Bad Science – Ben Goldacre

Affluenza – by Oliver James

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Bounce by Matthew Syed. The Myth of Talent and the Power of Practice.

Mindset by Dr. Carol Dwek. Changing the way you think to fulfil your potential.

Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman.

Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell.

Authentic Happiness by Martin Seligman.

Blink by Malcolm Gladwell. The power of thinking without thinking.

Phantoms of the brain; probing the mysteries of the human mind by V.S Ramachandran. Unravelling the weirder cases in neurology can provide insights into how we perceive ourselves.

Steven Pinker: How the mind works. Why do memories fade? Why do we lose our tempers? Why do fools fall in love? Why do we pursue higher callings like art, religion and philosophy?

Carl Jung; the Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious. Our minds are connected to a deeper layer of consciousness that speaks in terms of imagery and myth.

 National Psychology Competition, Royal Holloway University