Psychology Study Guide

"The Psychology of Money" by Morgan Housel is a thought-provoking exploration of the complex relationship between human psychology and financial decision-making. Housel, a seasoned financial journalist, presents a captivating narrative that delves into the diverse stories and mindsets that shape our approach to money. Drawing on insights from history, economics, and behavioral psychology, he highlights the irrational behaviors and cognitive biases that often drive financial choices.

This is an audio summary of Make It Stick, a book that offers concrete techniques for becoming more productive learners.

This is a summary and analysis of the book by Dave Asprey and not the original book. Written in a direct and easy to understand way, this audiobook contains an analysis and an in-depth synopsis of each section of the original book, breaking down the most important ideas and recommendations. In Super Human: The Bulletproof Plan to Age Backward and Maybe Even Live Forever, Dave Asprey proposes a revolutionary approach to anti-aging that will help you increase your performance and quality of life at any age.

Sexual Intimacy for Women helps female couples examine the emotional, physical, and psychological aspects of their relationships, with the goal of creating more intimacy. Exercises and client-based anecdotes from Dr. Corwin’s years of experience with same-sex couples help women overcome common issues around orgasm, body image, identity, aging, and parenthood. Dr. Corwin dispels myths, examines the intricacies of female desire, and gives advice to help couples achieve long-lasting, healthy, and fulfilling relationships.

In this profoundly significant book, author Michael Gurian synthesizes current knowledge and clearly demonstrates how this distinction in hard-wiring and socialized gender differences affects how boys and girls learn. Gurian presents a new way to educate our children based on brain science, neurological development, and chemical and hormonal disparities.

In the 2011 best seller Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman, an economist and psychologist, writes about the way humans make decisions and judgements in a complex world. In Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman helpfully points out the errors in thinking that people commonly have and fall victim to. He frames them as a series of illusions in a well-organized, direct fashion. Through this work, he enables readers to better make decisions and resist any harmful proclivities they may have.

Documenting the life of wandering spirits and their impact on vulnerable human targets, Susan Martinez offers a radical departure from the standard psychological explanations for a host of pathological behaviors - including multiple personality, autism, epilepsy, migraines, obsessive compulsive disorder, depression, schizophrenia, anxiety, PTSD, self-destructive urges, and strange outbursts - and reveals that hallucinations are often true impressions of spirit input.

Listen to this audio summary with key takeaways of Grit by Angela Duckworth.

Important note: This is an audiobook summary of Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb - this is not the original audiobook. Antifragile is a stand-alone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb's landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don't understand. The other books in the series are Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, and The Bed of Procrustes.

Cosmic Publications is proud to provide all our listeners this unofficial summary of Emily Nagoski's book Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle. Our book gives you all the key points and takeaways from the original, and contains extra bonus sections such as trivia questions, discussion questions, and much, much more. We do hope you enjoy it.

Don't miss out on this ZIP Reads summary of Gretchen Rubin's The Four Tendencies to help you better understand yourself and your relationships. The Four Tendencies is a breakthrough in practical personality profiling that anyone can use! This includes: a synopsis of the original book; key takeaways to distill the most important lessons; analysis of each takeaway; and much more!

Psychopathia Sexualis, written in 1886, was one of the landmark books in the history of psychology. It was the first academic handling of the subject of sexuality and its perversities from the perspective of pathology. It was a major contribution to the thoughts of Freud, Jung, and many other notable psychologists whose work established the foundation of psychology as we know it today.

When you feel sad, angry, happy, or anxious, what is really going on inside of you? For centuries, scientists have believed that our emotions come from a part of the brain that is triggered by our environment: the excitement for an upcoming holiday, the fear of losing a loved one, or the anxiety of meeting a deadline for work. These emotions seem uncontrollable and as if they surface automatically from within, eventually finding themselves on the expressions of our faces and in how we carry ourselves. People have long believed this theory about emotions since the days of Plato.

Important note: This is a summary of The Untethered Soul by Michael A. Singer - this is not the original book. Original book description: What would it be like to free yourself from limitations and soar beyond your boundaries? What can you do each day to discover inner peace and serenity? The Untethered Soul - now a number one New York Times best seller - offers simple yet profound answers to these questions.

These 15 lectures have been hailed as milestones in modern psychology as they explore the relation between mind and matter under a completely new scope. Living in the turbulent years after World War I and having been deeply influenced by realists and behaviorists of the early 20th century, Russell attempts to reconcile the paradoxical materialistic view of contemporary psychologists on mind with the anti-materialistic tendency that physicists adopt over matter.

Author Michael Pollan digs through decades of research and plays human guinea pig to illustrate the potential of psychedelics to alter the mind. Please note: This is a summary and analysis of the book and not the original book. If you'd like to purchase the original book, it is available from Amazon and Audible.

Super Simple Psychology breaks down complex information into manageable, bitesize chunks, and it covers all the key topics, ranging from brain anatomy and memory to phobias and types of therapy. With clear and straightforward coverage of all the core Psychology topics, this is the ideal companion for students looking for concise information to support them with classwork, homework, and exams.

Susan Cain’s book Quiet is a respectfully written, long-needed validation for introverts everywhere. In addition to using research findings to help introverts understand why they experience the world the way they do, Susan Cain offers insight and strategies for introverts to use to thrive in an extrovert-driven world. She also gives useful explanations to extroverts, partners and managers of introverts, and parents of introverted children to bring out the best in their innate gifts, while helping them cope with the extroverted requirements of daily life.

In The Laws of Human Nature (2018), best-selling author Robert Greene dissects the elaborate lies that people tell themselves. Purchase this in-depth summary to learn more.

Still provocative after all these years, Helen Gurley Brown celebrates the pleasures of flirting, of enjoying affairs from beginning to end, throwing brunches and dinner parties, finding men where you might not think to look, dating (and ditching) married men, and being both feminine and powerful.