Psychology Press imprint: 2143 books
by Clare Charles
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
AS Level Psychology Workbook includes structured worksheets for students to fill in as they progress through their AS psychology course. The resulting notes are aimed to provide a useful resource bank for revision purposes. In addition to outlining a structure for note-taking, the workbook also gives...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
This book combines chapters written by leading social psychologists and economists, illuminating the developing trends in explaining and understanding economic behavior in a social world.
It provides insights from both fields, communicated by eloquent scholars, and demonstrates through recent...
by Jonathon Brown
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Although social psychology has been traditionally focused on interpersonal relationships, the cognitive revolution in psychology has had the effect of refocusing some social psychology on intra-psychic processes. This area of psychology has become very popular in recent years, yet there is currently...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Social scientists have long known that political beliefs bias the way they think about, understand, and interpret the world around them. In this volume, scholars from social psychology and related fields explore the ways in which social scientists themselves have allowed their own political biases...
Psychology Serving Humanity: Proceedings of the 30th International Congress of Psychology
Volume 1: Majority World Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
This is the first of two volumes collecting the key proceedings of the 30th International Congress of Psychology, the first to be held in Africa in the 123 years of its history. The theme of the conference was "Psychology Serving Humanity", a recognition of psychology's unfulfilled mission...
Psychology Serving Humanity: Proceedings of the 30th International Congress of Psychology
Volume 2: Western Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
This is the second of two volumes collecting the key proceedings of the 30th International Congress of Psychology, the first to be held in Africa in the 123 years of its history. The theme of the conference was "Psychology Serving Humanity", a recognition of psychology's unfulfilled mission...
The Teaching of Psychology
Essays in Honor of Wilbert J. McKeachie and Charles L. Brewer
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
The Teaching of Psychology is centered around the masterful work of two champions of the teaching of psychology, Wilbert J. McKeachie and Charles L. Brewer, in order to recognize their seminal contributions to the teaching of the discipline. The book's main goal is to provide comprehensive coverage...
Bridging Social Psychology
Benefits of Transdisciplinary Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2006
Bridging Social Psychology illuminates the unique contribution the field of social psychology can bring to understanding major scientific and societal problems. The book focuses on illustrating the benefits and costs of bridging social psychology with other fields of psychology, including cognitive,...
Applied Psychology
New Frontiers and Rewarding Careers
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Applied Psychology demonstrates the power of applied psychology to promote human welfare and optimal human functioning as well as the vast career opportunities that exist for those with a psychology education. Some of the most eminent psychologists in the world today examine how psychological science...
Psychology in Organizations
integrating Science and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
This book deals with two key questions. First, is there a firm scientific basis for the major applications of psychology in organizations? Second, does the practice of psychology in organizations contribute in any meaningful way to psychological research? This text attempts to answer these questions...
by Michael Wertheimer
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
This brief, inexpensive text offers the utmost in flexibility in teaching the history of psychology. Used as a stand-alone text or with readers, this engaging book is noted for its analysis of the scientific and philosophical emergence of the field. Readers appreciate the book’s balanced coverage...
The Scope of Social Psychology
Theory and Applications (A Festschrift for Wolfgang Stroebe)
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2007
Social psychology attempts to understand, explain, predict and, when needed, change people's thoughts, feelings and behaviours. For a relatively young discipline it has already made great strides toward this awe-inspiring goal. Pioneers such as Lewin, Asch, Kelley and Festinger began groundwork in...
by Garth J.O. Fletcher
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
The examination and evaluation of folk psychology and lay cognition has been carried out predominantly in two domains: personality and social psychology, and the philosophy of psychology. Yet, work in these two areas has largely proceeded independently. The assumption on which this volume is founded...
Cultural Psychology
A Perspective on Psychological Functioning and Social Reform
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2006
Carl Ratner's new book deepens our understanding of psychology by emphasizing the role that cultural factors, such as social institutions, artifacts, and cultural concepts play in psychological functioning. The author demonstrates the impact of culture on stimulating and structuring emotion, personality,...