12 Top science books like Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things by Dan Ariely

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Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things

By: Dan Ariely

3.92

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

“In this thoughtful, moving, and well-written book, Dan Ariely narrates his personal and profession…

"A higher level of income inequality in our community can fray our sense of social trust."

-Dan Ariely, Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things

"A higher level of income inequality in our community can fray our sense of social trust."

-Dan Ariely, Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things

"How can science - which is slow and methodical, providing only an occasional breakthrough - compete with creative minds unfettered by facts?"

-Dan Ariely, Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things

"How can science - which is slow and methodical, providing only an occasional breakthrough - compete with creative minds unfettered by facts?"

-Dan Ariely, Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things

If you liked the science plot in Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things by Dan Ariely , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. Burn Book: A Tech Love Story

By: Kara Swisher

3.99

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech… read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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2. Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

By: Robert M. Sapolsky

4.25

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the … read more

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"I’m being diplomatic. Many readers will know of the “replication crisis"

-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

"Obviously, imposing these classifications on determinism, free will, and moral responsibility is wildly simplified. A key simplification is pretending that most people have clean “yes"

-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

"You cannot decide all the sensory stimuli in your environment, your hormone levels this morning, whether something traumatic happened to you in the past, the socioeconomic status of your parents, you…"

-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

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3. Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters

By: Brian Klaas

4.13

Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition

Want to know what chaos theory can teach us about human events? In the perspective-altering traditi… read more

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  • audiobook
  • self help
  • politics
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • sociology
  • science
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4. Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

By: Charles Duhigg

4.05

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780593243916. Who and what are supercommunicators? They're the … read more

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  • science
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"Strong leaders didn't help people align. In fact, groups with a dominant leader had the least amount of neural synchrony."

-Charles Duhigg, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

"To communicate with someone, we must connect with them. When we absorb what someone is saying and they comprehend what we say, it's because our brains have, to some degree, aligned."

-Charles Duhigg, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

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5. The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution

By: Greg Lukianoff

3.93

Format: 432 pages, ebook

A timely deep dive into cancel culture, an account of its dangers to all Americans, and the much-ne… read more

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  • cultural
  • politics
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"Mistakes abound when groupthink goes unchallenged."

-Greg Lukianoff, The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution

"There is nothing about standing up for an underdog (or simply claiming to be) that means you're right."

-Greg Lukianoff, The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution

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6. Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

By: Morgan Housel

4.19

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

“Want to understand the changing world? Start with what stays the same. That’s the amazing conclusi… read more

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  • audiobook
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • self help
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7. Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters

By: Charan Ranganath

3.95

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Memory is far more than a record of the past. In this groundbreaking tour of the mind and brain, on… read more

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  • science
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  • self help
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8. Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things

By: Adam M. Grant

4.12

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York Times Bestseller“This brilliant book will shatter your assumptions about what it takes … read more

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  • science
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9. Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results

By: Shane Parrish

4.21

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFew things will change your trajectory in life or business as m… read more

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  • nonfiction
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  • audiobook
"Our desire to feel right overpowers our desire to be right."

-Shane Parrish, Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results

"The social rewards for going with the crowd are felt long before the benefits of going against it are gained."

-Shane Parrish, Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results

"Most people go through life assuming that we’re right about everything all the time and that people who don’t see things our way are wrong. We mistake how we want the world to be with how it actually…"

-Shane Parrish, Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results

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10. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

By: Tim Alberta

4.45

Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition

Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in Americ… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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11. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

By: Jonathan Haidt

4.46

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in t… read more

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"Socially prescribed perfectionism is closely related to anxiety; people who suffer from anxiety are more prone to it. Being a perfectionist also increases your anxiety because you fear the shame of p…"

-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

"Girls in virtual networks are subjected to hundreds of times more social comparison than girls had experienced for all of human evolution. They are exposed to more cruelty and bullying because social…"

-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

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12. The Algorithm: How AI Decides Who Gets Hired, Monitored, Promoted, and Fired and Why We Need to Fight Back Now

By: Hilke Schellmann

4.02

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Based on exclusive information from whistleblowers, internal documents, and real world test results… read more

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  • science
  • economics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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13. The Age of Grievance

By: Frank Bruni

4.13

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling author and longtime New York Times columnist Frank Bruni comes a lucid, powerful e… read more

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  • politics
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  • society
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  • audiobook
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14. Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things

By: Dan Ariely

3.92

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

“In this thoughtful, moving, and well-written book, Dan Ariely narrates his personal and profession… read more

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  • cultural
  • self help
  • politics
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • economics
  • sociology
  • science
"A higher level of income inequality in our community can fray our sense of social trust."

-Dan Ariely, Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things

"How can science - which is slow and methodical, providing only an occasional breakthrough - compete with creative minds unfettered by facts?"

-Dan Ariely, Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things

"Would you enthusiastically recommend that a friend purchase something you'd never tested yourself? Probably not. But you may be unwittingly doing this with information every day."

-Dan Ariely, Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things

"[M]isbelief is enormously engaging and even fun for those who become deeply involved in its cleverly constructed alternate worlds. People who work in the gaming industry have drawn striking parallels…"

-Dan Ariely, Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things

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15. Random Acts of Medicine: The Hidden Forces That Sway Doctors, Impact Patients, and Shape Our Health

By: Anupam B. Jena

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Does timing, circumstance, or luck impact your health care? This groundbreaking book reveals the hi… read more

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  • audiobook
  • psychology
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  • economics
  • science
Cover of One Nation Under Guns: How Gun Culture Distorts Our History and Threatens Our Democracy by Dominic Erdozain

16. One Nation Under Guns: How Gun Culture Distorts Our History and Threatens Our Democracy

By: Dominic Erdozain

4.25

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

This takedown of American gun culture argues that the nation’s founders did not intend the Second A… read more

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Cover of Foolproof: Why Misinformation Infects Our Minds and How to Build Immunity by Sander van der Linden

17. Foolproof: Why Misinformation Infects Our Minds and How to Build Immunity

By: Sander van der Linden

4.03

Format: 368 pages, ebook

Winner of the 2024 APA William James Book Award • Winner of the 2024 Harvard Goldsmith Book Prize •… read more

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  • psychology
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  • society
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"Whereas lies and fake news tend to be simple and sticky, science is often presented as nuanced and complex."

-Sander van der Linden, Foolproof: Why Misinformation Infects Our Minds and How to Build Immunity

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18. Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America

By: Barbara McQuade

4.15

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An urgent, comprehensive explanation of the ways disinformation is impacting democracy, and practic… read more

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19. The Lede: Dispatches from a Life in the Press

By: Calvin Trillin

3.80

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A fascinating, opinionated portrait of journalism and the people who make it, told through pieces c… read more

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20. The MAGA Diaries: My Surreal Adventures Inside the Right-Wing (And How I Got Out)

By: Tina Nguyen

3.31

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An explosive, first-person account of the alt-right from acclaimed political journalist Tina Nguyen… read more

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21. The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science: A Scientist's Warning

By: Peter J. Hotez

3.89

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

Dr. Peter Hotez discusses how an anti-vaccine movement became a dangerous political campaign promot… read more

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