Start Making Sense

Start Making Sense (2025) explores the human need for meaning and purpose using cultural and social psychology to engage philosophical questions about the meaning of life. Weaving together history, literature, Existential psychology, and the history of science, it serves as a guide for crafting a meaningful life even in unsettling times. 

• Those anxious about the state of the world, or their place in it 
• Psychology buffs looking for the origins of complex human behavior
• Anyone curious about how human behavior impacts political and social systems

Steven J: Heine is a distinguished Canadian professor of social and cultural psychology at the University of British Columbia. He authored the most widely-used textbook on the subject, Cultural Psychology, as well as DNA Is Not Destiny, exploring the common misconceptions surrounding genetics and health.