Psychology audiobooks

Gang Leader for a Day

By: Sudhir Venkatesh

Narrated by: Reg Rogers & Stephen J. Dubner

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of the young sociologist who studied a Chicago crack-dealing gang from the inside captured the world's attention when it was first described in Freakonomics. Gang Leader for a Day is the fascinating full story of how Sudhir Venkatesh managed to gain entrée into the gang, what he learned, and how his method revolutionized the academic... Read more

The Inner Game of Tennis

By: W. Timothy Gallwey

Narrated by: Dan Woren

Length: 4 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

The timeless guide to achieving the state of “relaxed concentration” that’s not only the key to peak performance in tennis but the secret to success in life itself—part of the bestselling Inner Game series, with more than one million copies sold!

“Groundbreaking . . . the best guide to getting out of your own way . . . Its profound advice applies... Read more

Group Genius

By: Keith Sawyer

Narrated by: Jonathan Marosz

Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Creativity has long been thought to be an individual gift, best pursued alone; schools, organizations, and whole industries are built on this idea. But what if the most common beliefs about how creativity works are wrong? In this authoritative and fascinating new audiobook, Keith Sawyer, a psychologist at Washington University, tears down some... Read more

The Geography of Bliss

By: Eric Weiner

Narrated by: Eric Weiner

Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Now a new series on Peacock with Rainn Wilson, THE GEOGRAPHY OF BLISS is part travel memoir, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide that takes the viewer across the globe to investigate not what happiness is, but WHERE it is.

Are people in Switzerland happier because it is the most democratic country in the world? Do citizens of Qatar,... Read more

The How of Happiness - Abridged

By: Sonja Lyubomirsky

Narrated by: Sonja Lyubomirsky

Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

You can change your personal capacity for happiness. Research psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky's pioneering concept of the 40% solution shows you how. Read more

The Memory Doctor

By: Douglas Mason & Spencer Smith

Narrated by: Erik Singer

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Are You Becoming Forgetful? The Doctor is In!Do you have trouble finding your keys in the morning or forget what you were looking for altogether? When you meet new people, do you often forget their names—as soon as they leave the room? Don't panic! Just because you can't remember why you picked up this audiobook doesn't mean you're losing your... Read more

After the Affair - Abridged

By: Janis A. Spring

Narrated by: Janis A. Spring

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“Dr. Spring possesses a remarkable combination of clarity, wisdom, spirit, and heart. This is an extremely helpful and healing book—a gift to us all.”
—Harriet Lerner, Ph.D., author of The Dance of Anger“It is ‘must’ reading for any couple who has experienced the violation of trust as a result of an affair.”
—Harville Hendrix, Ph.D.  A staggering... Read more

Leadership Therapy - Abridged

By: Anna Rowley

Narrated by: Anna Rowley

Length: 5 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Microsoft is well-known for being an intense place to work: employees face constant pressure to innovate and excel and are passionately devoted to their jobs. In this insightful audiobook, Anna Rowley reveals the major problems all managers face and shows how to conquer them. She distills the characteristics every leader must have to succeed in... Read more

Meditation, Emotion & Healing

By: William G. DeFoore

Narrated by: William G. DeFoore

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Learn how to meditate in this practical and encouraging program. Discover the ways in which meditation can lead you to a healthier and happier life. For many people, regular practice of these techniques results in a greater sense of peace, more emotional control, better stress management and improvement in immune function. As you get to know... Read more

The Spiritual Brain

By: Mario Beauregard, Ph.D. & Denyse O'Leary

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 12 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Does religious experience come from God, or is it just the random firing of neurons in the brain? Drawing on brain research on Carmelite nuns that has attracted major media attention and provocative new research in near-death experiences, The Spiritual Brain proves that genuine, life-changing spiritual events can be documented. The authors make... Read more

The Head Trip

By: Jeff Warren

Narrated by: Raymond Todd

Length: 11 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

A world at once familiar and unimaginably strange exists all around us—and within us. It is the world of consciousness, a protean mental landscape that each of us knows intimately and yet understands scarcely at all. Despite the attempts of scientists and mystics, poets and dreamers, crackpots and geniuses, to map its contours and explain its... Read more

Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters

By: Satoshi Kanazawa & Alan S. Miller

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A lively and provocative look at how evolution shapes our behavior and our lives.



