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Books like The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty
The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty by Dan Ariely is about dishonesty, behavioral economics, ethics. If that's what drew you in, here are 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- Predictably Irrational
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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.
Read the summary → - Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me)
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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.
Read the summary → - You Are Not So Smart
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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.
Read the summary → - Thinking, Fast and Slow
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Daniel Kahneman · Psychology
Thinking, Fast and Slow is Daniel Kahneman's account of the two cognitive systems that govern human thought.
Read the summary → - Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics
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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.
Read the summary → - 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People
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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People
Susan Weinschenk · Psychology
Susan Weinschenk is a behavioral scientist and UX consultant, and this book is her translation of cognitive science research into practical guidance for designers.
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