Chapter 1 — History & Approaches

• Shorto, R. (2009). Descartes' bones: A skeletal history of the conflict between faith and reason. New York: Vintage Books.

• Eliot, C. W. (Ed.) (1937). The Harvard Classics, Vol. 11: Origin of Species, Darwin. New York, N.Y.: P.F. Collier & Son.

Chapter 2 — Research Methods

• Olson, R., Verley, J., Santos, L., & Salas, C. (2004). What we teach students about the Hawthorne studies: A review of content within a sample of introductory I-O OB textbooks. Industrial-Organizational Psychologist, 41(3), 23–39.
• Roethlisberger, F., & Dickson, W. (1939). Management and the worker. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
• Rosenthal, R. & Fode, K.L. (1963). The effect of experimenter bias on the performance of the albino rat. Behavioral Science, 8, 183–89.

• Randi, J. (1982). Flim-flam!: Psychics, ESP, unicorns, and other delusions. Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books.
• Shermer, M. (2002). Why people believe weird things: pseudoscience, superstition, and other confusions of our time. New York: A.W.H. Freeman/Owl Book.

Chapter 3 — Biological Bases of Behavior

• Benson, H., and Klipper, M.Z. (2000). The Relaxation Response (25th Anniversary Edition). New York: HarperTorch.
• De Carlos, J.A. & Borrell, J. (2007). A historical reflection of the contributions of Cajal and Golgi to the foundations of neuroscience. Brain Research Reviews, 55(1), 8–16.
• Haas, L.F. (2003). Hans Berger (1873–1941), Richard Caton (1842–1926), and electroencephalography. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, 74(1), 9.
• Macmillan, M., & Lena, M. (2010). Rehabilitating Phineas Gage. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 20(5), 641–658.
• Ratiu, P., Talos, I., Haker, S., Lieberman, D., & Everett, P. (2004). The tale of Phineas Gage, digitally remastered. Journal of Neurotrauma, 21(5), 637–643.
• Varki, A. & Altheide, T.K. (2005). Comparing the human and chimpanzee genomes: searching for needles in a haystack. Genome Research, 15(12), 1746–58.

• Dawkins, R. (1989). The Selfish Gene (New ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Ramachandran, V.S. & Blakeslee, S. (1998). Phantoms in the Brain. New York: HarperCollins.

• Robert Sapolsky — Human Behavioral Biology — Stanford University
• David Cox — Fundamentals of Neuroscience (MCB80x) — HarvardX

Chapter 4 — Sensation & Perception

• Ramachandran, V.S. & Hubbard, E.M. (2001). Psychophysical investigations into the neural basis of synaesthesia. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B, 268, 979–983.
• Segall, M., Campbell, D. & Herskovits, M.J. (1966). The Influence of Culture on Visual Perception. New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company.

• Sacks, O. (1995). An anthropologist on Mars: Seven paradoxical tales. New York: Knopf.

• Stuart Anstis — Sensation and Perception (PSYC 102) — University of California at San Diego

Chapter 5 — Learning

• Bandura, A., Ross, D., & Ross, S. (1961). Transmission of aggression through imitation of aggressive models. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 575–582.
• Bandura, A., Ross, D., & Ross, S. (1963). Imitation of film-mediated aggressive models. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 3–11.
• Breland, K., & Breland, M. (1961). The misbehavior of organisms. American Psychologist, 681–684.
• Garcia, J., Kimeldorf, D., & Koelling, R. (1955). Conditioned aversion to saccharin resulting from exposure to gamma radiation. Science, 122(3160), 157–8.
• Garcia, J., & Koelling, R. (1966). Relation of cue to consequence in avoidance learning. Psychonomic Science, 4, 123–124.
• Skinner, B. (1947). 'Superstition' in the pigeon. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 168–172.
• Tolman, E.C., & Honzik, C.H. (1930). Introduction and removal of reward, and maze performance in rats. University of California Publications in Psychology.
• Tolman, E.C. (1948). Cognitive maps in rats and men. Psychological Review, 55(4), 189.
• Watson, J., & Rayner, R. (1920). Conditioned emotional reactions. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 3, 1–14.

• Burgess, A. (1986). A Clockwork Orange. New York: Norton.
• Skinner, B. (1976). Walden Two. New York: Macmillan.

