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Books like The Psychopath Test

Explore 24 books like The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson — a handpicked selection united by Personality, Social Psychology, Psychopathology, and Humor.

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Top related books to The Psychopath Test

Curated picks selected for thematic resonance, narrative overlap, and author diversity.

Selfless The Social Creation of “you&#8221

Brian Lowery

Themes: Personality • Social Psychology • Sociology

Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life

Dacher Keltner

Themes: Personality • Social Psychology • Sociology

Personality What Makes You the Way You are

Daniel Nettle

Themes: Personality • Social Psychology • Literary Collections

Solitude In Pursuit of a Singular Life in a Crowded World

Michael Harris

Themes: Personality • Social Psychology • Sociology

The Narcissism Epidemic Living in the Age of Entitlement

Jean M. Twenge

Themes: Personality • Social Psychology • Psychopathology

Redirect Changing the Stories We Live By

Timothy D. Wilson

Themes: Personality • Social Psychology • Sociology

The Psychology of the Selfie What the Research Says

Barrie Gunter

Themes: Personality • Social Psychology • Psychopathology

The Urge Our History of Addiction

Carl Erik Fisher

Themes: Social Psychology • Psychopathology • Sociology

A History of Delusions The Glass King, a Substitute Husband and a Walking Corpse

Victoria Shepherd

Themes: Personality • Psychopathology • Personal Growth

#10

Missing Each Other How to Cultivate Meaningful Connections

Edward Brodkin

Themes: Social Psychology • Psychopathology • Sociology

#11

The Ten Types of Human A New Understanding of Who We Are, and Who We Can Be

Dexter Dias

Themes: Social Psychology • Psychopathology • Personal Growth

#12

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

Lori Gottlieb

Themes: Personality • Psychopathology • Humor

#13

The Road to Character

David Brooks

Themes: Personality • Social Psychology • Sociology

#14

Understanding the Borderline Mother

Lawson, Christine Ann

Themes: Personality • Social Psychology • Psychopathology

#15

Dangerous Liaisons How to Recognize and Escape from Psychopathic Seduction

Claudia Moscovici

Themes: Personality • Social Psychology • Psychopathology

#16

Mistakes Were Made (but Not by Me) Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts

Carol Tavris

Themes: Social Psychology • Sociology • Personal Growth

#17

Leave Out the Tragic Parts A Grandfather’s Search for a Boy Lost to Addiction

Dave Kindred

Themes: Social Psychology • Psychopathology • Sociology

#18

Do Hard Things Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness

Steve Magness

Themes: Personality • Social Psychology • Personal Growth

#19

Political Socialization of Youth A Palestinian Case Study

Janette Habashi

Themes: Personality • Social Psychology • Sociology

#20

The Sweet Spot The Pleasures of Suffering and the Search for Meaning

Paul Bloom

Themes: Social Psychology • Sociology • Personal Growth

#21

The Triple Package What Really Determines Success

Amy Chua

Themes: Personality • Sociology • Personal Growth

#22

The Blank Slate The Modern Denial of Human Nature

Steven Pinker

Themes: Personality • Sociology • Personal Growth

#23

Hidden Brilliance Unlocking the Intelligence of Autism

Lynn Kern Koegel

Themes: Social Psychology • Psychopathology • Sociology

#24

What the Dog Saw And Other Adventures

Malcolm Gladwell

Themes: Social Psychology • Sociology • Literary Collections

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Personality, Social Psychology, Psychopathology — the same threads that run through The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson. Among the authors featured: Brian Lowery, Dacher Keltner, Daniel Nettle, Michael Harris, and others.