My Behavioral Science, Design, and Business Book Reading List

As I was gathering my thoughts for my Inside Nudging project (www.InsideNudging.com), a project that I envision tying together the application of behavioral science in business contexts and providing more of an inside look at innovation, strategy and implementation, I wanted to take stock of books that have probably influenced (liberally interpreted) the way I look at behavioral science.

Perhaps you’ll find something of here of interest to you for your weekend read. I am also open to getting more book recommendations. Thanks!

Psychology, Behavioral Economics and Finance

  • Drunk Tank Pink (Alter)
  • Predictably Irrational (Ariely)
  • The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty (Ariely)
  • The Upside of Irrationality (Ariely)
  • Save More Tomorrow (Benartzi and Lewin)
  • The Smarter Screen (Benartzi and Lehrer)
  • Thinking Smarter (Benartzi and Lewin)
  • Risk Savvy (Gigerenzer)
  • Stumbling on Happiness (Gilbert)
  • The Why Axis (Gneezy and List)
  • The Happiness Hypothesis (Haidt)
  • The Righteous Mind (Haidt)
  • Decisive (Heath and Heath)
  • Made to Stick (Heath and Heath)
  • Thinking, Fast and Slow (Kahneman)
  • Dance with Chance (Markridakis and Hogarth)
  • The Irrational Economist (Michel-Kerjan and Slovic)
  • Scarcity (Mullanainathan and Shafir)
  • Democracy Despite Itself (Oppenheimer and Edwards)
  • Irrational Exuberance (Shiller)
  • Simpler (Sunstein)
  • Misbehaving (Thaler)
  • Nudge (Thaler and Sunstein)

Design

  • Hooked (Eyal)
  • Designing with the Mind in Mind (Johnson)
  • The Design of Everyday Things (Norman)
  • Envisioning Information (Tufte)
  • Designing for Behavior Change (Wendel)
  • Design-Driven Innovation (Verganti)

Business and Strategy

  • Negotiating Rationally (Bazerman and Neale)
  • Freakonomics (Dubner and Levitt)
  • Blink (Gladwell)
  • The Tipping Point (Gladwell)
  • Yes! (Goldstein, Martin, and Cialdini)
  • Blue Ocean Strategy (Kim and Mauborgne)
  • Insurance & Behavioral Economics (Kunreuther, Pauly, and McMorrow)
  • Behavioral Economics and Policy Design: Examples from Singapore (Low)
  • Drive (Pink)
  • Absolute Value (Simonson and Rosen)
  • Wisdom of Crowds (Surowiecki)

Communication

  • The Pyramid Principle (Minto)
  • The Sense of Style (Pinker)

On My Future Reading List

  • The Power of Noticing (Bazerman)
  • Happy Money (Dunn)
  • Switch (Heath and Heath)
  • Irrationality in Health Care (Douglas Hough)
  • The Art of Choosing (Iyengar)
  • The Organized Mind (Levitin)
  • King William’s Tontine (Milevsky)
  • The Marshmallow Test (Mischel)
  • Antifragile (Taleb)

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