Applied Psychology category: 2264 books

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by Patrick McNamara
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2009

Technical advances in the life and medical sciences have revolutionised our understanding of the brain, while the emerging disciplines of social, cognitive, and affective neuroscience continue to reveal the connections of the higher cognitive functions and emotional states associated with religious...
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International Handbook of Anger

Constituent and Concomitant Biological, Psychological, and Social Processes

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Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2010

Book covers a broader range of topics than other books in this area. Notably, extensive coverage of the neurobiology of anger in context of psychology and sociology is unique. Book provides broad, integrative coverage while avoiding unnecessary duplication. Contributors have read each others’...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2004

The public has a right to know that when they go to a therapist, they are almost certain to be given a psychiatric diagnosis, no matter how mild or normal their problems might be. It is unlikely that they will be told that a diagnosis will be written forever in their chart and that alarming consequences...
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Unthink

And How to Harness the Power of Your Unconscious

by Chris Paley
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014

Your life is dominated by your unconscious mind: by thoughts you're unaware of and movements you don't realise you are making. Words, colours, mannerisms and other cues you don't realise are affecting you, change what you think. The confidence you have in your ability to reason and to consciously...
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The Time Paradox

The New Psychology of Time That Will Change Your Life

by John Boyd, Ph.D., Philip Zimbardo
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008

Your every significant choice -- every important decision you make -- is determined by a force operating deep inside your mind: your perspective on time -- your internal, personal time zone. This is the most influential force in your life, yet you are virtually unaware of it. Once you become aware...
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Enabling Environments

Measuring the Impact of Environment on Disability and Rehabilitation

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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013

TItis volume is the first effort to compile representative work in the emerging research area on the relationship of disability and physical environment since Barrier-Free Environments, edited by Michael Bednar, was published in 1977. Since that time, disability rights legislation like the Americans,...
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Memory Detection

Theory and Application of the Concealed Information Test

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Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2011

Traditional techniques for detecting deception, such as the 'lie-detector test' (or polygraph), are based upon the idea that lying is associated with stress. However, it is possible that people telling the truth will experience stress, whereas not all liars will. Because of this, the validity of such...
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Stepfather-Stepson Communication

Social Support in Stepfamily Worlds

by Jonathan Pettigrew
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014

This book offers a novel analysis of communication in stepfather-stepson relationships and is one of the first to examine the ways stepfathers communicate and to integrate the perspectives of adolescents into research on stepfamily communication. In order to understand the complex dynamics of stepfamilies,...
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by Andrey Davydov, Olga Skorbatyuk, Kate Bazilevsky
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2017

Or, did you know that those people, who were born on December 1st of common years not only feel like someone’s or something’s eternal victims and always look like they suffered a fiasco, a defeat, but also that they are great martyrs by their own will? They will be unhappy even in heaven; for...
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meQuilibrium

14 Days to Cooler, Calmer, and Happier

by Jan Bruce, Andrew Shatte, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015

STRESS ISN’T THE PROBLEM. YOUR RESPONSE TO IT IS. You can’t annihilate stress. But you can learn to manage it peacefully—and you don’t need to radically change your life to do so. The powerful author team who crafted this book has the research to prove it—with more than a half dozen...
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by Albert Ellis
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016

“No individual—not even Freud himself—has had a greater impact on modern psychotherapy.” --Psychology Today CLASSIC SELF-HELP FROM A RESPECTED PIONEER OF PSYCHOTHERAPY ** ** From social anxiety to phobias to post-traumatic stress disorder, sources of anxiety in daily life are numerous,...
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by Ronald M. Rapee
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1998

Overcoming Shyness and Social Phobia provides a detailed program for eliminating social anxieties based on the latest cognitive behavioral treatments for social phobia. A Jason Aronson Book
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Do I Look Skinny In This House?

How to Feel Great In Your Home Using Design Psychology

by Kelli Ellis
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014

Why do we care so much about our homes? When did this societal phenomenon begin? Entire stores and cable channels are dedicated to the remodeling of one's home-proof that our homes are more than just walls, windows, and floors. Our homes exemplify who we are. They are an extension of us.
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Actively Caring for People in Schools

How to Cultivate a Culture of Compassion

by E. Scott Geller
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017

Seven research-based lessons from psychology—the science of human experience—inspire the development of an actively caring for people (AC4P) culture. The education/training purpose: to enhance long-term positive and sustainable relations between teachers, students, school administrators, and SROs,...
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