Psychology Press imprint: 2143 books
Succeeding in Graduate School
The Career Guide for Psychology Students
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2001
Psychology students who want to continue their education today are confronted by a bewildering variety of possibilities. Succeeding in Graduate School offers them much needed practical help. Written by experienced mentors, this book:
*explains the options provided by a bachelor's degree, describes...
by Mark Wagner
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
When most people think of space, they think of physical space. However, visual space concerns space as consciously experienced, and it is studied through subjective measures, such as asking people to use numbers to estimate perceived distances, areas, angles, or volumes. This book explores the mismatch...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Each volume in the Notre Dame Series on Quantitative Methodology features leading methodologists and substantive experts who provide instruction on innovative techniques designed to enhance quantitative skills in a substantive area. This latest volume focuses on the methodological issues and analyses...
Tutorial Essays in Psychology
Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
First published in 1979. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Life After Graduate School in Psychology
Insider's Advice from New Psychologists
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
With the diverse array of career opportunities for psychologists--ranging from academics and practice, to business and industry--this book offers a wide-ranging career guide for graduate and postdoctoral students, as well as interns and new psychologists, seeking employment opportunities in the field of psychology and beyond.
Chemical Warfare and Chemical Terrorism
Psychological and Performance Outcomes:a Special Issue of military Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
This special issue of Military Psychology reports behavioral, pharmacological, and toxicological science research on military performance as it is affected by chemical warfare agents (CWAs) and their pharmacological countermeasures. The papers in this issue are a diverse assembly; some very pharmacological...
Social Motivation, Justice, and the Moral Emotions
An Attributional Approach
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2006
Social Motivation, Justice, and the Moral Emotions proposes an attribution theory of interpersonal or social motivation that distinguishes between the role of thinking and feeling in determining action. The place of this theory within the larger fields of motivation and attributional analyses is explored....
Modeling Human Behavior With Integrated Cognitive Architectures
Comparison, Evaluation, and Validation
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2006
Resulting from the need for greater realism in models of human and organizational behavior in military simulations, there has been increased interest in research on integrative models of human performance, both within the cognitive science community generally, and within the defense and aerospace...
by Elizabeth Styles
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2006
Research on attention has evolved dramatically in recent years. There are now many new ways of studying how we are able to select some aspects for processing, whilst ignoring others, and how we are able to combine tasks, learn skills and make intentional actions. Attention is increasingly seen as...
Understanding Behavior in the Context of Time
Theory, Research, and Application
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2006
Understanding Behavior in the Context of Time reviews the research on temporal orientation and brings together the disparate social behaviors influenced by time perspective. Organized into four sections, each chapter includes theory, research, applications, and directions for future research. Some...
Life-span Developmental Psychology
Introduction To Research Methods
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
What are the changes we see over the life-span? How can we explain them? And how do we account for individual differences? This volume continues to examine these questions and to report advances in empirical research within life-span development increasing its interdisciplinary nature. The relationships...
The Developmental Psychology of Planning
Why, How, and When Do We Plan?
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Planning is defined as formulating an organized method for action in advance. Although people do not plan all the time and planning does not occur in every situation, planning skill is central to all human behavior. There are developmental differences in planning skill and in the motivation to plan....
Perspectives on Behavioral Self-Regulation
Advances in Social Cognition, Volume XII
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The feedback model of self-regulation developed by the authors of the lead article in this volume has been one of the most successful theoretical formulations of regulatory processes to date. The range of phenomena to which this framework potentially applies is evident from its ability to incorporate...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
Research on applied memory is one of the most active, interesting and vibrant areas in experimental psychology today. This book provides descriptions of cutting-edge research and applies them to three key areas of contemporary investigation: education, the law and neuroscience.
In the area...