Psychology audiobooks

Leb wohl, Schlaraffenland

By: Clemens G. Arvay & Roland Düringer

Narrated by: Clemens G. Arvay & Roland Düringer

Length: 1 hour 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Was kostet mich ein Schritt zurück und was bekomme ich dafür? Ist mein verklärter Blick auf das einfache Leben meiner Kindheit nur ein Trugbild, oder ist der Schritt zurück der erste Schritt nach vorn, um Anlauf zu nehmen und den großen Graben der Verheißungen zu überspringen? Roland Düringer erzählt im Gespräch mit Clemens G. Arvay von seinem... Read more

Social

By: Matthew D. Lieberman

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

In Social, renowned psychologist Matthew Lieberman explores groundbreaking research in social neuroscience, revealing that our need to connect with other people is even more fundamental, more basic, than our need for food or shelter. Because of this, our brain uses its spare time to learn about the social world—other people and our relation to... Read more

The Way I See It

By: Temple Grandin, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

In this innovative book, Dr. Temple Grandin gets down to the REAL issues of autism, the ones parents, teachers, and individuals on the spectrum face every day. Temple offers helpful do’s and don’ts, practical strategies, and try-it-now tips, all based on her “insider” perspective and a great deal of research. These are just some of the specific... Read more

Divorce with Grace

By: Lori Anderson

Narrated by: Author

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

A step-by-step guide to healing, releasing & ultimately thriving



When you walked down the aisle and said, "I do," did you ever think you'd be saying, "I don't"? During a difficult divorce, author Lori Anderson set out on a quest for healing. Having witnessed too many victims of divorce, who were stuck in a rut and living only half a life,... Read more

Play at Work

By: Adam L. Penenberg

Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Do games hold the secret to better productivity?

If you’ve ever found yourself engrossed in Angry Birds, Call of Duty, or a plain old crossword puzzle when you should have been doing something more productive, you know how easily games hold our attention. Hardcore gamers have spent the equivalent of 5.93 million years playing World of Warcraft... Read more

8 Keys to Building Your Best Relationships

By: Daniel A. Hughes

Narrated by: Tony Craine

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Bringing attachment theory essentials to everyday life.



A revolution is under way in how we understand the nature of relationships, how we develop in those relationships, and how our brains function synergistically in connection with others. This field is known as attachment theory, and until now most of the cutting-edge insights have been... Read more

Self-Help Messiah

By: Steven Watts

Narrated by: Mark Peckham

Length: 17 hours

Abridged: No

An illuminating biography of the man who taught Americans "how to win friends and influence people"Before Stephen Covey, Oprah Winfrey, and Malcolm Gladwell there was Dale Carnegie. His book, How to Win Friends and Influence People, became a bestseller worldwide, and Life magazine named him one of the "most important Americans of the twentieth... Read more

30 Days to Love

By: Diana Kirschner

Narrated by: Tanya Eby

Length: 2 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Did you know there’s a simple 60-second cure that can put the sizzle and the closeness back in your relationship? Even if: Your lover is getting on your nerves and driving you up a wall You’re living in a lonely, resentful, angry, or painful place in the relationship You feel uncertain about your future together, anxious and afraid that you’ll... Read more

You Just Don't Understand

By: Deborah Tannen

Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat

Length: 11 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Deborah Tannen's #1 bestseller revolutionized the way men and women talk -- and listen -- to each other -- at home, at work, and wherever the communication gap between the sexes can lead to troublesome misunderstandings. The problem dates back to childhood, when boys and girls learn to use language in distinctly different ways; years later,... Read more

Humanity Moving From Adolescence To Maturity

By: Anodea Judith, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Judith takes us on a historical journey and moves us into the present era. She has hope for the future and points out that there is an under-reported grassroots movement taking place today, but warns, “We need to be careful not to judge it as a system that doesn’t work just because it’s young… we have to move through the chaos and find a new... Read more

Focus

By: Daniel Goleman

Narrated by: Daniel Goleman

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

In Focus, Psychologist and journalist Daniel Goleman, author of the #1 international bestseller Emotional Intelligence, offers a groundbreaking look at today’s scarcest resource and the secret to high performance and fulfillment: attention.Combining cutting-edge research with practical findings, Focus delves into the science of attention in all... Read more

Hardwiring Happiness

By: Rick Hanson, PhD

Narrated by: Rick Hanson, PhD

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

With New York Times bestselling author, Dr. Hanson's four steps, you can counterbalance your brain's negativity bias and learn to hardwire happiness in only a few minutes each day. 

