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David Robson is a science writer, whose work has been published in the Times, the Guardian, the Atlantic, and the Washington Post. His first book, The Intelligence Trap, has been published in 15 languages.

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Paul Bloom, a psychologist, teaches at the University of Toronto. He’s also the Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Yale University. A prolific writer, he’s been published in scientific journals as well as the New Yorker and the Atlantic. His other books include Just Babies, How Pleasure Works, and Against Empathy.

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You Are Your Best Thing (2021) is an anthology of original essays that explore Black experiences of living, loving, and parenting in America today. It examines concepts like vulnerability and shame, and shows that the key to personal healing lies in confronting white supremacy and the racist systems that make Black people feel unsafe in their communities.

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Tarana Burke, the founder of the Me Too movement, is an activist who has fought sexual violence and sytemic inequality for the last 25 years. She was named Time magazine’s Person of the Year in 2017.

Brené Brown is a research professor at the University of Houston and the author of five #1 New York Times best sellers, including The Gifts of Imperfection and Daring Greatly.

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Noise (2021) is an exploration into the chaotic and costly role that randomness plays in human judgment. By uncovering the mechanisms behind how our minds and societies work, the authors show how noise – unwanted variability in decisions – is both inescapable and elusive. We can, however, with a few solid strategies, make our judgments less noisy and our world fairer.

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Daniel Kahneman is an economist and psychologist and the author of the groundbreaking Thinking, Fast and Slow. Kahneman’s work earned him a Nobel Prize in Economics in 2002 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2013. He’s currently a professor emeritus at Princeton University.

Cass R. Sunstein is a legal scholar and the author and coauthor of several books including Nudge which he coauthored with Richard Thaler. Sunstein served as a top administrator in the Obama White House and is the founder and director of the Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy at Harvard University.

Olivier Sibony is a fellow at Oxford University, a former senior partner at McKinsey & Company, and the author of You’re About to Make a Terrible Mistake!

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Mind Over Money (2016) reveals just how much our psychological baggage and irrational associations affect the decisions we make about money. From our nostalgic affinity for bank notes to how much we save to what we spend our money on, our behavior is influenced by years of “financial socialization” that we’re often completely unaware of. By acknowledging that this behavior is usually irrational, we can create strategies to help us rewire our brains and make money work for – rather than against – us.

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Claudia Hammond is an award-winning author, broadcaster, and psychology lecturer who presents the BBC Radio 4 Program All in the Mind. Her other books include Emotional Rollercoaster: A Journey Through the Science of Feelings and Time Warped: Unlocking the Mysteries of Time Perception. Currently, she is Visiting Professor of the Public Understanding of Psychology at the University of Sussex.

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Social Empathy (2018) shows how we can widen our sense of empathy and extend it not just to individuals who are different from us, but to entire social and cultural groups. It explains the ways we’re able to not just imagine what it’s like to be another person, but also consider the historical and political factors that have made them who they are, which increases our ability to be more empathetic. It also explores the barriers that block empathy – like stress and fear of otherness – and the steps we can take to overcome them.

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Nassir Ghaemi is a psychiatrist and professor of psychiatry at Tufts Medical Center. He also lectures on psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. His research specialisms include depression and bipolar disorder. He has published over 200 scientific articles and is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatry Association.

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Dan Ariely is a professor of psychology and behavioral economics at Duke University. His work has been frequently published in scholarly journals as well as the New York Times, Washington Post, and Scientific American. He’s also the author of Predictably Irrational (2008), The Upside of Irrationality (2011) and The Honest Truth about Dishonesty (2013).

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The Influential Mind (2017) is about the often surprising and sometimes inflexible ways in which the human brain operates. As the esteemed neuroscientist and author Tali Sharot points out, having a better understanding of how the brain works can provide us with better control over our day-to-day lives and a deeper appreciation of the human experience.

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Tali Sharot is a cognitive neuroscientist at University College London. Her work specializes in the emotional response of the brain and the impact this has on decision-making. She also wrote The Optimism Bias: A Tour of the Irrationally Positive Brain, which was the basis for her popular 2012 TED Talk.

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The Great Leveler (2017) takes a look at the inequality faced by different societies throughout history. It highlights war, plague and other major catastrophes as a leveler of the unequal distribution of power and property, prompting the question: can equality be achieved in a non-violent manner?

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Walter Scheidel holds degrees in both history and biology and is a professor of humanities at Stanford University. He has published many books, including the successful Slavery in the Ancient World.

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