Start getting your summer reading list together! Here are some popular books about psychology

Everyone has summer readings lists these days. Well, here's one that is full of popular books about the field of psychology. The topics range from why people believe they were abducted by aliens to self-esteem, to why we fear the wrong things.

Check out the list below. These are all great reads for beach, couch or in-between work shifts...

Aamodt, S., & Wang, S. (2008). Welcome to your brain. NY: Bloomsbury.

Ariely, D. (2008). Predictably irrational.  NY: Harper Collins.

Cialdini, R. (1993). Influence : The psychology of persuasion. NY: Harper Collins.

Clancy, S. A. (2005). Abducted: How people come to believe they were kidnapped by aliens. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

della Salla,  S. (1999). Mind myths. NY: John Wiley & Sons.

Gardner, M. (1952, 1957). Fads & fallacies in the name of science. NY: Dover Publications.

Gilovich, T. (1991). How we know what isn't so: The fallibility of human reason in everyday life. New York: The Free Press

Glassner, B. (1999). The culture of fear: Why Americans are afraid of the wrong things. NY: Basic Books.

Hewitt, J. P. (1998). The myth of self esteem. NY: St. Martin’s Press.

Levitt, S. D., & Dubner, S. J. (2005). Freakonomics. NY: William Morrow.

Lilienfeld, S. O., Lynn, S. J., Lohr, J. M. (2003). Science and pseudoscience in clinical psychology. NY: Guildford Press.

Lilienfeld, S. O., Lynn, S. J., Ruscio, J., & Beyerstein, B. L. (2010). 50 great myths of popular psychology. Malden, MA: John Wiley & Sons.

Norman, D. A. (1993). Things that make us smart: Defending human attributes in the age of the machine. Cambridge, MA: Perseus Books.

Packard, V. (1957,1980). The hidden persuaders. NY: Simon & Schuster.

Park, R. (2000). Voodoo science: The road from foolishness to fraud. NY: Oxford University Press.

Sacks., O. (1970, 1985). The man who mistook his wife for a hat. NY: Simon & Schuster.

Sagan, C. (1996). Demon haunted world: Science as a candle in the dark. NY: Ballantine Books.

Salsburg, D. (2001). The lady tasting tea: How statistics revolutionized science in the twentieth century. NY: A. W. H. Freeman.

Sapolosy, R.(1998) Why zebras don’t get ulcers. NY: W. H. Freeman

Schacter, D. L. (2001). The seven sins of memory: How the mind forgets and remembers. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Schlosser, E. (2001). Fast food nation. NY: Harper Collins.

Schwartz, B. (2005). The paradox of choice: Why more is less. NY: Harper Collins.

Shermer, M.(1997). Why people believe weird things. NY: W. H. Freeman

Stafford, T., & Webb, M. (2005). Mind hacks: Tips & tools for using your brain. Cambridge: O’Reilly,

Stanovich, K. (2007). How to think straight about psychology.  NY: Longman.

Tavris, C. (1992). Mismeasure of woman. NY: Simon & Schuster.

Tavris, C., & Aronson, E. (2007). Mistakes were made (but not by me). NY: Harcourt.

Vyse, S. (1997). Believing in magic: The psychology of superstition. NY: Oxford University Press.