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Title: Choke

Subtitle: What the Secrets of the Brain Reveal About Getting It Right When You Have To

Author: Sian Beilock

Narrator: Suzanne Toren

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-21-10

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 183 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Psychology & The Mind

Publisher's Summary:

It happens to all of us. You've prepared for days, weeks, even years for the big day when you will finally show your stuff in academics, in your career, in sports but when the big moment arrives, nothing seems to work. You hit the wrong note, drop the ball, get stumped by a simple question. In other words, you choke. It's not fun to think about, but now there's good news: This doesn't have to happen.

Dr. Sian Beilock, an expert on performance and brain science, reveals in Choke the astonishing new science of why we all too often blunder when the stakes are high. What happens in our brain and body when we experience the dreaded performance anxiety? And what are we doing differently when everything magically "clicks" into place and the perfect golf swing, tricky test problem, or high-pressure business pitch becomes easy? In an energetic tour of the latest brain science, with surprising insights on every page, Beilock explains the inescapable links between body and mind; reveals the surprising similarities among the ways performers, students, athletes, and business people choke; and shows how to succeed brilliantly when it matters most.

In lively prose and accessibly rendered science, Beilock examines how attention and working memory guide human performance, how experience and practice and brain development interact to create our abilities, and how stress affects all these factors. She sheds new light on counter-intuitive realities, like why the highest performing people are most susceptible to choking under pressure, why we may learn foreign languages best when were not paying attention, why early childhood athletic training can backfire, and how our emotions can make us both smarter and dumber. All these fascinating findings about academic, athletic, and creative intelligence come together in Beilock's new ideas about performance under pressure - and her secrets to never choking again.

Members Reviews:

Buzz Word Festival

You know those public speakers who go around peddling easy answers at bored business men forced to come to a team-building seminar by their out-of-the-loop boss? Well this PHD is one of those. Yeah. This book is not empty, but check it out of the local library and skim it in about 2 hours. Find the cool facts and study results, save yourself a lot of time and grief. That's the brief. Want more, keep going.

Written for a "low-powered" audience with very little "working memory" this author uses every trick even 4th graders know to add length to that paper that just won't reach the required number of words. This is a "padded" book. She tells you what she is going to tell you (in the next chapter we will discuss... more on that later (wink)), then she tells you. Again and again. Then she tells you what she told you. (Remember how in Chapter 2...) Plus there are the sentence fatteners. "Think about that for a second..." "However", "obviously", and so forth as well. Plus she gives you a buzz word, defines it, then continues to define it every time for the rest of the book. Like "working memory" above. That, is your "cognitive horsepower". (Its mean to call people smart or dumb.) You can be "high-powered" (smart), or "low-powered" (dumb). Basically.

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Title: Psychiatry

Subtitle: The Science of Lies

Author: Thomas Szasz

Narrator: Tom Weiner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-20-10

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 35 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Psychology & The Mind

Publisher's Summary:

For more than half a century, Thomas Szasz has devoted much of his career to a radical critique of psychiatry. His latest work, Psychiatry: The Science of Lies, is a culmination of his lifes work: to portray the integral role of deception in the history and practice of psychiatry.

Szasz argues that the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness stands in the same relationship to the diagnosis and treatment of bodily illness that the forgery of a painting does to the original masterpiece. Art historians and the legal system seek to distinguish forgeries from originals. Those concerned with medicine, on the other hand - physicians, patients, politicians, health-insurance providers, and legal professionals - take the opposite stance when faced with the challenge of distinguishing everyday problems in living from bodily diseases, systematically authenticating non-diseases as diseases. The boundary between disease and non-disease - genuine and imitation, truth and falsehood - thus becomes arbitrary and uncertain.

There is neither glory nor profit in correctly demarcating what counts as medical illness and medical healing from what does not. Individuals and families wishing to protect themselves from medically and politically authenticated charlatanry are left to their own intellectual and moral resources to make critical decisions about human dilemmas miscategorized as mental diseases and about medicalized responses misidentified as psychiatric treatments.

Delivering his sophisticated analysis in lucid prose and with a sharp wit, Szasz continues to engage and challenge readers of all backgrounds.

Thomas Szasz is professor emeritus of psychiatry at the State University of New Yorks Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York.

