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Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 611,743 ratings — published 2011
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as cognition)
avg rating 3.96 — 629,549 ratings — published 2005
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.12 — 132,837 ratings — published 2008
How the Mind Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as cognition)
avg rating 3.99 — 21,345 ratings — published 1997
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.01 — 22,718 ratings — published 1994
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as cognition)
avg rating 3.88 — 95,292 ratings — published 2011
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.04 — 252,954 ratings — published 1985
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.29 — 53,739 ratings — published 1979
Consciousness Explained (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as cognition)
avg rating 3.90 — 8,785 ratings — published 1991
Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.15 — 23,608 ratings — published 2014
Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as cognition)
avg rating 3.95 — 10,215 ratings — published 1994
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 — 36,000 ratings — published 2010
Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.09 — 35,086 ratings — published 2011
This Is Your Brain on Music (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as cognition)
avg rating 3.89 — 68,957 ratings — published 2006
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as cognition)
avg rating 3.84 — 96,541 ratings — published 2008
On Intelligence (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,996 ratings — published 2004
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.36 — 236,599 ratings — published 2017
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.37 — 33,954 ratings — published 2017
Other Minds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as cognition)
avg rating 3.88 — 29,396 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 — 574,648 ratings — published 2012
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.09 — 25,612 ratings — published 2002
Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.27 — 20,884 ratings — published 1998
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as cognition)
avg rating 3.97 — 16,883 ratings — published 2016
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.25 — 6,202 ratings — published 1976
The Society of Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,393 ratings — published 1985
The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.09 — 46,244 ratings — published 2006
Metaphors We Live By (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.09 — 7,150 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 — 29,587 ratings — published 2007
Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as cognition)
avg rating 3.67 — 17,117 ratings — published 2021
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.21 — 183,067 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 — 7,864 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 — 10,987 ratings — published 2010
How We Decide (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 41,812 ratings — published 2009
Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.12 — 155,669 ratings — published 2021
How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.09 — 13,774 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 — 14,859 ratings — published 2014
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,316,954 ratings — published 2011
Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.19 — 68,759 ratings — published 2012
The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as cognition)
avg rating 3.91 — 15,004 ratings — published 2010
The Mind’s I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.15 — 6,013 ratings — published 1981
The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,322 ratings — published 1991
Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as cognition)
avg rating 3.82 — 24,905 ratings — published 2018
The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as cognition)
avg rating 3.99 — 65,152 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 4.33 — 305,019 ratings — published 2014
Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,015 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 — 483,958 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 — 41,061 ratings — published 2007
The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,550 ratings — published 1996
Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,295 ratings — published 1998
Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as cognition)
avg rating 4.06 — 139,340 ratings — published 1995
“A word devoid of thought is a dead thing, and a thought unembodied in words remains a shadow.”
― Thought and Language
― Thought and Language
“The inconsistencies that haunt our relationships with animals also result from the quirks of human cognition. We like to think of ourselves as the rational species. But research in cognitive psychology and behavioral economics shows that our thinking and behavior are often completely illogical. In one study, for example, groups of people were independently asked how much they would give to prevent waterfowl from being killed in polluted oil ponds. On average, the subjects said they would pay $80 to save 2,000 birds, $78 to save 20,000 birds, and $88 to save 200,000 birds. Sometimes animals act more logically than people do; a recent study found that when picking a new home, the decisions of ant colonies were more rational than those of human house-hunters.
What is it about human psychology that makes it so difficult for us to think consistently about animals? The paradoxes that plague our interactions with other species are due to the fact that much of our thinking is a mire of instinct, learning, language, culture, intuition, and our reliance on mental shortcuts.”
― Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat: Why It's So Hard to Think Straight About Animals
What is it about human psychology that makes it so difficult for us to think consistently about animals? The paradoxes that plague our interactions with other species are due to the fact that much of our thinking is a mire of instinct, learning, language, culture, intuition, and our reliance on mental shortcuts.”
― Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat: Why It's So Hard to Think Straight About Animals
