A selection of science-based books from the year that together shine new light on who we are and why we think and act as we do.

Looking to start next year with a fresh outlook and some new tools for happiness and calm? These positive psychology books ...

Clarity over credentials shapes books that rethink human behaviour, emotion, and decision-making without academic distance or ...

From Freud to Kahneman, these ten books map the ideas that quietly shape how we interpret behaviour, suffering, joy, and choice. Written by psychologists who transformed their fields, each work ...

Cultural shifts in 2025 shaped psychology and self-help books that centred confidence, emotional clarity and practical ...

Authors ID people who are almost, but not quite, clinical psychopaths. June 19, 2012— -- Chances are you might know someone who is almost a psychopath. The coworker who throws you under the bus.

In the news recently were the results from brain scans of a small cohort of psychopathic offenders. Researchers at Radboud University and the Dutch Institute for Forensic Psychiatry found that the ...

Does our biology determine our fate? This question propels “The Outlier,” the debut thriller by Seattle author Elisabeth Eaves (out on Aug. 6). The main character anchoring this taut, intelligent ...

Why do well-intentioned people still cause harm? This piece brings together ten psychology books that explain how bias, self-justification, social pressure and moral shortcuts quietly shape bad ...

In 1885, an English psychiatrist published the case of a man called W.B., who had spent much of his life cycling through jail and asylums. W.B. was “a quiet and useful man,” the doctor wrote in The ...