Best Psychology books

The 34 highest-rated Psychology books, scored from 16.1K reader ratings.

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8.48.4 / 10
The Righteous MindJonathan Haidt238 ratings“The Righteous Mind” uses social psychology to explain why decent people land on opposite sides of politics and religion.Our view
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8.38.3 / 10
The Psychology of MoneyMorgan Housel1.2K ratingsHousel’s subject is less money than the people who handle it.Our view
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8.38.3 / 10
Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the OddsDavid Goggins670 ratings“Can’t Hurt Me” is half memoir, half training manual.Our view

Why The Righteous Mind is #1

The Righteous Mind (Jonathan Haidt) scores 8.4/10 from 238 ratings — 0.1 points ahead of The Psychology of Money in second place.

The score is a weighted average across 3 independent rating sources. A title with few ratings is pulled toward the category average, so a handful of enthusiastic reviews cannot outrank a book that thousands of readers have judged. To keep the list varied, the top 20 holds at most two books from one series and three by one author; the rest follow further down. Method →