16 best-selling science books like The Seven Deadly Sins of Psychology: A Manifesto for Reforming the Culture of Scientific Practice by Chris Chambers

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The Seven Deadly Sins of Psychology: A Manifesto for Reforming the Culture of Scientific Practice

By: Chris Chambers

4.41

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Why psychology is in peril as a scientific discipline--and how to save it Psychological science …

"In the battle between science and storytelling, there is simply no competition: storytelling wins every time."

-Chris Chambers, The Seven Deadly Sins of Psychology: A Manifesto for Reforming the Culture of Scientific Practice

"One recent case highlighted by Dan Simons relates again to the work of Yale psychologist John Bargh. In 2012, Bargh and colleague Idit Shalev published a study claiming that lonelier people prefer warmer baths and showers, thereby compensating for a lack of “social warmth"

-Chris Chambers, The Seven Deadly Sins of Psychology: A Manifesto for Reforming the Culture of Scientific Practice

"A critical reader of any method section should be asking not only whether the reported procedure is sound but also whether it provides sufficient details to be repeatable. Unfortunately, an additional source of unreliability in psychology lies in the systematic failure of studies to disclose sufficient methodological detail to allow exact replication."

-Chris Chambers, The Seven Deadly Sins of Psychology: A Manifesto for Reforming the Culture of Scientific Practice

"Schnall’s strong reaction to the failed replication of her own work provoked a mixed reaction from the psychological community. While many psychologists were bewildered by her response, a number of prominent US psychologists voiced support for her position. Dan Gilbert from Harvard University likened Schnall’s battle to the plight of Rosa Parks, and he referred to some psychologists who conducted or supported replications as “bullies,"

-Chris Chambers, The Seven Deadly Sins of Psychology: A Manifesto for Reforming the Culture of Scientific Practice

If you liked the science plot in The Seven Deadly Sins of Psychology: A Manifesto for Reforming the Culture of Scientific Practice by Chris Chambers , here is a list of 16 books like this:

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1. Thinking, Fast and Slow

By: Daniel Kahneman

4.18

Format: 499 pages, Hardcover

In the highly anticipated Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman takes us on a groundbreaking tour of th… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"A compelling narrative fosters an illusion of inevitability."

-Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

"Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking of it."

-Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

"Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it."

-Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

"Nothing in life is as important as you think it is, while you are thinking about it"

-Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

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2. Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

By: Robert M. Sapolsky

4.16

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Why do we do the things we do? More than a decade in the making, this game-changing book is Robert … read more

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  • neuroscience
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • science
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3. Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem

By: Simon Singh

4.09

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

xn + yn = zn, where n represents 3, 4, 5, ...no solution "I have discovered a truly marvelous demon… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science

4. Capital in the Twenty-First Century

By: Thomas Piketty , Arthur Goldhammer

4.61

Format: 313 pages, Hardcover

What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions abou… read more

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5. Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients

By: Ben Goldacre

3.93

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

Medicine is broken. We like to imagine that it's based on evidence and the results of fair tests. I… read more

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6. How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking

By: Jordan Ellenberg

5.00

Format: 299 pages, Hardcover

The Freakonomics of math--a math-world superstar unveils the hidden beauty and logic of the world a… read more

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7. Why Does E=mc²?

By: Brian Cox , Jeffrey R. Forshaw

4.17

Format: 510 pages,

The most accessible, entertaining, and enlightening explanation of the best-known physics equation … read more

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8. Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

By: David Graeber

4.03

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling writer David Graeber, a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"Economies around the world have, increasingly, become vast engines for producing nonsense."

-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

"Bullshit jobs regularly induce feelings of hopelessness, depression, and self-loathing. They are forms of spiritual violence directed at the essence of what it means to be a human being."

-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

"What we are witnessing is the rise of those forms of popular culture that office workers can produce and consume during the scattered, furtive shards of time they have at their disposal in workplaces…"

-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

"A fact-finding commission is a way of telling the public that the government is doing something it is not. But a large corporations will behave exactly the same way, if, say, there are revealed to be…"

-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

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9. 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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  • psychology
  • neuroscience
  • brain
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  • science
"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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10. 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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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"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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11. Immune: a Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive

By: Philipp Dettmer

4.59

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

A gorgeously illustrated deep dive into the immune system that will forever change how you think ab… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
"Life hates nothing as much as wasting resources."

-Philipp Dettmer, Immune: a Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive

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12. Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

By: Sarah Polley

4.32

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Oscar-nominated screenwriter, director, and actor Sarah Polley's Run Towards the Danger explores me… read more

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  • nonfiction
"His love was all around the edges, but sometimes it was hard for both of us to see, I think."