Chapter 6 — Memory

• Atkinson, R. & Shiffrin, R. (1968). Human memory: A proposed system and its control processes. In The psychology of learning and motivation (Vol. 2). New York: Academic Press.
• Craik, F., & Lockhart, R. (1972). Levels of processing: A framework for memory research. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 11, 671–684.
• Loftus, E., & Pickrell, J. (1995). The formation of false memories. Psychiatric Annals, 25, 720–725.
• Loftus, E., & Palmer, J. (1974). Reconstruction of automobile destruction: An example of the interaction between language and memory. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 585–589.
• Miller, G. (1956). The magical number seven, plus or minus two: Some limits on our capacity for processing information. Psychological Review, 81–97.
• Scoville, W., & Milner, B. (1957). Loss of recent memory after bilateral hippocampal lesions. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, 20(1), 11–21.
• Sperling, G. (1960). The information available in brief visual presentations. Psychological Monographs, 74, 1–29.

• Foer, J. (2011). Moonwalking with Einstein: The art and science of remembering everything. New York: Penguin Press.
• Schacter, D. (2001). The Seven Sins of Memory: How the mind forgets and remembers. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Chapter 7 — Language & Cognition

• Berko, J. (1958). The child's learning of English morphology. Word, 150–177.
• Chomsky, N. (1959). A review of Skinner's Verbal Behavior. Language, 35(1), 26–58.
• Kahneman, D., & Tversky, A. (1979). Prospect theory: An analysis of decisions under risk. Econometrica, 47(2), 263–291.
• Tversky, A., & Kahneman, D. (1973). Availability: A heuristic for judging frequency and probability. Cognitive Psychology, 5(2), 207–232.
• Tversky, A., & Kahneman, D. (1981). The framing of decisions and the psychology of choice. Science, 211(4481), 453–458.

• Ariely, D. (2010). Predictably irrational: The hidden forces that shape our decisions. New York: Harper Perennial.
• Kahneman, D. (2011). Thinking, Fast and Slow. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
• Pinker, S. (2007). The Stuff of Thought: Language as a window into human nature. New York: Viking.

Chapter 8 — States of Consciousness

• Bargh, J., Chen, M., & Burrows, L. (1996). Automaticity of social behavior: Direct effects of trait construct and stereotype activation on action. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 71, 230–244.
• Cherry, E. (1953). Some experiments on the recognition of speech, with one and with two ears. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 975–975.
• Hobson, J.A., & McCarley, R. (1977). The brain as a dream state generator: An activation-synthesis hypothesis of the dream process. American Journal of Psychiatry, 134(12), 1335–48.
• Simons, D., & Chabris, C. (1999). Gorillas in our midst: sustained inattentional blindness for dynamic events. Perception, 28(9), 1059–1074.
• Wamsley, E., Tucker, M., Payne, J., Benavides, J., & Stickgold, R. (2010). Dreaming of a learning task is associated with enhanced sleep-dependent memory consolidation. Current Biology, 850–855.
• Zeidan, F., Grant, J., Brown, C., McHaffie, J., & Coghill, R. (2012). Mindfulness meditation-related pain relief: Evidence for unique brain mechanisms in the regulation of pain. Neuroscience Letters, 165–173.

• Freud, S., & Crick, J. (1999). The Interpretation of Dreams. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Sacks, O. (2012). Hallucinations. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
• Wegner, D. (2002). The Illusion of Conscious Will. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.

Chapter 9 — Intelligence

• Dickens, W.T., & Flynn, J.R. (2001). Heritability estimates versus large environmental effects: The IQ paradox resolved. Psychological Review, 108(2), 346–369.
• Neisser, U., Boodoo, G., Bouchard, T.J., Jr., Boykin, A.W., Brody, N., Ceci, S.J., et al. (1996). Intelligence: Knowns and unknowns. American Psychologist, 51, 77–101.
• Rosenthal, R., & Jacobson, L. (1968). Pygmalion in the classroom. The Urban Review, 3(1), 16–20.
• Steele, C.M., & Aronson, J. (1995). Stereotype threat and the intellectual test performance of African Americans. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 69(5), 797–811.
• Sternberg, R.J., Grigorenko, E.L., & Kidd, K.K. (2005). Intelligence, Race, and Genetics. American Psychologist, 60(1), 46–59.

• Dweck, C.S. (2006). Mindset: The new psychology of success. New York: Random House.
• Steele, C. (2011). Whistling Vivaldi: How stereotypes affect us and what we can do. New York: W.W. Norton & Company.

Chapter 10 — Personality

• Bouchard, T.J., & Loehlin, J.C. (2001). Genes, evolution, and personality. Behavioral Genetics, 31, 243–273.
• Mischel, W. (1968). Personality and assessment. New York: Wiley.
• Pittenger, D.J. (1993). Measuring the MBTI . . . and coming up short. Journal of Career Planning and Employment, 54(1), 48–52.
• Rorschach, H. (1927). Rorschach Test — Psychodiagnostic Plates. Cambridge, MA: Hogrefe Publishing Corp.

