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Around 250,000 people have had their genomes sequenced, and scientists expect that number to rise to one billion by 2025. Professor Steven J. Heine argues that the first thing we will do on receiving our DNA test results is to misinterpret them completely. Despite breathless (often lightly researched) media coverage about newly discovered "cancer" or "divorce" or "IQ" genes, the prospect of a DNA test forecasting how your life is going to turn out is vanishingly small.

What is the relevance of morality today? Eden Collinsworth enlists the famous, the infamous, and the heretofore unheard-of to unravel how we make moral choices in an increasingly complex—and ethically flexible—age. To call these unsettling times is an understatement: our political leaders...

Como animales sociales, nuestras vidas dependen de las relaciones que forjamos. Por eso no bastan nuestro talento, cono-cimiento y formación: saber por qué la gente hace lo que hace es la herramienta más importante que podemos dominar.

Not Born Yesterday explains how we decide who we can trust and what we should believe - and argues that we're pretty good at making these decisions. In this lively and provocative book, Hugo Mercier demonstrates how virtually all attempts at mass persuasion - whether by religious leaders, politicians, or advertisers - fail miserably.

In Social, renowned psychologist Matthew Lieberman explores groundbreaking research in social neuroscience, revealing that our need to connect with other people is even more fundamental, more basic, than our need for food or shelter. Because of this, our brain uses its spare time to learn about the social world-other people and our relation to them.

Science doesn't speak for itself. Neck-deep in work that can be messy and confounding and naïve in the ways of public communication, scientists are often unable to package their insights into the neat narratives that the public requires. Enter celebrities, advocates, lobbyists, and the funders behind them, who take advantage of scientists' reluctance to provide easy answers, flooding the media with misleading or incorrect claims about health risks. In Bad Advice, Paul A. Offit shares hard-earned wisdom on the dos and don'ts of battling misinformation.

Over the last four decades, debt, bankruptcy, and home foreclosures have risen to epidemic levels, and the personal savings rate has sunk dangerously low. Why, in the richest nation on Earth, can't Americans hold on to their money? First published in 2008, Stuart Vyse's Going Broke described the epidemic of personal debt that existed in the years leading up to the Great Recession and anticipated the home mortgage crisis that started it. Ten years later, this fully updated new edition tackles the post-recession era of economic recovery. 

How did human societies scale up from small, tight-knit groups of hunter-gatherers to the large, anonymous, cooperative societies of today - even though anonymity is the enemy of cooperation? How did organized religions with "Big Gods" - the great monotheistic and polytheistic faiths - spread to colonize most minds in the world? In Big Gods, Ara Norenzayan makes the surprising and provocative argument that these fundamental puzzles about the origins of civilization are one and the same, and answer each other.

Why do three out of four professional football players go bankrupt? How can illiterate jungle dwellers pass a test that tricks Harvard philosophers? And why do billionaires work so hard - only to give their hard-earned money away? When it comes to making decisions, the classic view is that humans are eminently rational. But growing evidence suggests instead that our choices are often irrational, biased, and occasionally even moronic. Which view is right - or is there another possibility?

"An excellent introduction to behavioral science with relatable examples is presented by an expert narrator." - AudioFile Magazine on The Life-Changing Science of Detecting Bullshit Expanding upon his viral TEDx Talk, psychology professor and social scientist John V. Petrocelli's The...

Wil je succesvol zijn in een snel veranderende wereld? Ontwikkel je LQ – de Intelligentie van Liefde – om solide relaties en topprestaties te creëren.

Ontdek hoe je met kennis van lichaamstaal leugens en verkeerde indrukken kunt doorzien. Leer de verborgen betekenis achter houding, gebaren en gezichtsuitdrukkingen met praktische tips.

Wir reden viel, wenn der Tag lang ist. Manchmal jede Menge Blödsinn. Manchmal aneinander vorbei. Manchmal aber berühren uns selbst kurze Plaudereien. Und dann gibt es Gespräche, die tief, tiefer, am tiefsten gehen. Zeit, übers Reden zu reden – und damit über das, was gute Unterhaltung(en) ausmacht. Doch die Forschung weiß, dass selbst kurze Gespräche mit Fremden uns messbar glücklicher machen. Doch die Harvard-Universität hat einen brandneuen Ansatz, der zeigt: Wir können aus solchen Diskussionen rauskommen, ohne zu denken: „Mit dem Trottel rede ich nie wieder!

We all know what psychopathy is. Or, at least, we think we do. For decades, we have looked at psychopaths as something 'other': as monsters, or bogeyman. But psychopaths don't just exist on our screens - they exist in our communities, offices and, sometimes, in our very own families. The...

Brought to you by Penguin. Shame is being weaponized by governments and corporations to attack the most vulnerable. It's time to fight back Shame is a powerful and sometimes useful tool. When we publicly shame corrupt politicians, abusive celebrities, or predatory corporations, we reinforce...

Ontdek hoe persoonlijkheidstrekken je in de knoei kunnen brengen, leer verschillende typen herkennen, en krijg inzicht in de tragische én hilarische kanten van de menselijke persoonlijkheid met praktische tips.

365 хаков для тех, кто хочет наконец выстроить отношения, которые наполняют, а не истощают! Вы чувствуете, что в ваших отношениях с людьми что-то не так, но трудно понять, что именно? Вы устаёте от людей, которые вас окружают, но не знаете, как это изменить? Вы хотите больше тепла и понимания и в паре, и в семье, и в дружбе, но не знаете, с каких шагов начать? На самом деле, ни для кого не секрет, что счастливые и гармоничные отношения — это не везение и не особый дар.

Het Bezoek biedt een krachtige methode om je relatie te verdiepen door je partner met nieuwe ogen te bekijken en een veilige verbinding te creëren.

Music has been examined from multiple perspectives: as a product of human history, for example, or a product of human culture. But there is also a long tradition, intensified in recent decades, of thinking about music as a product of the human mind. Whether considering composition, performance...

Cancel culture isn't just a moral panic: it erodes our ability to argue productively, listen generously and to be civil when we disagree. Whether on university campuses, in the workplace or on social media, it is a dysfunctional part of how individuals battle for power, status, and dominance. It's just one symptom of a much larger problem: why bother refuting your opponents, when you can just take away their platform or career? In this book, Lukianoff and Shlott analyze the pervasive effects of cancel culture and present a much-needed antidote for our dangerous and divisive times.