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Books like Superforecasting

Loved Superforecasting by Philip E. Tetlock? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from psychology, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.

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    The Body Keeps the Score

    Bessel van der Kolk · 2014 · Psychology

    How trauma lives in the body and how people heal; a landmark that reached far beyond therapists.

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    Thinking, Fast and Slow

    Daniel Kahneman · 2011 · Psychology

    How the mind's two systems lead us into predictable errors; the definitive popular book on cognitive bias.

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    Flow

    Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi · 1990 · Psychology

    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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    Man's Search for Meaning

    Viktor Frankl · 1946 · Psychology

    A psychiatrist's survival of the camps and the meaning he drew from it; brief, profound and enduring.

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    The undoing project

    Michael Lewis · 2016 · Psychology

    Examines the history of behavioral economics, discussing the theory of Israeli psychologists who wrote the original studies undoing assumptions about the decision-making process and the influence it h

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    Think Like a Freak

    Steven D. Levitt · 2014 · Psychology

    The book that can teach anyone to think like a freak

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    Quiet

    Susan Cain · 2012 · Psychology

    The hidden strengths of introverts in a world that prizes talking; validating and well-argued.

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    Hallucinations

    Oliver Sacks · 2012 · Psychology

    Have you ever seen something that wasn't really there? Heard someone call your name in an empty house? Sensed someone following you and turned around to find nothing? ---------- Hallucinations don't b

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    The Shallows

    Nicholas G. Carr · 2010 · Psychology

    Examines the influences computer-delivered information may have on human cognition using Marshall McLuhan as the hook, the history of communication as the trajectory, and brain science as the tool.

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    Outliers

    Malcolm Gladwell · 2008 · Psychology

    What actually makes high achievers; the book that popularised the idea of deliberate practice.

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