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1One Second Before: How the Brain Makes You Do What You Do 2The Sea Slug That Changed Everything: Eric Kandel and the Biology of Memory 3Your Brain on Stress: Baboons, Cortisol, and the Biology of Social Pain 4Plasticity: The Brain That Changes Itself 5The Teenage Brain Is Not Broken: Adolescence, Risk, and the Unfinished Cortex 6The Geography of Rationality 7Heuristics: The Shortcuts That Built Civilization 8The Marshmallow Test Was Wrong 9Why You Can't Tickle Yourself 10Kandel's Rats and Your Study Habits 11Obedience: The Experiment That Haunts Psychology 12The Tribe: In-Groups, Out-Groups, and the Biology of Us vs. Them 13Adolescence Is Not a Disease 14Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers 15The Replication Crisis: When Psychology Broke Itself

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