Applied Psychology category: 2264 books
Screw Finding Your Passion
It's Within You, Let's Unlock It
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2014
The commonly held belief that you should ‘follow your passion’ is flawed.
Many people believe that in order to be truly happy, you need to find and follow your one and only true passion. This is a very limiting approach to passion, and one not backed up by much research. In fact,...
by Clayton Redfield
Language: German
Release Date: December 10, 2017
Language: German
Release Date: December 10, 2017
Geschrieben von Clayton Redfield, MA, Psychologie und Beratung, klinischer Direktor des größten Zentrums für kriminelle Behandlung, Drogenmissbrauch Behandlung und medizinische Entgiftungszentren, sowie Professor für Psychologie und Jugendjustiz, seine Arbeit hier umfasst evidenzbasierte Informationen...
by Gilbert Bates
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
Psychology teaches that the ‘thinking’ part of our brain can change how we act and feel. But psychology is wrong. Sensations and feelings drive what we think and how we act, and this book can prove it. Primal Theory teaches, and Primal Therapy shows, that it is experiences imprinted into the human...
The Psychology of Enhancing Human Performance
The Mindfulness-Acceptance-Commitment (MAC) Approach
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2007
The MAC approach developed by connecting the more traditional scientific knowledge base on human performance and self-regulation to more contemporary findings to do with meta-cognitive processes, emotion regulation, and acceptance-based behavioral interventions. Written by the originators of the MAC...
Blind Spots
Why We Fail to Do What's Right and What to Do about It
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
When confronted with an ethical dilemma, most of us like to think we would stand up for our principles. But we are not as ethical as we think we are. In Blind Spots, leading business ethicists Max Bazerman and Ann Tenbrunsel examine the ways we overestimate our ability to do what is right and how...
The Design of Everyday Things
Revised and Expanded Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
The ultimate guide to human-centered design
Even the smartest among us can feel inept as we fail to figure out which light switch or oven burner to turn on, or whether to push, pull, or slide a door. The fault, argues this ingenious-even liberating-book, lies not in ourselves, but in product...
Scarcity
Why Having Too Little Means So Much
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
A surprising and intriguing examination of how scarcity—and our flawed responses to it—shapes our lives, our society, and our culture
Why do successful people get things done at the last minute? Why does poverty persist? Why do organizations get stuck firefighting? Why do the lonely find...
Managing Motivation
A Manager's Guide to Diagnosing and Improving Motivation
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2008
This slim motivation guidebook was written to bridge the gap between the academic research on motivation and to present it in a form that is useful to the practicing manager. In essence, the book presents a theory of motivation and how to use it without ever mentioning the word "theory"....
Employee Engagement Through Effective Performance Management
A Practical Guide for Managers
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2018
This book is a practical guide for managers to increase and support employee engagement through stronger performance management tools and techniques. In this second edition, Edward Mone and Manuel London incorporate new developments in the field, including discussion of issues about the value of challenging...
by A. D. Thibeault
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2014
A full executive summary of The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg. This is not a chapter-by-chapter summary. Rather, the author takes an holistic approach, reorganizing and breaking down the content for easier understanding where necessary, and cutting out...
by A. D. Thibeault
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2014
A full executive summary of The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone--Especially Ourselves by Dan Ariely. This is not a chapter-by-chapter summary. Rather, the author takes an holistic approach, reorganizing and breaking down the content for easier understanding where necessary,...
Change Your Brain, Change Your Life (Revised and Expanded)
The Breakthrough Program for Conquering Anxiety, Depression, Obsessiveness, Lack of Focus, Anger, and Memory Problems
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
In this completely revised and updated edition of the breakthrough bestseller, neuropsychiatrist Dr. Daniel Amen includes effective "brain prescriptions" that can help heal your brain and change your life.
To quell anxiety and panic:
Use simple breathing techniques to immediately calm inner...
Mastermind
How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
The New York Times bestselling guide to thinking like literature's greatest detective. "Steven Pinker meets Sir Arthur Conan Doyle" (Boston Globe), by the author of The Confidence Game.
No fictional character is more renowned for his powers of thought and observation than Sherlock...
Reparative Therapy of Male Homosexuality
A New Clinical Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1997
This book explores a reparative psychotherapy based on an understanding of the development of gender identity, offering to help the non-gay homosexual, that is, one who is unhappy with his sexual orientation.
A Jason Aronson Book