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David Mitchell investigates how the humble meeting took over the world - and what we should do about it In this fantastic follow-up to Behaving Ourselves: David Mitchell on Manners, the comedian and columnist turns his attention to meetings, examining our love/hate relationship with them and...

We've decided by consensus that consensus is good. In In Defense of Troublemakers, psychologist Charlan Nemeth argues that this principle is completely wrong: left unchallenged, the majority opinion is often biased, unoriginal, or false. It leads planes and markets to crash, causes juries to convict innocent people, and can quite literally make people think blue is green. In the name of comity, we embrace stupidity. We can make better decisions by embracing dissent. Dissent forces us to question the status quo, consider more information, and engage in creative decision-making.

Many scientific and philosophical ideas are so powerful that they can be applied to our lives at home, work, and school to help us think smarter and more effectively about our behavior and the world around us. Surprisingly, many of these ideas remain unknown to most of us. In Mindware, the world-renowned psychologist Richard Nisbett presents these ideas in clear and accessible detail, offering a tool kit for better thinking and wiser decisions.

Ignorance, whether passive or active, conscious or unconscious, has always been a part of the human condition, Renata Salecl argues. What has changed in our post-truth, postindustrial world is that we often feel overwhelmed by the constant flood of information and misinformation. It sometimes seems impossible to differentiate between truth and falsehood and, as a result, there has been a backlash against the idea of expertise, and a rise in the number of people actively choosing not to know.

In 1979, a secret unit was established by the most gifted minds within the US Army. Defying all known accepted military practice - and indeed, the laws of physics - they believed that a soldier could adopt the cloak of invisibility, pass cleanly through walls and, perhaps most chillingly, kill goats just by staring at them. Entrusted with defending America from all known adversaries, they were the First Earth Battalion. And they really weren't joking. What's more, they're back and fighting the War on Terror.

Este curso é um convite para questionar os desafios de nossa vida contemporânea, marcada pela exaustão e pelo controle sutil de nossas escolhas e desejos. Inspirado pela reflexão do pensador sul-coreano Byung-Chul Han em seu best-seller Sociedade do Cansaço, as aulas exploram temas como a psicopolítica e a necropolítica e como elas definem nosso cotidiano, esculpindo nossa subjetividade em meio à promessas de formas de vida que deveriam facilitar, mas parecem aprisionar e adoecer.

Renowned psychologists describe the most useful insights from social psychology that can help make you "wise": wise about why people behave the way they do, and wise about how to use that knowledge in understanding and influencing the people in your life. When faced with a challenge, we often turn to those we trust for words of wisdom. Friends, relatives, and colleagues - someone with the best advice about how to boost sales, the most useful insights into raising children, or the sharpest take on an ongoing conflict.

Brianna Wiest, escritora bestseller y fenómeno global en redes sociales, presenta en esta obra una recopilación de sus escritos más famosos. La presente selección incluye reflexiones sobre por qué debemos perseguir el propósito por encima de la pasión, abrazar el pensamiento negativo, ver la sabiduría en la rutina diaria o ser conscientes de los sesgos cognitivos que crean nuestra manera de ver la vida, entre muchas otras. Algunas de estas piezas son inéditas; otras ya han sido leídas por millones de personas en todo el mundo.

Mysteries of the Social Brain describes the scientific underpinnings of human behavior and values. Through the retelling of fascinating clinical stories of people with neurological conditions, this book explores the parts of the brain that allow humans to thrive as social and creative beings. The authors reveal the relevance of our brain circuits to our well‑being―and the well‑being of our societies―and show what happens when changes in our brain circuitry drive changes in empathy, altruism, moral beliefs, and creativity.

Essai historique et philosophique, ce livre prend la Révolution française pour terrain d’étude et ouvre une réflexion sur la psychologie des révolutions. Avec une analyse lucide et méthodique, Gustave Le Bon interroge les mécanismes qui entraînent les bouleversements: comment naissent les élans, comment se propagent les idées, comment les sociétés changent de cap. Au-delà des faits, il explore ce qui se joue dans l’esprit collectif et au cœur des crises. Une écoute stimulante pour comprendre l’allure des grands retournements et la logique qui les porte.

