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StudentReadingListsThe reading lists below have been generated by a variety of instructors to provide students with suggested reading material that would deepen their knowledge of psychology at the introductory level. Please scroll to the bottom of the page to see the postings from many different instructors as the list is long. In the future, the lists will be separated by topic Further Reading for Introductory Psychology -- submitted by Sue Frantz Highline Community College. A well organized topical reading list for introductory psychology students http://flightline.highline.edu/sfrantz/syllabi/psych100.htm -Scroll down. It's on the right, under "Further Reading." Some of my favorite books on psychology and related topics: --Submitted by Carol S. Furchner, Ph.D., University of New Mexico, Los Alamos. Blackmore, Susan (2005). Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction. New York: Oxford University Press. Blum, D. (2002). Love at Goon Park: Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection. New York: Perseus. Delaney, S., Delaney, A. E., & Hearth, A. H. (1997). Having our Say: The Delaney Sisters First 100 Years. Kodansha America. Hunt, M. (1993). The Story of Psychology. New York: Doubleday. Ramachandran, V. S., (2004). A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness. New York: Pi Press. Norman, D. (1988). The Psychology of Everyday Things. New York: Basic Books. Sapolsky, R. (2004) Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers, Third Edition. New York: Henry Holt. Schacter, D. (2001). The Seven Sins of Memory: How the Mind Forgets and Remembers. New York: Houghton Mifflin. Seligman, Martin E. P. (1991) Learned Optimism. New York: Knopf. Tavris, C. (1983). Anger: The Misunderstood Emotion. New York: Simon & Schuster. For Advanced Students: Damasio, A. R. (1999). The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness. New York: Harcourt Brace. Damasio, A. R. (1994). Descartes' Error. New York: Putnam. Damasio, A. R. (2003). Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain. New York: Harcourt Brace. LeDoux, J. (2002). Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are. New York: Viking. LeDoux, J. (1996). The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life. New York: Simon & Schuster. Ramachandran, V. S., & Blakeslee, S. (1998). Phantoms in the Brain. New York: William Morrow. --Submitted by Carol S. Furchner, Ph.D., University of New Mexico, Los Alamos. Introductory Psychology Reading List Submitted by -- Andy Tix Normandale Community College Finding Flow (Csikszentmihalyi) Man's Search for Meaning (Frankl) Blink (Gladwell) Emotional Intelligence (Goleman) An Unquiet Mind (Jamison) The High Price of Materialism (Kasser) Mindfulness (Langer) The Paradox of Choice (Schwartz) Authentic Happiness (Seligman) Submitted by -- Andy Tix Normandale Community College A Few of My Favorite Things:A Briefly Annotated Bibliography Submitted by -- Robert L. Johnson, PhD Editor, The General Psychologist - a publication of the Society for General Psychology Division One of the American Psychological Association http://www.apa.org/divisions/div1/newspub.html Here is a list I put together a few years ago at the request of our librarian, who did a series of displays of favorite books of faculty members. Not all on my list are strictly psychology Elliot Aronson, The Social Animal (7th ed.). New York: W. H. Freeman & Co. (1995). Aronson is one of the best writers and one of the best social psychologists around. This book tells you everything you wanted to know about aggression, conformity, persuasion, interpersonal attraction, and cognitive dissonance. [Which edition is it now?] Fox Butterfield, All God's Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence. Knopf (1995). Willie Bosket is the hardest criminal the New York penal system has ever had. He comes from a long line of hard-luck, tough guys, stretching back to the Civil War. But is it nature? His lineage was nurtured in the violent, culture of honor (and insults to honor) in the American South. This is the book to read if you think you have all the answers to the problem of violence and crime. William H. Calvin, & George A. Ojeman, Conversations With Neil's Brain : The Neural Nature of Thought and Language. Addison-Wesley (1994). Neil is preparing to have a brain operation, and his neurosurgeon explains to him what will happen. In the process, Neil (and the reader) painlessly and pleasurably learn a lot about the way the brain works. Richard P. Feynman, Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! W. W. Norton & Co. (1985). Here’s a collection of adventures from the life of—possibly—the world’s smartest person. Nobel laureate physicist Feynman was a notorious prankster, who liked to play practical jokes on his buddies, while they were at Los Alamos inventing the atomic bomb. Not merely immensely entertaining, this book gives a rare glimpse into the mind of a genius at work . . . and at play. Howard Gardner, Creating Minds: An Anatomy of Creativity Seen Through the Lives of Freud, Einstein, Picasso, Stravinsky, Eliot, Graham, and Gandhi. Basic Books (1994). Indisputably creative, these seven minds were shapers of the 20th century, and—according to Gardner—all made a Faustian bargain in order to become giants in their fields. In Gardner’s view, their creativity is due to a fortuitous misfit between each individual’s special configuration of the 7 intelligences and the state of the art or science in which their became creative. Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man. W. W. Norton & Co. (1996). The best science writer around? The most curmudgeonly character at Harvard? Certainly Gould is Darwin’s latest bulldog. In this update of his 1981 edition, Stephen J. turns his guns on The Bell Curve and other misuses of IQ testing, and he takes no prisoners. Carol Tavris, The Mismeasure of Woman. New York: Touchstone (1992). Tavris and Gould were friends (past tense, because Gould is past tense), but she thought one aspect of Gould's argument needed a little elaboration. Philip J. Hilts, Memory's Ghost: The Nature of Memory and the Strange Tale of Mr. M. Touchstone Books, 1996. Journalist Hilts manages to meet the famous H. M., the man who lost much of his mind after a tragic surgical “experiment” on his brain. Thirty-five years later, H. M. has only his pre-surgery past because he lost the ability to make new memories. Fortunately, he can barely remember that he has a problem. Hilts’ sympathetic account also tells us the volumes that H. M. has taught us about the hidden workings of human memory. Steven Pinker, The Language Instinct. Morrow (1994). If you’re interested in the ancient origins of language and thought—and what they can tell you about your own brain—this one’s for you. Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales. Summit Books (1985). This is the same fellow who wrote Awakenings. The title of the book derives from a professor who suffered a stroke that affected mainly his ability to recognize objects. Each chapter involves another strange brain disorder. Roger Shepard, Mind Sights: Original Visual Illusions, Ambiguities, and Other Anomalies, With a Commentary on the Play of Mind in Perception and Art. W. H. Freeman & Co. (1990). A well-known cognitive psychologist, Shepard has come out of the artist’s closet to show us some striking and playful examples of visual illusions—some familiar, some brand new. Both his sense of humor and his deep understanding of perception come bounding out of this volume. If I were to do the list over again, I would add: Jared Diamon's Guns, Germs, and Steel. [Now my all-time favorite book.] Steven Pinker's The Blank Slate [Pinker, again!] Richard Dawkins' Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion, and the Appetite for Wonder Daniel Schacter's Searching for Memory Philip Zimbardo's The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil Theodore Schick, Jr., & Lewis Vaughn, How to Think About Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Age Konrad Lorenz, King Solomon's Ring Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner's Freakonomics Finally, I would suggest a look at Ann Ewing's column, "What They're Reading," that has run in The General Psychologist since Spring 2005. You can find it at http://www.apa.org/divisions/div1/newspub.html |