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Behaviour change and social psychology: how people make decisions
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items These books offer valuable insights and practical strategies for anyone interested in understanding behavior change in their lives
Hands down, one of the best books in its genre. The book is a lengthy, self-conscious and a challenging read but highly recommended if you're interested in why human beings behave the way they behave.
Thinking, Fast and Slow a book by Daniel Kahneman
While there is nothing truly new in this book, it is written very clearly and concisely. Unlike some other books of this genre, this book does not ramble on and on about irrelevant subject. The author makes this book a very interesting read.
Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (Revised and Expanded) a book by Dan Ariely
Probably the best among Gladwell's books. He still stands true to his success mantra - "Gladwell - The Power of Inductive Reasoning." But, it was still a well researched and informative book. Blink.
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking a book by Malcolm Gladwell
It has a number of eye openers and will broaden one’s vision to see how little things matter so much.
A combination of lucid explanation with vivid (and often funny) real-world examples, the book sets out to explain nothing less than why human being...
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference a book by Malcolm Gladwell
This book helped me understand myself better and made me feel better about myself in a difficult time. I once again learned that every path has a value, also a quiet one and a whispering voice is not less valid, just less loud. Basically already that...
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking a book by Susan Cain
This is great book, and you need to read it. How is that for a definitive opening line? The reason it’s such a good book is because it uses research to explain how habits are formed and changed. Everyone knows someone who was out of shape, or was a s...
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business a book by Charles Duhigg
Required reading for all marketing professionals. The book details the most common approaches to influencing the decisions of others, backed up by the authors time spent infiltrating direct marketing companies and the like. Offers handy hints on how ...
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Expanded) a book by Robert B. Cialdini
One of the best books you will ever read, if you can pick only 5 books to read in your life this would be one of those! The author simply asked "What makes a life worth living?" It's clearly nothing that money can buy. The book is about how people fi...
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience a book by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Richard H. Thaler is the author of Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics is the book tool on an incredible reading journey of academic language, economics, and human behavior. Hypothesis, experiments, and academic life-changing discussions....
Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics a book by Richard H Thaler
Quite interesting, I especially loved the epilogue and the brief family history he shared with us. My first Gladwell read and definitely won’t be the last!
Outliers (Fuera de Serie)/Outliers: The Story of Success: Por Que Unas Personas Tienen Exito Y Otras No a book by Malcolm Gladwell
This was the most different book I ever read. With all the true stories, it was almost as thrilling as Midnight Sin. I really liked how the police stories related to real life events. My favorite was how an FBI agent's big ego almost screwed up an un...
Walking the Corporate Beat: Police School for Business People a book by Michael Tabman
Excellent. Well written, interesting, and hard to put down.
The Art of Choosing a book by Sheena Iyengar
Sources of Power is the kind of work that should be required reading for anyone who has to deal with people on a daily basis. Since almost all of us deal with people making decisions daily, that means almost all of us should read this book.
Sources of Power, 20th Anniversary Edition: How People Make Decisions (Anniversary) a book by Gary A. Klein
I LOVED this book! It challenged my thinking so much! The title sounded like a compilation of random facts and I suppose it is in a way. But each chapter build on each other. And the facts expressed one must remember from one chapter to the next in o...
You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, an D 46 Other Ways You're Deluding Yours a book by David McRaney
I strongly recommend this book, for both people interested in a life with risk literacy and experts studying risk, cognition or safety management issues (including medical doctors).
Risk Savvy: How to Make Good Decisions a book by Gerd Gigerenzer
Highly recommended to anyone who's ever wondered just what the hell is going on in their own head, or ever wished they had just a bit more mental focus and control.
Your Brain at Work, Revised and Updated: Strategies for Overcoming Distraction, Regaining Focus, and Working Smarter All Day Long a book by David Rock
If goals are well chosen, and if we have the courage to abide by them despite opposition, we shall be so focused on the actions and events around us that we won’t have the time to be unhappy.
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience a book by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi