Power University by Lucio Buffalmano: Resources

Power University combs hundreds of books and thousands of researches to bridge science and real-world experience.

The final goal is to synthesize what truly works to achieve power and life success across the main domains of life (people, dating, relationships, and work).

Update:

I stopped adding resources here.
There is simply too many to keep track. And adding resources is often a power move, a way of gainig authority via citations.
The real benefit of PU instead is in analyzing the resources, taking the very best from the best resources, comparing them to what’s already been proven to work, and then making them part of the strategies we embrace and teach.

Module 1 – Basics of Social Power

There aren’t many good sources based on what truly confers people power.

So this module takes the best from many disparate resources and adds my own years of observations and trial and error on what actually works.

• The bases of social power French, John & Raven, Bertram (1959)
• The Name of the Game: Predictive Power of Reputations versus Situational Labels in Determining Prisoner’s Dilemma Game Moves, Liberman et al., 2004
• The Effect of Voice Volume on the Perception of Personality, Page and Balloun, 1978
• Will I Ever Be Good Enough? Karyl McBride, 2008
• Power Cues Nick Morgan, 2014
• The Art of The Deal, Donald Trump, 1987
• Can’t Hurt Me, David Goggins, 2018
• The 50th Law of Power, Robert Greene, 2009
• National Geographic documentary on body language
• Eye contact and direction of looking at stable individual differences. Libby, William L., 2016
• Emotional Intelligence 2.0, Trevor Bradberry, 2009
• Emotional Vampires, Albert Bernstein, 2000
• Principles, Ray Dalio, 2017
• The Definitive Book of Body Language, Allan & Barbara Pease, 2016
• What Every BODY is Saying, Joe Navarro, 2009
• BBC Body Language documentary
• I’m OK, You’re OK, Thomas Harris, 1967
• Becoming a Supple Leopard, Kelly Starrett, 2015
• The Perfect Voice, Roger Love
• 8 Keys to Eliminating Passive-Aggressiveness, Andrea Brandt, 2013
• Psychology Of Interpersonal Behaviour, Argyle, 1994
• Smiles as Signals of Lower Status in Football Players and Fashion Models: Evidence That Smiles are Associated With Lower Dominance and Lower Prestige, Kantelaar, 2012
• Priming men with different contest outcomes modulates their dominance perceptions, Watkins, Jones, 2012
• Truth-Default Theory (TDT): A Theory of Human Deception and Deception Detection, (Levine, 2014)

Module 2 – Social Skills

Many resources in this module are “normal” social skills books.

But the final output is much different: it’s about the power dynamics of socialization and about the more manipulative and abusive shades of socialization.

This module indeed combs the best social skills resources looking for the best gold nuggets on power dynamics.

• The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Verbal Self-Defense, Lillian Glass, 1999
• The Gentle Art of Verbal Self Defense,  Suzette Haden Elgin, 1980
• Powerful Phrases for Dealing with Difficult People, Renee Evenson, 2013
• The Art of Mingling, Jeanne Martinet, 2015
• Crucial Conversations, Patterson et al, 2011
• How to Talk to Anyone, Leil Lowndes, 1999
• Games People Play, Eric Berne, 1964
• The Assertiveness Guide for Women, Julie de Azevedo Hanks, 2016
• Alpha Assertiveness Guide for Men and Women, Gerard Shaw, 2019
• The Art of Everyday Assertiveness, Patrick King, 2019
• “Assertiveness Training”, James Williams, 2020
• The Assertiveness Workbook, Randy J. Paterson, 2000
• “Assertiveness Training”, Luke Caldwell, 2018
• Verbal Judo, George Thompson, 2013
• 12 Rules for Life, Jordan Peterson, 2018
• Difficult Conversations, Douglas Stone Stone et. al, 2010
• The Like Switch, Jack Schafer, 2015
• People Skills, Robert Bolton, 2011
• Assertiveness, Judy Murphy, 2011
• The Power of Positive No, William Ury, 2012
• Boundaries, Henry Cloud, 2008
• Underboss, Peter Maas, 1997
• Five Families, Selwyin Raab, 2005
• The evolutionary psychology of envy, Hill & Buss, 2008b
• A Model of (Often Mixed) Stereotype Content: Competence and Warmth Respectively Follow From Perceived Status and Competition, Fiske and Cuddy, 2002
• Universal dimensions of social cognition: warmth and competence, Fiske and Cuddy, 2007
• It’s all relative: Competition and status drive interpersonal perception, Russel and Fiske, 2008
• Fundamental dimensions of social judgment: understanding the relations between judgments of competence and warmth, Judd et. al., 2005
• Group virtue: The importance of morality (vs. competence and sociability) in the positive evaluation of in-groups, Leach, Ellemers, and Barreto, 2007
• Looking for honesty: The primary role of morality (vs. sociability and competence) in information gathering, Brambilla, Sacchi and Rusconi, 2011
• Maintaining a positive self-image by stereotyping others: Self-threat and the Stereotype Content Model, Collange, Fiske and Sanitioso, 2009
• When the Boss Feels Inadequate: Power, Incompetence, and Aggression, (Fast and Chen 2009)
• Aggression, Exclusivity, and Status Attainment in Interpersonal
  Networks, (Faris, 2012)
• Tony Robbins, various

