Psychology audiobooks

Masterminds and Wingmen

By: Rosalind Wiseman

Narrated by: Kathe Mazur

Length: 13 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A landmark book that reveals the way boys think and that shows parents, educators and coaches how to reach out and help boys overcome their most common and difficult challenges -- by the bestselling author who changed our conception of adolescent girls.
 
Do you constantly struggle to pull information from your son, student, or athlete, only to... Read more

Boost Your Brain

By: Majid Fotuhi

Narrated by: Robert Fass

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Based on cutting-edge science, Boost Your Brain is internationally recognized neurologist Majid Fotuhi's complete program for increasing brain size and enhancing brain function, including memory, creativity, comprehension, and concentration.Our brains don't have to decline as we get older, argues Dr. Fotuhi. Depending on the things we do or... Read more

Underground

By: Haruki Murakami

Narrated by: Feodor Chin, Ian Anthony Dale & Janet Song

Length: 13 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

In this haunting work of journalistic investigation, Haruki Murakami tells the story of the horrific terrorist attack on Japanese soil that shook the entire world.
 
On a clear spring day in 1995, five members of a religious cult unleashed poison gas on the Tokyo subway system. In attempt to discover why, Haruki Murakmi talks to the people who... Read more

Scarcity

By: Sendhil Mullainathan & Eldar Shafir

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

In the blockbuster tradition of Freakonomics, a Harvard economist and a Princeton psychology professor team up to offer a surprising and empowering new way to look at everyday life, presenting a paradigm-challenging examination of how scarcity—and our flawed responses to it—shapes our lives, our society, and our culture.

Why do successful people... Read more

Switch on Your Brain

By: Dr. Caroline Leaf

Narrated by: Joyce Bean

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

According to researchers, the vast majority—a whopping 75-98 percent—of the illnesses that plague us today are a direct result of our thought life. What we think about truly affects us both physically and emotionally. In fact, fear alone triggers more than 1,400 known physical and chemical responses in our bodies, activating more than thirty... Read more

The Gift of Adversity

By: Norman E. Rosenthal

Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The noted research psychiatrist explores how life's disappointments and difficulties provide us with the lessons we need to become better, bigger, and more resilient human beings. Adversity is an irreducible fact of life. Although we can and should learn from all experiences, both positive and negative, bestselling author Dr. Norman E.... Read more

What Makes a Hero?

By: Elizabeth Svoboda

Narrated by: Rose Itzcovitz

Length: 6 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

An entertaining investigation into the biology and psychology of why we sacrifice for other people Researchers are now applying the lens of science to study heroism for the first time. How do biology, upbringing, and outside influences intersect to produce altruistic and heroic behavior? And how can we encourage this behavior in corporations,... Read more

The Reason I Jump

By: Naoki Higashida

Narrated by: Tom Picasso

Length: 2 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

You' ve never read a book like The Reason I Jump. Written by Naoki Higashida, a very smart, very self-aware, and very charming thirteen-year-old boy with autism, it is a one-of-a-kind memoir that demonstrates how an autistic mind thinks, feels, perceives, and responds in ways few of us can imagine. Parents and family members who never thought... Read more

Exposed

By: Jane Velez-Mitchell

Narrated by: Elizabeth White

Length: 12 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

On June 9, 2008, the butchered body of Travis Alexander was found in his Mesa, Arizona home. The grisly nature of his death made instant headlines: with twenty-nine knife wounds, his throat slit, and a gunshot to the head, Travis was left to die. The prime suspect in the case was Alexander’s ex-girlfriend, the attractive and soft-spoken Jodi... Read more

On Combat

By: Lieutenant Colonel Dave Grossman & Loren W. Chr...

Narrated by: Lieutenant Colonel Dave Grossman

Length: 18 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

On Combat looks at what happens to the human body under the stresses of deadly battle and the impact on the nervous system, heart, breathing, visual and auditory perception, memory -- then discusses new research findings as to what measure warriors can take to prevent such debilitations so they can stay in the fight, survive, and win. A brief,... Read more

Selbsthypnose lernen

By: Michael Bauer

Narrated by: Michael Bauer

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Diese Hypnose lässt Sie eintauchen in eine tiefe Trance. Dort wird Ihnen ein posthypnotischer Anker gesetzt, welcher es Ihnen erlaubt zu jeder Zeit für den Zeitraum von 15 Minuten in Hypnose zu gehen - wann immer Sie möchten. Durch das mehrfache Hören dieses Hypnose-Hörbuchs haben Sie die Möglichkeit künftig auch ganz ohne ohne das Hören den... Read more

Entspannt zum Zahnarzt

By: Michael Bauer

Narrated by: Michael Bauer

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Sie fürchten den Gang zum Zahnarzt? Schon alleine der Gedanke an die nächste Zahnbehandlung lässt Sie schaudern? Sie sind schmerzempfindlich, ängstlich und neigen zu einem gewissen Würgereiz? Mit der Hypnoseanwendung "Entspannt zum Zahnarzt" haben Sie nun die Möglichkeit all diese Thematiken aus dem Wege zu räumen! Sie werden in den angenehmen... Read more

