Best sellers among popular psychology books

Abstract

The results of this study establish the availability and importance of useful psychology volumes as well as the demand for them. They reveal that these volumes comprise more than 10% of nonfiction best sellers, and that their general trends can be traced and classified into several topical emphases. The procedure followed was to examine The Publishers' Weekly nonfiction best seller lists for the period 1912 to 1951. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)