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The art of Woo
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Detail presentation of specifics in the persuasion process, enlightening Western optimizers to the reality of Eastern focus which emphasizes harmony between relationships.

Worth speed reading through.  But not as good as Kevin Hogan's titles.

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Paul Krugman's books
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While reading through a number of Paul Krugman's titles from the library, I am pleasantly surprised that he got the Nobel prize in Economics today.  pkarchive.org and wikipedia has good summaries of these titles, but I will jot down some additional notes.
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Kluge
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Premise: the human mind is not an image of God, but due to the irrationality and limited behaviorial models, it is a mess that satisfizes rather than optimizes. This book is the behavioral model explained from the psychology perspective, with the same set of ideas and social experiments.


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The Drunkard's walk
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Leonard Mlodinow popularizes the notions of probability and randomness, through a historical tour of the different concepts as probability progress through the ages.  This rather readable and anecdotal book starts from an introduction that describes the mean reversion and the phenomenon of how lucky baseball players can break Babe Ruth's record, then starting with the ancient Greeks and Romans times until the recent era of behavioral science, going through paradox such as that of Marilyn Savant, and much social psychology experiments that illustrate our behavioral tendencies.  While not a text to learn probability, this is an addictive read for seeing how each important concepts of probability and randomness take place in real life.  Definitely worth browsing.
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The paradox of choice
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Barry Schwartz's 2004 title on why more is less: zooming into the particular topic of an over-abundance of choices actually leads consumers to confusion, instead of freedom of choice.  The book deals in detail with the application of prospect theory on this topic, and goes in great description of what behavioral science has found out.  

The first 6 chapters: can be speed-read. Good illustration of prospect theory, but not other topics of behavioral science.  Chapters 7-10 provides unique insights, on the role of regret and adaptation, that makes this book a gem.  I will take detailed notes on these chapters.

Perfect supplementary material to Kevin Hogan's Science of Influence.  This book provides the details of what prevents people from choosing and deciding, while the book on influence shows what to do to make people feel good and go ahead with the decision.

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The science of influence
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The 2005 follow-up title to the 1986 Art of Persuasion by Kevin Hogan.  Again, highly compact collection of ideas, essentially in outline form, with sufficient yet succinct description, that range through many of the behavioral science research.  Many of these researchers would later write individual books on their research, including Kahneman, Dan Ariely among others.
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