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The Power of Bad

Roy F. Baumeister , John Tierney

From the international bestselling authors of WillpowerWhy does a bad impression last longer than a good one? Why does losing money affect us more than gaining it? What makes phobias so hard to shake?The answer is the negativity bias - or in other words, the power of...

Advanced Social Psychology

Roy F. Baumeister , Eli J. Finkel

Social psychology uses clever, even ingenious, research methods to explore the most essential questions of the human psyche: Why do we help some people and harm others? Why do we pay so much more attention to high-powered people than they pay to us? If humans evolved...

Homo Prospectus

Roy F. Baumeister , Peter Railton , Martin E. P. Seligman , Chandra Sripada

Our species is misnamed. Though sapiens defines human beings as "wise" what humans do especially well is to prospect the future. We are homo prospectus. In this book, Martin E. P. Seligman, Peter Railton, Roy F. Baumeister, and Chandra Sripada argue it is anticipating...

Willpower

Roy F. Baumeister , John Tierney

Can you resist everything except temptation? In a hedonistic age full of distractions, it's hard to possess willpower - or in fact even understand why we should need it. Yet it's actually the most important factor in achieving success and a happy life, shown to be more...

Is There Anything Good About Men?

Roy F. Baumeister

Have men really been engaged in a centuries-old conspiracy to exploit and oppress women?Have the essential differences between men and women really been erased?Have men now become unnecessary? Are they good for anything at all? In Is There Anything Good About Men?,...

Are We Free? Psychology and Free Will

John Baer , Roy F. Baumeister , James C. Kaufman

Do people have free will, or this universal belief an illusion? If free will is more than an illusion, what kind of free will do people have? How can free will influence behavior? Can free will be studied, verified, and understood scientifically? How and why might a...

The Cultural Animal

Roy F. Baumeister

Le pouvoir de la volonté. La nouvelle science du self-control

Roy F. Baumeister , Jean-François Bonnefon , Margaret Rigaud , John Tierney

Faire de l’exercice, dépasser l’échec scolaire, sortir des addictions, triompher de l’anxiété ou des crises de colère... Nous pouvons vaincre la plupart des problèmes sérieux auxquels nous sommes confrontés dans notre vie personnelle comme dans notre vie professionnelle...