This set of information I’m going to provide you will give you the possibility to not just prevent yourself from being manipulated, but also to be able to yourself do the manipulating. It will be up to you and to your own moral standard to decide what to do.

You Are Now Less Dumb is grounded in the idea that we all believe ourselves to be objective observers of reality - except we’re not. But that's okay, because our delusions keep us sane. Expanding on this premise, McRaney provides eye-opening analyses of 15 more ways we fool ourselves every day. This smart and highly entertaining audiobook will be wowing listeners for years to come.

The author of the legendary best seller Influence, social psychologist Robert Cialdini, shines a light on effective persuasion and reveals that the secret doesn't lie in the message itself but in the key moment before that message is delivered.

In an eye-opening tour of the unconscious, as contemporary psychological science has redefined it, Timothy D. Wilson introduces us to a hidden mental world of judgments, feelings, and motives that introspection may never show us. This is not your psychoanalyst's unconscious. The adaptive unconscious that empirical psychology has revealed, and that Wilson describes, is much more than a repository of primative drives and conflict-ridden memories.

If you want to impress people with your critical-thinking skills, then check out this comprehensive audiobook with two manuscripts in one: Critical Thinking and Logical Fallacies.

People are manipulated every day and they don't even realize it. They walk around unaware of how vulnerable they are to the dark manipulators of the world. Luckily, you can keep this from happening to YOU, if you know how... In this book you will discover: how to hard-wire your brain to throw up red flags when these techniques are being used against you, what is dark psychology and how is it used to control people, the subtle techniques that have drastic effects on the minds of the unaware, and much more.

Becoming Who We Need to Be is a book about the challenges we face as societies and how the decisions we make as individuals matter in those larger struggles. How we seek out, filter, and parse knowledge shapes our understanding of ourselves and of the world. How we analyze, organize, and act upon this information influences how well our individual ideas and ideologies scale up to the societal level.

This audiobook helps you to understand what is meant by psychological warfare, and how it affects you and the people you love.

Do you want to think like Sherlock Holmes? Do you want to develop the skills to pick up on subtle social cues such as micro expressions, body language, and human psychology to discover the true motives of your peers? We've all seen it in movies and novels where leading detectives are able to take sparse amounts of information and put the puzzle pieces together coherently in an almost supernatural fashion. My audiobook is designed to teach you the ins and outs of the many intricacies of human psychology.

Reveal the dark magic of little-known psychology...How we manipulate others without even knowing? What is the science behind falling in love and creating friends? What are the secrets that psychologists keep only for themselves? In this audiobook, you will reveal what is dark psychology, why it is so important, and how you can use - for protection and for influencing people.

Being able to recognize manipulative persons or techniques is very difficult. We live among manipulative persons without recognizing them. More often, you come back from work and feel drained of all your energy. Manipulation, persuasion, mind control, and subliminal messages are all aspects of people's behavior. Some are able to use those techniques, others are not. This book will give you plenty of examples and scenarios where you can recognize individuals that use traits of persuasion, manipulation, and influence in both a negative fashion and for personal gain.

Dark psychology it is not something that just came in the other day. Since it is seen to have a long history, what differs from the current dark psychology to the past dark psychology are the methods or ways people adopt. Dark psychology involves manipulation, deception, and persuasion. There are only three percent of people in the world who have mastered the art of manipulation.

Dark psychology is a topic that has been explored in various levels with a lot of people failing to understand what it is all about. This audiobook takes you down a journey of self-discovery, telling you what the topic is all about and what you can do to take advantage of it. The book starts by telling you the history of the concept and how it fits into the general landscape. You need to understand that there are various theories that make the concept of dark psychology real.

In today’s world, almost everyone faces something called dark psychology. Being ignorant about this topic leaves you open to being taken advantage of. It’s time for you to learn about manipulation and persuasion. If you think you’re safe, know that large corporations, politicians, and businesses use these methods to drive you to buy their products, services, or to place your trust in them to run the country. It’s easy enough to protect yourself against dark psychology; if you’re aware of the methods and tactics used, you become less likely to fall for them.

