If you liked
Books like Nonviolent Communication
Loved Nonviolent Communication by Marshall B. Rosenberg? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from psychology, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.
10 books · ranked
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Flow
The psychologist who coined the concept of 'flow' — the state of complete immersion in a challenging activity — presents his research on optimal experience and argues that happiness comes not from leisure but from deep engagement with work and activity that stretches our abilities.
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
How the mind's two systems lead us into predictable errors; the definitive popular book on cognitive bias.
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The Body Keeps the Score
How trauma lives in the body and how people heal; a landmark that reached far beyond therapists.
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Man's Search for Meaning
A psychiatrist's survival of the camps and the meaning he drew from it; brief, profound and enduring.
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Words and rules
How does language work, and how do we learn to speak? Why do languages change over time, and why do they have so many quirks and irregularities? In this book, the profound mysteries of language are ex
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How the Mind Works
"Presented with extraordinary lucidity, cogency and panache...Powerful and gripping...To have read [the book] is to have consulted a first draft of the structural plan of the human psyche...a glitteri
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A cognitive psychology of mass communication
"With this third edition of A Cognitive Psychology of Mass Communication, Richard Jackson Harris continues his examination of mass media's influences on our perceptions of ourselves and the world arou
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Cognitive psychology
Revisiting the Classic Studies is a series of texts that introduces readers to the studies in psychology that changed the way we think about core topics in the discipline today. It provokes students t
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Consciousness
Consciousness', 'the last great mystery for science', remains a hot topic. How can a physical brain create our experience of the world? What creates our identity? Do we really have free will? Could co
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Mindset
Why believing abilities can grow changes everything; the book behind the 'growth mindset'.