 | Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers, Third Edition by Robert M. Sapolsky
Buy new: $12.92 / Used from: $6.33 Great conversational tone with witty remarks and self-deprecating comments. Really interesting read about stress at the physiological level AND to some extent, the behavioral and societal levels.
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 | Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
Buy new: $9.35 / Used from: $5.55 |
 | Through the Labyrinth: The Truth About How Women Become Leaders (Center for Public Leadership) by Alice H. Eagly
Buy new: $21.12 / Used from: $15.00 Women's progress (and complications) in management and the contemporary workforce. The labyrinth is replacing the glass ceiling as a metaphor for women at work and Eagly is the main researcher behind the reconceptualization...
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 | Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and Other Realities of Adolescence by Rosalind Wiseman
Buy used from: $0.87 The basis for the movie "Mean Girls"...
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 | Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $1.28 I can't believe I still haven't read more than excerpts from this, but I've read a lot of Gilbert's work and it's incredibly interesting... he deals with affective forecasting and judgment and decision making for the most part.
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 | The Myth of Repressed Memory: False Memories and Allegations of Sexual Abuse by Elizabeth Loftus
Buy new: $11.96 / Used from: $2.80 Loftus is the researcher that figured out that adults could influence what children can report as actual memories (and truly believe are memories). She has testified in a number of court cases about repressed memory, eye witness accuracy, and cases where children are involved (as witnesses) and she talks about a lot of these in her books.
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 | The Truth About Burnout: How Organizations Cause Personal Stress and What to Do About It by Christina Maslach
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $5.71 |
 | Pledged: The Secret Life of Sororities by Alexandra Robbins
Buy new: $23.95 / Used from: $0.01 Really cool investigative journalism meets sociology and psychology and anthropology of sororities and Greek societies. Honest and fascinating, easy to relate to....
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 | The Seven Sins of Memory: How the Mind Forgets and Remembers by Daniel L. Schacter
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $2.94 |
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