Are you curious to discover dark psychology? Want to know all the secrets and techniques to learn to defend yourself and not be manipulated by anyone? The art and science of mind control and manipulation are what is referred to as dark psychology. Dark psychology is where individuals use certain tactics of persuasion, motivation, coercion, or manipulation to achieve their goals at the expense of others.

It was long ago, but not as long as it seems: The Berlin Wall fell and the Twin Towers collapsed. In between, one presidential election was allegedly decided by Ross Perot while another was plausibly decided by Ralph Nader. Landlines fell to cell phones, the internet exploded, and pop culture accelerated without the aid of technology that remembered everything. It was the last era with a real mainstream to either identify with or oppose. The ’90s brought about a revolution in the human condition, and a shift in consciousness, that we’re still struggling to understand.

Professor Jim Davies's fascinating and highly accessible book, Riveted, reveals the evolutionary underpinnings of why we find things compelling. Drawing on work from philosophy, anthropology, religious studies, psychology, economics, computer science, and biology, Davies offers a comprehensive explanation to show that in spite of the differences between the many things that we find compelling, they have similar effects on our minds and brains.

Virus of the Mind is the first popular work devoted to the science of memetics, a controversial new field that transcends psychology, biology, anthropology, and cognitive science. Memetics is the science of memes, the invisible but very real DNA of human society. Here, the author carefully builds on the work of scientists Richard Dawkins, Douglas Hofstadter, Daniel Dennett, and others who have become fascinated with memes and their potential impact on our lives.

You Are Now Less Dumb is grounded in the idea that we all believe ourselves to be objective observers of reality - except we’re not. But that's okay, because our delusions keep us sane. Expanding on this premise, McRaney provides eye-opening analyses of 15 more ways we fool ourselves every day. This smart and highly entertaining audiobook will be wowing listeners for years to come.

First published in 1962, this wonderfully provocative book introduced the notion of "pseudo-events" - events such as press conferences and presidential debates, which are manufactured solely in order to be reported - and the contemporary definition of celebrity as "a person who is known for his well-knownness". Since then Daniel J. Boorstin's prophetic vision of an America inundated by its own illusions has become an essential resource for any listeners who wants to distinguish the manifold deceptions of our culture from its few enduring truths.

We've decided by consensus that consensus is good. In In Defense of Troublemakers, psychologist Charlan Nemeth argues that this principle is completely wrong: left unchallenged, the majority opinion is often biased, unoriginal, or false. It leads planes and markets to crash, causes juries to convict innocent people, and can quite literally make people think blue is green. In the name of comity, we embrace stupidity. We can make better decisions by embracing dissent. Dissent forces us to question the status quo, consider more information, and engage in creative decision-making.

From terror attacks to the War on Terror, bursting real-estate bubbles to crystal meth epidemics, sexual predators to poisonous toys from China, our list of fears seems to be exploding. And yet, we are the safest and healthiest humans in history. Irrational fear is running amok, and often with tragic results. In the months after 9/11, when people decided to drive instead of fly - believing they were avoiding risk - road deaths rose by 1,595. Those lives were lost to fear.

Humor, like pornography, is famously difficult to define. We know it when we see it, but is there a way to figure out what we really find funnyand why? In this fascinating investigation into the science of humor and laughter, cognitive neuroscientist Scott Weems uncovers what’s happening in our heads when we giggle, guffaw, or double over with laughter. While we typically think of humor in terms of jokes or comic timing, in Ha! Weems proposes a provocative new model.

You are a mind reader, born with an extraordinary ability to understand what others think, feel, believe, want, and know. It's a sixth sense you use every day, in every personal and professional relationship you have. At its best, this ability allows you to achieve the most important goal in almost any life: connecting, deeply and intimately and honestly, to other human beings. At its worst, it is a source of misunderstanding and unnecessary conflict, leading to damaged relationships and broken dreams. How good are you at knowing the minds of others?

The Self Illusion provides a fascinating examination of how the latest science shows that our individual concept of a self is in fact an illusion. Most of us believe that we possess a self - an internal individual who resides inside our bodies, making decisions, authoring actions and possessing free will. The feeling that a single, unified, enduring self inhabits the body is compelling and inescapable. But that sovereignty of the self is increasingly under threat from science as our understanding of the brain advances.