Module 3 – Career Strategies

There are only a few books and resources specifically designed for workplace power dynamics and politics.

So I personally aggregated information from general research on power dynamics, social skills books, networking resources, and personal experience:

• Workplace Poker, Dan Rust, 2016
• The Secret Handshake, Kathleen Kelley Reardon, 2000
• Talking From 9 to 5, Deborah Tannen, 1994
• Stealing the Corner Office, Brendan Reid, 2014
• Secrets to Winning at Office Politics, Marie G. McIntyre, 2005
• Working With Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman, 1998
• Hardball for Women, Pat Heim, 1992
• HBR Guide to Office Politics, Harvard Business Review, 2014
• What Got You Here Won’t Get You There, Marshall Goldsmith, 2007
• Radical Candor, Kim Scott, 2017
• How to Talk to Anyone, Leil Lowndes, 1999
• Nice Girls Don’t Get the Corner Office, Lois Frankel, 2004
• Secrets of Six-Figure Women, Barbara Stanny, 2002
• How Women Rise, Sally Helgesen & Marshall Goldsmith, 2018
• Brag, Brag! The Art of Tooting Your Own Horn Without Blowing It, Peggy Klaus, 2003
• The Shadow Negotiation, Deborah Kolb, 2000
• The Myth of The Nice Girl, Fran Hauser, 2018
• What Color Is Your Parachute?, Richard Bolles, 2019 edition
• Power and Politics in Organizations, Samuel B. Bacharach, Edward J. Lawler, 1981
• Snakes in Suits, Robert Hare, 2009
• The Dictator’s Handbook, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, 2011
• Enchantment, Guy Kawasaki, 2011
• What Would Machiavelli Do?, Stanley Bing, 2009
• Pitch Anything, Oren Klaff, 2001
• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Patrick Lencioni, 2010
• Never Eat Alone, Keith Ferrazzi, 2014
• Start With WHY, Simon Sinek, 2011
• Skin in The Game, Nassim Taleb, 2018
• The Origins of Virtue, Matt Ridley, 1997
• Confessions of A Sociopath, M.E. Thomas, 2013
• Petty Tyranny in Organizations, Blake E Ashforth, 1994
• Do Nice Guys–And Gals–Really Finish Last? The Joint Effects of Sex and Agreeableness on Income, Livingston et. al., 2012
• Human sexual differences in the use of social ostracism as a competitive tactic, Benenson, Hodgdson, Heath, & Welch, 2008
• Psychological adaptations for assessing gossip veracity, Hess & Hagen, 2006
• Competence and the Evolutionary Origins of Status and Power in Humans, Chapais, 2015
• Tactics of hierarchy negotiation, Kyl-Heku & Buss, 1996; Lund et al., 2007

On how owners and CEOs really think and act, as opposed to what they say and market (much to learn when you look behind the personal marketing):

• Made in America, Sam Walton, 2012
• The Hard Thing About Hard Things, Ben Horowitz, 2014
• Shoe Dog, Phil Knight, 2016
• Zero to One, Peter Thiel, 2014
• Delivering Happiness, Tony Hsieh, 2012
• The Everything Store, Brad Stone, 2013
• Steve Jobs Biography, Walter Isaacson, 2011
• No Logo, Naomi Klein, 1999
• Winning, Jack Welch, 2013
• Creativity Inc., Ed Catmull, 2014
• Bad Blood, John Carreyrou, 2018
• Onward, Howard Schultz, 2012
• The Art of The Deal, Donald Trump, 1987
• In Sheep’s Clothing, George Simon, 2010

On effective leadership and management:

• First, Break All The Rules, Buckingham & Coffman, 2014
• The Truth About Leadership, Kouzes & Posner, 2010
• The Laws of Human Nature, Robert Greene, 2019
• The 48 Laws of Power, Robert Greene, 1998
• The New Psychology of Leaderhship: Identity, Influence, and Power, Alexander Haslam, 2006
• The One Minute Manager, Kenneth H. Blanchard, 1982
• Drive, Daniel Pink, 2011
• Eleven Rings, Phil Jackson, 2015
• The 33 Strategies of War, Robert Greene, 2010
• Cooperation and Punishment in Public Goods Experiments, Ernst Fehr & Simon Gaetcher, 2000
• The group engagement model: procedural justice, social identity, and cooperative behavior, Tom Tyler, 2003
• Successful vs. Effective Real Managers, Fred Luthans, 1988
• Psychological Influence in Negotiation: An Introduction Long Overdue, Deepak Malhotra and Max H. Bazerman, 2008
• Identity and Cooperative Behavior in Groups, Tom Tyler, 2001
• Kleingruppenforschung als experimentell-sozialpsychologischer Gegenstand, White & Lippitt 1953
• Organizational citizenship behavior: Its nature, antecedents, and consequences, Dennis Organ et. al., 2006
• Collective restraint in social dilemmas: Procedural justice and social identification effects on support for authorities, Tom Tyler, 1995
• Leader group prototypicality and job satisfaction: The moderating role of job stress and team identification, Lavinia Cicero et. al., 2007
• Social identity and the recognition of creativity in groups, Yorno Adarves, 2006
• Feelings of personal control and the social categorization of powerful others, Depret, 1995
• Conditional cooperation and confusion in public-goods experiments, Maxwell Burton-Chellew, 2015
• A social identity analysis of leadership endorsement: The effects of leader ingroup prototypicality and distributive intergroup fairness, Michael Platow, 2001

On female leadership and management:

• Leadership Styles: Gender Similarities, Differences, and Perceptions, Menaha Shanmugam, 2007
• The Price of Power: Power-Seeking and Backlash Against Female Politicians
• Are Leader Stereotypes Masculine? A Meta-Analysis of Three Research Paradigms, Anne Koenig et. al, 2011
• Gender and Perceptions of Leadership Effectiveness: A Meta-Analysis of Contextual Moderators, Samantha C. Paustian-Underdahl, 2014
• “Gender and the evaluation of leaders: A meta-analysis”: Correction to Eagly et al., Alice H. Eagly et al., 2016
• Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, Sheryl Sandberg, 2013
• The subtle suspension of backlash: A meta-analysis of penalties for women’s implicit and explicit dominance behavior, Melissa Williams, 2016
• The Price of Power: Power Seeking and Backlash Against Female Politicians, Victoria Brescoll, 2010
• Women & the Leadership Labyrinth Howard vs Heidi, Maria Katsarou
• Gender Differences in Comparisons and Entitlement: Implications for Comparable Worth, Major, 1989
• Gender and self-esteem: A meta-analysis
• Various videos sourced by Lucio Buffalmano

On influence and negotiation, combing for the more manipulative and effective techniques:

• Pre-Suasion, Robert Cialdini, 2016
• Methods of Persuasion, Nick Kolenda, 2013
• Yes! 50 Scientifically Proven Ways of Getting to Yes, Goldstein, 2008
• Influence, Robert Cialdini, 1993
• Secrets of Power Negotiating, Roger Dawson, 2012
• Getting to Yes, William Ury, 1981
• Getting Past No, William Ury, 2007
• Never Split the Difference, Chris Voss, 2016
• Game Theory Bargaining and Auction Strategies, Gregor Berz, 2016
• Look at Me When You Say That: An Electronic Negotiation Simulation, Rachel Croson, 1999
• The Objective Value of Subjective Value: A Multi-Round Negotiation Study, Jared R. Curhan, 2010
• Supplication and appeasement in conflict and negotiation: The interpersonal effects of disappointment, worry, guilt, and regret, Gerben van Kleef, 2006
• Power Dynamics in Negotiation, Peter Kim, 2006
• Getting Off on the Right Foot: Subjective Value Versus Economic Value
  in Predicting Longitudinal Job Outcomes From Job Offer Negotiations, Jared R. Curhan, 2009

Module 4 – Dating & Seduction

There is a huge amount of research that went into this module.

But I made it compact.

If you want the quickest tool to understand how psychology and evolutionary psychology can help you date better, this is your module.

• The Mating Mind, Geoffrey Miller, 2000
• The Red Queen, Matt Ridley, 1993
• The Evolution of Desire, David Buss, 2016 (4th edition)
• Evolutionary Psychology, David Buss, 2019
• Sex At Dawn, Ryan, Jetha, 2010
• The Moral Animal, Robert Wright, 1994
• The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins, 2006 (third edition)
• Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters, Kanazawa, 2008
• The Female Brain, Louann Brizendine, 2009

On the dynamics of the sexual market place, sexual market value, and how to “hack” your sexual market value:

• DateOnomics, Jon Birger, 2015
• Attraction Explained, Viren Swami, 2006
• Mating and Marketing, David Buss, 2019
• Mate Selection Criteria: A Trait Desirability Assessment Study of Sex Differences in Serbia, Bojan Todosijević, 2003
• Positive and negative preferences in human mate selection, Nicolas Vaillant & Francois-Charles Wolff, 2010
• Sex and age differences in preferences and tactics of mate attraction: Analysis of published advertisements, Iain Greenless, 1994
• Mate Preferences and Their Behavioral Manifestations, David Buss, 2019
• Assortative mating and the evolution of desirability covariation, David Buss, 2019
• Parental Investment and Sexual Selection, Robert Trivers, 1972
• An Evolutionary Psychological Perspective on Cultures of Honor, Todd K. Shackelford, 2015
• How Sexually Dimorphic Are Human Mate Preferences?, Daniel Conroy-Beam et. al., 2015
• Female physical characteristics and intra-sexual competition in women, Bernard Fink et. al., 2014
• Human sexual conflict from molecules to culture, Gregory Gorelik, 2011
• Sexual conflict in humans: Evolutionary consequences of asymmetric parental investment and paternity uncertainty, Aaron Goetz, 2009
• Sex ratio and mate preferences: A cross-cultural investigation, Emily Stone, 2007
• Testosterone-dependent facial and body traits predict sociosexual attitudes and behaviors, Todd K. Shackelford, 2019
• The desire for sexual variety as a key to understanding basic human mating strategies, David Schmitt et. al., 2005
• Personality and mate preferences: five factors in mate selection and marital satisfaction, Botwin , 1997
• Universal dimensions of human mate preferences, Schmitt, Shackelford & Buss, 2005
• Do Mate Preferences Influence Actual Mating Decisions? Evidence From Computer Simulations and Three Studies of Mated Couples, Daniel Conroy-Beam and David M. Buss, 2016
• Sex Differences in Long-Term Mating Preferences, David Schmitt & David Buss
• Mate preferences of married persons in the newlywed year and three years later, Shackelford, Schmitt & Buss, 2005
• Sexual Conflict in Human Mating, David Buss, 2017
• Sexual and Emotional Infidelity: Evolved Gender Differences in Jealousy Prove Robust and Replicable, David Buss, 2017
• Adult hippocampal neurogenesis buffers stress responses and depressive behaviour, Snyder et. al., 2011
• Environment contingent preferences: Exposure to visual cues of direct male–male competition and wealth increase women’s preferences for masculinity in male faces, Little, DeBruine, & Jones, 2013
• The evolutionary psychology of extrapair sex: The role of fluctuating asymmetry, Gangestad & Thornhill, 1997
• The evolutionary psychology of facial beauty, Rhodes, 2006
• How does marriage affect length of life? Analysis of a French historical dataset from an evolutionary perspective, Gellatly & Strömer, 2017
• Sex differences in the anatomical locations of human body scarification and tattooing as a function of pathogen prevalence,
  Singh & Bronstad, 1997
• The biology of facial beauty, Fink & Neave, 2005
• Visual skin color distribution plays a role in the perception of age, attractiveness, and health of female faces, Fink, Grammer, & Matts, 2006
• Color homogeneity and visual perception of age, health, and attractiveness of female facial skin, Matts et. al.
• The Evolution of Human Physical Attractiveness, Gangestad & Scheyd, 2005
• Female Facial Appearance and Health, Gray & Boothroyd, 2012
• Vocal and visual attractiveness is related in women, Collins & Missing, 2003
• High heels as supernormal stimuli: How wearing high heels affects judgements of female attractiveness, Morris, White, Morrison, & Fisher, 2013
• Adaptive preferences for leg length in a potential partner, Sorokowski & Pawlowski, 2008
• Lumbar curvature: A previously undiscovered standard of attractiveness, Lewis et al., 2015
• Strategic reactions to unfaithfulness: Female self-presentation in the context of mate attraction is linked to uncertainty of paternity, Dosmukhambetova & Manstead, 2011
• Parental Bereavement: A Panoramic View, Hunt & Greeff, 2012
• Estimating the prevalence of nonpaternity in Germany, Wolf, Musch, Enczmann, & Fischer, 2012
• Physical Attractiveness Contrast Effect: Implications for Self-Esteem and Evaluations of the Social Self, Thornton and Moore, 1993
• Amounts spent on engagement rings reflect aspects of male and female mate quality, Cronk & Dunham, 2007
• Female intrasexual competition decreases female facial attractiveness, Fisher, 2004
• Boosting beauty in an economic decline: mating, spending, and the lipstick effect, Hill, Rodeheffer, Griskevicius, Durante, & White, 2012
• The relative importance of the face and body in judgments of human
  physical attractiveness, by Currie and Little, 2009
• Toward an evolutionary history of female sociosexual variation, Gangestad and Simpson, 1990
• Evolution, traits, and the stages of human courtship: qualifying the parental investment model, Kenrick, Sadalla, Groth, & Trost, 1990
• Sex differences in type of extramarital involvement and marital dissatisfaction, Glass and Wright, 1985
• Justifications for Extramarital Relationships: The Association between Attitudes, Behaviors, and Gender, Glass and Wright, 1982
• Social exclusion and female mating behavior: Rejected women show strategic enhancement of short-term mating interest, Sacco et. al., 2012
• No evidence for ovulatory cycle shifts in women’s preferences for men’s behaviors in a pre-registered study, Jünger, Gerlach, & Penke, 2018.
• Sociosexuality in Women and Preference for Facial Masculinization and Somatotype in Men, Provost, Kormos, Kosakoski, & Quinsey, 2006
• Trade-offs in Low-Income Women’s Mate Preferences, Vigil, Geary, & Byrd-Craven, 2004
• The dark triad and relationship preferences: A replication and extension, Koladich & Atkinson, 2016
• Is Male Care Compromised by Additional Mating Opportunity, Magrath & Komdeur, 2003
• The evolutionary biology of human female sexuality. Gangestad & Thornhill, 2008
• Human parenting from an evolutionary perspective,
  Bjorklund & Jordan, 2013
• Peer victimization in adolescence has different effects on the sexual behavior of male and female college students, Gallup, O’Brien, White, & Wilson, 2009
• The influence of female attractiveness on competitor derogation, Fisher & Cox, 2009
• Intolerance of sexy peers: intrasexual competition among women, Vaillancourt & Sharma, 2011
• Evolutionary perspective on indirect victimization in adolescence: the role of attractiveness, dating and sexual behavior, Leenaars, Dane, & Marini, 2008
• Women selectively guard their (desirable) mates from ovulating women, Krems, Neel, Neuberg, Puts, & Kenrick, 2016
• Error management theory: A new perspective on biases in cross-sex mind reading, Haselton & Buss, 2000
• Sociosexuality as predictor of sexual harassment and coercion in female and male high school students, Kennair & Bendixen, 2012
• Advances in the Understanding of Same-Sex and Opposite-Sex Sexual Harassment, Bendixen & Kennair, 2017
• The Dark Triad and sexual harassment proclivity, Zeigler-Hill, Besser, Morag, & Campbell, 2016
• The unholy trinity: The Dark Triad, coercion, and Brunswik-Symmetry, Figuered et. al., 2015
• Intimate Partner Violence and Life History Strategy, Figueredo, Gladden, & Beck, 2010
• Sexual coercion and life-history strategy, Gladden, Sisco, & Figueredo, 2008
• (Mis)matching in physical attractiveness and women’s resistance to mate guarding, Fugère, Cousins, & MacLaren, 2015
• Invariances in the architecture of pride across small-scale societies, Sznycer et al., 2018
• Cross-cultural regularities in the cognitive architecture of pride
  Sznycer et al., 2017
• Sexual conflict over mating and fertilization: an overview, Parker, 2006
• Sexual economics: sex as female resource for social exchange in heterosexual interactions, Baumeister and Vohs, 2004
• Evolution and the Theory of Games, Maynard Smith, 1982
• Men’s misperceptions about the acceptability and
  attractiveness of aggression, Vandello et. al., 2009

