Psychology category: 48213 books
Approaches to Cognition
Contrasts and Controversies
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
To the vast majority of academic psychologists in the 1980s, the study of cognition referred to that area of psychology known as ‘cognitive psychology’. The major basis of this area had been the computer metaphor with its accompanying notion of the individual as an information-processing system....
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
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 psychology and its related disciplines. Each chapter is written by a key figure in an innovative area of research or by an...
Principles of Social Psychology
Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
Originally published in 1987 this third edition won praise from students and instructors alike for its challenging "no nonsense" approach to the field. Thoroughly updated to reflect current research of the time, the text retains the qualities that had become its hallmarks: a cognitive approach...
by Ivan Fernandez
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2019
Does your sixth sense predicts accurately about people sometimes? Does it intrigues you when it does happen occasionally?
Do you think it is just coincidence that the people you don't like looks a certain way, behaves a certain way and maybe even talks a certain way? Could reading people be...
Introducing Evolutionary Psychology
A Graphic Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2015
How did the mind evolve? How does the human mind differ from the minds of our ancestors, and from the minds of our nearest relatives, the apes? What are the universal features of the human mind, and why are they designed the way they are? If our minds are built by selfish genes, why are we so cooperative?...
Case Studies in Educational Psychology
Elementary School Grades
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
This case study book serves as a valuable tool for professors and instructors of educational psychology. It contains 18 cases that represent current areas of interest in Educational Psychology embedded within current challenges that teachers face in today’s elementary grade classrooms. The cases...
by Adriana Mazzarella
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
This special book is part of a series of “enlighted” titles on psychology and human sciences, dealing with the relationship between the psyche, creativity, and the historical and psychosocial dimensions of life. The book illustrates the connections between psychoanalysis, or “Depth Psychology”...
The Lucifer Effect
Understanding How Good People Turn Evil
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2007
The definitive firsthand account of the groundbreaking research of Philip Zimbardo—the basis for the award-winning film The Stanford Prison Experiment
Renowned social psychologist and creator of the Stanford Prison Experiment Philip Zimbardo explores the mechanisms that make good people do...
The Psychology of Baseball
Inside the Mental Game of the Major League Player
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2007
Get inside the minds of the stars of the diamond in this extraordinary tour of brain power, psyche, and sheer will.
Yogi Berra once said, "Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical." Even so, the Yankee great may have underestimated the brain power professional baseball...
Happy Retirement: The Psychology of Reinvention
A Practical Guide to Planning and Enjoying the Retirement You’ve Earned
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
A practical, fully illustrated guide to planning and enjoying retirement, grounded in psychological research.
Retirement can bring immense fulfillment but also can be a source of stress, especially today. Happy Retirement: The Psychology of Reinvention uses psychological research and a unique...
Wonder Woman Psychology
Lassoing the Truth
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
A fascinating analysis of the psychology behind Wonder Woman
For 75 years, Wonder Woman has served as an inspiration to people everywhere. Wonder Woman Psychology examines this powerful superhero—who was created by famous psychologist William Moulton Marston—through 20 essays. This collection...
Visible Mind
Movies, modernity and the unconscious
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Why is the moving image so important in our lives? What is the link between the psychology of Jung, Freud and films? How do film and psychology address the problems of modernity?
Visible Mind is a book about why film is so important to contemporary life, how film affects us psychologically...
Psychology of a Person
Mirror of Evaluations: Self Esteem, Goal Setting, Mental Health, Personality Psychology, Positive Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
It is a well-known fact that psychology studies not only separate mental processes, their characteristics and patterns, but also psychological aspects of a person as a particular owner of these processes.
Personality means a special person characterized by the certain individual physical and...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
This book explores the evolutionary context of terrorism and political violence.
While evolutionary thinking has come to permeate both biological and social-science theorising, it has not yet been applied systematically to the areas of terrorism and political violence. This volume seeks to...