Books like Cognitive psychology and its implications

Cognitive psychology and its implications by John Robert Anderson reads as academic, informative. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Incognito

David Eagleman · 2011

A lively tour through neuroscience showing how little of our mental life is under conscious control, told with Eagleman's characteristic wit and sense of cosmic wonder redirected inward.

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Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman · 2011

A lucid, example-rich tour through the two systems of the mind that reframes how you understand your own judgment — dense with studies but conversational, best absorbed in delibera

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Descartes' error

Antonio R. Damasio · 1994

Same nonfiction feel

The Blank Slate

Steven Pinker · 2002

A rigorous, data-driven dismantling of the blank-slate hypothesis that reshapes understanding of human nature, morality, and equality by integrating evolutionary psychology, neuros

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Cognitive Psychology

Kathleen M. Galotti · 1994

A concise introductory textbook that ties laboratory findings in cognition to everyday experience, with broader coverage than most intro texts.

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Implicit memory and metacognition

Lynne M. Reder · 1996

Shares the human thread

The invention of memory

Israel Rosenfield · 1988

Shares the human thread

Cognitive psychology

Robert L. Solso · 1979

A textbook survey that traces cognitive psychology's evolution, offering historical context alongside current issues in the field.

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From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds

Daniel C. Dennett · 2017

A systematic philosophical investigation of consciousness and mind through the lens of evolutionary biology, tracing the emergence of complex cognition from bacterial simplicity to human culture and artifact creation.

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