Books Where You Learned the Most About Psychology

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These books may not explicitly be about "psychology", but there is something essential that one can learn about the human condition from each of them, in a way that is comparable to reading a psychology textbook, though usually much more fun. Learn more about your psychology at BeyondThePurchase.org.

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The Righteous Mind
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Man's Search for Meaning
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The Happiness Hypothesis
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The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
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An Unquiet Mind

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The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain

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The Luck Factor
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

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The high price of materialism
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My Stroke of Insight

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one hundred names for love

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Freakonomics
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Thinking in pictures

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Tattoos on the Heart
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The dignity of working men
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Delivering Happiness
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The Center Cannot Hold

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Flow
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Stumbling on Happiness
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The Social Animal
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The How of Happiness
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