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Books like The Influential Mind: What the Brain Reveals About Our Power to Change Others
The best books like The Influential Mind: What the Brain Reveals About Our Power to Change Others are Thinking, Fast and Slow, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, and Never Split the Difference. The Influential Mind: What the Brain Reveals About Our Power to Change Others by Tali Sharot is about influence, persuasion, neuroscience. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- 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.
Both dig into decision-making.
Read the summary → - Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
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Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
Robert B. Cialdini · Psychology
Influence is Robert Cialdini's account of why people say yes, and how that agreement is manufactured.
Shares persuasion and decision-making with The Influential Mind: What the Brain Reveals About Our Power to Change Others.
Read the summary → - Never Split the Difference
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Chris Voss · Business
Never Split the Difference is Chris Voss's argument that the rational, compromise-based negotiation frameworks taught in business schools miss something fundamental about how people actually make decisions.
Shares influence and persuasion with The Influential Mind: What the Brain Reveals About Our Power to Change Others.
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- The Optimism Bias: A Tour of the Irrationally Positive Brain
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The Optimism Bias: A Tour of the Irrationally Positive Brain
Tali Sharot · Psychology
Tali Sharot is a neuroscientist at University College London, and The Optimism Bias is her account of a finding that surprised researchers: most humans systematically overestimate the likelihood of good things happening to them and underestimate the likelihood of bad ones.
Shares neuroscience and decision-making with The Influential Mind: What the Brain Reveals About Our Power to Change Others.
Read the summary → - 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.
Both dig into decision-making.
Read the summary → - Influence, New and Expanded: The Psychology of Persuasion
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Influence, New and Expanded: The Psychology of Persuasion
Robert B. Cialdini · Psychology
Influence, New and Expanded is the 2021 revision of Robert Cialdini's foundational 1984 work on the psychology of persuasion.
Shares influence and persuasion with The Influential Mind: What the Brain Reveals About Our Power to Change Others.
Read the summary → - Age of Propaganda: The Everyday Use and Abuse of Persuasion
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Age of Propaganda: The Everyday Use and Abuse of Persuasion
Anthony Pratkanis and Elliot Aronson · Psychology
Anthony Pratkanis and Elliot Aronson's central concern is that modern media, advertising, and politics have optimized for propaganda techniques that bypass critical reasoning and exploit psychological vulnerabilities.
Shares influence and persuasion with The Influential Mind: What the Brain Reveals About Our Power to Change Others.
Read the summary → - Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain
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Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain
Antonio Damasio · Psychology
Antonio Damasio is a neurologist at USC whose work challenges the centuries-old idea that reason and emotion are separate faculties, with reason the reliable guide and emotion the unreliable interference.
Shares neuroscience and decision-making with The Influential Mind: What the Brain Reveals About Our Power to Change Others.
Read the summary → - Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
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Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
David Eagleman · Psychology
David Eagleman is a neuroscientist at Stanford who argues that the conscious self is a late, small, and largely uninformed participant in the brain's activity.
Shares neuroscience and decision-making with The Influential Mind: What the Brain Reveals About Our Power to Change Others.
Read the summary → - Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade
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Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade
Robert B. Cialdini · Psychology
Robert Cialdini spent decades studying the principles of persuasion that animate Influence, his 1984 masterwork.
Shares influence and persuasion with The Influential Mind: What the Brain Reveals About Our Power to Change Others.
Read the summary → - The Power of Habit
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Charles Duhigg · Psychology
The Power of Habit is Charles Duhigg's investigation into why habits exist and how they can be changed.
Shares neuroscience and behavior change with The Influential Mind: What the Brain Reveals About Our Power to Change Others.
Read the summary → - The Tipping Point
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Malcolm Gladwell · Psychology
The Tipping Point is Malcolm Gladwell's argument that social change happens in sudden, dramatic ways — the same way a virus tips into an epidemic — and that understanding the mechanics of those tipping moments lets you engineer them.
Shares influence and behavior change with The Influential Mind: What the Brain Reveals About Our Power to Change Others.
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Books like The Influential Mind: What the Brain Reveals About Our Power to Change Others: quick answers
What are the best books like The Influential Mind: What the Brain Reveals About Our Power to Change Others?
The best books like The Influential Mind: What the Brain Reveals About Our Power to Change Others by Tali Sharot are Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini, Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss, The Optimism Bias: A Tour of the Irrationally Positive Brain by Tali Sharot, Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Influential Mind: What the Brain Reveals About Our Power to Change Others, such as influence, persuasion, neuroscience.
What should I read after The Influential Mind: What the Brain Reveals About Our Power to Change Others?
A natural next read after The Influential Mind: What the Brain Reveals About Our Power to Change Others is Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. Both dig into decision-making. Other strong choices are Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini, Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss, The Optimism Bias: A Tour of the Irrationally Positive Brain by Tali Sharot.
What books are similar to The Influential Mind: What the Brain Reveals About Our Power to Change Others by Tali Sharot?
The Influential Mind: What the Brain Reveals About Our Power to Change Others centers on influence, persuasion, neuroscience. Books with a similar feel include Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini, Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss, The Optimism Bias: A Tour of the Irrationally Positive Brain by Tali Sharot, Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely, Influence, New and Expanded: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
