Walk Like a Chameleon: Use Your Animal Instincts to Improve Your Relationships and Your Life

In this dog-eat-dog world, says psychologist Gary S. Aumiller, it's important to remember that we're all animals. In Walk Like a Chameleon: Use Your Animal Instincts to Improve Your Relationships and Your Life, he identifies eight basic types of personalities (the Avoider, the Blender, the Clinger, the Combiner, the Caretaker, the Asserter, the Gamer and the Attacker) and their positive and negative characteristics (e.g., the Gamer, characterized by the fox, is creative and motivated, but on the flip side wants to win at all costs). Not only will readers better understand themselves, Aumiller (coauthor of Red Flags: How to Know When You're Dating a Loser) maintains, they will also better understand how to interact effectively with others. Agent, Arielle Eckstut. (Aug. 1)