5 books on psychology to read this summer

Are you looking for some fresh reading this summer? Here are 5 irresistible titles.

The summer heat is starting to show up in the northern hemisphere and with it comes the hours of free time that are crying out for a book. the hours of free time that are crying out for a book, a magazine or a booka book, a magazine or a martini. 

Books for you to learn Psychology in an entertaining way

Following the wake of that article about books on psychology with which to books on psychology to accompany Christmas within Psychology and Mind we are aware of this and for that reason we want to propose some recommendations to cover the first of these needs: the books with which to accompany stretched moments in the shade. Here you have five titles that will delight anyone interested in psychology.

Good reading!

1. Why We Lie... Especially to Ourselves, by Dan Ariely

Dan Ariely is known for explaining lines of research in psychology as if they were narratives, and this book follows that rule perfectly. Entertainment and scientific dissemination go hand in hand in this interesting text.

Here you will find a compendium of chapters in which Ariely dismantles the idea that people lie responding to purely rational criteria, seeking material benefits at the expense of the ignorance of others, and provides some evidence about the relationship between lying and our way of perceiving ourselves.

And all this without abandoning the sense of humor that characterizes him. A light and entertaining read on one of the most uncomfortable subjects: dishonesty.

More information about the book, here.

2. What Makes Us Human, by Michael Gazzaniga

Our way of thinking and feeling does not exist in a vacuum. It has its raison d'être in the Biological processes that run through our body and brain and shape what we understand as "our mind".

The famous Californian neuroscientist Michael S. Gazzaniga Michael S. Gazzaniga explains in this book the biological foundations of human thought and behavior and some of their similarities and differences with what other animals do and feel.

He does so through clear explanations that reflect the fascination with which the author addresses the big questions facing neuroscience. neuroscience. 

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3. From Animals to Gods, by Yuval Harari

Many psychological processes are shaped by culture, which in turn cannot be understood in isolation from the HistoryThe line in which human beings have been developing life, with its advances and regressions, are the basis of the culturethat emerges from all these variables.

From animals to gods is the perfect union between a compressed narration of the history of humanity, the cultural drifts that have taken place in it and the ways of thinking that have been shaping it. A real gem for its concreteness and for explaining difficult things in a clear and entertaining way.

In this book you will not find a cold analysis of what humanity is and what it has been, but an interpretation of our journey as humanity.but an interpretation of our journey as a species based on material evidence and inspiring reflections behind it.

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4. The deceptions of the mind, by S. L. Macknik and S. Martúnez-Conde

The human mind is not only discovered through its capacities; its functioning can also be glimpsed through its failures can also be glimpsed from its failures. 

The deceptions of the mind is a book in which the blind spots of the blind spots of our ways of thinking and understanding reality and these are exposed for all to see, almost almost to our embarrassment. To do so, these authors tell anecdotes set in the kind of situations in which our brain is more prone to be in evidence: in front of a magician's stage.

Here you can read the explanations to the most martian magic tricks and the psychological processes that explain that the psychological processes that explain why they are able to fool everyone in the audience. all the people in the audience.

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5. The Lucifer Effect: The Why of Evil, by Philip Zimbardo

One of the most renowned psychologists talking about one of the most famous one of the most famous experiments in the worldthe Stanford prison case.

The result, of course, is one of the quintessential psychology books on the subject of morality and its relationship to the circumstances in which we find ourselves. The importance of context in our personality and in how we behave is greater than we might suppose.

In this extensive work you will find both the narration of the Stanford experience and the reflections that it produced in Philip Zimbardo and its relation to other cases of moral corruption based on the context, such as what happened in Abu Ghraib during the Iraq war.

More about this book here.