• Carver, C.S., & Scheier, M.F. (2012). Perspectives on Personality (7th ed.). Boston: Pearson.

Chapter 11 — Emotion & Motivation

• Deci, E.L., Koestner, R., & Ryan, R.M. (1999). A meta-analytic review of experiments examining the effects of extrinsic rewards on intrinsic motivation. Psychological Bulletin, 125(6), 627–668.
• Dutton, D.G., & Aron, A.P. (1974). Some evidence for heightened sexual attraction under conditions of high anxiety. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 30(4), 510–517.
• Lepper, M.R., Greene, D., & Nisbett, R.E. (1973). Undermining children's intrinsic interest with extrinsic reward: A test of the "overjustification" hypothesis. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 28(1), 129–137.
• Masters, W.H., & Johnson, V.E. (1966). Human sexual response. Boston: Little, Brown and Company.
• Strack, F., Martin, L.L., & Stepper, S. (1988). Inhibiting and facilitating conditions of the human smile: A nonobtrusive test of the facial feedback hypothesis. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 54(5), 768–777.
• Yerkes, R.M., & Dodson, J.D. (1908). The relation of strength of stimulus to rapidity of habit-formation. Journal of Comparative Neurology and Psychology, 18(5), 459–482.

• Csikszentmihalyi, M. (1990). Flow: The psychology of optimal experience. New York: Harper & Row.
• McGonigal, K. (2012). The willpower instinct. New York: Avery.
• Wansink, B. (2006). Mindless eating: Why we eat more than we think. New York: Bantam Books.

• Kelly Brownell — The Biology, Psychology, and Politics of Food — Yale University
• Robert Sapolsky — Human Behavioral Biology — Stanford University

Chapter 12 — Development

• Ainsworth, M.D.S., Blehar, M.C., Waters, E., & Wall, S. (1978). Patterns of attachment: A psychological study of the strange situation. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
• Harlow, H.F. (1958). The nature of love. American Psychologist, 13, 573–685.
• Kohlberg, L. (1963). Development of children's orientation towards a moral order. Vita Humana, 6, 11–36.
• Piaget, J. (various). Foundational works on cognitive development.
• Rosenzweig, M.R., Krech, D., Bennett, E.L., & Diamond, M.C. (1962). Effects of environmental complexity and training on brain chemistry and anatomy. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 55(4), 429–437.

• Blum, D. (2002). Love at Goon Park: Harry Harlow and the science of affection. Cambridge, MA: Perseus Pub.
• Gilligan, C. (1982). In a different voice: Psychological theory and women's development. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
• Sapolsky, R.M. (2004). Why zebras don't get ulcers (3rd ed.). New York: Holt.

Chapter 13 — Social Psychology

• Asch, S.E. (1951). Effects of group pressure upon the modification and distortion of judgments. In H.E. Guetzkow (Ed.), Groups, leadership and men. Oxford: Carnegie Press.
• Asch, S.E. (1955). Opinions and social pressure. Scientific American, 193, 31–35.
• Cialdini, R.B., Vincent, J.E., Lewis, S.K., Catalan, J., Wheeler, D., & Darby, B.L. (1975). Reciprocal concessions procedure for inducing compliance: The door-in-the-face technique. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 31, 206–215.
• Darley, J.M., & Latané, B. (1968). Bystander intervention in emergencies: diffusion of responsibility. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 8(4), 377–383.
• Festinger, L. & Carlsmith, J.M. (1959). Cognitive consequences of forced compliance. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 58, 203–210.
• Freedman, J.L., & Fraser, S.C. (1966). Compliance without pressure: The foot-in-the-door technique. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 4(2), 195–202.
• Haney, C., Banks, C., & Zimbardo, P.G. (1973). Interpersonal dynamics in a simulated prison. International Journal of Criminology and Penology, 1, 69–97.
• Milgram, S. (1963). Behavioral study of obedience. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 67, 371–378.
• Sherif, M., Harvey, O.J., White, B.J., Hood, W., & Sherif, C.W. (1961). Intergroup Conflict and Cooperation: The Robbers Cave Experiment. Norman, OK: The University Book Exchange.
• Tajfel, H. (1970). Experiments in intergroup discrimination. Scientific American, 223, 96–102.

