Psychology category: 48213 books
Narrative Impact
Social and Cognitive Foundations
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2003
The impact of public narratives has been so broad (including effects on beliefs and behavior but extending beyond to emotion and personality), that the stakeholders in the process have been located across disciplines, institutions, governments, and, indeed, across epochs. Narrative Impact draws upon...
Social Psychology
Revisiting the Classic Studies
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Electronic Inspection Copy available for instructors here Revisiting the Classic Studies is a series of texts that introduces readers to the studies in psychology that changed the way we think about core topics in the discipline today. It provokes students to ask more interesting and challenging...
The Rise and Fall of Social Psychology
An Iconoclast's Guide to the Use and Misuse of the Experimental Method
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This unflinching effort critically traces the attempt of social psychology over the past half century to forge a scientific understanding of human behavior based on the systematic use of experiments.Having examined the record from the inception of the field to the present, Brannigan suggests that...
by John G. Horgan
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
This new edition of John Horgan's critically acclaimed book is fully revised and expanded.
The book presents a critical analysis of our existing knowledge and understanding of terrorist psychology. Despite the on-going search for a terrorist pathology, the most insightful and evidence-based...
The Psychology of Overeating
Food and the Culture of Consumerism
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Drawing on empirical research, clinical case material and vivid examples from modern culture, The Psychology of Overeating demonstrates that overeating must be understood as part of the wider cultural problem of consumption and materialism. Highlighting modern society's pathological need to consume,...
by John Perry
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
Sport Psychology: A Complete Introduction is designed to give you everything you need to succeed, all in one place. It covers the key areas that students are expected to be confident in, outlining the basics in clear, jargon-free English and providing added-value features like summaries of key experiments...
by Mark Allen, Dr Paul McCarthy
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
The Psychology Express undergraduate revision guide series will help you understand key concepts quickly, revise effectively and make your answers stand out.
Culture and Cognition
A collection of critical essays
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
The past few decades have seen a huge increase in global interest in psychology, with more psychologists, psychology programmes and students than ever before. Culture and Cognition: A collection of critical essays is made up of chapters written by experts in each topic, and is aimed at those wishing...
A Critical History and Philosophy of Psychology
Diversity of Context, Thought, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
In line with the British Psychological Society's recent recommendations for teaching the history of psychology, this comprehensive undergraduate textbook emphasizes the philosophical, cultural and social elements that influenced psychology's development. The authors demonstrate that psychology is...
by IntroBooks
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
An overview of a child’s psychology, the processes a child’s brain and body go through while becoming a young adult. All the factors that matter and are taken into account when it comes to studying child development. Its growth since child psychology was first mentioned in the history. The theories...
Narrating a Psychology of Resistance
Voices of the Compañeras in Nicaragua
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
The Movimiento Autónomo de Mujeres (Women's Autonomous Movement) in Nicaragua - birthed in part from the Sandinista Revolution of the 1980s - represents one of the largest, most diverse, and most autonomous women's movements in all of Latin America. While it's true that scholars across a wide range...
Self-Esteem and Positive Psychology, 4th Edition
Research, Theory, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
"The author's voice is engaged, authoritative, and convinced of the esential role self-esteem plays in connecting psychological theory to clinical practice, a perspective many readers will welcome....Recommended."--Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries
This new edition of...
Anomalistic Psychology
A Study of Magical Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Updating and expanding the materials from the first edition, Anomalistic Psychology, Second Edition integrates and systematically treats phenomena of human consciousness and behaviors that appear to violate the laws of nature. The authors present and detail a new explanatory concept they developed...
Counselling Psychology
Integrating Theory, Research and Supervised Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Counselling psychology, a rapidly expanding mental health discipline, is rooted in academic psychology and therefore has unique potential of develop and sustain a powerful model for the integration of research and practice. This is the argument of this pioneering book, which brings together contributions...