Think Like a Psychologist

This collection reverse-engineers how psychologists think and hands it to you as a transferable toolkit. It is built around the machinery behind everyday behavior — how minds construct what they perceive and remember, how situations shape action, what actually motivates people, how to tell a real finding from a good story, and how behavior reliably changes — with one mental model per session, drawn from researchers such as Daniel Kahneman, Elizabeth Loftus, Kurt Lewin, Edward Deci, Wendy Wood, and Carl Rogers. Every session closes with a transfer note that carries the model into leading teams, designing products, giving feedback, or understanding your own reactions. You finish able to ask the psychologist's question — what process produced this behavior? — and to act on the answer.