Shelf Help: ‘Suspicious Minds: Why We Believe Conspiracy Theories’
Conspiracy thinking represents a heightening of cognitive tendencies shared by almost everyone.
There’s a Name for Why We Give Too Much Weight to the Opinions of Others
And it's called equality bias.
Brown as Dirt
How the language of racism is related to the language of cleanliness—even to this day.
Shelf Help: ‘Why Does the Other Line Always Move Faster? The Myths and Misery, Secrets and Psychology of Waiting in Line’
A lens for examining one of life's biggest questions.
Shelf Help: ‘Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age’
Our phones are hurting our ability to truly know one another and ourselves.
Shelf Help: ‘Strangers Drowning: Grappling With Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Overpowering Urge to Help’
Gripping portraits of extreme do-gooders.
Shelf Help: ‘The Wrong Hands: Popular Weapons Manuals and Their Historic Challenges to a Democratic Society’
The aura of deviance around mayhem manuals.
Shelf Help: ‘Enabling Acts: The Hidden Story of How the Americans With Disabilities Act Gave the Largest U.S. Minority Its Rights’
We see its effects everywhere, even if we don't acknowledge them.