Psychology audiobooks

The Myths of Happiness

By: Sonja Lyubomirsky

Narrated by: Kathy Keane

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Happiness expert Sonja Lyubomirsky’s research-based lessons in how to find opportunity in life’s thorniest moments

In The Myths of Happiness, Sonja Lyubomirsky isolates the major turning points of adult life, looking to both achievements (marriage, children, professional satisfaction, wealth) and failures (singlehood, divorce, financial ruin,... Read more

Broken

By: William Cope Moyers & Katherine Ketcham

Narrated by: Katherine Ketcham

Length: 13 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Unlike some popular memoirs that have fictionalized and romanticized the degradations of drug addiction, Broken is a true-life tale of recovery that stuns and inspires with virtually every page. The eldest son of journalist Bill Moyers, William Cope Moyers relates with unforgettable clarity the story of how a young man with every advantage found... Read more

Candy Girl

By: Diablo Cody

Narrated by: Natalie Moore

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Decreed by David Letterman (tongue in cheek) on CBS TV's The Late Show to be the pick of "Dave's Book Club 2006," Candy Girl is the story of a young writer who dared to bare it all as a stripper.

At the age of twenty-four, Diablo Cody decided there had to be more to life than typing copy at an ad agency. She soon managed to find inspiration from... Read more

NeuroLogic

By: Eliezer Sternberg

Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith

Length: 10 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

A groundbreaking investigation of the brain’s hidden logic behind our strangest behaviors, and of how conscious and unconscious systems interact in order to create our experience and preserve our sense of self.
 
From bizarre dreams and hallucinations to schizophrenia and multiple personalities, the human brain is responsible for a diverse... Read more

The Genius in All of Us

By: David Shenk

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

With irresistibly persuasive vigor, David Shenk debunks the long-standing notion of genetic “giftedness,” and presents dazzling new scientific research showing how greatness is in the reach of every individual.

DNA does not make us who we are. “Forget everything you think you know about genes, talent, and intelligence,” he writes. “In recent... Read more

Reset

By: Kurt Andersen

Narrated by: Kurt Andersen

Length: 1 hour 36 minutes

Abridged: No

“This is the end of the world as we’ve known it,” Kurt Andersen writes in Reset. “But it isn’t the end of the world.” In this smart and refreshingly hopeful book, Andersen–a brilliant analyst and synthesizer of historical and cultural trends, as well as a bestselling novelist and host of public radio’s Studio 360–shows us why the current... Read more

Thinking in Pictures

By: Temple Grandin

Narrated by: Deborah Marlowe

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Temple Grandin, Ph.D., is a gifted animal scientist who has designed one third of all the livestock-handling facilities in the United States. She also lectures widely on autism because she is autistic, a woman who thinks, feels, and experiences the world in ways that are incomprehensible to the rest of us. In this unprecedented book, Grandin... Read more

59 Seconds

By: Richard Wiseman

Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

A psychologist and best-selling author gives us a myth-busting response to the self-help movement, with tips and tricks to improve your life that come straight from the scientific community.

Richard Wiseman has been troubled by the realization that the self-help industry often promotes exercises that destroy motivation, damage relationships, and... Read more

Bursts

By: Albert-Laszlo Barabasi

Narrated by: Richard McGonagle

Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A revolutionary new theory showing how we can predict human behavior-from a radical genius and bestselling author

Can we scientifically predict our future? Scientists and pseudo scientists have been pursuing this mystery for hundreds and perhaps thousands of years. But now, astonishing new research is revealing patterns in human behavior... Read more

Smoke-Free in 30 Days

By: Daniel F. Seidman

Narrated by: Daniel F. Seidman

Length: 5 hours

Abridged: No

Why are you still smoking, even though you want to quit? Based on twenty years of research and hands-on work with countless smokers in his clinics at Columbia University and New York Presbyterian Hospital, Dr. Daniel F. Seidman understands that people smoke—and quit—for different reasons and what works for one smoker might not work for another.

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The Hidden Brain

By: Shankar Vedantam

Narrated by: Steve West

Length: 10 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Most of us would agree that there’s a clear—and even obvious—connection between the things we believe and the way we behave. But what if our actions are driven not by our conscious values and beliefs but by hidden motivations we’re not even aware of?
 
The “hidden brain” is Shankar Vedantam’s shorthand for a host of brain functions, emotional... Read more

Click

By: Ori Brafman & Rom Brafman

Narrated by: Rob Shapiro

Length: 4 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

You know the feeling. You meet someone new—at a party or at work—and you just hit it off. There is an instant sense of camaraderie.
 
In a word, you “click.”
 
