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Books like The Power of Bad: How the Negativity Effect Rules Us and How We Can Rule It
The best books like The Power of Bad: How the Negativity Effect Rules Us and How We Can Rule It are Thinking, Fast and Slow, You Are Not So Smart, and The Optimism Bias: A Tour of the Irrationally Positive Brain. The Power of Bad: How the Negativity Effect Rules Us and How We Can Rule It by John Tierney and Roy F. Baumeister is about negativity bias, cognitive bias, resilience. 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.
Shares cognitive bias and decision-making with The Power of Bad: How the Negativity Effect Rules Us and How We Can Rule It.
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.
Shares cognitive bias and decision-making with The Power of Bad: How the Negativity Effect Rules Us and How We Can Rule It.
Read the summary → - 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 cognitive bias and decision-making with The Power of Bad: How the Negativity Effect Rules Us and How We Can Rule It.
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- Stumbling on Happiness
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Daniel Gilbert · Psychology
Daniel Gilbert is a Harvard psychologist whose central finding, after decades of studying affective forecasting, is that humans are systematically wrong about what will make them happy.
Both dig into cognitive bias.
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.
Shares cognitive bias and decision-making with The Power of Bad: How the Negativity Effect Rules Us and How We Can Rule It.
Read the summary → - Fooled by Randomness
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb · Psychology
Fooled by Randomness is Nassim Nicholas Taleb's argument that humans are wired to misread luck as skill, noise as signal, and random outcomes as the product of ability or effort.
Shares cognitive bias and decision-making with The Power of Bad: How the Negativity Effect Rules Us and How We Can Rule It.
Read the summary → - Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence
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Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence
Rick Hanson · Psychology
Rick Hanson is a neuropsychologist and meditation teacher, and this book is his attempt to explain why wellbeing is so hard to sustain and what the brain science suggests you can do about it.
Shares negativity bias and resilience with The Power of Bad: How the Negativity Effect Rules Us and How We Can Rule It.
Read the summary → - Irrationality
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Stuart Sutherland · Psychology
Irrationality is Stuart Sutherland's rigorous and often mordant survey of the ways human beings consistently fail to reason well.
Shares cognitive bias and decision-making with The Power of Bad: How the Negativity Effect Rules Us and How We Can Rule It.
Read the summary → - Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases
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Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases
Daniel Kahneman, Paul Slovic, and Amos Tversky · Psychology
Judgment Under Uncertainty is the academic anthology that launched a research program.
Shares cognitive bias and decision-making with The Power of Bad: How the Negativity Effect Rules Us and How We Can Rule It.
Read the summary → - Mind Over Money
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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 cognitive bias and decision-making with The Power of Bad: How the Negativity Effect Rules Us and How We Can Rule It.
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.
Shares cognitive bias and decision-making with The Power of Bad: How the Negativity Effect Rules Us and How We Can Rule It.
Read the summary → - Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment
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Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment
Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, and Cass R. Sunstein · Psychology
Bias gets most of the attention in discussions of judgment error.
Shares cognitive bias and decision-making with The Power of Bad: How the Negativity Effect Rules Us and How We Can Rule It.
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Books like The Power of Bad: How the Negativity Effect Rules Us and How We Can Rule It: quick answers
What are the best books like The Power of Bad: How the Negativity Effect Rules Us and How We Can Rule It?
The best books like The Power of Bad: How the Negativity Effect Rules Us and How We Can Rule It by John Tierney and Roy F. Baumeister are Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, You Are Not So Smart by David McRaney, The Optimism Bias: A Tour of the Irrationally Positive Brain by Tali Sharot, Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert, Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Power of Bad: How the Negativity Effect Rules Us and How We Can Rule It, such as negativity bias, cognitive bias, resilience.
What should I read after The Power of Bad: How the Negativity Effect Rules Us and How We Can Rule It?
A natural next read after The Power of Bad: How the Negativity Effect Rules Us and How We Can Rule It is Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. Shares cognitive bias and decision-making with The Power of Bad: How the Negativity Effect Rules Us and How We Can Rule It. Other strong choices are You Are Not So Smart by David McRaney, The Optimism Bias: A Tour of the Irrationally Positive Brain by Tali Sharot, Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert.
What books are similar to The Power of Bad: How the Negativity Effect Rules Us and How We Can Rule It by John Tierney and Roy F. Baumeister?
The Power of Bad: How the Negativity Effect Rules Us and How We Can Rule It centers on negativity bias, cognitive bias, resilience. Books with a similar feel include Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, You Are Not So Smart by David McRaney, The Optimism Bias: A Tour of the Irrationally Positive Brain by Tali Sharot, Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert, Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely, Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
