Psychology category: 48213 books
Psychology of Change
Life Contexts, Experiences, and Identities
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
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This volume tackles the critical question of whether people change or whether they remain relatively constant across the lifespan. Much existing literature in psychology has largely endorsed the concept of stability. Indeed, in many people’s minds, the person is understood...
Artificial Psychology
The Quest for What It Means to Be Human
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
Is it possible to construct an artificial person? Researchers in the field of artificial intelligence have for decades been developing computer programs that emulate human intelligence. This book goes beyond intelligence and describes how close we are to recreating many of the other capacities that...
The Middle East
A Cultural Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2005
For over a decade the Middle East has monopolized news headlines in the West. Journalists and commentators regularly speculate that the region's turmoil may stem from the psychological momentum of its cultural traditions or of a "tribal" or "fatalistic" mentality. Yet few studies of the region's cultural...
The Social Psychology of Gullibility
Conspiracy Theories, Fake News and Irrational Beliefs
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2019
Gullibility, whether we like it or not, is a fundamental characteristic of human beings. In The Social Psychology of Gullibility, Forgas and Baumeister explore what we know about the causes, functions, and consequences of gullibility, and the social psychological processes that promote or inhibit...
Introduction to Psychology and Law
Canadian Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2001
Despite the notable Canadian presence in the field of psychology and law, there is currently no comprehensive Canadian textbook on the subject. While a few U.S. textbooks cover the field, they give little or no attention to Canadian law and research. In recognition of this problem, editors Regina...
Becoming a Clinical Psychologist
Everything You Need to Know
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2018
Becoming a Clinical Psychologist: Everything You Need to Know brings together all the information you need to pursue a career in this competitive field.
This essential guide includes up-to-date information and guidance about a career in clinical psychology and gaining a place on clinical...
The Clinical Psychologist
Background, Roles, and Functions
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Clinical psychology is the largest of psychological specialization in the United States. It deals most often and most directly with public health and welfare in government agencies, universities, hospitals, clinics, and private industries and organizations. This volume describes the nature and function...
WHAT IS MOB MENTALITY? - 8 Essential Books on Crowd Psychology
Psychology of Revolution, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Instincts of the Herd, The Social Contract, A Moving-Picture of Democracy...
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
This meticulously edited collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: The Social Contract (Jean-Jacques Rousseau) The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind (Gustave Le Bon) The Psychology of Revolution (Gustave Le Bon) Extraordinary Popular Delusions and...
Healthcare and Culture
Subjectivity in Medical Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
The book deals with current issues, pertinent every healthcare relationship. Changes in medicine as well as some constant aspects over time arise within a cultural ground and generate new questions and issues that are not only purely medical, but also bioethical, social, political, economic and psychological...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
We seek to throw down the gauntlet with this handbook, challenging the he gemony of the "behavioral medicine" approach to the psychological study and treatment of the physically ill. This volume is not another in that growing surfeit oftexts that pledge allegiance to the doctrinaire purity...
Progress in Social Psychology
Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
Originally published in 1980, this title was the first of a new monograph series in social psychology. The editor presents a format for showing the progress of social psychology as a viable, exciting and relevant discipline.
The papers contained in this volume represent progress in theory and...
Psychology and Crime
2nd edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
What does a criminological psychologist actually do? Most people picture a modern-day Sherlock Holmes, helping the police to solve crimes, but the reality is far more interesting and complex. Psychology and Crime offers a fascinating introduction to criminological psychology, providing the reader...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Advances in Clinical Child Psychology is. a serial publication designed to bring together original summaries of the most important new develop ments in the field of clinical child psychology and its related disciplines. Each chapter is written by a key figure in an innovative area of research or...
by John R. Nofsinger
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
While traditional finance focuses on the tools used to optimize return and minimize risk, this book explains how psychology can affect our decisions more than financial theory. Covering the ways investors actually behave, this is the first book of its kind to delve into the ways biases influence investment...