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Understanding and managing emotions is essential for lifelong success, both in and beyond the classroom.
When you understand your emotions and how to handle them, life gets a lot easier—and a lot more interesting. Social-emotional learning helps you build confidence, make smarter choices, and deal with stress, drama, and pressure in healthier ways. These are the skills that set you up not just to survive high school, but to thrive in life.
How Emotions Are Made (2017) explains that emotions aren’t just automatic reactions but are actually created by your brain based on your experiences and environment. It helps you understand why people feel differently and how you can better manage your own emotions.
Lisa Feldman Barrett is a distinguished American neuroscientist and psychologist known for pioneering research that reshapes how we understand emotions as brain-based, constructed experiences.
Thinking Fast and Slow (2011) reveals how our brains use two different ways to think: one fast and automatic, the other slow and careful. It shows how understanding these can help you make smarter decisions and avoid common mistakes in everyday life.
Daniel Kahneman is an Israeli-American Nobel Prize-winning psychologist renowned for his groundbreaking research on human judgment, decision-making, and behavioral economics.
In The Lucifer Effect (2007) Renowned social psychologist and creator of the Stanford Prison Experiment Philip Zimbardo explores the mechanisms that make good people do bad things, how moral people can be seduced into acting immorally, and what this says about the line separating good from evil.
Philip Zimbardo is a renowned American psychologist best known for conducting the Stanford Prison Experiment and for his work on the psychology of evil, time perspective, and social behavior.
Blink (2005) draws on cutting-edge neuroscience and psychology, to change the way you understand every decision you make. Never again will you think about thinking the same way.
Malcolm Gladwell is a bestselling author, journalist, and public speaker known for blending storytelling with social science to explore the hidden patterns behind human behavior in books like The Tipping Point, Outliers, and Blink.
The Paradox of Choice (2004) shows how having too many options—whether picking a college, a phone, or even what to wear—can actually make us more stressed and less happy. With relatable examples and smart insights, it helps you understand how to make better decisions and feel more confident about them.
Barry Shwartz is a renowned American psychologist, professor emeritus at Swarthmore College, and TED speaker whose decades of research on human behavior, decision-making, and morality have earned him wide recognition as a leading voice in applied psychology and ethics.
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