Garth Kroeker

 "Spent" is a good book by evolutionary psychologist Geoffrey Miller, looking particularly at consumer behaviour, including purcha...

 Robert Sapolsky is a great scientist with deep wisdom to share about humanity.  His recent book, Determined , is another must-read.   The f...

 Jay Van Bavel and Dominic Packer are social psychologists whose recent book, The Power of Us, is a nice review of basic social psychology w...

I strongly recommend a new book by Cambridge psychologist Sander van der Linden, entitled Foolproof: why misinformation infects our minds an...

David McRaney, in his new book called "How Minds Change" (2022), reviews our understanding of why people can form tenacious belief...

Marc Lewis explores the neurobiology of addiction in this short book, with proposed approaches to better understanding and helping people wh...

 Two more books to recommend:   The Folly of Fools (2011) by Robert Trivers and The Elephant in the Brain (2018)  by Kevin Simler & Robi...

 Joe Moran's book is a nice exploration of various historical figures (such as authors, poets, and musicians) who had what he calls ...

 I am happy to have discovered Christakis and his work, in an area I would call “evolutionary sociology” or “mathematical sociology.”   Blue...

The Urge: Our History of Addiction , by Carl Erik Fisher  is a good book about the history of addiction, weaved together with a story of the...

 Updated list of interesting books that I encourage checking out: Steven Pinker: Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence has Declin...

I read this book a second time recently.   I appreciate that such a scholarly and well-researched text was written by an amateur scientist. ...

 Thomas Piketty is a French economist, whose book "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" is a great analysis of the history of weal...