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Chapter 1. Pioneers
William James, from Principles of Psychology
Sigmund Freud, from The Unconscious
Chapter 2. Methods
Darrell Huff, from How to Lie with Statistics
Keith E. Stanovich, from How to Think about Psychology
Chapter 3. Evolution and Genes
Steven Pinker, from How the Mind Works
Gary Marcus, from The Birth of the Mind
Chapter 4. Brain
Oliver Sacks, from The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, and Other Clinical Tales
Antonio R. Damasio, from Descartes’ Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain
Chapter 5. Learning
John B. Watson and Rosalie Rayner, from Conditioned Emotional Reactions
Noam Chomsky, from "A Review of B. F. Skinner’s Verbal Behavior"
Marc D. Hauser, from Wild Minds: What Animals Really Think
Chapter 6. Sensation and Perception
Donald D. Hoffman, from Visual Intelligence: How We Create What We See
Howard C. Hughes, from Sensory Erotica: A World Beyond Human Experience
Chapter 7. Language
Steven Pinker, from The Language Instinct
Mark C. Baker, from The Atoms of Language
Chapter 8. Cognitive Development
Paul Bloom, from Descartes’ Baby: How the Science of Human Development Explains What Makes Us Human
Alison Gopnik et al., from The Scientist in the Crib: What Early Learning Tells Us About the Mind
Chapter 9. Memory and Cognition
Daniel L. Schacter, from Searching for Memory: The Brain, the Mind, and the Past
Daniel M. Wegner, from The Illusion of Conscious Will
Chapter 10. Intelligence
Richard J. Herrnstein et al., from The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life
Daniel Goleman, from Emotional Intelligence
Chapter 11. Motivation and Stress
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, from Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Robert M. Sapolsky, from Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers: A Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping
Chapter 12. Emotion
Joseph LeDoux, from The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life
Paul Ekman, from Emotions Revealed: Recognizing Faces and Feelings to Improve Communication and Emotional Life
Natalie Angier, from Woman: An Intimate Biography
Chapter 13. Social Psychology
Robert B. Cialdini, from Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
Shelley Taylor, from The Tending Instinct
Chapter 14. Personality
Judith Rich Harris, from The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do
Jerome Kagan, from Galen’s Prophecy: Temperament in Human Nature
Malcolm Gladwell, from Personality Plus
Chapter 15. Culture
Donald E. Brown, from Human Universals
Richard E. Nisbett, from The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently…and Why
Chapter 16. Disorders
Temple Grandin, from Thinking in Pictures, and Other Reports from My Life with Autism
Kay Redfield Jamison, from An Unquiet Mind
Sylvia Nasar, from A Beautiful Mind
Chapter 17. Treatment
Aaron T. Beck, from Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders
Peter D. Kramer, from Listening to Prozac

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