[tips] social psychology trade books; need recommendations for project
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. 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) Thanks!! -- Traci A. Giuliano Professor of Psychology John H. Duncan Chair Southwestern University Georgetown, TX 78626 office 512.863.1596 fax 512.863.1846 --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
re: [tips] social psychology trade books; need recommendations for project
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)
Re: [tips] social psychology trade books; need recommendations for project
In a 2007 article for *Teaching of Psychology *on Teaching Psychological Science through Writing I offered a few of my favorite trade books, as of 2006. (Excuse any typos from the OCR scanning of the pdf article, which I'd be glad to send anyone.) Dave Myers www.davidmyers.org www.hearingloop.org Trade Books Sometimes we have an urge to say more than magazine articles will allow. That has been the experience of our colleagues who have written successful and influential general audience trade books. Like many readers of this journal, I have relished and felt pride in books by psychological scientists such as Robert Cialdini, Thomas Gilovich, Judith Rich Harris, Irving Janis, Elizabeth Loftus, Susan Nolen-Hoeksema, James Pennebaker, Steven Pinker, Daniel Schacter, Martin Seligman, Carol Tavris, Daniel Wegner, Timothy Wilson, and Phillip Zimbardo. Now our field has been blessed with four successful new trade books, each of which is giving psychology away to large audiences. Schwartz's (2004) *The Paradox of Choice, *which has been massively covered in various media, applies psy~ chological science in explaining why today's world ironically offers us more choice and less satisfaction. Twenge's (2006) *Generation *Me masterfully draws on research and popular culture in depicting the rise of epidemic narcissism, illusory optimism, and anxiety among today's younger Americans. In *The Happiness* *Hypothesis, *Haidt (2006) pointed to a more meaningful, moral, and happy life by interweaving ancient wisdom and modem science. Gilbert’s (2006) *Stumbling* on *Happiness *gives readers a rollicking tour of the new research on people's inability to predict their own happiness. In addition also to Seligman's (2002) *Authentic* *Happiness *and Lykken's (1999) *Happiness, *there arc two more happiness books to come. Emmons (2007) authored *Thanks! How the New *Science *of Gratitude* *Can Make You Happier. *Diener and Biswas-Diener (in press) wrote *Happiness: Unlocking the Mysteries of * *Psychological Wealth, *the title of their forthcoming report of well-being research. Lest anyone think that positive psychology has com- pletely taken over the discipline, the happiness trade books are balanced by psychologist-authored evil trade books. Waller's (2002) powerful *Becoming *Evil. will soon appear in a second edition. Shermer (2004) offered *The Science af Good *and Evil, Baumeister (1997) contributed *Evil: Inside Human Cruelty *and *Violence,* Zimbardo (2007) has authored *The Lucifer Effect: *Un~ *derstanding How *Good *People *Turn Evil, and Tavris and Aronson (2007) coauthored Mistakes *Were Made (But* *Not by *Me). --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
Re: [tips] social psychology trade books; need recommendations for project
How about The Myth of Repressed Memory by Loftus Michael Britt mich...@thepsychfiles.com www.thepsychfiles.com Twitter: mbritt On Dec 29, 2009, at 2:15 PM, 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. 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) Thanks!! -- Traci A. Giuliano Professor of Psychology John H. Duncan Chair Southwestern University Georgetown, TX 78626 office 512.863.1596 fax 512.863.1846 --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