Dating technique researches, on top of personal experience:

• Deceit and Self-Deception: The Relationship between Communication and Consciousness, Robert Trivers, 1991
• Sperm competition in marriage: Semen displacement, male rivals, and spousal discrepancy in sexual interest, Todd K. Shackelford, 2017
• Sex differences in perceptions of attractiveness of strong and weak male walkers, Todd K. Shackelford, 2016
• Cross-Cultural Investigation of Male Gait Perception in Relation to Physical Strength and Speed, Bernarnd Fink et. al., 2017
• Narcissism and the strategic pursuit of short-term mating: Universal links across 11 world regions of the International Sexuality Description Project-2., David Schmitt, et. al., 2017
• Big Five Traits Related to Short-Term Mating: From Personality to Promiscuity across 46 Nations, Todd K. Shackelford et. al., 2008
• Are men really more ‘oriented’ toward short-term mating than women? A critical review of theory and research, David Schmitt & Todd K. Shackelford, 2001

Books and resources on dating techniques and “game”, on top of personal experience:

• The Man’s Guide to Women, John Gottman, 2016
• The System, Todd Valentine, 2019
• Why Men Love Bitches, Sherry Argov, 2002
• Casanova: Story of My Life, Giacomo Casanova, 1822
• The Power of The Pussy, Kara King, 2012
• The Art Of Seduction, Robert Greene, 2010
• The Tao of Dating, Ali Binazir, 2012
• Fundamentals of Female Dynamics, Michael Knight, 2016
• A Gold Digger’s Guide, Baje Fletcher, 2010
• Practical Female Psychology, David Clare, Joseph W. South, Franco, 2013
• No More Mr. Nice Guy, Robert Glover, 2002
• How to Make Girls Chase, Chase Amante

Module 5 – Relationship Power Dynamics

Except for a few recent exceptions from evolutionary psychologists, much of “official” research on relationships does not focus on manipulation or conflict, but on how to make relationships works.

“Unofficial” literature, albeit it produced some good work, tends to be either misogynist (written by men) or misandrist (written by women).

This module takes the best from all three camps to draw a unified theory on relationship power dynamics, control, and leadership.

Resources on known manipulation tactics:

• 30 Covert Emotional Manipulation Tactics, Adelyn Birch, 2016
• Women Who Love Psychopaths, Sandra L. Brown, 2009
• Psychopath Free, Jackson MacKenzie, 2015
• Controlling People, Patricia Evans, 2003
• Why Does He Do That?, Lundy Bancroft, 2003
• The Manipulated Man, Esther Vilar, 1971
• Practical Female Psychology, David Clare, Joseph W. South, Franco, 2013
• Without Conscience, Robert Hare, 2011

On relationship dynamics:

• Not “Just Friends”, Shirley Glass, 2007
• Women Who Love Psychopaths, Sandra L. Brown, 2009
• Games People Play, Eric Berne, 1964
• Practical Female Psychology, David Clare, Joseph W. South, Franco, 2013
• Attached, Amir Levine, 2010
• Codependent No More, Melody Beattie, 2009
• 7 Principles to Make Your Marriage Work, John Gottman, 2018
• The Science of Trust, John Gottman, 2011
• Personality and Mate Preferences: Five Factors In Mate Selection and Marital Satisfaction, Michael Botwin, 1997
• Do Women Pretend Orgasm to Retain a Mate?, Farnaz Kaighobadi, 2013
• Men’s Partner-Directed Insults and Sexual Coercion in Intimate Relationships, Valerie Starratt, 2008
• Mate preferences of married persons in the newlywed year and
  three years later, Shackelford, Schmitt & Buss, 2005
• Rapid endocrine responses of young men to social interactions with young women, Roney, Simmons, & Lukaszewski, 2007
• Effects of dispositional dominance and sex role expectations on leadership behaviors, Nyquist & Spence, 1986
• Men and Women in Interaction: Reconsidering the Differences, Elizabeth Aries, 1989
• Status relationships in marriage: Risk factors in spouse abuse,
  Horung, McCullough, & Sugimoto, 1981

