Psychology Press imprint: 2143 books
Exploring Positive Identities and Organizations
Building a Theoretical and Research Foundation
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2009
In the new world of work and organizations, creating and maintaining a positive identity is consequential and challenging for individuals, for groups and for organizations. New challenges for positive identity construction and maintenance require new theory. This edited volume uncovers new topics...
Online Consumer Psychology
Understanding and Influencing Consumer Behavior in the Virtual World
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2005
Online Consumer Psychology addresses many of the issues created by the Internet and goes beyond the topic of advertising and the Web to include topics such as customization, site design, word of mouth processes, and the study of consumer decision making while online.
The theories and research...
by Johannes Lindworsky
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Originally published in German in 1923, this English edition was first published in 1931. From the translators preface: "Experimentelle Psychologie is characterized by an excellent summarizing of the most recent experimental data and by a spirit of fairness which it exhibits in organizing facts...
Well-being and Performance at Work
The role of context
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Psychology has been interested in the well-being and performance of people at work for over a century, but our knowledge about both issues, and how they relate to each other, is still evolving. This important new collection provides new understandings on what it means to work productively while also...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
The purpose of this volume is to showcase alternative theoretical and methodological approaches to work and family research, and present methodological alternatives to the widely known shortcomings of current research on work and the family.
In the first part of the book contributors consider...
Development from Adolescence to Early Adulthood
A dynamic systemic approach to transitions and transformations
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
Traditionally, the subject of adolescent development has been explored using a stage based approach, often with an emphasis on the potential risks and problems of adolescence.
Taking a different approach, in this book the authors draw upon a wealth of research to examine the period of development...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
First Published in 1983. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
First published in 1980. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Developmental Psychology
How Nature and Nurture Interact
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2005
This clear and authoritative text provides a trenchant critique of dichotomous thinking and goes on to describe and exemplify an alternative view of development, showing the power of ecological and dynamic systems perspectives. Thematic chapters identify the classic assumptions of the nature-nurture...
by Morton A. Heller, Edouard Gentaz
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
This book reviews the considerable body of research that has been done to evaluate the touch skills of blind people. With an emphasis on cognitive and neuroscientific approaches, it encompasses a wide-ranging discussion of the theoretical issues in the field of touch perception and blindness.
The...
Human Learning and Memory
Advances in Theory and Applications: The 4th Tsukuba International Conference on Memory
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
This text celebrates the fourth Tsukuba International Conference on Memory (Tic4) held in January of 2003, by setting forth productive directions for memory researchers and human learning theorists around the world. It presents fascinating perspectives on progress, and future prospects for models,...
The War Between Mentalism and Behaviorism
On the Accessibility of Mental Processes
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1999
This book considers one of the most fundamental, but only infrequently considered, issues in psychology--Are mental processes accessible by means of verbal reports and/or experimental assays? It is argues that this is the main characteristic distinguishing between behaviorism and mentalistic cognitivism....
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Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2004
This volume examines the psychological, social-relational, and cultural foundations of the most basic moral commitments. It begins by looking at the seminal writings of Augusto Blasi, whose writings on moral cognition, the development of self-identity, and moral personality have transformed the research...
Social Cognition, Social Identity, and Intergroup Relations
A Festschrift in Honor of Marilynn B. Brewer
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2011
Perhaps the defining feature of humanity is the social condition -- how we think about others, identify ourselves with others, and interact with groups of others. The advances of evolutionary theory, social cognition, social identity, and intergroup relations, respectively, as major fields of inquiry...