ما الذي يتطلبه النجاح؟ لقد ألهب هذا السؤال جدالاً طويلاً حاجج في بعضهم بأن البشر كائنات تنافسية بطبعها، وأن السعي خلف المصلحة الخاصة هي الطريقة الأمثل للمضي قُدمًا، بينما ادّعى آخرون أن الإنسان ولِدَ مُتعاونًا وأفضل طرق النجاح تمر بالتعاون مع الآخرين. عبر الاستعانة بأمثلة من السياسة والرياضة ومجال الأعمال، سيُثبت عالِما النفس، آدم غالنسكي وماوريس شفتزر، أن أفضل الطرق لإنشاء علاقات طويلة الأمد وتعزيز النجاح والعمل لا بدَّ أن تمر عبر تحقيق التوازن بين ضِدَّين هما التعاون والتنافس.

هل سألت نفسك يومًا لماذا نختار أحيانًا أن نعاني؟ لماذا نميل إلى مشاهدة الأفلام الحزينة أو تذوق الأطعمة الحارة أو حتى تحمل الألم الجسدي؟ في كتابه الرائد " متع المعاناة" ، يقدم العالم النفسي البارز بول بلوم إجابة عميقة لهذه التساؤلات من خلال استعراض العلاقة المعقدة بين المعاناة والمتعة .

Dying to Tell the Truth explores what really happens when the stories we cannot say start living inside our bodies. Blending psychological insight with lyrical reflection, the book looks at the cost of silence—how families, workplaces, and entire communities quietly punish honesty while praising “keeping the peace.”

When in their lives are innovators most creative, and why? This book summarizes more than two decades of research prompted by this question. The result is an authoritative statement of a new unified theory of creativity, that overturns both popular and scholarly beliefs about the sources of human inventiveness. David Galenson shows that there are two distinctly different kinds of creativity in virtually every discipline.

Un libro que te invita a desandar tu propia historia. Luego del éxito de ventas de la publicación original, llega la edición revisada de Basta de repetir la historia familiar. Aceptá tu pasado tal como fue y transformá tu presente. En él, a través de su historia, Violeta nos cuenta cómo desarrolló su método de acompañamiento terapéutico para decodificar síntomas y conflictos. Un libro para apreciar lo que no cierra de nosotros y darle valor a nuestra historia personal y transgeneracional, aun cuando nos sentimos erróneos e incompletos.

In the first part of this audiobook, you will: Find out what dark psychology is in more depth, learn all about the different characteristics of manipulators, and more....

Timothy R. Levine’s Duped: Truth-Default Theory and the Social Science of Lying and Deception recounts a decades-long program of empirical research that culminates in a new theory of deception-truth-default theory. This theory holds that the content of incoming communication is typically and uncritically accepted as true, and most of the time, this is good. Truth-default allows humans to function socially.

Tras el éxito de ¿Por qué nadie me lo dijo antes?, la psicóloga clínica Julie Smith regresa con Abrir en caso de..., una guía imprescindible para afrentar los momentos de crisis con claridad y acción. Con un formato innovador de "cartas para abrir cuando...", este libro ofrece consejos prácticos y herramientas psicológicas basadas en la ciencia para manejar el estrés, la ansiedad, la autoestima y la toma de decisiones.

Unsere Emotionen spielen eine mächtige Rolle in allem, was wir denken, sagen und tun. In dieser Boot Camp-Serie erkundet Derren Brown gemeinsam mit führenden Verhaltenswissenschaftlern und verschiedenen Experten, wie wir diese kraftvollen und geheimnisvollen Kräfte kontrollieren können, die oft unser rationales Denken übernehmen und uns völlig in die Irre führen. Durch die Steigerung unserer emotionalen Intelligenz können wir unser Leben in jeder erdenklichen Weise verbessern.

علم النفس هو علم دراسة العقل, لكن هذه الصياغة البسيطة تغطي مجالًا محيرًا وهائلًا يتعلق بالتفكير والسلوك البشري, بداية من بيولوجيا المخ والجهاز العصبي حتى معنى الحب والسعادة. وقد كان علم النفس يسمى بـ علم البشر"؛ لأنه يحاول إجراء دراسة علمية على الأشياء التي تجعلنا بشرًا. والكلمة الرئيسية هنا هي كلمة "علم"؛ فهناك العديد من فروع المعرفة الأخرى – كالفلسفة