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Psychology book summaries

The best psychology book summaries — cognitive biases, decision-making, and human nature, distilled into a few minutes each.

The 48 Laws of Power cover

The 48 Laws of Power

Robert Greene

4-min read

The Psychology of Money cover

The Psychology of Money

Morgan Housel

3-min read

How to Win Friends and Influence People cover

How to Win Friends and Influence People

Dale Carnegie

4-min read

Thinking, Fast and Slow cover

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman

5-min read

How to Talk to Anyone cover

How to Talk to Anyone

Leil Lowndes

6-min read

12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos cover

12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

Jordan Peterson

4-min read

Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ cover

Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ

Daniel Goleman

4-min read

Mindset: The New Psychology of Success cover

Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

Carol S. Dweck

2-min read

Surrounded by Idiots cover

Surrounded by Idiots

Thomas Erikson

5-min read

The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business cover

The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business

Charles Duhigg

3-min read

The Courage to Be Disliked cover

The Courage to Be Disliked

Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga

4-min read

Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself cover

Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself

Joe Dispenza

5-min read

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma cover

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

Bessel van der Kolk

4-min read

Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It cover

Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It

Chris Voss and Tahl Raz

4-min read

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion cover

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

Robert B. Cialdini

4-min read

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything cover

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner

4-min read

Outliers: The Story of Success cover

Outliers: The Story of Success

Malcolm Gladwell

3-min read

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking cover

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

Susan Cain

3-min read

The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself cover

The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself

Michael A. Singer

3-min read

Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know cover

Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

Adam Grant

5-min read

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone cover

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

Lori Gottlieb

5-min read

Psycho-Cybernetics: A New Way to Get More Living Out of Life cover

Psycho-Cybernetics: A New Way to Get More Living Out of Life

Maxwell Maltz

3-min read

Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? cover

Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?

Julie Smith

6-min read

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking cover

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

Malcolm Gladwell

2-min read

Man's Search for Meaning cover

Man's Search for Meaning

Viktor E. Frankl

3-min read

Attached cover

Attached

Amir Levine and Rachel Heller

5-min read

How to Stop Worrying and Start Living cover

How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

Dale Carnegie

5-min read

Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance cover

Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

Angela Duckworth

2-min read

The Gifts of Imperfection cover

The Gifts of Imperfection

Brené Brown

4-min read

Behave cover

Behave

Robert M. Sapolsky

4-min read

Daring Greatly cover

Daring Greatly

Brené Brown

3-min read

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference cover

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

Malcolm Gladwell

3-min read

What Happened To You? cover

What Happened To You?

Bruce D. Perry and Oprah Winfrey

4-min read

Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World cover

Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World

Hans and Ola Rosling, and Anna Rosling Rönnlund

3-min read

Boundaries cover

Boundaries

Henry Cloud and John Townsend

4-min read

Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships cover

Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships

Marshall B. Rosenberg

3-min read

Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us cover

Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

Daniel H. Pink

3-min read

Dopamine Nation cover

Dopamine Nation

Anna Lembke

5-min read

The Art of Happiness cover

The Art of Happiness

Dalai Lama XIV

3-min read

The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism cover

The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism

Olivia Fox Cabane

3-min read

Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness cover

Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness

Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein

4-min read

Stolen Focus cover

Stolen Focus

Johann Hari

5-min read

Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know cover

Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know

Malcolm Gladwell

2-min read

Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions cover

Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

Dan Ariely

4-min read

The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You cover

The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You

Elaine N. Aron

3-min read

Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy cover

Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy

David D. Burns

4-min read

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion cover

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

Jonathan Haidt

6-min read

The Anxious Generation cover

The Anxious Generation

Jonathan Haidt

4-min read

The Happiness Hypothesis cover

The Happiness Hypothesis

Jonathan Haidt

5-min read

Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience cover

Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience

Brené Brown

3-min read

If You Tell cover

If You Tell

Gregg Olsen

4-min read

The Happiness Project cover

The Happiness Project

Gretchen Rubin

4-min read

Stumbling on Happiness cover

Stumbling on Happiness

Daniel Todd Gilbert

7-min read

How to Change Your Mind cover

How to Change Your Mind

Michael Pollan

6-min read

The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature cover

The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

Steven Pinker

6-min read

Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking cover

Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking

Mehdi Hasan

6-min read

How to Know a Person cover

How to Know a Person

David Brooks

7-min read

Peak cover

Peak

Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool

4-min read

The Interpretation of Dreams cover

The Interpretation of Dreams

Sigmund Freud

2-min read

How to Do the Work cover

How to Do the Work

Nicole LePera

6-min read

Stop Letting Everything Affect You cover

Stop Letting Everything Affect You

Daniel Chidiac

5-min read

ADHD 2.0: New Science and Essential Strategies for Thriving with Distraction cover

ADHD 2.0: New Science and Essential Strategies for Thriving with Distraction

Edward M. Hallowell and John J. Ratey

3-min read