• Cialdini, R.B. (2000). Influence: Science and practice (4th ed.). New York: Morrow.
• Perry, G. (2012). Behind the shock machine: The untold story of the notorious Milgram psychology experiments. Brunswick, Vic: Scribe Publications.
• Schwartz, B. (2004). The paradox of choice: Why more is less. New York: Ecco.

Chapter 14 — Stress & Health

• Epel, E.S., Blackburn, E.H., Lin, J., Dhabhar, F.S., Adler, N.E., Morrow, J.D., & Cawthon, R.M. (2004). Accelerated telomere shortening in response to life stress. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 101(49), 17312–17315.
• Holmes, T.H., & Rahe, R.H. (1967). The social readjustment rating scale. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 11, 213–318.
• Kobasa, S. (1979). Stressful life events, personality, and health: An inquiry into hardiness. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 37, 1–11.
• Seligman, M.E.P., & Maier, S.F. (1967). Failure to escape traumatic shock. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 74(1), 1–9.
• Selye, H. (1936). A syndrome produced by diverse nocuous agents. Nature, 138(3479), 32–33.
• Taylor, S.E., Klein, L.C., Lewis, B.P., Gruenewald, T.L., Gurung, R.A.R., & Updegraff, J.A. (2000). Biobehavioral responses to stress in females: Tend-and-befriend, not fight-or-flight. Psychological Review, 107, 411–429.

• Gilbert, D. (2005). Stumbling on Happiness. New York, NY: Vintage Books.
• Lyubomirsky, S. (2008). The how of happiness: A scientific approach to getting the life you want. New York: Penguin Press.
• Sapolsky, R. (2004). Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers (3rd ed.). New York: Henry Holt.
• Seligman, M.E.P. (2002). Authentic happiness. New York: Free Press.

• Tal Ben-Shahar — Positive Psychology — Harvard University

Chapter 15 — Psychological Disorders

• American Psychiatric Association (2013). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders: DSM-5. Washington, D.C.: American Psychiatric Association.
• Arcelus, J., Mitchell, A.J., Wales, J., & Nielsen, S. (2011). Mortality rates in patients with anorexia nervosa and other eating disorders. Archives of General Psychiatry, 68(7), 724–731.
• Caspi, A., Sugden, K., Moffitt, T.E., Taylor, A., Craig, I.W., Harington, H., et al. (2003). Influence of life stress on depression: moderation by a polymorphism in the 5-HTT gene. Science, 301(5631), 386–389.
• Kessler, R.C., Berglund, P., Demler, O., Jin, R., Merikangas, K.R., & Walters, E.E. (2005). Lifetime prevalence and age-of-onset distributions of DSM-IV disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication. Archives of General Psychiatry, 62(6), 593–602.
• Rosenhan, D. (1973). On being sane in insane places. Science, 179, 250–258.
• Szasz, T. (1960). The myth of mental illness. American Psychologist, 15, 113–118.

• Hare, R.D. (1999). Without conscience: The disturbing world of the psychopaths among us. New York: Guilford Press.
• Jamison, K.R. (1995). An unquiet mind. New York: A.A. Knopf.
• Kaysen, S. (1994). Girl, interrupted. New York: Vintage Books.
• Ronson, J. (2011). The psychopath test: A journey through the madness industry. New York: Riverhead Books.

Chapter 16 — Treatment

• Eysenck, H.J. (1952). The effects of psychotherapy: An evaluation. Journal of Consulting Psychology, 16, 319–324.
• Jones, M.C. (1924). A laboratory study of fear: The case of Peter. Pedagogical Seminary, 31, 308–315.
• Khan, A., Redding, N., & Brown, W.A. (2008). The persistence of the placebo response in antidepressant clinical trials. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 42(10), 791–796.
• Kirsch, I., & Sapirstein, G. (1998). Listening to Prozac but hearing placebo: A meta-analysis of antidepressant medication. Prevention & Treatment, 1(2).
• Kirsch, I., Moore, T.J., Scoboria, A., & Nicholls, S.S. (2002). The emperor's new drugs: An analysis of antidepressant medication data submitted to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Prevention & Treatment, 5(1).
• Schwartz, J.M., Stoessel, E.W., Baxter, L.R., Jr., Martin, K.M., & Phelps, M.E. (1996). Systematic changes in cerebral glucose metabolic rate after successful behavior modification treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Archives of General Psychiatry, 53, 109–113.

• Davies, J. (2013). Cracked: The unhappy truth about psychiatry. New York: Pegasus.
• Mukherjee, S. (2012). Post-Prozac nation: The science and history of treating depression. New York Times Magazine. Available at: nytimes.com