Critic Reviews:

"[Thomas Szasz] is the preeminent critic of psychiatry in the world." (Richard Vatz, Ph.D., Professor of Rhetoric and Communication, Towson University)

Members Reviews:

Over four hours of rant, with lack of rationale

This audiobook caught my attention since I thought it might provide insights into problems with modern psychiatry. In fact, the narration was pretty good, giving it a serious and somewhat determined read.

Unfortunately, I expected too much. The first three or so hours were mostly spent ranting about Sigmund Freud and select other figures from around Freuds time, where most of the attack was on the character of the people rather than the actual psychological paradigms they devised. No doubt, certain old psychological philosophies were fraught with questionable explanations and diagnostic procedures, but few modern psychologists rely on such tactics today. Basing its primary arguments against such paradigms as Psychoanalysis and such persons as Franz Mesmer, the mesmeriser, this book is clearly attacking some of the weakest, most outdated beliefs in the entire field.

The authors most repeated argument, or statement, is that there is no such thing as mental illness. He basically dismisses psychology and psychiatry as falsehoods that study a mind that does not exist. His arguments against the existence of mental disorders are weaker than even the most speculative psychoanalytic theories, making him quite a hypocrite. His primary premise is effectively If there is no apparent lesion or other abnormality visible in the brain under a microscope, then no illness is present.

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Title: How Pleasure Works

Subtitle: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like

Author: Paul Bloom

Narrator: Jeremy Johnson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 1 min

Language: English

Release date: 06-14-10

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 540 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Psychology & The Mind

Publisher's Summary:

Yale psychologist Paul Bloom presents a striking new vision of the pleasures of everyday life. The thought of sex with a virgin is intensely arousing for many men. The average American spends over four hours a day watching television. Abstract art can sell for millions of dollars. Young children enjoy playing with imaginary friends and can be comforted by security blankets. People slow their cars to look at gory accidents and go to movies that make them cry.

In this fascinating and witty account, Paul Bloom examines the science behind these curious desires, attractions, and tastes, covering everything from the animal instincts of sex and food to the uniquely human taste for art, music, and stories. Drawing on insights from child development, philosophy, neuroscience, and behavioral economics, How Pleasure Works shows how certain universal habits of the human mind explain what we like and why we like it.

Editorial Reviews:

Paul Bloom is a very down-to-earth guy for a professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science at Yale. In How Pleasure Works, his third book about what makes humans do what they do, he explores why we like what we like with clear language and a plethora of humorous examples. Jeremy Johnson gives voice to the book in the straightforward manner common to nonfiction narrations, committing to the scientific gravitas of this study in a way that remains engaging, and ultimately elevating the many funny bits by delivering them with a professional tone. It's not unlike one of the many informational videos seen on The Simpsons that begin with, "Hi, I'm Troy McClure..."

You'll wonder how Johnson avoids cracking up as he relates the evidence Bloom has collected over the years. Among so many delightful morsels of food for thought is the consideration of why people don't want to eat chocolate shaped like a turd, why granny has been sleeping with the same pillow for 86 years, why nobody tips an internationally famous violinist when he plays a free concert in the subway, why your significant other's identical twin isn't sexy, and why people watch movies that make them cry. Regaling us with oh-so-practical psychological information concerning the taboos of cannibalism and incest, Johnson does a terrific job of keeping one foot on the ground as he relates Bloom's amusing take on what makes us tick.

This book is a must-listen for anybody who eats, has sex, wonders what to save when the house burns down, goes to a museum, or has any imagination whatsoever. Bloom's plainspoken inquiry and Johnson's uncomplicated delivery are a winning combination, keeping this terrifically witty look at our everyday lives both easy to follow and engaging from start to finish. It is, as Bloom would say, mental cheesecake.

Members Reviews:

Everything You Ever Would Want to Know

Paul Bloom has written a wonderfully informative book about pleasure and how it works. A gifted writer and professor of psychology at Yale, Bloom simply tells us everything that might interest us in a pleasing way. He presents his research and that of others in a way that is very inviting and approachable. There are revelations on every page er everyminute or so. I am always looking for books that will fill in gaps in my knowledege and this worked very well. Jeremy Johnson could not improve on the reading of the text.

