Recommended reading

Below are some books and texts selected by our faculty for anyone interested in our MSc programmes.
- Kahneman, D. (2012). Thinking, Fast and Slow. Penguin.
- Kahneman, D., O. Sibony, & C. R. Sunstein (2021). Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgement. William Collins.
- Thaler, R. H., & C. R. Sunstein (2021). Nudge: The Final Edition. Allen Lane.
- List, J. A. (2022). The Voltage Effect. Penguin.
- Bhargava, S., G., & Loewenstein (2015). Behavioral Economics and Public Policy 102: Beyond Nudging. American Economic Review, 105(5), 396-401.
- Cowen, A. S., & D. Keltner (2017). Self-report captures 27 distinct categories of emotion bridged by continuous gradients. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(38), E7900-E7909.
- Daly, M., C. P. Harmon, & L. Delaney (2010). Psychological and Biological Foundations of Time Preference. Journal of the European Economic Association, 7(2-3), 659-669.
- Delaney, L., & O. Doyle (2012). Socioeconomic differences in early childhood time preferences. Journal of Economic Psychology, 33(1), 237-247.
- DellaVigna, S. (2009). Psychology and Economics: Evidence from the Field. Journal of Economic Literature, 47(2), 315-72.
- DellaVigna, S., & E. Linos (2022). RCTs to Scale: Comprehensive Evidence From Two Nudge Units. Econometrica, 90(1), 81-116.
- Dolan, P., M. Hallsworth, D. Halpern, D. King, R. Metcalfe, & I. Vlaev (2012). Influencing behaviour: the mindspace way. Journal of Economic Psychology, 33(1), 264-277.
- Dolan, P., & M. M. Galizzi (2015). Like ripples on a pond: Behavioral spillovers and their implications for research and policy. Journal of Economic Psychology, 47, 1-16.
- Falk, A., A. Becker, T. Dohmen, B. Enke, D. Huffman, & U. Sunde (2018). Global Evidence on Economic Preferences. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 133(4), 1645-1692.
- Hertwig, R., & T. Grüne-Yanoff (2017). Nudging and Boosting: Steering or Empowering Good Decisions. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 12(6), 973-986.
- Hertwig, R., & M. D. Ryall (2020). Nudge Versus Boost: Agency Dynamics Under Libertarian Paternalism. Economic Journal, 130(629), 1384-1415.
- Krpan, D., M. M. Galizzi, & P. Dolan (2019). Looking at Spillovers in the Mirror: Making a Case for “Behavioral Spillunders”. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 1142.
- Loewenstein, G., E. U. Weber, C. K. Hsee, & Welch, N. (2001). Risk as feelings. Psychological Bulletin, 127, 267-286.
- Thaler, R. H., & C. R. Sunstein (2003). Libertarian Paternalism. American Economic Review, 93(2), 175-179.
- Tversky A., & D. Kahneman (1974). Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases. Science, 185(4157), 1124-1131.
- Weber, E. U., & E. J. Johnson (2009). Mindful Judgment and Decision Making. Annual Review of Psychology, 60, 53-85.
- S Clegg & C Handy, Studying Organisations: Theory and Method, Sage, 1998;
- E Schein, Organizational Psychology Then and Now: Some Observations, Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior , 2015 2:1, 1-19
- G Morgan, Images of Organisation (2nd edn), Sage, 1997; A Bryman (Ed), Doing Research in Organisations, Routledge, 1988;
- A Furnham, The Psychology of Behaviour at Work: The Individual in the Organisation, Psychology Press, 2005.
- S Haslam, Psychology in Organisations: The Social Identity Approach, Sage, 2004.
- P Spector, Industrial and Organisational Psychology: Research and Practice, John Wiley & Sons, 2012.
- M Billig, Arguing and Thinking: A Rhetorical Approach to Social Psychology, CUP, 1987.
- M Cole, Cultural Psychology: A once and future discipline. Harvard University Press, 1996.
- R M Farr, The Roots of Modern Social Psychology, Blackwell, 1996.
- U. Flick, The Psychology of the Social. Cambridge University Press, 1998.
- B Franks, Cognition and Culture: Evolutionary Perspectives. Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
- J Israel & H Tajfel, The Context of Social Psychology, Academic Press, 1972.
- S Jovchelovitch, Knowledge in Context: Representations, Community and Culture. Routledge, 2019 (Classics Edition).
- S Moscovici, Social Representations: Exploration in Social Psychology. Polity Press, 2000.
