The Little Book of Psychology, Caroline Riggs
The Little Book of Psychology, Caroline Riggs
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The Little Book of Psychology
An Introduction to the Key Psychologists and Theories You Need to Know

Author: Caroline Riggs, Emily Ralls

Narrator: Jennifer M. Dixon

Unabridged: 2 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 01/31/2022


Synopsis

If you want to know your Freud from your Jung and your Milgram from your Maslow, strap in for this whirlwind tour of the highlights of psychology. Including accessible primers on:

● The early thinkers who contributed to psychological ideas and the birth of modern psychology

● Famous (and often controversial) experiments and their repercussions

● What psychology can teach us about memory, language, conformity, reasoning, and emotions

● The ethics of psychological studies

● Recent developments in the modern fields of evolutionary and cyber psychology.

This illuminating little book will introduce you to the key thinkers, themes, and theories you need to know to understand how the study of mind and behavior has sculpted the world we live in and the way we think today.

About Caroline Riggs

Caroline Riggs is coauthor of The Little Book of Psychology: An Introduction to the Key Psychologists and Theories You Need to Know.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Moriyah on May 22, 2023

This was a really fun short book on psychology! It felt more like an overview but was still interesting and informative. I liked how short each of the stories were and all the different graphs, quotes, and pictures. This is really good if you want to know psychology basics. It’s also clean! There is......more

Goodreads review by Komal on November 10, 2020

This 120 page book set out as a introduction to Psychology! ⁣ ⁣ The book explains the history and how the psychology evolved over a period of time since 18th century exploring the works of renowned psychologists Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Ivan Pavlov, John Watson, B.F. Skinner, Jean Piaget and many mor......more

Goodreads review by Bastiaan on January 28, 2023

Very compact and clear overview of the main ways of thinking in psychology. I found ‘Social Psychology ’ to be the most interesting. 4.4......more

Goodreads review by John on February 28, 2025

A very interesting, quick summary of psychology from its beginnings......more

Goodreads review by Kapil on July 02, 2023

Short and sweet, the book does what it says. It's actually a little book in size too, which makes it cute. Gives a very basic idea of psychology and different schools of psychology, introduces popular psychologists and their theories. Follows a more or less chronological order of evolution of differ......more