Deborah Blum (2011). Love at Goon Park: Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection.‎

"In Love at Goon Park, Pultizer Prize winner Deborah Blum charts this profound cultural shift by tracing the story of the man who made it possible: a brilliant, alcoholic, work-obsessed psychologist named Harry Harlow.

Pursuing the idea that human affection could be understood, studied, even measured, Harlow arrived at his conclusions by conducting experiments - some beautiful, some profoundly troublin 0 on the primates in his University of Wisconsin laboratory..."

Review by Suzy Hansen, Salon.com: http://dir.salon.com/books/review/2002/11/13/blum/index.html

Brian Wansink (2010). Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think.‎

According to Wansink, director of the Cornell University Food and Brand Lab, the mind makes food-related decisions, more than 200 a day, and many of them without pause for actual thought. This peppy, somewhat pop-psych book argues that we don't have to change what we eat as much as how, and that by making more mindful food-related decisions we can start to eat and live better.

Review by David Leonhardt, New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/02/business/02davidside.html