Psychology Press imprint: 2143 books
Social Connectionism
A Reader and Handbook for Simulations
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Many of our thoughts and decisions occur without us being conscious of them taking place; connectionism attempts to reveal the internal hidden dynamics that drive the thoughts and actions of both individuals and groups. Connectionist modeling is a radically innovative approach to theorising in psychology,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2011
Human beings have a unique ability to create elaborate predispositions and evaluations based on their social experiences. The concept of attitudes is central to understanding how experience gives rise to these predispositions, and psychologists have spent the best part of the past 100 years trying...
Experiments With People
Revelations From Social Psychology, 2nd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
This book showcases 28 intriguing social psychological experiments that have significantly advanced our understanding of human social thinking and behavior. Each chapter focuses on the details and implications of a single study, while citing related research and real-life examples along the...
Savoring
A New Model of Positive Experience
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
This book is about savoring life—the capacity to attend to the joys, pleasures, and other positive feelings that we experience in our lives. The authors enhance our understanding of what savoring is and the conditions under which it occurs. Savoring provides a new theoretical model for conceptualizing...
Experimental Psychology Its Scope and Method: Volume IV (Psychology Revivals)
Learning and Memory
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
First published in English in 1970, the first chapter of the book is concerned with conditioned reactions. Jean François le Ny discusses ways in which conditioned reactions are acquired and the laws governing their function.
The second contributor, Gérard de Montpellier, looks at different...
AQA Psychology
AS and A-level Year 1
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
AQA Psychology for AS and A-level Year 1 is the definitive textbook for the new 2015 curriculum. Written by eminent psychologist Professor Michael Eysenck, in collaboration with a team of experienced A-level teachers and examiner, the book enables students not only to pass their exams with flying...
Family and Human Development Across Cultures
A View From the Other Side
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
The culmination of 15 years of research by a Turkish psychologist who was educated in the West, this volume examines both the theoretical and practical aspects of cross-cultural psychology. It takes a contextual-developmental-functional approach linking the child, family, and society as they are embedded...
Early Child Development in the French Tradition
Contributions From Current Research
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
This volume shares significant contemporary "Francophone" contributions to developmental psychology outside geographic and intellectual borders of French-speaking countries. Except for the spread of Piagetian theory after World War II into Anglophone psychology, these new publications have not become...
Advances in Environmental Psychology
Volume 2: Applications of Personal Control
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Published in the year 1980, Advances in Environmental Psychology is a valuable contribution to the field of Social Psychology.
by Koen Lamberts
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Knowledge, Concepts and Categories brings together an overview of recent research on concepts and knowledge that abstracts across a variety of specific fields of cognitive psychology. Readers will find data from many different areas: developmental psychology, formal modelling, neuropsychology, connectionism,...
Attention in Vision
Perception, Communication and Action
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Attention in Vision is an important work which aims to identify, address and solve some major problems and issues in the psychology of visual perception, attention and intentional control. The central aim is to investigate how people use their visual perception in the performance of tasks and to explore...
Minnesota Symposia on Child Psychology
Volume 11
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Published in 1978, Minnesota Symposia on Child Psychology is a valuable contribution to the field of Developmental Psychology.
Advances in Psychological Science, Volume 2
Biological and Cognitive Aspects
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
The chapters in this volume are the edited versions of invited addresses to the XXVI International Congress of Psychology held in Montréal in August 1996. As one major goal of the Congress was to promote communication among specializations in scientific psychology, the speakers were asked to survey...
Applying Social Psychology
Implications for Research, Practice, and Training
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
Originally published in 1975, these contributions surveyed the range of social intervention technology available to psychologists at the time, but they are more than a simple cataloguing of technology. The stress is on articulating certain metatheoretical assumptions that underlie different strategies...