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Title: THINK Psychology, 1/e

Author: Abigail A. Baird

Narrator: Mina Sands

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14 hrs and 45 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-07-10

Publisher: Pearson Education, Inc.

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 13 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Psychology & The Mind

Publisher's Summary:

THINK Psychology covers the essentials every introductory psychology student should know. The chapters are briefer than a standard introductory text¿allowing for a lower cost to students and using less printed paper. Unlike other brief texts, THINK Psychology includes 18 chapters of content¿giving instructors the flexibility to choose what they want to cover without the worry that skipping several chapters will mean leaving out hundreds of pages of content.

THINK Psychology provides currency and relevance through design, current examples and high-interest readings. The readings have been chosen from a range of well respected journals and popular press publications. With the concise presentation of material in the chapters, instructors have the option of incorporating these readings and helping students connect to issues occurring outside of the classroom.

A magazine design developed with the benefit of extensive student feedback will engage students and deliver the key concepts of Psychology in a way they can understand.

The groundbreaking instructor supplements package will help bring the key concepts of Psychology to life, without burdening students with dense and too expensive learning solutions.

Members Reviews:

Excellent intro guide

I have no background in psychology. The highest level of scientific study I've done was Grade 12 Chemistry, Biology and Maths B, and that was almost ten years ago.

Nevertheless I found this incredibly easy to understand. It was extremely interesting, and the narrator was very engaging.

I have some issues with production, often they would repeat 30 seconds or a minute of narration.

I understand the complaint someone made about this being superficial, but is only meant to be an introductory guide, and I think it sets out to do that very well. It has in fact whet my appetite for more, and I intend to do some more detailed study into some areas raised by the book.

This was great for my studies

I got it 2 weeks before an exam in Introduction to Psychology, and many of the things mentioned in the book were on the exam. It really helped me. Though I would recomment that one listens to it carefully, because it is a lot of information, and I had to listen to some chapters several times to memorize everything. The female voice was very pleasant too.

HUMAN PSYCHOLOGY

In Think Psychology 2010, Abigail Baird offers an enlightening introduction to human psychology. In 18 chapters, Baird introduces an overview of psychology beginning with research methods, middling through how the mind works, including psychopathology, and ending with psychological health.

In her book, Baird reveals histories of leaders in the profession; recounts some ground-breaking patient cases that reveal brain function and segmentation, explores brain abnormalities, and writes about revelatory psychiatric studies. In her journey through psychologys history, Baird explains patient classifications, defines modern patient diagnosis, and explores interpretations of sex, gender, cognition, conscious, subconscious, and unconscious. In exploring how the mind works, Baird addresses learning, memory, and sleep. Baird touches on the legal professions use of psychology to defend clients, issues of social psychology, and questions about nurture versus nature.

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Title: Why We Make Mistakes

Author: Joseph T. Hallinan

Narrator: Marc Cashman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 1 min

Language: English

Release date: 02-17-09

Publisher: Random House Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 98 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Psychology & The Mind

Publisher's Summary:

We human beings have design flaws. Our eyes play tricks on us, our stories change in the retelling, and most of us are fairly sure we're way above average. In Why We Make Mistakes, journalist Joseph T. Hallinan sets out to explore the captivating science of human error: how we think, see, remember, and forget, and how this sets us up for wholly irresistible mistakes.

In his quest to understand our imperfections, Hallinan delves into psychology, neuroscience, and economics, with forays into aviation, consumer behavior, geography, football, stock picking, and more. He discovers that some of the same qualities that make us efficient also make us error prone. We learn to move rapidly through the world, quickly recognizing patterns but overlooking details. Which is why 13-year-old boys discover errors that NASA scientists miss and why you can't find the beer in your refrigerator.

Why We Make Mistakes is enlivened by real-life stories of weathermen whose predictions are uncannily accurate and a witness who sent an innocent man to jail; and offers valuable advice, such as how to remember where you've hidden something important. You'll learn why multitasking is a bad idea, why men make errors women don't, and why most people think San Diego is west of Reno (it's not).

Why We Make Mistakes will open your eyes to the reasons behind your mistakes and have you vowing to do better the next time.

Members Reviews:

Boring. Nothing new here.

What disappointed you about Why We Make Mistakes?

