Psychology category: 48213 books
by Dennis Ford
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
The voyage of discovery that commenced in Volume One continues in Lectures on General Psychology ~ Volume Two. In Volume Two we sail to different destinations and explore new and wonderful topics. Sleep, motivation, emotions, health psychology and stress, social psychology and psychological disordersthese...
by Moshe Zeidner, PhD, Gerald Matthews
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2010
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This is the book I've been waiting for. The field has needed a clear and thorough review of anxiety, and now it exists.
Joseph LeDoux, PhD, author, The Emotional Brain and Synaptic Self
Center for Neural Science, New York University
Anxiety 101, written by two prominent figures...
Contemporary Psychology
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2006
This text provides a state-of-the-art summary of current issues in psychology, introducing the reader to contemporary thinking and research. The book discusses topics from areas as wide as cognitive, developmental, physiological, social and applied psychology, as well as individual differences and...
by Christine Brain
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
Exam Board: Edexcel
Level: AS/A-level
Subject: Psychology
First Teaching: September 2015
First Exam: June 2016
Endorsed for Edexcel
Develop your students' knowledge of the foundations of modern psychological understanding with this detailed textbook for Edexcel AS and A level Psychology,...
Cross-Cultural Psychology
Contemporary Themes and Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
This book situates the essential areas of psychology within a cultural perspective, exploring the relationship of culture to psychological phenomena, from introduction and research foundations to clinical and social principles and applications.
• Includes contributions from an experienced, international...
Understanding Social Psychology Across Cultures
Engaging with Others in a Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Understanding Social Psychology Across Cultures Second Edition starts by asking why social psychology needs a cross-cultural perspective. It then examines cultural differences and their origins, before addressing traditional social psychological themes cross-culturally, for example group processes,...
CrossCultural Psychology
Why Culture Matters
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
CrossCultural Psychology: Why Culture Matters addresses both established and very recent research in cultural and comparative crosscultural psychology. The book is written by Professor Krum Krumov of Sofia University in Bulgaria and Professor Knud S. Larsen from Oregon State University. The authors...
Culture and Social Behavior
The Ontario Symposium, Volume 10
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2005
Cross-cultural differences have many important implications for social identity, social cognition, and interpersonal behavior. The 10th volume of the Ontario Symposia on Personality and Social Psychology focuses on East-West cultural differences and similarities and how this research can be applied...
Cognition and Neuropsychology
International Perspectives on Psychological Science (Volume 1)
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2010
This is the first of two volumes which together present the main contributions from the 29th International Congress of Psychology, held in Berlin in 2008, written by international leaders in psychology from around the world. The authors present a variety of approaches and perspectives that reflect...
Social Anxiety
Clinical, Developmental, and Social Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
The third edition of Social Anxiety: Clinical, Developmental, and Social Perspectives integrates examinations of social anxiety, shyness, and embarrassment with the research on social anxiety disorder subtypes, biological theories and cognitive-behavioral or pharmacological treatment outcome studies....
Relationships as Developmental Contexts
The Minnesota Symposia on Child Psychology, Volume 30
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1999
The volume's topic was chosen in part because of the rapidly growing salience of dyadic research perspectives in developmental psychology, but also in social psychology and in fields such as communication and family studies. It provides the most complete representation now available on current theory...
Motivational Psychology of Human Development
Developing Motivation and Motivating Development
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2000
The idea for this book grew out of the conference "Motivational Psychology of Ontogenesis" held at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, Germany, in May 1998. This conference focused on the interface of development and motivation and therefore brought together scholars from three...
Alternatives to Cognition
A New Look at Explaining Human Social Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
In this provocative book, Christina Lee takes a consciously critical approach to the apparently unchallenged principle that conscious thought is the cause of all human behavior. Without becoming polemical or destructive, she reconsiders a wide range of issues in mainstream American and European social...
Understanding Abnormal Psychology
Clinical and Biological Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Understanding Abnormal Psychology provides a thorough understanding of abnormal psychology with a focus on the integration of psychology, biology and health. It goes beyond a descriptive overview of clinical disorders to provide a critical appreciation of the multifaceted aspects of mental illness....