Contrary to conventional wisdom, our brains and bodies are hardwired to carry out an evolutionary mission that determines much of what we do, from life plans to everyday decisions.



With an accessible tone and a healthy disregard for political correctness, this lively... Read more

Soul to Soul

By: Gary Zukav

Narrated by: Gary Zukav

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE MONUMENTAL BESTSELLER, THE SEAT OF THE SOUL

In Soul to Soul Gary Zukav addresses some of the most fundamental questions about the human experience -- from "Why is life so difficult?" to "How can I learn to trust?" -- with profound answers that are of truly universal value.

Soul to Soul provides penetrating insights... Read more

Musicophilia

By: Oliver Sacks

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us dancing to its beat. But the power of music goes much, much further. Indeed, music occupies more areas of our brain than language does–humans are a... Read more

Musicophilia - Abridged

By: Oliver Sacks

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us dancing to its beat.  But the power of music goes much, much further. Indeed, music occupies more areas of our brain than language does—humans are a... Read more

The Body Has a Mind of Its Own

By: Matthew Blakeslee & Sandra Blakeslee

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 9 hours

Abridged: No

Why do you still feel fat after losing weight? Why do you duck your head when you drive into an underground parking garage? Why are your kids so enthralled by video games?



The answers to these questions can be found in a new understanding of how your brain interacts with your body, the space around your body, and the social world. Every point on... Read more

Look Me in the Eye

By: John Elder Robison

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Ever since he was small, John Robison had longed to connect with other people, but by the time he was a teenager, his odd habits–an inclination to blurt out non sequiturs, avoid eye contact, dismantle radios, and dig five-foot holes–had earned him the label “social deviant.” No guidance came from his mother or his father. It was no wonder he... Read more

Look Me in the Eye - Abridged

By: John Elder Robison

Narrated by: John Elder Robison

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ever since he was small, John Robison had longed to connect with other people, but by the time he was a teenager, his odd habits—an inclination to blurt out non sequiturs, avoid eye contact, dismantle radios, and dig five-foot holes (and stick his younger brother in them)—had earned him the label “social deviant.” No guidance came from his... Read more

Finding Your Inner Compass

By: Joan Borysenko, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

How do you get past the chatter in your mind to find the wisdom that comes from a deeper place, your truest inner guidance? Is there a way to filter out the false sense of knowing that comes only from the ego? In this beautiful and inspiring conversation, Joan Borysenko sheds light on the mystery of finding connection with your highest truth. Read more

The Stuff of Thought - Abridged

By: Steven Pinker

Narrated by: Dean Olsher

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This New York Times bestseller is an exciting and fearless investigation of language

Bestselling author Steven Pinker possesses that rare combination of scientific aptitude and verbal eloquence that enables him to provide lucid explanations of deep and powerful ideas. His previous books?including the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Blank Slate?have... Read more

Gut Feelings

By: Gerd Gigerenzer

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Gerd Gigerenzer is one of the researchers of behavioral intuition responsible for the science behind Malcolm Gladwell's bestseller Blink. Gladwell showed us how snap decisions often yield better results than careful analysis. Now, Gigerenzer explains why our intuition is such a powerful decision-making tool.



Drawing on a decade of research at... Read more

Your Attitude Affects Your Health

By: Dawson Church

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Science is beginning to corroborate a link between one's beliefs, and which genes become activated for one's health. Thoughts, beliefs, attitudes, prayer, religious faith, a rich social network, and charitable acts all are factors in staying healthy. Read more

This Is Your Brain on Music - Abridged

By: Daniel J. Levitin

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

What can music teach us about the brain? What can the brain teach us about music? And what can both teach us about ourselves?
 
In this groundbreaking union of art and science, rocker-turned-neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin (The World in Six Songs and The Organized Mind) explores the connection between music—its performance, its composition, how... Read more

The Female Brain

By: Louann Brizendine, MD

Narrated by: Louann Brizendine, MD

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Since Dr. Brizendine wrote The Female Brain ten years ago, the response has been overwhelming. This New York Times bestseller has been translated into more than thirty languages, has sold nearly a million copies between editions, and has most recently inspired a romantic comedy starring Whitney Cummings and Sofia Vergara. And its profound... Read more