Human Behavior

Are you living with ADHD? Are you seeing symptoms in your child, partner, or close friend of ADHD or ADD? What is this disorder? How do you deal with it, control it, begin to learn to live with it?

Written by Daniel Nettle - author of the popular book Happiness - this brief volume takes the listener on an exhilarating tour of what modern science can tell us about human personality. Revealing that our personalities stem from our biological makeup, Nettle looks at the latest findings from genetics and brain science, and considers the evolutionary origins and consequences of different personalities. The heart of the book sheds light on the "big five": Extraversion, Neuroticism, Conscientious, Agreeableness, and Openness.

With the rapid development of artificial intelligence and labor-saving technologies like self-checkouts and automated factories, the future of work has never been more uncertain, and even jobs requiring high levels of human interaction are no longer safe. The Last Human Job explores the human connections that underlie our work, arguing that what people do for each other in these settings is valuable and worth preserving.

Real wages have stagnated or declined for most workers, job insecurity has increased, and retirement income is uncertain. Why have jobs gotten so much worse? As Peter Cappelli argues, these issues and others stem from the logic of financial accounting and its fundamental flaws in dealing with human capital. Financial accounting views employee costs as fixed costs that cannot be reduced and fails to account for the costs of bad employees and poor management. The simple goal of today's executives is to drive down employment costs, even if it raises costs elsewhere.

In the newly revised fourth edition of Hire with Your Head: Using Performance-Based Hiring to Build Outstanding Diverse Teams, influential recruiting and hiring expert Lou Adler delivers a practical guide to consistently identifying and hiring the best people and scaling that process throughout your company.

For more than three decades, Dr. John Bargh has been responsible for the revolutionary research into the unconscious mind, research that informed best sellers like Blink and Thinking Fast and Slow. Now, in what Dr. John Gottman said "will be the most important and exciting book in psychology that has been written in the past 20 years", Dr. Bargh takes us on an entertaining and enlightening tour of the forces that affect everyday behavior while transforming our understanding of ourselves in profound ways.

As a former chief human resources officer, head of Global HR Research and Analytics at a Fortune 100, and thought leader on this subject, Salvatore Falletta has witnessed first-hand the emergence of "creepy analytics" as a hot-button issue. In this one-of-a-kind guide, Falletta delivers a proven step-by-step process for establishing HR analytics capabilities that serve employees and organizations alike.

Presenting scientific evidence from diverse fields, including anthropology, biology, and psychology, Fuentes devises a myth-busting toolkit to dismantle persistent fallacies about the validity of biological races, the innateness of aggression and violence, and the nature of monogamy, sex, and gender. This revised and expanded edition provides up-to-date references, data, and analyses, and addresses new topics, including the popularity of home DNA testing kits and the lies behind ‘"incel" culture.

In this audiobook, you'll discover how you can be a master of manipulation to help you get what you want out of life. You will hear about the three steps of manipulation, including analysis, manipulation, and persuasion. You will also be given very clear facts about why each step is necessary, how it works, and what is required to make it work. Each technique you are given will be clearly explained, and in some, you are also given real-life examples to ensure that you completely understand why and how they work.

Today, anxiety is usually thought of as a pathology, the most diagnosed and medicated of all psychological disorders. But anxiety isn't always or only a medical condition. Indeed, many philosophers argue that anxiety is a normal, even essential, part of being human, and that coming to terms with this fact is potentially transformative. In Anxiety, Samir Chopra explores valuable insights about anxiety offered by ancient and modern philosophies. Blending memoir and philosophy, he also tells how serious anxiety has affected his own life—and how philosophy has helped him cope with it.

The workplace is going through a large-scale transition with digitization, automation, and acceleration. Critical skills and expertise are imperative for companies and their employees to succeed in the future, and the most forward-thinking companies are being proactive in adapting to the shift in the workforce. Kelly Palmer, Silicon Valley thought leader from LinkedIn, Degreed, and Yahoo, and David Blake, cofounder of ed-tech pioneer Degreed, share their experiences and describe how some of the smartest companies in the world are making learning and expertise a major competitive advantage.

How to Analyze People is a guide to understand people and human behavior, leading to more fruitful relationships and business affiliations.

Have you ever wondered if your date was truly into you? Do you think your boss truly cares about your input or is he just waiting for you to leave the room? Do you want to discover the secrets of body language? If your answer is yes, then keep reading...This guide is an important tool for anyone that wants to become more aware of their body language as well as learn how to read and analyze verbal and nonverbal clues of others.

Ritual is one of the oldest, and certainly most enigmatic, threads in the history of human culture. It presents a profound paradox: people ascribe the utmost importance to their rituals, but few can explain why they are so important. Apparently pointless ceremonies pervade every documented society, from handshakes to hexes, hazings to parades. Before we ever learned to farm, we were gathering in giant stone temples to perform elaborate rites and ceremonies. Dimitris Xygalatas leads us on an enlightening tour through this shadowy realm of human behavior.

How To Train Your Dog with Love + Science presents a modern and science-based approach to dog training, showing how behavior can be changed without coercion and force. Annie Grossman, a journalist-turned-dog trainer, breaks down what positive reinforcement actually is and makes the case that "good dog training" may even be a window into understanding ourselves.

If want to discover how people with dark personalities work and understand how you can protect yourself against their deceptive and dangerous strategies, then pay attention. Have you ever been subjected to the painful and damaging behaviors of people who seem to lack morals? Have you ever been the victim of negative humor designed to poke at your weaknesses and disempower you? Would you like to know how to protect yourself against these dark strategies so you can avoid being manipulated or get sucked into their false reality at the expense of your own sanity?

Dark psychology is powerful, ubiquitous, and the missing tool that you need to have the advantage in everyday life. From the details of mind games to the specifics of brainwashing, you’ll learn how to see the world around you in a new light. Naivety won’t help you, but staying informed will. Learning how to recognize the signs and accepting that mind control is real will aid you in business negotiations, relationships, and political dilemmas.

You deserve getting what you want only if you know how to ask for it rightly. Master the art of dealing with people effectively, learn how to get what you want every time without giving in, and create a life of abundance and joy. Negotiation is not something that is only for selected few or endowed on some gifted people. Anyone can learn and master this crucial skill to get what they want in life personally or professionally. The Art of Negotiation is written to help listeners understand and master the most common strategies used by successful negotiators.

Dark psychology has been used since the dawn of early man. Deception and persuasion play into survival of the fittest. In essence, as long as humans have had thoughts in their heads, they’ve been thinking about how to outsmart and outwit other humans. It is only in the last century and a half that dark psychology has been studied in a modern sense, with the rise of criminology and forensic psychology as recognized sciences. Many pieces of the dark psychology puzzle were put into place well before then.

Do you believe people's brainwashing occurs only in films? Do you believe using the subconscious mind is something that only crazy people would attempt to do? The reality is that we are imperfect as human beings. We have shortcomings. And if you study these weaknesses and get to understand them, you will have enormous authority in your hands. When you master the correct methods of manipulation, the real ones, you can fully affect the thinking of other people and make them do what you want.