books about: behavioral     books:     Behavioral      Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything Stephen J. Dubner William Morrow, 2005 Entertaining, thought-provoking, and lacking scientific rigor While I wouldn't go so far as to relegate the book to one-star status, I completely agree some of the objections on here. I'm halfway through the book right now, and I've been repeatedly troubled with the authors' tendency to reach qualitative conclusions that go ...             Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions Dan Ariely HarperCollins, 2008 `Think how hard physics would be if particles could think.' While it is comforting to know that so many decisions are made on from irrational bases, it is discomforting to be made quite so aware of it. No, I take that back: it is quite reassuring to know that while the principles of logic have their place, people are ...             The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less Barry Schwartz Harper Perennial, 2005 Provides an interesting look at how too much choice has a negative impact on well-being My husband and I, both professionals (he's an attorney, I'm a psychologist), had previously had many conversations about how the plethora of choices available in modern-day life--from being able to find virtually every TV program ever made online to owning an iPod that ...             Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein Yale University Press, 2008 Designing Choice Architecture This book provides insights to those who need to move people to make good decisions and if they cannot, then the default would do them the least harm. Many of the examples that they have provided are not new, e.g. Singapore has adopted the opt-out model for organ ...             The Art of Speed Reading People: How to Size People Up and Speak Their Language Paul D. Tieger, Barbara Barron-Tieger Little, Brown and Company, 1999 It's so Great wow this book gives us the best of solution to understand and identify the personality of others. I recommend it!             Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder Marsha Linehan The Guilford Press, 1993 THE Book As a Borderline reading a book written for the clinician, it opened my eyes as to how others see me. It has helped me to see the areas in my mind that CAN be changed and has helped me to begin making those changes. It is written by a 'non-writer' and is very ...             Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes And How To Correct Them: Lessons From The New Science Of Behavioral ... Gary Belsky, Thomas Gilovich Simon & Schuster, 2000 Begin To Make Smart Money Decisions This book is well worth reading. Even though I am sixty-nine years old with an extensive background in finance, I still found the contents of this book very interesting. Much of what is written I already know and have practiced for many years, which has lead me to ...             Kaplan and Sadock's Synopsis of Psychiatry: Behavioral Sciences/Clinical Psychiatry (Synopsis of Psychiatry) Benjamin J Sadock, Virginia A Sadock Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2007 Necessary knowledge This condensed easy-to-read volume provides useful necessary contemporary knowledge about the brain,current drugs and therapies. I highly recommend it as an adjunct quickie-reference along-side the dsm             Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think Brian Wansink Bantam, 2007 fun reading Fun reading. I hope it helps me control my snacking. The concepts are not new but are well explained and substantiated.             The Mind of the Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics Michael Shermer Times Books, 2007 Why Evolution Is Sound Economics Michael Shermer's "The Mind of the Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics" is yet another insightful, and provocative book from him, making the best, most persuasive case why accepting evolutionary theory ought to be ...             Psychoanalytic Case Formulation Nancy McWilliams The Guilford Press, 1999 A Good Read Nancy Mc Williams is imminently readable. She has the gift of de-mystifying difficult concepts; or, put another way, she does not apparently have ego-needs that compel her to make the concepts of psychotherapy, or the field itself, obtuse. She also has quite an ...             A Work in Progress: Behavior Management Strategies & A Curriculum for Intensive Behavioral Treatment of Autism Ron Leaf, John McEachin, ... Drl Books, 1999 Just what I needed Right after I got the autism diagnosis for my son I realized that behavioral therapy would be our main focus of treatment and due to financial constraints, I would be the primary therapist. After reading some really heady and intellectual literature on behavioral ...             The Cognitive Behavioral Workbook for Depression: A Step-by-step Program (Workbook) William J. Knaus New Harbinger Publications, 2006 Great product! I have used this workbook professionally and would recommend it to other professions as well. This is also a wonderful aid for people who would like to do some work independent of their therapist.             Making Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Work: Clinical Process for New Practitioners Deborah Roth Ledley, Brian P. Marx, ... The Guilford Press, 2005 A must-read for practitioners of cognitive behavioral therapy This is one of those books that I regret not having when I was beginning with cognitive behavioral therapy. The authors synthesize all the crucial information to help therapists make CBT work. Readers will dramatically increase their comfort, confidence, and outcomes ...             Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences Frederick J Gravetter, Larry B. Wallnau Wadsworth Publishing, 2006 An awesome stats book! I have taught statistics for many years and this is the best stats book I have seen. It is clearly written, has easily understood formulas, and excellent examples. I highly recommend it!          products you might be interested in search for books cognitive-behavioral, compassionate, freakonomics, practitioners, psychoanalytic, step-by-step      toavi.com    web randomly chosen book: The Secret