Journalist and Author
Will Storr is a British author and journalist who has served as a contributing editor at Esquire and reported from conflict zones including South Sudan and Uganda. His books explore human psychology and behaviour, including The Science of Storytelling, Selfie and The Status Game.
by Will Storr
Storr synthesizes psychology, neuroscience, and evolutionary theory to argue that stories are the brain's method for modelling flawed selves under pressure, with character - not plot - as the engine. He shows how unexpected change, moral tribes, and the 'sacred flaw' drive narrative grip.
The books Will Storr references, cites, and recommends most frequently.
by Jonathan Haidt
Haidt argues that moral judgements are driven by intuition, not reason. We are fundamentally groupish, and understanding our innate moral foundations explains why good people disagree politically.
by Daniel Kahneman
Kahneman reveals that our minds run on two systems: fast intuition and slow deliberation. Most errors in judgement come from trusting System 1 when the situation demands System 2's careful analysis.
by Steven Pinker
Pinker dismantles the blank slate doctrine - the idea that culture alone shapes human nature. Acknowledging innate traits doesn't undermine equality; it grounds social policy in reality.
by David Eagleman
Eagleman reveals the conscious mind is a tiny fraction of brain activity - most of what we think and decide happens beneath awareness. The 'I' is more stowaway than captain.
by Robert Sapolsky
Sapolsky traces every human behaviour, from aggression to empathy, through biology, from the millisecond before an act back to evolutionary pressures millions of years ago.
Who Will draws from, and who draws from Will — aggregated across every book in this collection. Counts show the number of citation links, not the depth of each one.