I was hoping to learn more than "Why", I was actually expecting to learn what can be done to mitigate the numerous ways we misunderstand, incorrectly perceive, and distort the information our senses bring to us. I admit I did not finish the entire book, but after about 3 hours of listening to "revelations" about human behavior (most of which I have heard before), with no mention or promise of anything coming later to help address those behaviors, I gave up.

What do you think your next listen will be?

The Toyota Way to Leadership

Which scene was your favorite?

The story that a famous actor told about punching a guy off his bar stool before noticing he didn't have legs.

You didnt love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?

Maybe for some people who have never heard about the behavior studies, they might find it interesting.

Any additional comments?

If there are solutions or suggestions offered at the end, they should really start earlier in the book letting the reader/listener know that there is a reason to continue.

Not very informative

Not a fabulous book. While it did list many examples of mistakes, only a handful of explanations for mistakes were supplied. The emphasis was clearly on displaying "here's another example of a mistake". When an explanation was offered it was obvious information, easily inferred by listening to the mistake description. On the few occasions a recommended solution was suggested it was very weak. The book seemed to be over stuffed with examples, many very obvious, burying the few good nuggets.

Overall, this title seems to only have enough information for a magazine article but was stretched to reach book length.

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Title: Human Mind/Animal Mind

Author: Rupert Sheldrake

Narrator: Michael Toms

Format: Original Recording

Length: 57 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-31-08

Publisher: New Dimensions Foundation

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 48 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Psychology & The Mind

Publisher's Summary:

Ever get that eerie feeling that your cat or dog knows what you're thinking? They just might! Scientist Rupert Sheldrake brings you five years of extensive research on animal behavior, challenging traditional scientific assumptions that pets do not warrant serious study. Well-known for his controversial and revolutionary theory of "morphic resonance" and "morphogenetic fields," Sheldrake applied this to his subject with ingenious questions that have resulted in confirmation that animals do indeed possess psychic and intuitive abilities. You'll also hear astonishing stories involving parrots, termites, and farm animals that will have you looking at the animal kingdom in a whole new light. Rupert Sheldrake studied natural sciences at Cambridge and philosophy at Harvard, took a Ph.D. in biochemistry at Cambridge and is the author of more than 50 scientific papers. He's the author of many books including The Presence of the Past (Times Books 1995); Seven Experiments That Could Change the World: A Do-It Yourself Guide to Revolutionary Science (Riverhead Books 1995); A New Science of Life: The Hypothesis of Morphic Resonance (J.P. Tarcher 1995); The Rebirth of Nature; The Greening of Science and God (Bantam 1991); Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home: And Other Unexplained Powers of Animals (Three Rivers Press 2001); The Sense of Being Stared At: And Other Aspects of The Extended Mind (Crown 2003); co-authored with Matthew Fox Natural Grace: Dialogues on Creation, Darkness; the Soul in Spirituality and Science (Doubleday 1996); and The Physics of Angels: Exploring the Realm Where Science and Spirit Meet (HarperSanFrancisco 1996).

©1999 New Dimensions Foundation; (P)2008 New Dimensions Foundation

Members Reviews:

basically a radio program

interesting subject, a somewhat boring format. it's pretty much a radio program. Basically a watered down pbs type program.

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Title: The Past Is Present

Author: Rupert Sheldrake

Narrator: Michael Toms

Format: Original Recording

Length: 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-30-08

Publisher: New Dimensions Foundation

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 59 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Psychology & The Mind

Publisher's Summary:

This dialogue reviews Sheldrake's theory of "morphic resonance," which challenges some fundamental assumptions of established science. Sheldrake offers a revolutionary alternative to the mechanistic worldview, and points toward a new understanding of the nature of life, matter and mind. One of the more profound implications of Sheldrake's account here is his suggestion that the brain may be more like a tuning system than a recording device. Rupert Sheldrake studied natural sciences at Cambridge and philosophy at Harvard, took a Ph.D. in biochemistry at Cambridge and is the author of more than 50 scientific papers. He's the author of many books including The Presence of the Past (Times Books 1995), Seven Experiments That Could Change the World: A Do-It Yourself Guide to Revolutionary Science (Riverhead Books 1995), A New Science of Life: The Hypothesis of Morphic Resonance (J.P. Tarcher 1995), The Rebirth of Nature; The Greening of Science and God (Bantam 1991), Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home: And Other Unexplained Powers of Animals (Three Rivers Press 2001), The Sense of Being Stared At: And Other Aspects of The Extended Mind (Crown 2003), and co-authored with Matthew Fox Natural Grace: Dialogues on Creation, Darkness, and the Soul in Spirituality and Science (Doubleday 1996) and The Physics of Angels: Exploring the Realm Where Science and Spirit Meet (HarperSanFrancisco 1996).

