Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take
Social Motivation
David Dunning · 2015
52/100
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A solid academic survey of belonging, prosocial behavior, and power motives by leading social psychology researchers — rigorous and comprehensive within its domain. The problem is it is a specialist graduate-level textbook, not a self-help book, and it offers nothing to general readers seeking practical insight. Only buy this if you are already working inside the research literature.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety82
Substance / usefulness72
Craft & writing75
Originality52
Evidence & accuracy70
Hype vs delivers65
Age-fit38
👁 Human-eye gut-check48
Penny’s verdict52
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