On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 11:16:03 -0800, Traci Giuliano wrote: >I'm always on the lookout for recent (or even not-so-recent trade books that I >>may have missed) for a project in which students read trade books written by >>social psychologists (or sometimes non social psychologists on social >>psychological topics) and develop useful applications based on the book for a >>class project. >If anyone has any suggestions, I'd love to hear them.
How about: Phil Zimbardo: The Lucifer Effect (the Stanford Prison Experiment and Beyond) Charles Skoller: Twisted Confessions (Skoller was the NYC ADA who investigated the Kitty Genovese murder and prosecuted Winston Mosley who killed Kitty and other women; it's useful to compare Skoller's account with other accounts as Harold Takooshian did in his review of this book in PscyCritiques) Gerd Gigerenze: Gut Feelings (Gerd's attempt to cash in on the "Blink" popularity which relied in part on his research which he goes into more detail in this book) Gary Belsky & Tom Gilovich: Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes and How To Correct Them (part behavioral economics, part decision-making and heuristics, part self-help) All of the above are available on Amazon. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu >For reference, here is the list that I used last year: > >1) Self insight (Dunning) >2) The mismeasure of women (Tavris) >3) The how of happiness (Lyubomirsky) >4) How we know what isn’t so (Gilovich) >5) Mindfulness (Langer) >6) Intuition (Myers) >7) Curse of the Self (Leary) >8) White bears (Wegner) >9) Strangers to ourselves (Wilson) >10) Making marriage work (Gottman) >11) The relationship cure (Gottman) >12) Opening up (Pennebaker) >13) Singled out (DePaulo) >14) Emotions revealed (Ekman) >15) Telling lies (Ekman) >16) Breaking Murphy’s Law (Segerstrom) >17) Survival of the prettiest (Etcoff) >18) Stumbling on Happiness (Gilbert) >19) American Paradox (Myers) >20) Meanings of Life (Baumeister) >21) The two sexes (Maccoby) >22) Why so slow? (Valian) >23) Everyday mind reading (Ickes) >24) Losing control (Baumeister) >25) Friendly letter to skeptics (Myers) >26) Mistakes were made (Tavris) >27) The cultural animal (Baumeister) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
