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Cognition Books
Showing 1-50 of 2,869
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.17 — 578,927 ratings — published 2011
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as cognition)
avg rating 3.96 — 619,162 ratings — published 2005
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.12 — 130,476 ratings — published 2008
How the Mind Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as cognition)
avg rating 3.99 — 20,997 ratings — published 1997
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as cognition)
avg rating 3.88 — 93,734 ratings — published 2011
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.01 — 22,427 ratings — published 1994
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.05 — 243,779 ratings — published 1985
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.29 — 52,171 ratings — published 1979
Consciousness Explained (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as cognition)
avg rating 3.90 — 8,637 ratings — published 1991
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 — 35,855 ratings — published 2010
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as cognition)
avg rating 3.84 — 94,004 ratings — published 2008
Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as cognition)
avg rating 3.95 — 9,911 ratings — published 1994
Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.15 — 22,249 ratings — published 2014
This Is Your Brain on Music (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as cognition)
avg rating 3.89 — 67,406 ratings — published 2006
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.09 — 25,220 ratings — published 2002
On Intelligence (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,956 ratings — published 2004
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.38 — 30,968 ratings — published 2017
Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.09 — 34,316 ratings — published 2011
Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.26 — 20,468 ratings — published 1998
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.37 — 222,418 ratings — published 2017
Other Minds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as cognition)
avg rating 3.88 — 27,457 ratings — published 2016
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.13 — 556,987 ratings — published 2012
Metaphors We Live By (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.09 — 6,851 ratings — published 1980
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.26 — 5,918 ratings — published 1976
The Society of Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,348 ratings — published 1985
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as cognition)
avg rating 3.97 — 16,376 ratings — published 2016
The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.09 — 44,483 ratings — published 2006
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 — 28,946 ratings — published 2007
Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as cognition)
avg rating 3.67 — 15,990 ratings — published 2021
Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.13 — 141,917 ratings — published 2021
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.22 — 174,683 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 — 7,762 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 — 10,885 ratings — published 2010
Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.20 — 65,036 ratings — published 2012
How We Decide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as cognition)
avg rating 3.85 — 41,491 ratings — published 2009
The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as cognition)
avg rating 3.65 — 14,390 ratings — published 2014
The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as cognition)
avg rating 3.91 — 14,876 ratings — published 2010
The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as cognition)
avg rating 3.83 — 36,674 ratings — published 2004
The Mind’s I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.15 — 5,950 ratings — published 1981
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as cognition)
avg rating 3.91 — 11,180 ratings — published 2007
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,250,831 ratings — published 2018
How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.10 — 12,853 ratings — published 2017
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,237,242 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 — 1,959 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 4.08 — 471,452 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 — 39,984 ratings — published 2007
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as cognition)
avg rating 3.95 — 124,780 ratings — published 2009
Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,283 ratings — published 1998
Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.05 — 134,144 ratings — published 1995
Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,670 ratings — published 1985
“Snipers learn to silence the chaos of their thoughts until only the target and the shot exist. In that silence lies mastery, and in mastery lies freedom from fear.”
― The Sniper Mind: Eliminate Fear, Deal with Uncertainty, and Make Better Decisions
― The Sniper Mind: Eliminate Fear, Deal with Uncertainty, and Make Better Decisions
“I wanted that future officer to weigh decisions with a supple mind and to be comfortable with nuance and uncertainty. ”
― The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier's Education
― The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier's Education












