 ratings — published 1994
Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.15 — 22,753 ratings — published 2014
The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.03 — 35,925 ratings — published 2010
Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.09 — 34,616 ratings — published 2011
This Is Your Brain on Music (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as cognition)
avg rating 3.89 — 68,101 ratings — published 2006
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.09 — 25,378 ratings — published 2002
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as cognition)
avg rating 3.84 — 95,139 ratings — published 2008
On Intelligence (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,976 ratings — published 2004
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.37 — 228,901 ratings — published 2017
Other Minds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as cognition)
avg rating 3.88 — 28,249 ratings — published 2016
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.13 — 565,353 ratings — published 2012
Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.27 — 20,614 ratings — published 1998
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.38 — 32,309 ratings — published 2017
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,025 ratings — published 1976
The Society of Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,366 ratings — published 1985
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as cognition)
avg rating 3.97 — 16,541 ratings — published 2016
The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.09 — 45,263 ratings — published 2006
Metaphors We Live By (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.09 — 6,985 ratings — published 1980
Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts
by (shelved 12 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.04 — 29,167 ratings — published 2007
Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as cognition)
avg rating 3.67 — 16,492 ratings — published 2021
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.21 — 178,303 ratings — published 1984
How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as cognition)
avg rating 3.96 — 7,810 ratings — published 2012
The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.15 — 10,930 ratings — published 2010
The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as cognition)
avg rating 3.91 — 14,938 ratings — published 2010
How We Decide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as cognition)
avg rating 3.85 — 41,584 ratings — published 2009
Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.13 — 148,078 ratings — published 2021
How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.10 — 13,259 ratings — published 2017
The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as cognition)
avg rating 3.65 — 14,592 ratings — published 2014
Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.19 — 66,622 ratings — published 2012
The Mind’s I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.15 — 5,971 ratings — published 1981
The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as cognition)
avg rating 3.99 — 64,303 ratings — published 2016
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.35 — 285,961 ratings — published 2014
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,273,948 ratings — published 2011
Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,983 ratings — published 2014
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.07 — 477,123 ratings — published 2012
The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.20 — 40,392 ratings — published 2007
Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,287 ratings — published 1998
Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.06 — 136,533 ratings — published 1995
The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as cognition)
avg rating 3.83 — 37,001 ratings — published 2004
Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,681 ratings — published 1985
I Am a Strange Loop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as cognition)
avg rating 3.95 — 8,706 ratings — published 2007
“As long as I stared at the clock, at least the world remained in motion. Not a very consequential world, but in motion nonetheless. And as long as I knew the world was still in motion, I knew I existed. Not a very consequential existence, but an existence nonetheless. It struck me as wanting that someone should confirm his own existence only by the hands of an electric wall clock. There had to be a more cognitive means of confirmation. But try as I might, nothing less facile came to mind.”
― A Wild Sheep Chase
― A Wild Sheep Chase
“There is a sense in which all cognition can be said to be motivated. One is motivated to understand the world, to be in touch with reality, to remove doubt, etc. Alternately one might say that motivation is an aspect of cognition itself. Nevertheless, motives like wanting to find the truth, not wanting to be mistaken, etc., tend to align with epistemic goals in a way that many other commitments do not. As we have begun to see, all reasoning may be inextricable from emotion. But if a person's primary motivation in holding a belief is to hue to a positive state of mind, to mitigate feelings of anxiety, embarrassment, or guilt for instance. This is precisely what we mean by phrases like "wishful thinking", and "self-deception". Such a person will of necessity be less responsive to valid chains of evidence and argument that run counter to the beliefs he is seeking to maintain. To point out non-epistemic motives in an others view of the world, therefore, is always a criticism, as it serves to cast doubt on a persons connection to the world as it is.”
― The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values
― The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values