-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

"The past was affecting how I moved through the world, while present life was affecting how the past moved through me."

-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

"The past and present, I have come to realize, are in constant dialogue, acting upon one another in a kind of reciprocal pressure dance."

-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

"It can seem perplexing from the outside, this pull that many women experience to make things better for those who have hurt us. The impulse to smooth things over the keep ourselves safe..."

-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

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13. Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet

By: Hannah Ritchie

4.29

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

‘Truly essential’ MARGARET ATWOOD Feeling anxious, powerless or confused about the future of our p… read more

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Cover of Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food by Chris van Tulleken

14. Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food

By: Chris van Tulleken

4.43

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A manifesto to change how you eat and how you think about the human body. It’s not you, it’s the… read more

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Cover of The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet by Jeff Goodell

15. The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet

By: Jeff Goodell

4.32

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The world is waking up to a new wildfires are now seasonal in California, the Northeast is getting… read more

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  • science
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16. The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data

By: David Spiegelhalter

4.17

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

In this "important and comprehensive" guide to statistical thinking ( New Yorker ), discover how da… read more

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"this book is part of what could be called a new wave in statistics teaching, in which formal probability theory as a basis for statistical inference does not come in till much later"

-David Spiegelhalter, The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data

"[Adolphe Quetelet] developed the idea of 'social physics', since the regularity of societal statistics seemed to reflect an almost mechanistic underlying process. Just as the random molecules of a ga…"

-David Spiegelhalter, The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data

"We have seen the problems that result when researchers only report significant findings, but perhaps more important are the conscious or unconscious set of minor decisions that might be made by the r…"

-David Spiegelhalter, The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data

"When the CERN teams reported a 'five-sigma' result for the Higgs boson, corresponding to a P-value of around 1 in 3.5 million, the BBC reported the conclusion correctly, saying this meant 'about a on…"

-David Spiegelhalter, The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data

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17. The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth

By: Amy C. Edmondson

3.99

Format: 233 pages, Hardcover

Conquer the most essential adaptation to the knowledge economy The Fearless Organization: Creati… read more

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  • psychology
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18. The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America

By: Coleman Hughes

4.46

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An exciting new voice makes the case for a colorblind approach to politics and culture, warning tha… read more

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"Neoracists believe that we must indoctrinate children to cure them of racism. I say that children are racially innocent by nature, and we should protect that racial innocence for as long as possible."

-Coleman Hughes, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America

"The majority of effort channeled toward achieving racial equity hasn't been applied to the part of life that has the biggest influence on people's skills and mindsets: namely birth to eighteen years …"

-Coleman Hughes, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America

"By [college], many skills, attitudes, and habits have already been formed. We can have a much bigger impact on people at younger ages. Efforts to achieve true equity should focus instead on high-qual…"

-Coleman Hughes, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America

"The common humanity and anti-racism of the civil rights movement had strong ties to Christianity. And Christianity promoted the value of interracial harmony: unity in Christ. But the appeal of Christ…"

-Coleman Hughes, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America

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19. Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World

By: Carl T. Bergstrom

4.11

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Bullshit isn't what it used to be. Now, two science professors give us the tools to dismantle misin… read more

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  • psychology
  • science
"Перефразовуючи Алена Ґінзберґа, програміст і бізнесмен Джеф Гаммербахер 2011 року гірко зауважив, що «найсвітліші голови мого покоління думають, як змусити людей клацати на оголошення в інтернеті, — …"

-Carl T. Bergstrom, Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World

"People worry that AI has surpassed humans, but we doubt AI will claim this award anytime soon. One might think that the TED brand of bullshit is just a cocktail of sound-bite science, management-spea…"

-Carl T. Bergstrom, Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World

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20. Sprache und Sein

By: Kübra Gümüşay

4.33

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Kübra Gümüşay beschreibt wie Sprache unser Denken prägt und unsere Politik bestimmt. „Ein beein… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Wir haben die AfD so groß gemacht, wie sie es heute ist. Indem wir ihre Provokationen durch unsere Diskussionen legitimierten. Indem wir ihren Hass zur Meinung erkoren haben. Indem wir ihre Menschenf…"

-Kübra Gümüşay, Sprache und Sein

"Der Kampf um absolute Wahrheiten ist zu einer Aufmerksamkeitsmaschine geworden. Es ist heute möglich, seinen Lebensunterhalt damit zu bestreiten, Islamkritiker*in zu sein. Doch dieser Kampf um abschl…"

-Kübra Gümüşay, Sprache und Sein

"Und wenn diese Sprache, das Deutsche, nicht meine ist, dann ist es auch meine Schuld. Statt darum zu flehen, zu erbitten, sie möge Platz für uns schaffen, sollten wir uns diesen Platz nehmen. Wir sol…"