©1988 New Dimensions Foundation; (P)2008 New Dimensions Foundation

Members Reviews:

memories not stored in brain!

I loved it even though sometimes I was annoyed by the mouth noises from the narrator.

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Title: Proust Was a Neuroscientist

Author: Jonah Lehrer

Narrator: Dan John Miller

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-01-08

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 299 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Psychology & The Mind

Publisher's Summary:

Taking a group of artists - a painter, a poet, a chef, a composer, and a handful of novelists - Lehrer shows how each one discovered an essential truth about the mind that science is only now rediscovering.

We learn, for example, how Proust first revealed the fallibility of memory; how George Eliot discovered the brain's malleability; how the French chef Escoffier identified umami (the fifth taste); how Cézanne worked out the subtleties of vision; and how Gertrude Stein exposed the deep structure of language - a full half-century before the work of Noam Chomsky and other linguists. It's the ultimate tale of art trumping science.

More broadly, Lehrer shows that there's a cost to reducing everything to atoms and acronyms and genes. Measurement is not the same as understanding, and this is what art knows better than science.

An ingenious blend of biography, criticism, and first-rate science writing, Proust Was a Neuroscientist urges science and art to listen more closely to each other, for willing minds can combine the best of both, to brilliant effect.

Members Reviews:

Excellent Book

Not sure what the others are griping about in regards to the narrator.

The book is completely fascinating, connecting some dots that I had already thought about. Amazing how it dovetails nicely with the book "On Intelligence". If you are fascinated by the mind, by how we think and perceive then this is definitely a book you want to listen to.

Art intersects science

Where art meets its application in the sinewy sinapses. Why do we hate the avante garde, learn to like it, then get bored by it and thirst for something new. Why does music move us, stock smell so good and art that approximates beat the exactitude of photography? I'm absoltely enthralled by every chapter, I think I'll just have to listen to the whole thing through at least one more time. Lehrer is surely a genius for bringing together so many disparate topics and explaining them using the latest knowledge of how our brains function.

We don't need a new definition of neuroscience ...

Very interesting attempt of reconciliating science and art. However, being a neuroscientist myself, I am rather dissapointed. I was looking forward to interesting insights/discussion, bringing both fields closer together. Instead, it seems like the author would like to make a point out of that artists/artisans are smart ( of course they are)and science can only hope to finally prove what the artists knew all along...

I enjoyed listening and the book is both well written and read. thanks, I really appreciate it!

Interesting links between artists and the science

I really enjoyed this book - kind of a different look at what some of our most famous artists (cuisine, music, literature) were attempting in their work - and how they were coming close to uncovering, consciously or not, some of the mysteries of the brain and human perception. I first heard about this book while listening to back episodes of Radiolab Specifically the show entitled Musical Language.

Art & Science

Lehrer's premise that the arts have anticipated many of neuroscience's recent discoveries about the workings of human perception are explored in this book through an examination of the works of a number of artists, composers and authors.

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Title: Loneliness

Subtitle: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection

Author: John T. Cacioppo, William Patrick

Narrator: Dick Hill

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-25-08

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 103 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Psychology & The Mind

Publisher's Summary:

John T. Cacioppo's groundbreaking research topples one of the pillars of modern medicine and psychology: the focus on the individual as the unit of inquiry. By employing brain scans, monitoring blood pressure, and analyzing immune function, he demonstrates the overpowering influence of social context - a factor so strong that it can alter DNA replication. He defines an unrecognized syndrome, chronic loneliness; brings it out of the shadow of its cousin, depression; and shows how this subjective sense of social isolation uniquely disrupts our perceptions, behavior, and physiology, becoming a trap that not only reinforces isolation but can also lead to early death. He gives the lie to the Hobbesian view of human nature as a "war of all against all," and he shows how social cooperation is, in fact, humanity's defining characteristic. Most important, he shows how we can break the trap of isolation for our benefit both as individuals and as a society.

