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Reading List
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General psychology
Collin, Catherine – ‘The Psychology Book’
Dennett - 'Consciousness Explained'
Goldacre, Ben - ‘Bad Science’
Lilienfeld, Scott - ’50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology: Shattering Widespread Misconceptions about Human Behaviour’
Criado-Perez - 'Invisible women'
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Famous studies
Dittrich, Luke - ‘Patient HM’
Perry, Gina – ‘Behind the shock machine’
Sacks, Oliver - ‘The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat’
Slater Lauren - ‘Opening of Skinner’s Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century’
Rolls, Geoff - ‘Classic Case Studies in Psychology’
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Psychopathology
Bentall & Beck - 'Madness Explained: Psychosis and Human Nature'
Bullmore - 'The inflamed mind'
Hare, Robert D. - ‘Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us’
Ramachandran & Blakeslee - 'Phantoms in the Brain: Human Nature and the Architecture of the Mind'
Wilson, David - ‘A History of British Serial Killing’
Zimbardo, Philip - ‘The Lucifer Effect’
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Applied psychology
Cain, Susan – ‘Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking’
Gilbert, Paul - ‘The compassionate mind’
Kabat-Zinn, John – ‘Wherever you go there you are’
Williams, M. & Penman, D – ‘Mindfulness: Finding peace in a frantic world’
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Biological psychology
Dawkins, Richard – ‘The Selfish Gene’
Greenfield - 'The Private Life of the Brain'
Havari, Yuval Noah – ‘Sapiens’
Hrdy - 'Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding'
Ridley - 'Nature via Nurture: Genes, experience and what makes us human'
Siegel, Dan – ‘Brainstorm: The power and purpose of the teenage brain’
Walker, Matthew – ‘Why we Sleep’
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Cognitive psychology
Gladwell, Malcom – ‘Blink’
Kahneman, Daniel - ‘Thinking Fast and Slow’
Pink, Daniel – ‘Drive’
Pinker, Stephen – ‘How the mind works’
Thaler, Richard – ‘Nudge’