Are you curious to learn about different areas of psychology?

Below you will find a comprehensive list of different types of media (books, movies, and podcast episodes) about the main areas of psychology. This list was made by the Board 2025-2026, Professors and Staff, as well as Members. If you have any additions to this list, please email vip.gmw@rug.nl!

Neuropsychology and Biopsychology

Books:

1. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks

Movies:

1. Memento from Christopher Nolan
2. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly from Julian Schnabel
3. Awakenings from Penny Marshall
4. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest from Milos Forman
5. Limitless from Neil Burger

Podcast episodes:

1. Hidden Brains: Forget About It!

Clinical Psychology

Books:

1. A Road Back from Schizophrenia: A Memoir by Arnhild Lauveng
2. My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Otessa Moshfegh

Movies:

1. Vie Privée (A Private Life) from Rebecca Zlotowski
2. Beautiful Boy from Felix van Groeningen
3. Mijn woord tegen het mijne (My Word Against Wine) from Maasja Ooms
4. Split from M. Night Shyamalan
5. Stay from Marc Forster
6. The Desert of the Real from Luuk Bouwman
7. Freud's Last Session from Matthew Brown
8. A Dangerous Method from David Cronenberg

Podcast episodes:

1. Hidden Brain: You 2.0: How to Get Out of a Rut
2. Hidden Brain: Rethinking Depression

Cognitive Psychology

Books:

1. The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
2. Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniël Kahneman

Movies:

1. Inside-Out from Pete Docter and Ronnie del Carmen
2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind from Michel Gondry
3. Inception from Christopher Nolan
4. Fight Club from David Fincher
5. Rain Man from Barry Levinson

Environmental Psychology

Books:

1. Climate Emotions by Glenn Albrecht
2. Palaces for the People by Eric Klinenberg
3. What if We Get it Right by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
4. Human Nature by Kate Marvel
5. The Future We Choose by Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac

Movies:

1. Wall-E from Andrew Stanton
2. Princess Mononoke from Hayao Miyazaki
3. The Lorax from Chris Renaud and Kyle Balda
4. Don't Look up from Adam McKay
5. Parasite from Bong Joon Ho

Podcast episodes:

1. Enviornmental Psychology Podcast (@environmentalpsychologygro17)
2. The Psychology and Science of Environmental Behavior: How to Save the World
3. Outrage+Optimism: The climate podcasts, ep. 352: Catastrophe Apathy: Why understanding the climate crisis isn’t enough
4. BBC the climate question: What is climate anxiety and how can you cope with it?

Forensic Psychology

Shows:

1. Mindhunter
2. Adolescence

Movies:

1. The Silence of the Lambs from Jonathan Demme
2. Zodiac from David Fincher
3. Prisoners from Denis Villeneuve
4. Primal Fear from Gregory Hoblit
5. Natural Born Killers from Oliver Stone

Podcast episodes:

1. Zembla Podcast: Op zoek naar Marlotte

Industrial and Organisational Psychology

Movies:

1. Office Space from Mike Judge
2. Up in the Air from Jason Reitman
3. Moneyball from Bennett Miller
4. Hidden Figures from Theodore Melfi
5. The Intern from Nancy Meyers

Podcast episodes:

1. Stress Navigation

Social Psychology

Movies:

1. 12 Angry Men from Sidney Lumet
2. The Wave from Dennis Gansel
3. Mean Girls from Mark Waters
4. The Experiment from Paul Scheuring
5. The Breakfast Club from John Hughes

Books:

1. Pre-suasion by Robert Cialdini
2. Contagious: Why Things Catch On by Johan Berger
3. How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
4. Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It by Christopher Voss and Tahl Raz

Developmental Psychology

Movies:

1. Boyhood from Richard Linklater
2. The Florida Project from Sean Baker
3. Wonder from Stephen Chbosky
4. Lady Bird from Greta Gerwig
5. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button from David Fincher