This Is Your Mind on Plants
Michael Pollan
Published 2021
288 pages
The most popular cognitive psychology books of 2021
Cognitive psychology is the study of how we think. Attention, memory, perception, language and decision-making are its subjects, along with the biases that trip us up. Many popular books on thinking fast, slow or better draw on this field. Those sit beside more academic introductions. This list shows the ones first published in 2021.
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Chatter
Ethan Kross
Published 2021
336 pages
Remember The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting
Lisa Genova
Published 2021
272 pages
Noise A Flaw in Human Judgment
Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, Cass R. Sunstein
2021 · 2022 edition
560 pages
The Scout Mindset Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't
Julia Galef
Published 2021
288 pages
Rationality What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters
Steven Pinker
Published 2021
432 pages
How to Change
Katy Milkman
Published 2021
249 pages
Wanting The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life
Luke Burgis
Published 2021
304 pages
Beginners
Tom Vanderbilt
Published 2021
320 pages
Being You A New Science of Consciousness
Anil Seth
Published 2021
358 pages
Feeling & Knowing
Antonio Damasio
Published 2021
256 pages
The Authority Gap Why Women are Still Taken Less Seriously Than Men, and what We Can Do about it
Mary Ann Sieghart
Published 2021
375 pages
Peak Mind Find Your Focus, Own Your Attention, Invest 12 Minutes a Day
Amishi P. Jha
2021 · 2022 edition
368 pages
Subtract The Untapped Science of Less
Leidy Klotz
Published 2021
304 pages
Learn Like a Pro Science-Based Tools to Become Better at Anything
Olav Schewe, Barbara Oakley, PhD
Published 2021
160 pages
Useful Delusions
Shankar Vedantam, Bill Mesler
Published 2021
272 pages
Connect Building Exceptional Relationships with Family, Friends, and Colleagues
David Bradford, Ph.D., Carole Robin, Ph.D.
Published 2021
320 pages
The End of Bias
Jessica Nordell
2021 · 2022 edition
368 pages
The Life-Changing Science of Detecting Bullshit
John V. Petrocelli
Published 2021
336 pages
Hurts So Good The Science and Culture of Pain on Purpose
Leigh Cowart
Published 2021
237 pages
Do the Hard Things First How to Win Over Procrastination and Master the Habit of Doing Difficult Work
Scott Allan
2021 · 2022 edition
236 pages
Recapture the Rapture Rethinking God, Sex, and Death in a World That's Lost Its Mind
Jamie Wheal
Published 2021
320 pages
The Confident Mind A Battle-tested Guide to Unshakable Performance
Nathaniel Zinsser
2021 · 2022 edition
352 pages
Everyday Vitality Turning Stress into Strength
Samantha Boardman
2021 · 2022 edition
272 pages