The Science of Personality Differences
by Samuel Barondes
Recommended by Graham Duncan
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Starts conversational and case-driven, moving through short clinical vignettes and plain-language attempts to explain why people act as they do. Most useful as a collection of heuristics and phrases you can use to make sense of coworkers, partners, or family without specialized training. Limitation: the book leans on repeated anecdotes and clinician interpretation, so some chapters feel redundant and conclusions feel tentative rather than strongly argued. Lacks hands-on exercises; better read in short sittings than as a step-by-step manual.
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