{"id":23989,"date":"2023-10-23T10:26:33","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T14:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=23989"},"modified":"2023-10-27T11:23:59","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T15:23:59","slug":"what-is-the-best-book-for-psychology-for-absolute-beginners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2023\/10\/23\/what-is-the-best-book-for-psychology-for-absolute-beginners\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the best book for psychology for absolute beginners?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/aw10232023-13.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"239\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/aw10232023-13.jpg\" alt=\"What is the best book for psychology for absolute beginners?\" class=\"wp-image-23988\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/aw10232023-13.jpg 320w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/aw10232023-13-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">What is the best book for psychology for absolute beginners?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s not any one book that covers the entirety of psychology comprehensively without being dull. Here are some interesting, engaging titles to serve as entry points into a variety of fields within psychology: <em>Thinking, Fast &amp; Slow,<\/em> by Daniel Kahneman (bit.ly\/bcl-thinking-fast-slow), <em>Investigating Pop Psychology: Pseudoscience, Fringe Science, and Controversies,<\/em> edited by Stephen Hupp and Richard Wiseman (bit.ly\/bcl-pop-psych), <em>The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales<\/em>, by Oliver Sacks (bit.ly\/bcl-man-mistook-wife), <em>The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind: My Tale of of Madness and Recovery<\/em> (bit.ly\/bcl-neuro-lost-mind), and for comprehensive context, <em>The Oxford Encyclopedia of the History of Pyschology<\/em> (bit.ly\/bcl-oxford-history-psychology). Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s not any one book that covers the entirety of psychology comprehensively without being dull. Here are some interesting, engaging titles to serve as entry points into a variety of fields within psychology: Thinking, Fast &amp; Slow, by Daniel Kahneman (bit.ly\/bcl-thinking-fast-slow), Investigating Pop Psychology: Pseudoscience, Fringe Science, and Controversies, edited by Stephen Hupp and Richard &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2023\/10\/23\/what-is-the-best-book-for-psychology-for-absolute-beginners\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What is the best book for psychology for absolute beginners?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23989"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24067,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23989\/revisions\/24067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}