Books like The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty

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Predictably Irrational

Dan Ariely · Psychology

Predictably Irrational is Dan Ariely's examination of how humans make decisions that are consistently, systematically irrational — not random or arbitrary, but irrational in ways that follow patterns.

Shares behavioral economics and decision-making with The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty.

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Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me)

Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson · Psychology

Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson wrote this book about the mechanisms by which people protect their sense of themselves as competent, moral, and well-intentioned after they have done something that contradicts that self-image.

A kindred psychology read.

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You Are Not So Smart

David McRaney · Psychology

David McRaney is a journalist who started a blog called "You Are Not So Smart" about self-delusion in 2009, and turned it into this book in 2011.

Both dig into decision-making.

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Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman · Psychology

Thinking, Fast and Slow is Daniel Kahneman's account of the two cognitive systems that govern human thought.

Shares behavioral economics and decision-making with The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty.

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Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics

Richard H. Thaler · Psychology

Richard Thaler is one of the founders of behavioral economics, the field that took the anomalies in standard economic theory seriously rather than dismissing them as noise.

Shares behavioral economics and decision-making with The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty.

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Dollars and Sense

Dan Ariely · Psychology

Dollars and Sense is Dan Ariely and Jeff Kreisler's examination of why people consistently make bad financial decisions even when they have the information and intention to do otherwise.

Shares behavioral economics and decision-making with The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty.

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Mind Over Money

Claudia Hammond · Psychology

Mind Over Money is Claudia Hammond's survey of the research on how people actually think about, feel about, and make decisions with money — which turns out to be considerably less rational than economic theory assumes.

Shares behavioral economics and decision-making with The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty.

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Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much

Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir · Psychology

Scarcity is Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir's argument that the experience of having too little — of any resource — produces a predictable cognitive syndrome with consequences that extend far beyond the original deficit.

Shares behavioral economics and decision-making with The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty.

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The Art of Thinking Clearly

Rolf Dobelli · Psychology

Rolf Dobelli is a Swiss entrepreneur and novelist who wrote a series of short newspaper columns on cognitive biases, later collected and expanded into this book.

Shares behavioral economics and decision-making with The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty.

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The Undoing Project

Michael Lewis · Psychology

Michael Lewis came to this subject sideways.

Shares behavioral economics and decision-making with The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty.

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Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness

Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein · Economics

Nudge is Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein's argument that the way choices are presented — the default option, the order of items, the framing of a question — powerfully shapes what people decide, often more than their own stated preferences.

Shares behavioral economics and decision-making with The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty.

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Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

Nassim Nicholas Taleb · Philosophy

Skin in the Game is Taleb's argument that people who don't bear the consequences of their decisions should not be trusted, respected, or given power over others.

Shares ethics and decision-making with The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty.