Recommendations from our site
“Keith Payne’s Good Reasonable People feels very timely: it’s a study of partisanship in contemporary America, from the perspective of a social psychologist from rural, Christian Kentucky whose own family splits along political lines. We have, he argues, ‘psychological immune systems’ that swing into action to neutralise information that threatens our self-identity and beliefs. In this way, we may all believe our tribe to be the good, reasonable people of the title—and those who disagree with us to be reckless fools.” Read more...
Notable Self-Help & Psychology Books of 2024
Cal Flyn, Five Books Editor
Our most recommended books
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Good Reasonable People: The Psychology Behind America's Dangerous Divide
by Keith Payne -
A Little History of Psychology
by Nicky Hayes -
Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
by Charles Duhigg -
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
by Jonathan Haidt -
Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts
by Oliver Burkeman