From the bestselling authors of Sway,Click is a fascinating psychological investigation of the forces behind what makes us click with certain people, or become fully immersed in whatever... Read more

The Invisible Gorilla

By: Christopher Chabris & Daniel Simons

Narrated by: Dan Woren

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Our minds don’t work the way we think they do. Two renowned psychologists explain how and why our intuitions lead us astray, “[spinning] the plain world [we] know into a wonderment of surprising new insights” (Time).
 
“A must-read for anyone who wants to better understand how the mind works.”—Associated Press 
 
In The... Read more

Through a Dog's Eyes

By: Jennifer Arnold

Narrated by: Jennifer Arnold

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A stirring, inspiring book with the power to change the way we understand and communicate with our dogs.
 
Few people are more qualified to speak about the abilities and potential of dogs than Jennifer Arnold, who for the past twenty years has trained service dogs for people with physical disabilities and special needs. Arnold has developed a... Read more

Why Men Want Sex and Women Need Love

By: Barbara Pease & Allan Pease

Narrated by: Chelsea Bruland & Jeff Prewett

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Allan and Barbara Pease, the international bestsell­ing authors of Why Men Don’t Listen & Women Can’t Read Maps, deliver their most exciting book yet.
 
Will men and women ever see eye-to-eye about love and sex? How will relationships ever be rewarding if men only want to rush into bed and women want to rush to the altar? In this practical,... Read more

Getting More

By: Stuart Diamond

Narrated by: Marc Cashman

Length: 18 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Learn the negotiation model used by Google to train employees worldwide, U.S. Special Ops to promote stability globally (“this stuff saves lives”), and families to forge better relationships.

A 20% discount on an item already on sale. A four-year-old willingly brushes his/her teeth and goes to bed. A vacationing couple... Read more

The Man in the Gray Flannel Skirt

By: Jon-Jon Goulian

Narrated by: Rob Shapiro

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The vibrant, funny, and heartwarming story of an outcast who becomes an odd man in
 
If you have ever felt like a misfit in school or been paralyzed by your family’s imposing expectations, if you have ever obsessed about your appearance or panicked about choosing a career path, if you have ever wondered if every single thing to which your body is... Read more

Scorecasting

By: Tobias Moskowitz & L. Jon Wertheim

Narrated by: Zach McLarty

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

In Scorecasting, University of Chicago behavioral economist Tobias Moskowitz teams up with veteran Sports Illustrated writer L. Jon Wertheim to overturn some of the most cherished truisms of sports, and reveal the hidden forces that shape how basketball, baseball, football, and hockey games are played, won and lost.

Drawing from Moskowitz's... Read more

The Most Human Human

By: Brian Christian

Narrated by: Brian Christian

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The Most Human Human is a provocative, exuberant, and profound exploration of the ways in which computers are reshaping our ideas of what it means to be human. Its starting point is the annual Turing Test, which pits artificial intelligence programs against people to determine if computers can “think.”

Named for computer pioneer Alan Turing,... Read more

Be Different

By: John Elder Robison

Narrated by: John Elder Robison

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: No

“I believe those of us with Asperger’s are here for a reason, and we have much to offer. This book will help you bring out those gifts.”
 
In his bestselling memoir, Look Me in the Eye, John Elder Robison described growing up with Asperger’s syndrome at a time when the diagnosis didn’t exist. He was intelligent but socially isolated; his talents... Read more

Raising Cubby

By: John Elder Robison

Narrated by: John Elder Robison

Length: 12 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The slyly funny, sweetly moving memoir of an unconventional dad’s relationship with his equally offbeat son—complete with fast cars, tall tales, homemade explosives, and a whole lot of fun and trouble
 
Misfit, truant, delinquent. John Robison was never a model child, and he wasn’t a model dad either. Diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome at the... Read more

The Optimism Bias

By: Tali Sharot

Narrated by: Susan Denaker

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of the most innovative neuroscientists at work today, an investigation into the bias toward optimism that exists on a neural level in our brains and plays a major part in determining how we live our lives.
 
Psychologists have long been aware that most people maintain an often irrationally positive outlook on life. In fact, optimism may... Read more

Incognito

By: David Eagleman

Narrated by: David Eagleman

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

If the conscious mind—the part you consider to be you—is just the tip of the iceberg, what is the rest doing?
 
In this sparkling and provocative new book, the renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman navigates the depths of the subconscious brain to illuminate surprising mysteries: Why can your foot move halfway to the brake pedal before you... Read more

Succeeding When You're Supposed to Fail

By: Rom Brafman

Narrated by: René Ruiz

Length: 4 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

IN COUNTLESS STUDIES, PSYCHOLOGISTS HAVE DISCOVERED A SURPRISING FACT:
 
For decades they assumed that people who face adversity—a difficult childhood, career turbulence, sudden bouts of bad luck—will succumb to their circumstances. Yet over and over again they found a significant percentage are able to overcome their life circumstances and... Read more