5 books on psychology to read this summer

The summer heat is already beginning to appear in the northern hemisphere and with it they also appear the hours of free time that are crying out for a book, a magazine or a Martini.

Books for you to learn Psychology in an entertaining way

Following in the wake of that article about books on psychology with which to accompany Christmas, on Psychology and Mind We are aware of this and that is why we want to propose some recommendations to cover the first of these needs: the books with which to accompany stretched times 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 He is known for explaining lines of research in psychology as if they were narratives, and this book follows that standard 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 

we lie responding to purely rational criteria, seeking material benefits at the cost of ignorance of others, and provides some evidence on the relationship between lying and our way of perceiving ourselves themselves.

And all this without leaving the sense of humor that characterizes him. A light and entertaining read on one of the most uncomfortable topics: 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 reason for being in the biological processes that run through our body and our brain and shape what we understand as “our mind”.

The famous Californian neuroscientist 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 also does it through clear explanations that reflect the fascination with which the author addresses the great questions that he faces. neuroscience.

You can learn more about this book by clicking here.

3. From Animals to Gods, by Yuval Harari

Many psychological processes are shaped by culture, and culture in turn cannot be understood apart from Story: the line in which human beings have developed life, with its advances and regressions, represent the foundation of the culture, which emerges from all these variables.

From animals to gods It is the perfect union between a compressed narrative of the history of humanity, the cultural drifts that have occurred in it and the ways of thinking that have been shaping. 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 has been, 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 capabilities; you can also glimpse its operation from its failures.

The deceptions of the mind It is a book in which the Blind spots of our ways of thinking and understanding reality and these are exposed for all to see, almost almost to our shame. To do this, these authors tell anecdotes located in the kind of situations in which our brain is more prone to being exposed: before the stage of a magician.

Here you can read the explanations of the most Martian magic tricks and the psychological processes that explain that they are capable of deceiving to all the people in the audience.

Ask about this book here.

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

One of the most renowned psychologists talking about one of the best known experiments in the world: the Stanford prison case.

The result, of course, is one of the quintessential books on psychology about the morality and its relation 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 account of Stanford's experience and the reflections that he produced in Philip Zimbardo and its relationship with 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.