Book interviews tagged Psychology

The American Lie: Government by the People and Other Political Fables
- ISBN: 978 1 59451 412 8 (hc)
- featured in: Political freedom must include freedom from politics and freedom to take part in politicsDecember 5, 2008

Loneliness as a Way of Life
- ISBN: 978 0 674 03113 5
- featured in: How we are possessed by our possessions, how we love, how we grieveDecember 16, 2008

Dreaming the English Renaissance: Politics and Desire in Court and Culture
- ISBN: 978 1 4039 6089 4 hb
- featured in: Early modern England through a history of dreamsMarch 6, 2009

More: Population, Nature, and What Women Want
- ISBN: 978 1 59726 019 0 hb
- featured in: Reproductive rights are the single most catalytic ingredient of environmental and social sustainabilityMarch 27, 2009

Weather Matters: An American Cultural History since 1900
- ISBN: 978 0 7006 1611 4
- featured in: How we perceive, manage, and market the weatherApril 10, 2009

Civil Passions: Moral Sentiment and Democratic Deliberation
- ISBN: 978 0 691 13725 4
- featured in: The path to justice is lighted by the glow of civil passionsJune 19, 2009

The Lie Detectors: The History of an American Obsession
- ISBN: 978 0803224599
- featured in: About turning the judgment of truth-telling over to a machineJuly 13, 2009

Embodied Visions: Evolution, Emotions, Culture, and Film
- ISBN: 978 0195371314 hb
- featured in: How we process films by means of what I call the mental PECMA flowAugust 21, 2009

Mystery of the Night Café: Hidden Key to the Spirituality of Vincent Van Gogh
- ISBN: 978 1438426112 hb
- featured in: On the spiritual journey of the artist Vincent Van GoghAugust 26, 2009

Febris Erotica: Lovesickness in the Russian Literary Imagination
- ISBN: 978 0295988955 hb
- featured in: The case history of lovesickness as a literary-medical conceptSeptember 16, 2009

The Three Cultures: Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, and the Humanities in the 21st Century
- ISBN: 978 0521518420 hb
- featured in: On the state of scholarship in the American academy, and on the state of humanitySeptember 18, 2009

On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction
- ISBN: 978 0674033573
- featured in: Why we engage in art and fiction, and why these make us a special speciesSeptember 23, 2009

Dreams and Experience in Classical Antiquity
- ISBN: 978 0674032972
- featured in: We do not know why we dream, but this is what our intellectual ancestors had to sayOctober 14, 2009

Accident Prone: A History of Technology, Psychology, and Misfits of the Machine Age
- ISBN: 978 0226081175
- featured in: Pioneering the field of the history of accidentsNovember 18, 2009

Others in Mind: Social Origins of Self-Consciousness
- ISBN: 978 0521729659
- featured in: Psychic life is determined by what we imagine others perceive of usNovember 25, 2009

Transforming Toxic Leaders
- ISBN: 978 0804758284
- featured in: Healing the dark side of highly complex organizationsJanuary 15, 2010

The Language of the Heart: A Cultural History of the Recovery Movement from Alcoholics Anonymous to Oprah Winfrey
- ISBN: 978 0807833193
- featured in: How recovery ideas migrated into the popular imaginationJanuary 27, 2010

Forbidden Fruit: Counterfactuals and International Relations
- ISBN: 978 0691132907
- featured in: Spelling out the counterfactual method improves policy analysisApril 7, 2010

The Speed Handbook: Velocity, Pleasure, Modernism
- ISBN: 978 0822344421
- featured in: To understand modernity, you need to understand speedMay 24, 2010

Supernormal Stimuli: How Primal Urges Overran Their Evolutionary Purpose
- ISBN: 978 0393068481
- featured in: We need to “trust our instincts” less and trust our intellect moreJuly 19, 2010

Consequential Strangers: Turning Everyday Connections Into Life-Changing Moments
- ISBN: 978 0393338454
- featured in: Life is too complex to depend solely on the people closest to usAugust 23, 2010