Psychology category: 48213 books
Virtues and Vices in Positive Psychology
A Philosophical Critique
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
Positive psychology is one of the biggest growth industries in the discipline of psychology. At the present time, the subfield of 'positive education' seems poised to take the world of education and teacher training by storm. In this first book-length philosophical study of positive psychology, Professor...
Psychology of Reading
2nd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
Reading is a highly complex skill that is prerequisite to success in many societies in which a great deal of information is communicated in written form. Since the 1970s, much has been learned about the reading process from research by cognitive psychologists. This book summarizes that important work...
Developmental Psychology
A Student's Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Developmental Psychology: A Student's Handbook is a major textbook that provides an up-to-date account of theory and research in the rapidly-changing field of child development. Margaret Harris and George Butterworth have produced an outstanding volume that includes recent research from Britain, Europe,...
The Wiley Handbook of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology
Methods, Approaches, and New Directions for Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
The Wiley Handbook of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology presents a comprehensive exploration of the wide range of methodological approaches utilized in the contemporary field of theoretical and philosophical psychology.
The Wiley Handbook of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology presents...
Psychology of Reasoning
Theoretical and Historical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2004
This collection brings together a set of specially commissioned chapters from leading international researchers in the psychology of reasoning. Its purpose is to explore the historical, philosophical and theoretical implications of the development of this field. Taking the unusual approach of engaging...
Psychology, Religion, and the Nature of the Soul
A Historical Entanglement
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2011
Neither a book about the psychology of spirituality nor America’s ongoing turf wars between religion and science, Psychology, Religion, and the Nature of the Soul takes to task many of the presumed relationships between the two—from sharing common concerns to diametrically hostile opposites—to...
Psychology Exposed (Psychology Revivals)
Or the Emperor's New Clothes
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
Originally published in 1988, in this personal review of the state of academic psychology, Paul Kline draws attention to the way in which his peers at the time studiously avoided such threatening matters as human feelings and emotions, unconscious ‘complexes’ – in short anything that could be...
Portraits of Pioneers in Psychology
Volume III
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
This third volume in a series devoted to luminaries in the history of psychology--features chapter authors who are themselves highly visible and eminent scholars. They provide glimpses of the giants who shaped modern cognitive and behavioral science, and shed new light on their contributions and personalities,...
by James F. Brennan, Keith A. Houde
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
History and Systems of Psychology provides an engaging introduction to the rich story of psychology's past. Retaining the clarity and accessibility praised by readers of earlier editions, this classic textbook provides a chronological history of psychology from the pre-Socratic Greeks to contemporary...
Psychology for Inclusive Education
New Directions in Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2008
What can psychology offer inclusive education? Traditionally, special education has looked to psychology for many of its theoretical resources and practical strategies. While those seeking to promote more inclusive education have tended to see psychology and psychologists as part of the problem by...
Community Psychology
In Pursuit of Liberation and Well-being
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2010
The second edition of this introductory textbook, Community Psychology, has been updated and expanded to reflect how changes within society have led to developments across the field.The authors offer a fascinating introduction for students, setting out the principles of community psychology as they...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
This book provides a global overview of pioneers in international psychology with contributions from distinguished authors from representative nations around the world. Chapters offer biographical profiles describing the personal histories and professional contributions of leading figures in psychology...
Psychology in Social Context
Issues and Debates
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2011
Psychology in Social Context: Issues and Debates provides a critical perspective on debates and controversies that have divided opinion within psychology both past and present.
Explores the history of psychology through examples of classic and contemporary debates that have split the discipline...
Reflections on the Principles of Psychology
William James After A Century
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...