by David Brooks
Brooks argues that character is built not through rational planning but through deep emotional and social bonds. The unconscious mind drives our most important decisions and relationships.
In this collection, The Social Animal references 2 other books and is cited by 3 other books.
It draws on Thinking, Fast and Slow and Outliers.
It’s picked up by The Righteous Mind, The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life and Influence.
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Brooks references Kahneman's focusing illusion directly.
Brooks draws on same studies as Gladwell's Outliers.
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Haidt references Brooks's The Social Animal on unconscious social influences.
Builds directly on his own Social Animal, extending its moral-psychology argument into a normative account of what a committed life requires
Cialdini calls Elliot Aronson's The Social Animal "one of the most important social science books" in the field. He draws on Aronson's research on cognitive dissonance and his famous "jigsaw classroom" studies throughout the commitment and consistency chapter.
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Pre-Suasion
Robert Cialdini
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The Righteous Mind
Jonathan Haidt
2 shared citations
The Denial of Death
Ernest Becker
2 shared citations
Give and Take
Adam Grant
2 shared citations
Moral Tribes
Joshua Greene
2 shared citations
Head in the Cloud: Why Knowing Things Still Matters When Facts Are So Easy to Look Up
William Poundstone
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