Psychology category: 48213 books
The Automaticity of Everyday Life
Advances in Social Cognition, Volume X
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
As Skinner argued so pointedly, the more we know about the situational causes of psychological phenomena, the less need we have for postulating internal conscious mediating processes to explain those phenomena. Now, as the purview of social psychology is precisely to discover those situational causes...
Crown House WJEC Psychology
AS Level
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2015
Edited by Nigel Holt and Rob Lewis, the authors of the hugely successful AS Level Psychology: The Student’s Textbook (ISBN 9781845900939) and The Study Guide (ISBN 9781845900953), Crown House WJEC Psychology: AS Level, written by Nicola Taylor and Kirsty White, rigorously examines what students...
Progress in Self Psychology, V. 7
The Evolution of Self Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
A special section of papers on the evolution, current status, and future development of self psychology highlights The Evolution of Self Psychology, volume 7 of the Progress in Self Psychology series. A critical review of recent books by Basch, Goldberg, and Stolorow et al. is part of this endeavor....
Progress in Self Psychology, V. 17
The Narcissistic Patient Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Volume 17 of Progress in Self Psychology, The Narcissistic Patient Revisited, begins with the next installment of Strozier's "From the Kohut Archives": first publication of a fragment by Kohut on social class and self-formation and of four letters from his final decade. Taken together, Hazel...
Progress in Self Psychology, V. 8
New Therapeutic Visions
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
New Therapeutic Visions begins with Lachmann and Beebe's developmental perspectives on representational and selfobject transferences, followed by commentaries. In Section II, the self-psychological approach is brought to bear on the clinical treatment of an adolescent girl, incest survivors, addictive...
Perverse Psychology
The pathologization of sexual violence and transgenderism
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Psychology defines people who take pleasure in the suffering of others as having a form of mental illness, while media representations frame such behaviour as ‘evil’. This is hotly contested territory, not least where sexual violence is concerned – violence which feminist voices argue is related...
Developing Minds
Psychology, neoliberalism and power
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Development policy makers and practitioners are becoming increasingly sophisticated in their ability to target ‘development’ interventions and the psychological domain is now a specific frontier of their interventional focus. This landmark study considers the problematic relationship between development...
Advances in Psychology and Law
Volume 3
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2018
The latest entry in this noteworthy series continues its focus on psychological issues relating to legal and judicial matters, with sound recommendations for situational and system-wide improvement. Salient concerns are described both in areas where their existence is frequently acknowledged (juror...
Applied Psychology
Proceedings of the 2015 Asian Congress of Applied Psychology (ACAP 2015)
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
This is the conference proceedings for the 2015 Asian Congress of Applied Psychology (ACAP 2015), hosted by Aventis School of Management, Singapore. It includes papers by a group of international academics and researchers. It covers the most recent research findings in the fields of Psychology, especially...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
As psychology and philosophy arose as answers to the eternal question of how the mind works, evolutionary psychology has gained ground over recent years as a link between cognitive-behavioral and natural-science theories of the mind. This provocative field has also gathered a wide range...
Handbook of Australian School Psychology
Integrating International Research, Practice, and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
This handbook addresses the current state and practice of school psychology with a focus on standards unique to Australia, including historical, legal, ethical, practical, and training factors. It provides a compilation of the most current research-based practices as well as guidelines for evidence-based...
by Helen Gavin
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2018
The second edition of** Criminological and Forensic Psychology **is an even more theoretically rigorous, practically relevant, engaging and fun introduction to this broad and fascinating field. It covers both the conceptual basis within which psychology knowledge is applied in forensic contexts...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
Essential Psychology* *returns for a second edition with a vivid narrative writing style for undergraduates, features designed to stimulate critical thinking and inspire students to learn independently, and an expanded companion website full of useful resources for lecturers and students. This comprehensive...
by Stephen Ryan, Zoltan Dornyei
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
Over the past decade, the focus of inquiry into the psychology of SLA has shifted from the analysis of various characteristics within individuals towards a greater consideration of individuals’ dynamic interactions with diverse contexts. This revisit of the bestselling The Psychology of the Language...