Module 6 – Sticky Social Situations

• Evil: Inside Human Violence and Cruelty, Roy Baumeister, 1999
• The Psychopath Whisperer, Kent Kiehl, 2014
• Without Conscience, Robert Hare, 2011
• Real Violence for Knowledge, Facebook channel on violence awareness
• Formidability assessment mechanisms: Examining their speed and automaticity, Durkee, Goetz, & Lukaszewski, 2018
• Beards augment perceptions of men’s age, social status, and aggressiveness, but not attractiveness, Dixson & Vasey, 2012
• The interacting roles of testosterone and challenges to status in human male aggression, McAndrew, 2009
• The Importance of Physical Strength to Human Males, Sell et al., 2009, 2010
• Human perception of fighting ability: Facial cues predict winners and losers in mixed martial arts fights, Little, Třebický, Havlíček, Roberts, & Kleisner, 2015
• Various sources on Krav-Maga and self-defense
• Various videos sourced by Lucio Buffalmano

Module 7 – Bonuses

On games people play:

• In Sheep’s Clothing, George Simon, 2010
• Propaganda, Edward Bernays, 2017
• How to Lie With Statistics, Darrel Huff, 2010
• No Logo, Naomi Klein, 1999
• The Prince, Machiavelli, 1513
• Don’t Think of an Elephant!, George Lakoff, 2008
• Confessions of A Sociopath, M.E. Thomas, 2013
• Trust Me, I’m Lying, Ryan Holiday, 2012
• The Mating Mind, Geoffrey Miller, 2000
• The Millionaire Fastlane, MJ DeMarco

And these are the resources from “Ultimate Power”, more focused on mindsets and life success:

• • Amoruso S. #Girlboss Portfolio; September 29, 2015 
  • Aurelius M, Hays G. Meditations: A new translation (modern library). Modern Library; May 14, 2002. 
  • Barker E. Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong. HarperOne; May 16, 2017 
  • Barnes, V. A., Davis, H. C., Murzynowski, J. B., & Treiber, F. A. (2004). Impact of meditation on resting and ambulatory blood pressure and heart rate in youth. Psychosomatic Medicine, 66(6), 909–914. doi: 10.1097/01.psy.0000145902.91749.35. 
  • Bem, D. J. (1972). Self-perception theory. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 6, 2–62. 
  • Bradberry T. Emotional Intelligence 2.0. TalentSmart; 2009 
  • Branson R. Losing My Virginity How I Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way. Currency; June 7, 2011 
  • Brewer, J. A., Worhunsky, P. D., Gray, J. R., Tang, Y., Weber, J., & Kober, H. (2011). Meditation experience is associated with differences in default mode network activity and connectivity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 108(50), 20254–20259. 
  • Brown B. Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead; Avery; Reprint edition; April 7, 2015 
  • Brown B. The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You’re Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are. Hazelden Publishing; August 27, 2010 
  • Burchard Branson. High Performance Habits: How Extraordinary People Become That Way. Hay House, Inc.; September 19, 2017 
  • Burg B., Mann J.D. The Go-Giver, Expanded Edition: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea. Portfolio; Reissue, Expanded edition; October 6, 2015 
  • Burkeman O., The Antidote. Random House. July 12, 2018  
  • Bylieu T. Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnYMOamNKLGVlJgRUbamveA  
  • Cane O. The Charisma Myth. Penguin; March 29, 2012   
  • Cardone G. Be Obsessed or be Average. Portfolio; October 11, 2016 
  • Carnegie D. How to Stop Worrying and Start Living. Gallery Books; Revised edition; October 5, 2004 
  • Carnegie D. How to win friends and influence people. Pocket; July 20, 1970. 
  • Chodron P. When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times. Shambhala; June 7, 2016 
  • Clear J. Atomic Habits. Random House; October 18, 2018 
  • Collins J. Good to Great Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t. Harper Collins, July 19, 2011 
  • Covey S. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change. Simon & Schuster 
  • Coyle D. The Talent Code: Greatness Isn’t Born. It’s Grown. Here’s How. Bantam; April 28, 2009 
  • Diamandis P. Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World. Simon & Schuster; February 23, 2016 
  • Divine M. The Way of the SEAL: Think Like An Elite Warrior to Lead and Succeed. Reader’s Digest; February 2, 2016 
  • Duckworth A. Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance. Scribner; 1 edition May 3, 2016 
  • Duhigg C. The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business. Random House Trade Paperbacks; January 7, 2014 
  • Dweck C. Mindset: The New Psychology of Success. Ballantine Books; December 26, 2007 
  • Eker Harv Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth. HarperBusiness; February 15, 2005 
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