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r/AcademicPsychology · 2020

Most-mentioned books in r/AcademicPsychology during 2020

This page ranks books by exact tracked mentions in r/AcademicPsychology within the published source unit for 2020. Counts come from the reconciled subreddit-by-month matrix; a source unit may be a bounded sample.

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Tracked mentions in 2020
Sort by upvotes = sum of comment scores on recognized mentions
Cover of Thinking, Fast and Slow #1

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman

A Nobel-winning psychologist splits the mind into a fast intuitive system and a slow deliberate one, then catalogues where the fast one lies to you.

6 in 2020
Cover of Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst #2

Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

Robert M. Sapolsky

A neuroscientist traces one punch backward through hormones, childhood, evolution, and culture to explain why anyone throws it at all.

3 in 2020
Cover of The Body Keeps the Score #3

The Body Keeps the Score

Bessel van der Kolk

Bessel van der Kolk spent his career arguing trauma changes the nervous system, and r/CPTSD made the book its shared vocabulary for what happened to them.

3 in 2020
Cover of Feeling Good #4

Feeling Good

David D. Burns

David Burns hands depressed readers a list of ten named thinking errors and a worksheet to catch themselves making one.

2 in 2020
Cover of Man's Search for Meaning #5

Man's Search for Meaning

Viktor E. Frankl

A psychiatrist survives three concentration camps and concludes the ones who lived weren't the strongest, they were the ones who still had a reason to.

2 in 2020
Cover of How to Win Friends and Influence People #6

How to Win Friends and Influence People

Dale Carnegie

A 1936 salesman's manual argues you'll get further remembering someone's name and asking about their day than by being right.

1 in 2020
Cover of Mind Over Mood #7

Mind Over Mood

Dennis Greenberger

A CBT workbook that trains you to catch and rewrite the thoughts behind depression, anxiety, and anger, one logged hour at a time.

1 in 2020
Cover of Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life #8

Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life

Marshall B. Rosenberg

Marshall Rosenberg's script for expressing needs without blame, surfaced 144 times across trauma and therapy subreddits over seven years.

1 in 2020
Cover of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat #9

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

Oliver Sacks

A neurologist's case files: patients who lost the ability to recognize faces, bodies, and the right side of the world — and remained fully themselves.

1 in 2020
Cover of The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression #10

The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

Andrew Solomon

Andrew Solomon spent a decade interviewing depressives, doctors, and shamans to write the book that redefined how the English-speaking world talks about depression.

1 in 2020