Best Psychology Books

NPR foreign correspondent Eric Weiner travels to ten countries ranked at the extremes of happiness surveys — Netherlands, Bhutan, Qatar, Iceland, Switzerland, Thailand, India, Moldova, Britain, and the USA — to investigate what makes some places measurably happier than others.

A psychologist argues that the explosion of choice in modern life, while seemingly liberating, actually produces anxiety, paralysis, and dissatisfaction.

Nicholas Carr's Pulitzer Prize finalist argues that the internet is reshaping human cognition — training brains for distraction, skimming, and rapid switching at the expense of deep reading and sustained thought.

A catalogue of 99 cognitive errors, logical fallacies, and psychological biases — from confirmation bias and survivorship bias to the sunk cost fallacy — presented as short, standalone chapters with vivid examples.