-Kübra Gümüşay, Sprache und Sein

"Fremdsprache ist nicht gleich Fremdsprache. Bilingual ist nicht gleich bilingual. Wenn Sie an Bilingualität denken, welche Sprachen fallen Ihnen ein? Deutsch und Französisch? Deutsch und Englisch? De…"

-Kübra Gümüşay, Sprache und Sein

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21. Surrounded by Psychopaths: How to Protect Yourself from Being Manipulated and Exploited in Business (and in Life)

By: Thomas Erikson

3.54

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

#1 internationally bestselling author Thomas Erikson shows readers how to identify and avoid the ps… read more

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  • psychology
Cover of Making Numbers Count: The Art and Science of Communicating Numbers by Chip Heath

22. Making Numbers Count: The Art and Science of Communicating Numbers

By: Chip Heath

3.89

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

A clear, practical guide to turning cold, clinical data into a story - from bestselling business au… read more

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  • psychology
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Cover of The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure by Katherine Rundell

23. The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure

By: Katherine Rundell

4.42

Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition

The world is more astonishing, more miraculous and more wonderful than our wildest imaginings. In … read more

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  • science
"We live in a world of such marvels. We should wake in the morning and as we put on our trousers we should remember the seahorse and we should scream with awe and not stop screaming until we fall asle…"

-Katherine Rundell, The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure

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24. How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement

By: Fredrik deBoer

3.84

Format: 251 pages, Kindle Edition

An eye-opening exploration of American policy reform, or lack thereof, in the wake of the murder of… read more

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Cover of Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry by Randolph M. Nesse

25. Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry

By: Randolph M. Nesse

3.97

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A founder of the field of evolutionary medicine uses his decades of experience as a psychiatrist to… read more

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  • science
"Like fever and pain, anxiety and low mood are useful normal responses to some situations."

-Randolph M. Nesse, Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry

"Selection shaped our brains and bodies to maximize reproduction at enormous costs to human happiness."

-Randolph M. Nesse, Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry

"The body is not shaped for maximum health or longevity; it is shaped for maximum transmission of its genes."

-Randolph M. Nesse, Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry

"Eating disorders are not caused by abnormal genes; they are caused by normal genes interacting with abnormal environments."

-Randolph M. Nesse, Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry

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26. Drug Use for Grown-Ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear

By: Carl L. Hart

4.04

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

"Hart's argument that we need to drastically revise our current view of illegal drugs is both power… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • science
"The key is to keep the focus on people's actions, on their behaviors, rather than speculate about their motives. Trying to determine what's in a person's head or heart is a pointless distraction. It'…"

-Carl L. Hart, Drug Use for Grown-Ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear

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27. Breaking Through: My Life in Science

By: Katalin Karikó

4.67

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A story of perseverance and the power of convictions from the groundbreaking immigrant scientist wh… read more

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28. Science Fictions

By: Stuart Ritchie

4.37

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

A major exposé that reveals the absurd and shocking problems that pervade and undermine contemporar… read more

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"Another example of educational hype is in some ways the second coming of the growth mindset concept: ‘grit’. This is the idea, promoted by the psychologist Angela Duckworth , that the ability to stic…"

-Stuart Ritchie, Science Fictions

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29. Autocracy, Inc.

By: Anne Applebaum

4.28

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more

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"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

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30. The Seven Deadly Sins of Psychology: A Manifesto for Reforming the Culture of Scientific Practice

By: Chris Chambers

4.41

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Why psychology is in peril as a scientific discipline--and how to save it Psychological science … read more

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"In the battle between science and storytelling, there is simply no competition: storytelling wins every time."

-Chris Chambers, The Seven Deadly Sins of Psychology: A Manifesto for Reforming the Culture of Scientific Practice

"One recent case highlighted by Dan Simons relates again to the work of Yale psychologist John Bargh. In 2012, Bargh and colleague Idit Shalev published a study claiming that lonelier people prefer wa…"

-Chris Chambers, The Seven Deadly Sins of Psychology: A Manifesto for Reforming the Culture of Scientific Practice

"A critical reader of any method section should be asking not only whether the reported procedure is sound but also whether it provides sufficient details to be repeatable. Unfortunately, an additiona…"

-Chris Chambers, The Seven Deadly Sins of Psychology: A Manifesto for Reforming the Culture of Scientific Practice

"Schnall’s strong reaction to the failed replication of her own work provoked a mixed reaction from the psychological community. While many psychologists were bewildered by her response, a number of p…"

-Chris Chambers, The Seven Deadly Sins of Psychology: A Manifesto for Reforming the Culture of Scientific Practice

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