Sociology/Psychology

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Analysis of society, culture, group behaviour, social structures, inequality, identity, moral foundations, and human psychology.

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Dopamine Nation by Anna Lembke

Anna Lembke’s Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence explores how modern life’s easy access to pleasures, like social media, drugs, or food, drives addiction by overloading our brain’s dopamine system.

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The Authoritarian Moment by Ben Shapiro

Ben Shapiro’s The Authoritarian Moment claims that left-wing groups have seized control of major American bodies such as media, schools, and big tech firms.

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Porn Generation by Ben Shapiro

Ben Shapiro’s Porn Generation: How Social Liberalism Is Corrupting Our Future examines how permissive attitudes toward sex, driven by media, Hollywood, and the internet, are harming young people.

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When the Body Says No by Gabor Maté

Gabor Maté’s When the Body Says No explores how chronic stress and repressed emotions contribute to serious illnesses like cancer, multiple sclerosis, and autoimmune diseases.

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The Coddling of the American Mind by Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff

In Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff’s book, The Coddling of the American Mind, they delve into social psychology and argue that well-meaning efforts to protect young Americans from harm have actually created a culture of fragility, polarisation, and intellectual weakness.

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The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt

In The Righteous Mind, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt dives into the complexities of why people hold such strong moral and political beliefs. He suggests that our moral judgments are more intuitive than logical, and introduces the idea of “moral foundations” that influence our perspectives.

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