- I Marková, The Dialogical Mind: Common Sense and Ethics. Cambridge University Press, 2016.
- Power, S. A., Zittoun, T.... & Gillespie, A. Social psychology of and for world-making. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 2023.
- G Semin & G Echterhoff, Grounding Sociality: Neurons, Mind and Culture. Psychology Press, 2010.
- R Schweder. Why Men Barbecue: Recipes for cultural psychology. Harvard University Press, 2003.
- H Tajfel, Human Groups and Social Categories; Studies in Social Psychology, CUP, 1981.
- M Tomasello, The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition. Harvard University Press, 1999.
- J Valsiner and A Rosa (Eds), Cambridge Handbook of Sociocultural Psychology, Cambridge University Press, 2007.
- L Vygotsky, Mind in Society. Harvard University Press, 1978.
- J. Wertsch (ed.) Culture, Communication and Cognition. Cambridge University Press, 1985.
- J Habermas, Theory of Communicative Action, Vol 1 + 2, Polity Press, 1997.
- M Meyer (2017) What is Rhetoric?, Oxford, OUP
- D McQuail, McQuail's Mass Communication theory (4th edn), Sage, 2000.
- D Hook, B Franks, MW Bauer, (eds) The Social Psychology of Communication, London, Palgrave, 2011.
- R Rice & C Atkin, Public Communication Campaign, Sage, 2000; E Rogers, Diffusion of Innovation, Free Press, 1995.
- D Sperber & D Wilson, Relevance: Communication and Cognition, Cambridge, 1995.
- G Sammut and MW Bauer (2021) The Psychology of Social Influence – Modes and Modalities of Shifting Common Sense, Cambridge, CUP
- Basso, F., & Herrmann-Pillath, C. (2024). Embodiment, Political Economy and Human Flourishing: An Embodied Cognition Approach to Economic Life (1st ed.). Palgrave Macmillan.
- Basso, F., & Krpan, D. (2023). The WISER framework of behavioural change interventions for mindful human flourishing. The Lancet Planetary Health, 7(2), e106-e108.
- Davis, J. B. (2010). Individuals and identity in economics. Cambridge University Press.
- Diamond, J. (2005). Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. Penguin Books.
- Goffman, E. (1959). The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. Doubleday Anchor books.
- Graeber, D., & Wengrow, D. (2021). The dawn of everything: A new history of humanity. Penguin UK.
- Herrmann-Pillath, C., & Hederer, C. (2022). A New Principles of Economics: The Science of Markets. Taylor & Francis.
- Hickel, J. (2020). Less is more: How degrowth will save the world. Random House.
- Himmelweit, H. T. & Gaskell G. (1990). Societal Psychology. Sage Publications, Inc.
- Johansson, T. (2000). Social Psychology and Modernity. Oxford University Press.
- Kahneman, D. (2011). Thinking, Fast and Slow. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
- Lahlou, S. (2017) Installation Theory. The Societal Construction and Regulation of Individual Behaviour. Cambridge University Press.
- Lahlou, S. (2024). Why People Do what They Do. And How to Make Them Change. Polity.
- Laland, K. N., & Brown, G. R. (2011). Sense and Nonsense: Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behaviour. Oxford University Press.
- Lewis, A. (Ed.). (2008). The Cambridge Handbook of Psychology and Economic Behaviour. Cambridge University Press.
- Lewis, A., Webley, P., & Furnham, A. (1995). The New Economic Mind. Harvester/ Wheatsheaf Books.
- Mead, G. H. (1934). Mind, Self & Society: From the Standpoint of a Social Behaviorist. The University of Chicago press.
- Nelson, J. A. (2018). Economics for humans. University of Chicago Press.
- Raworth, K. (2017). Doughnut economics: seven ways to think like a 21st-century economist. Chelsea Green Publishing.
- Stafford, C. (2020). Economic life in the real world: logic, emotion and ethics. Cambridge University Press.
- Thaler, R. H., & Sunstein, C. R. (2008). Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness. Yale University Press.
- Tukker, A., Emmert, S., Charter, M., Vezzoli, C., Sto, E., Andersen, M. M., ... & Lahlou, S. (2008). Fostering change to sustainable consumption and production: an evidence based view. Journal of Cleaner Production, 16(11), 1218-1225.
- Webley, P., Burgoyne, C., Lea, S., & Young, B. (2001). The Economic Psychology of Everyday Life. Psychology Press.