©2008 John T. Cacioppo and William Patrick; (P)2008 Tantor

Critic Reviews:

"Top-notch science writing: stimulating and useful information conveyed in accessible prose." (Kirkus)

Members Reviews:

does offer any way of dealing with lonely

basically loniensess is proven to be harmful. an one should try avoid to be lonely. you known in case some one was considering taking up lonliness and thinking it wasn't that bad. the book is some what insightfull in describing it, and actually talks about a lot studies that show how loneliness impacts people but offers no solutions!!! essentially this book is useless

If you don't feel lonely, the narrator will help.

What would have made Loneliness better?

I didn't think this book would be cheerful or anything, but the narrator's voice is terrible. Monotone, sad and slow singsongy. I have an academic interest in this subject, but found myself feeling depressed after I listened to it in my car. The book promises to give hope, but I just couldn't take it and stop listening after a few days.

What could John T. Cacioppo and William Patrick have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?

I found the book to be a little slow moving. Many of the examples were trite and hokey.

What didnt you like about Dick Hills performance?

His tone and delivery were difficult because his voice is slow and monotone. It didn't fit well at all for a non-fiction book.

You didnt love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?

I think the subject is very important, and maybe could have been okay with the voice if the content got to the point a little faster. For example, there were labored, general examples of fictional people experiencing loneliness that didn't seem to serve a purpose.

Any additional comments?

It's mediocre writing and reading -- generally lacking enthusiasm. With some editing and a spark, this could be a very good audiobook.

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Title: Snoop

Subtitle: What Your Stuff Says About You

Author: Sam Gosling

Narrator: David Drummond

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-26-08

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 270 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Psychology & The Mind

Publisher's Summary:

Gosling, one of the field's most innovative researchers, dispatches teams of scientific snoops to poke around dorm rooms and offices, to see what can be learned about people simply from looking at their stuff.

What he has discovered is astonishing: when it comes to the most essential components of our personalities, the things we own and the way we arrange them often say more about us than even our most intimate conversations.

Members Reviews:

Buy the hard copy

I also didn't listen to the wisdom of the other reviewers and purchased this audiobook. I made it through about half the book, but the endless recitation of tables finally got to be too much. I listen to audiobooks mostly while driving, and the highway department frowns on drivers reading charts and graphs while on the interstate, so I was stuck listening to the narrator drone on and on.... I think the book does have merit, but this was just not the kind of information I could enjoy having read to me.

My suggestion is to buy the physical book or, better yet, check it out from the library and skim through it to get pretty much everything this guy has to offer. You'll have to do some digging to glean the worthwhile facts, but it will be much less painful if you can flip through the actual book.

Very interesting

I bought the book because I am a salesman and snooping is an intricate part of my job. I expected to improve my snooping capabilities and I believe the book has just lived to my expectations.

The only thing that I found difficult, was to follow the book with the printed material, but this is true for any book that contains graphs and pictures. Anyway, with an extra effort I managed to combine the listening with the printed material. I truly recommend the book to anybody that has an interest of any kind in better understanding the human behaviour.

Mildly interesting

This book is poorly written with academic language mixed up with popular language. It tells you how people fit in the O.C.E.A.N. personality types based on what's in their rooms. That's ok, but I would have liked a more specific description of typical objects found in homes and their general symbolic meaning. I think this book missed the mark.

Start Snooping Around

You will never go into someone's house or office in the same way again. A psychologist who pioneered the field of personality research based on peoples stuff.

Good But Subjective

Good book overall that I would recommend to those who are already well read on the overall subject of personality types, and perhaps to a lesser degree, behavioral economics.

The main drawbacks are the authors inability or refusal to address his own research with an eye towards being truly objective. He seems to value his own personality traits over all others, placing open-mindedness at a pinnacle with conscientious people being necessary for landing planes and generally keeping things for safe for the fun loving, right minded people like himself, but otherwise theyre given short shrift as boring, poorly read, not smiling enough and being - and this is the worst part - prone to voting Republican.

There are obvious problems with his sample populations since only certain groups of people are even going to be open to allowing their bedrooms to be studied by strangers.