Psychology category: 48213 books
Mixing Methods in Psychology
The Integration of Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Can qualitative and quantitative methods be combined effectively in psychology? What are the practical and theoretical issues involved? Should different criteria be used to judge qualitative and quantitative research?
The acceptance of qualitative research methods in psychology has lead to...
Introduction to Forensic Psychology
Court, Law Enforcement, and Correctional Practices
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012
Introduction to Forensic Psychology, Third Edition, has been completely restructured to explain in greater detail how courses on forensic psychology are taught, making it more applicable as a textbook than previous editions. It also features more figures, tables and text boxes, making it a true textbook....
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Child and Adolescent Psychology
The Science of Young Minds—Clear, Complete, and Current
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
Simplifying a complex subject.
Child psychology is required for college level psych and elementary education majors. It is a complex subject that can include developmental psychology, biology, sociological psychology, and various schools of theory and therapies. The only sources of information...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
The goal of Advances in Clinical Child Psychology is to provide clinicians and researchers in clinical child psychology, child psychiatry, and relat ed mental health disciplines with an annual compilation of statements that summarize the new data, concepts, and techniques that advance our ability...
Peace Psychology in the Balkans
Dealing with a Violent Past while Building Peace
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
The volume covers the development of peace psychology in the Balkans. The Balkans is a region marked by post-communist and post-conflict transitional turmoil, and this book provides a comprehensive introduction to research in peace psychology in this part of the world, written by scholars primarily...
by Martin E. P. Seligman, Peter Railton, Roy F. Baumeister
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Our species is misnamed. Though sapiens defines human beings as "wise" what humans do especially well is to prospect the future. We are homo prospectus. In this book, Martin E. P. Seligman, Peter Railton, Roy F. Baumeister, and Chandra Sripada argue it is anticipating and evaluating future possibilities...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2010
Advances in Experimental Social Psychology continues to be one of the most sought after and most often cited series in this field. Containing contributions of major empirical and theoretical interest, this series represents the best and the brightest in new research, theory, and practice in social...
Advances in Personality Psychology
Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
In the first volume of this new series, Sarah E. Hampson brings together a unique collection of critical reviews of key areas of personality psychology and integrative accounts of important work by internationally recognised experts in the field.
Advances in Personality Psychology includes chapters...
An Introduction to Cognitive Psychology
Processes and disorders
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
David Groome with Nicola Brace, Graham Edgar, Helen Edgar, Michael Eysenck, Tom Manly, Hayley Ness, Graham Pike, Sophie Scott, and Elizabeth Styles.
An Introduction to Cognitive Psychology: Processes and Disorders is a comprehensive introductory textbook for undergraduate students. The third...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
We perceive color everywhere and on everything that we encounter in daily life. Color science has progressed to the point where a great deal is known about the mechanics, evolution, and development of color vision, but less is known about the relation between color vision and psychology. However,...
by Adam Cash
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
Understand why you feel and act the way you do
Psychology For Dummies is a fun, user-friendly guide to the basics of human behavior and mental processes. In plain English—and using lots of everyday examples—psychologist Dr. Adam Cash cuts through the jargon to explain what psychology is...
by Professor Hymie Anisman
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
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Hormones in your gut can affect the way you behave, prenatal infections have been associated with the development of schizophrenia and women...
The Positive Psychology of Personal Transformation
Leveraging Resilience for Life Change
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
Given the current climate of economic and environmental uncertainty, it is all too easy for individuals to feel hopeless about their lives and indifferent to the problems of others. But according to leading psychologist, James Garbarino, this is the peak time for people to enhance their optimism,...
Archetypal Psychotherapy
The clinical legacy of James Hillman
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Archetypal psychology is a post-Jungian mode of theory and practice initiated primarily through the prolific work of James Hillman. Hillman’s writing carries a far-reaching collection of evocative ideas with a wealth of vital implications for the field of clinical psychology. With the focus on replacing...