📚 Social Behavior

Books with social behavior on their catalogue record, first published between 1911 and 2012, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject social behavior in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 1,618 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Emotional Intelligence	Daniel Goleman	1995	40
	Social Life in the Insect World	Jean-Henri Fabre	1911	38
	The presentation of self in everyday life	Erving Goffman	1952	28
	Langman's medical embryology	Thomas W. Sadler	1963	26
	The Blank Slate	Steven Pinker	2002	24
	The Age of Empathy	Frans de Waal	2009	22
	Intimate Behaviour	Desmond Morris	1970	21
	The Tipping Point	Malcolm Gladwell	2000	21
	Relations in Public	Erving Goffman	1971	20
	Pa.delà la liberté et la dignité	B. F. Skinner	1971	16
	Sex, gender and society	Ann Oakley	1972	16
	Plain and Simple	Sue Bender	1989	14
	The student's guide to social neuroscience	Jamie Ward	2012	14
	Social psychology of George Herbert Mead	George Herbert Mead	1956	12
	Early Victorian England, 1830-1865	George Malcolm Young	1934	11
	The structure and dynamics of organizations and groups	Eric Berne	1963	10
	Overcoming social anxiety and shyness	Gillian Butler	2001	10
	Structure and function in primitive society	A. R. Radcliffe-Brown	1952	9
	Sociolinguistics An Introduction to Language and Society	Peter Trudgill	1974	8
	Social skills in interpersonal communication	Owen Hargie	1981	8
	Mind, self, and society	George Herbert Mead	1934	7
	A Natural History of the Senses	Diane Ackerman	1990	7
	Social behaviour in animals	Tinbergen, Niko	1953	6
	Deviance	Simon Dinitz	1969	5
	The explanation of social behaviour	Rom Harré	1972	5
	The environment and social behavior	Irwin Altman	1975	5
	Shyness	Philip G. Zimbardo	1977	5
	The pursuit of attention	Charles Derber	1979	5
	Organizational behavior and performance	Andrew D. Szilagyi	1980	5
	The streets of London through the centuries	Thomas Burke	1940	4

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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