Experimental Psychology category: 380 books

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The Development of Numerical Competence

Animal and Human Models

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Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014

The area of animal counting has historically been the subject of a long and colorful debate, but only more recently have systematic, more rigorous experimental efforts to evaluate numerical abilities in animals been undertaken. This volume contains chapters from investigators in a range of disciplines...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016

Originally published in 1986, this volume was the result of a conference in honor of the 65th birthday of the late Kenneth MacCorquodale, an exceptionally eloquent spokesman for the field of experimental analysis of behaviour at the time. The present volume grew directly out of the issues raised by...
Cover of In Defence of Empirical Psychology (Psychology Revivals)
by D. E. Broadbent
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014

Originally published in 1973, this book contains the 1971 William James Lectures at Harvard, the first by that name to be given by a British psychologist. In addition, there are reprints of four shorter lectures which had not been easily available before. Together the resulting collection gave a broad...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012

Evolutionary psychology is concerned with the adaptive problems early humans faced in ancestral human environments, the nature of the psychological mechanisms natural selection shaped to deal with those ancient problems, and the ability of the resulting evolved psychological mechanisms to deal with...
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Forensic Psychology in Practice

A Practitioner's Handbook

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Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012

What do you need to consider when preparing a report on a juvenile offender? Why would interviewing a sex offender prove particularly challenging? How do practitioners survive the pressures of working with offenders? Forensic Psychology in Practice: A Practitioner's Handbook provides a practical guide...
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Reflections on the Principles of Psychology

William James After A Century

by Michael G. Johnson, Tracy B. Henley
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013

This important volume looks back to 1890 and -- 100 years later -- asks some of the same questions William James was asking in his Principles of Psychology. In so doing, it reviews our progress toward their solutions. Among the contemporary concerns of 1990 that the editors consider are: the nature...
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Ecopsychology: Advances from the Intersection of Psychology and Environmental Protection [2 volumes]

Advances from the Intersection of Psychology and Environmental Protection

by Darlyne G. Nemeth, Judy Kuriansky, Robert B. Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015

This anthology is a two-volume work that focuses on our relationship with the Earth and our future, examining the crossover between psychology and environmental studies in the emerging fields of ecopsychology and environmental psychology. Addresses the "hot topic" of today: how psychology...
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Blowing America's Mind

A True Story of Princeton, CIA Mind Control, LSD and Zen

by John Selby, Paul Davids
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017

Two well-known Princeton alumni at last reveal the true inside story of how they got caught up in and nearly done in by the CIA's LSD-laced deep hypnosis research while they were Princeton students in the late 1960's. Reminiscent in some respects of A Beautiful Mind, the Princeton setting and the...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014

This book represents the best of the first three years of the Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology conferences. While chaos theory has been a topic of considerable interest in the physical and biological sciences, its applications in psychology and related fields have been obscured until recently...
Cover of The Bioelectrical Investigation of Sexuality and Anxiety
by Wilhelm Reich
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013

Looking back over the development of orgone biophysics, Reich wrote: "My experimental studies during the years 1934 to 1938 gradually and logically centered on a single basic problem: how deeply is the function of the orgasm rooted in biology?" The Bioelectrical Investigation of Sexuality...
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Heart Attack for Gourmets: Wariat's Diary (Diary of a Cranky Man)

Elements of Absurdism, Adventurism, Light Fantasy

by Volodymyr Vakulenko-K., Vanessa Darel
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016

Wariat’s Diary (Diary of a Cranky Man). Novel in 13 chapters with consequences of documentation and with elements of absurdism, adventurism, and light fantasy!) The novel was awarded - International Literary Prize. Olesya Ulyanenko in 2012! The book HEART ATTACK FOR GOURMETS by Volodymyr...
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Getting Grounded in Social Psychology

The Essential Literature for Beginning Researchers

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Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017

This volume provides a fast and efficient way for undergraduate and graduate students to gain a solid understanding of the social psychology literature. Each chapter reviews a major subsection of research in the field, written by a leading social psychology researcher in that area. Coverage includes...
Cover of Some Notes on Field Theory, Albert's Mind, and the Status Quo: The Necessity of Contextualism in Psychology
by JZ Murdock
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2012

A brief history of Psychology and the Sciences as related to field theory. Also include an article on Synesthesia / Schizophrenia. Book Trailer - http://bit.ly/SomeNotes "Notes on Albert's Mind, Field Theory and Contextualism" Years passed. Man remained ignorant of...
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Integral Psychology

Consciousness, Spirit, Psychology, Therapy

by Ken Wilber
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2000

The goal of an "integral psychology" is to honor and embrace every legitimate aspect of human consciousness under one roof. This book presents one of the first truly integrative models of consciousness, psychology, and therapy. Drawing on hundreds of sources—Eastern and Western, ancient...
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