Life Makeovers: 52 Practical & Inspiring Ways to Improve Your Life One Week at a Time
10 best books like Life Makeovers: 52 Practical & Inspiring Ways to Improve Your Life One Week at a Time (Cheryl Richardson): Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases, Counter Clockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility, Happiness: Lessons from a New Science, Happiness: The Science Behind Your Smile, Choices, Values, and Frames, Creating Your Best Life: The Ultimate Life List Guide, Changing for Good: A Revolutionary Six-Stage Program for Overcoming Bad Habits and Moving Your Life Positively Forward, Thanks!: How the New Science of Gratitude Can Make You Happier, The Happiness Manifesto, Attention And Effort
Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases
| Author | Daniel Kahneman |
| ISBN | 0521284147 |
The thirty-five chapters in this book describe various judgmental heuristics and the biases they produce, not only in laboratory experiments but in important social, medical, and political situations as well. Individual chapters discuss the representativeness and availability heuristics,...
Counter Clockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility
| Author | Ellen J. Langer |
| ISBN | 0345502043 |
If we could turn back the clock psychologically, could we also turn it back physically? For more than thirty years, award-winning social psychologist Ellen Langer has studied this provocative question, and now, in Counterclockwise, she presents the answer: Opening our minds to what's possible,...
Happiness: Lessons from a New Science
| Author | Richard Layard |
| ISBN | 0143037013 |
There is a paradox at the heart of our lives. We all want more money, but as societies become richer, they do not become happier. This is not speculation: It's the story told by countless pieces of scientific research. We now have sophisticated ways of measuring how happy people are, and all the evidence...
Happiness: The Science Behind Your Smile
| Author | Daniel Nettle |
| ISBN | 0192805592 |
Bringing together the latest insights from psychiatry, psychology, and philosophy, Daniel Nettle sheds light on happiness, the most basic of human desires. Nettle examines whether people are basically happy or unhappy, whether success can make us happy, what sort of remedies to unhappiness work,...
Choices, Values, and Frames
| Author | Daniel Kahneman |
| ISBN | 0521627494 |
Choices, Values, and Frames presents an empirical and theoretical challenge to classical utility theory, offering prospect theory as an alternative framework. Extensions and applications to diverse economic phenomena and to studies of consumer behavior are discussed. The book also elaborates...
| Author | Caroline Adams Miller |
| ISBN | 1402762593 |
The passion for life lists has spawned an industry that includes thoughtful experts such as Caroline Miller, a life coach and motivational book author, and Dr. Michael Frisch, a positive psychology coach and clinical psychologist at Baylor University. Working together, they have fashioned the...
How many times have you thought about starting a diet or quitting smoking without doing anything about it? Or lapsed back into bad habits after hitting a rough spot on the road to recovery?
To uncover the secret to successful personal change, three acclaimed psychologists studied more than...
Thanks!: How the New Science of Gratitude Can Make You Happier
| Author | Robert A. Emmons |
| ISBN | 0618620192 |
The first major study of gratitude that shows how “wanting what we have” can measurably change people’s lives.
Did you know that there is a crucial component of happiness that is often overlooked? Robert Emmons—editor-in-chief of the Journal of Positive Psychology—examines...
Synopsis: Much of modern life is based on the assumption that happiness comes from economic prosperity. Many -- politicians, media and citizens alike -- seem to assume the goal of government is to keep the economy moving. Here, Nic Marks argues that the blind pursuit of economic growth has created an...
| Author | Daniel Kahneman |
| ISBN | 0130505188 |
From Wikipedia:
Daniel Kahneman (Hebrew: דניאל כהנמן (born 5 March 1934) is an Israeli-American psychologist and winner of the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, notable for his work on behavioral finance and hedonic psychology.
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Well-Being: Foundations of Hedonic Psychology: Foundations of Hedonic Psychology
| Author | Daniel Kahneman |
| ISBN | 0871544237 |
The nature of well-being is one of the most enduring and elusive subjects of human inquiry. Well-Being draws upon the latest scientific research to transform our understanding of this ancient question. With contributions from leading authorities in psychology, social psychology, and neuroscience,...
The Demise of Guys: Why Boys Are Struggling and What We Can Do About It
Is the rampant overuse of video games and online porn causing the demise of guys?
In their new TED Book, Dr. Philip G. Zimbardo— leader of the famous 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment—and co-author Nikita Duncan suggest that just might be the case. Based on survey responses from 20,000 men,...
There have been at least 25 prototype humans. We are but one more model, and there is no evidence evolution has stopped. So unless you think Rush Limbaugh and Howard Stern are the be all and end all of creation, and it just does not get any better, then one has to ask what is next? Juan Enriquez and Steve Gullans,...
Why School?: How Education Must Change When Learning and Information Are Everywhere
Traditional educators, classrooms, and brick-and-mortar schools are no longer necessary to access information. Instead, things like blogs and wikis, as well as remote collaborations and an emphasis on 'critical thinking' skills are the coins of the realm in this new kingdom. Yet the national dialogue...
Rationality and the Reflective Mind
| Author | Keith E. Stanovich |
| ISBN | 0195341147 |
In Rationality and the Reflective Mind, Keith Stanovich attempts to resolve the Great Rationality Debate in cognitive science--the debate about how much irrationality to ascribe to human cognition. He shows how the insights of dual-process theory and evolutionary psychology can be combined to...
Defining Moments: When Managers Must Choose Between Right and Right
| Author | Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. |
| ISBN | 0875848036 |
"Defining moments," according to Badaracco, occur when managers face business problems that trigger difficult, deeply personal questions. In deciding how to act, managers reveal their inner values, test their commitment to those values, and ultimately shape their characters. Badaracco builds...
Wired for Intimacy: How Pornography Hijacks the Male Brain
| Author | William M. Struthers |
| ISBN | 0830837000 |
Pornography is powerful. Our contemporary culture as been pornified, and it shapes our assumptions about identity, sexuality, the value of women and the nature of relationships. Countless Christian men struggle with the addictive power of porn. But common spiritual approaches of more prayer and...
How To Control Your Anxiety Before It Controls You
| Author | Albert Ellis |
| ISBN | 1567318312 |
Our own irrational attitudes and beliefs often influence our feelings of anger, fear, and anxiety. Only when we examine and understand our false ideas and their harmful effects can we begin to loosen their grip on us. If we change our mindset, we can control our relationships with other people and our...