A Very Short Tour the Mind

By: Michael Corballis

Narrated by: Derek Shetterly

Length: 2 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

What gives the human brain the creative ability that defines us all as individuals? Although the silicon version is hard on its heels, the brain remains the most remarkable computer in existence. Leading us through cognitive theory, neuroscience and Darwinian evolution with his trademark wit and wisdom, Michael Corballis explains what we... Read more

Emotional First Aid

By: Guy Winch

Narrated by: Guy Winch

Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

First aid for failure Although we have bandages for cuts, chicken soup for colds, and ice packs for bruises, most of us have no idea how to treat day-to-day emotional injuries such as failure, rejection, and loss. But, as Guy Winch, Ph.D., points out, these kinds of emotional injuries often get worse when left untreated and can significantly... Read more

The Art Of Manipulation

By: Omar Johnson

Narrated by: Phillip Hubler

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

We have all used forms of manipulation in our lifetime. For example, a child manipulating a parent by crying incessantly when that parent balks at the idea of buying them the latest toy, crying to the point where that parent just eventually wears down and gives in or altering our appearance with the intention of getting a specific reaction or... Read more

Hypnotic Influence

By: Omar Johnson

Narrated by: Phillip Hubler

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Whether you are a politician, entertainer, coach or sports figure, religious or spiritual leader, the head of a company or you are trying to lead an organization, in order to get people to follow and support your ideas, beliefs and vision you must be able to persuade and influence them. You must be charismatic and possess the magnetic traits... Read more

Wake Up and Live!

By: Dorothea Brande

Narrated by: Mitch Horowitz

Length: 3 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Born in Chicago, Dorothea Brande (1893-1948) was a widely respected journalist, fiction writer, and writing instructor. Brande is widely known for her enduring guide to the creative process, Becoming a Writer, originally published in 1934 and still popular today. In 1936, Brande published a masterwork of practical psychology, Wake Up and Live!... Read more

Simpler

By: Cass R. Sunstein

Narrated by: Joel Leffert

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Simpler government arrived four years ago. It helped put money in your pocket. It saved hours of your time. It improved your children' s diet, lengthened your life span, and benefited businesses large and small. It did so by issuing fewer regulations, by insisting on smarter regulations, and by eliminating or improving old regulations. Cass R.... Read more

How to Change Minds

By: Rob Jolles

Narrated by: Rob Jolles

Length: 4 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Persuade, Don’t Push! Surely you know plenty of people who need to make a change, but despite your most well-intentioned efforts, they resist because people fundamentally fear change. As a salesman, father, friend, and consultant, Rob Jolles knows this scenario all too well. Drawing on his highly successful sales background and decades of... Read more

The Human Spark

By: Jerome Kagan

Narrated by: Joe Geoffrey

Length: 12 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

As infants we are rife with potential. For a short time, we have before us a seemingly infinite number of developmental paths. Soon, however, we become limited to certain paths as we grow into unique products of our genetics and experience. But what factors account for the variation—in skills, personalities, values—that results? How do... Read more

Clash!

By: Hazel Rose Markus & Alana Conner

Narrated by: Authors

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

As the world gets smaller, hotter, and flatter, people from different cultures are colliding like never before:
East Asian students now dominate Western schools and workplaces, yet crash into the so-called "bamboo ceiling" before reaching the top.Women are getting stuck as they rocket up the corporate ladder, while men are falling off the ladder... Read more

Clash!

By: Alana Conner & Hazel Rose Markus

Narrated by: Alana Conner & Hazel Rose Markus

Length: 10 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

As the world gets smaller, hotter, and flatter, people from different cultures are colliding like never before: 1) East Asian students now dominate Western schools and workplaces, yet crash into the so-called "bamboo ceiling" before reaching the top. 2) Women are getting stuck as they rocket up the corporate ladder, while men are falling off... Read more

The Power of Receiving

By: Amanda Owen

Narrated by: Rose Itzcovitz

Length: 4 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Once in a blue moon an idea comes along that once heard seems so obvious that you wonder why somebody hasn't written about it before. Amanda Owen's The Power of Receiving: A Revolutionary Approach to Giving Yourself the Life You Want and Deserve presents a new paradigm for the 21st century-a philosophy that values receiving as much as giving and... Read more

The Power of Receiving

By: Amanda Owen

Narrated by: Rose Itzcovitz

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Once in a blue moon an idea comes along that once heard seems so obvious that you wonder why somebody hasn't written about it before. Amanda Owen's The Power of Receiving: A Revolutionary Approach to Giving Yourself the Life You Want and Deserve presents a new paradigm for the 21st century-a philosophy that values receiving as much as giving and... Read more