Why is it easier to ruminate over hurt feelings than it is to bask in the warmth of being appreciated? Because your brain evolved to learn quickly from bad... Read more

Perv

By: Jesse Bering

Narrated by: Jesse Bering

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

"As a sex writer, Jesse Bering is fearless—and peerless." —Dan Savage

"You are a sexual deviant. A pervert, through and through." We may not want to admit it, but as the award-winning columnist and psychologist Jesse Bering reveals in Perv, there is a spectrum of perversion along which we all sit. Whether it's voyeurism, exhibitionism, or your... Read more

The Rational Animal

By: Vladas Griskevicius & Douglas T. Kenrick, PhD

Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Why do three out of four professional football players go bankrupt? How can illiterate jungle dwellers pass a test that tricks Harvard philosophers? And why do billionaires work so hard—only to give their hard-earned money away?

When it comes to making decisions, the classic view is that humans are eminently rational. But growing evidence... Read more

David and Goliath

By: Malcolm Gladwell

Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Audie Award Winner, Nonfiction, 2014

Explore the power of the underdog in Malcolm Gladwell's dazzling examination of success, motivation, and the role of adversity in shaping our lives, from the bestselling author of The Bomber Mafia.

Three thousand years ago on a battlefield in ancient Palestine, a shepherd boy felled a mighty warrior with... Read more

What the Dog Knows

By: Cat Warren

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A firsthand exploration of the extraordinary abilities and surprising, sometimes life-saving talents of “working dogs”—pups who can sniff out drugs, find explosives, even locate the dead—as told through the experiences of a journalist and her intrepid canine companion, which The New York Times calls “a fascinating, deeply reported journey into... Read more

When Sorry Isn't Enough

By: Gary Chapman & Jennifer Thomas

Narrated by: Kelly Ryan Dolan

Length: 4 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

"I said I was sorry!"

Even in the best of relationships, all of us make mistakes. We do and say things we later regret and hurt the people we love most. So we need to make things right. But simply saying you’re sorry is usually not enough.

In this audio book, #1 New York Times best-selling author Gary Chapman and Jennifer Thomas unveil new ways to... Read more

Her Best-Kept Secret

By: Gabrielle Glaser

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 5 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

What's the first thing many women do when they go home? Make a dash for the white wine in the refrigerator.In Her Best-Kept Secret, journalist Gabrielle Glaser uncovers this hidden-in-plain-sight drinking epidemic—but doesn't cause you to recoil in alarm. She is the first to document that American women are drinking more often than ever and in... Read more

Smarter Than You Think

By: Clive Thompson

Narrated by: Jeff Cummings

Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

How technology boosts our cognitive abilities—making us smarter, more productive, and more creative than ever beforeIt’s undeniable: technology is changing the way we think. But is it for the better? Amid a chorus of doomsayers, Clive Thompson votes yes. The Internet age has produced a radical new style of human intelligence, worthy of both... Read more

I Don't Know

By: Leah Hager Cohen

Narrated by: Karen Saltus

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

A short, concise audiobook in favor of honoring doubt and admitting when the answer is: I don't know.



In a tight, enlightening narrative, Leah Hager Cohen explores why, so often, we attempt to hide our ignorance, and why, in so many different areas, we would be better off coming clean. Weaving entertaining, anecdotal reporting with eye-opening... Read more

I Don't Know

By: Leah Hager Cohen

Narrated by: Karen Saltus

Length: 2 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

A short, concise audiobook in favor of honoring doubt and admitting when the answer is: I don’t know.

In a tight, enlightening narrative, Leah Hager Cohen explores why, so often, we attempt to hide our ignorance, and why, in so many different areas, we would be better off coming clean. Weaving entertaining, anecdotal reporting with eye-opening... Read more

Before Happiness

By: Shawn Achor

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “This fresh, uplifting book is filled with ideas for improving our organizations and our lives.”—Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again and host of the podcast WorkLife

“With his characteristic blend of academic rigor and twinkle in the eye, Shawn Achor will change your view of happiness, of... Read more

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

Thinking in New Boxes

By: Luc De Brabandere & Alan Iny

Narrated by: Alan Iny

Length: 11 hours

Abridged: No

When BIC, manufacturer of disposable ballpoint pens, wanted to grow, it looked for an idea beyond introducing new sizes and ink colors. Someone suggested lighters.
 
LIGHTERS?
 
With an idea that seemed crazy at first, that bright executive, instead of seeing BIC as a pen company—a business in the PEN “box”—figured out that there was growth to... Read more