Psychology Press imprint: 2143 books
by Sara Meadows
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
The association between parents' behaviour and children's cognitive development is at the meeting place of several prominent theories of psychological development and a range of complex methodological and conceptual issues. On the one hand there are theories which argue that the impetus of development...
Piaget's Theory
Prospects and Possibilities
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
This volume marks the 20th Anniversary Symposium of the Jean Piaget Society. Some of the American contributors were among the first to introduce Piaget to developmental and educational psychology in the United States, while some of the international contributors worked with Piaget to develop his program...
Organizational Behavior
A Management Challenge
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2001
A true learning tool for students and scholars alike; the third edition of Organizational Behavior: A Management Challenge has been designed to effectively present an overview of the challenges facing managers and employees in today's competitive organizations.
The latest research in organizational...
The Science of Giving
Experimental Approaches to the Study of Charity
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
Americans donate over 300 billion dollars a year to charity, but the psychological factors that govern whether to give, and how much to give, are still not well understood. Our understanding of charitable giving is based primarily upon the intuitions of fundraisers or correlational data which cannot...
by Brian Mullen, Craig Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
After years of study in the area of consumer behavior, Mullen and Johnson bring together a broad survey of small answers to a big question: "Why do consumers do what they do?" This book provides an expansive, accessible presentation of current psychological theory and research as it illuminates...
The Road To Excellence
the Acquisition of Expert Performance in the Arts and Sciences, Sports, and Games
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Excellence and the highest levels of performance in the arts and sciences, sports, and games have always been an object of fascination to both scientists and lay people. Only during the last 20 years have scientists studied these levels of performance in the laboratory in order to identify their mediating...
by Robert Hogan
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Personality and performance are intricately linked, and personality has proven to have a direct influence on an individual's leadership ability and style, team performance, and overall organizational effectiveness. In Personality and the Fate of Organizations, author Robert Hogan offers a systematic...
Exploring Positive Relationships at Work
Building a Theoretical and Research Foundation
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
This edited volume brings together a select group of leading organizational scholars for the purpose of developing a foundation-setting book on positive relationships at work. Positive Relationships at Work (PRW) is a rich new interdisciplinary domain of inquiry that focuses on the generative processes,...
by Clyde H. Coombs, George S. Avrunin, Clyde H. Coombs
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
A theory that attempts to bring order to the chaotic variety of conflict usually begins by distinguishing types of conflict and formulating general explanatory principles that relate and integrate them. In contrast to traditional methods, this book describes and explores the structural aspects of...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Bringing together several key elements needed to identify the most promising themes for future research in selection and classification, this book's underlying aim is to improve job performance by selecting the right persons and matching them most effectively with the right jobs. An emphasis is placed...
Statistics for the Behavioural Sciences
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Do you find statistics overwhelming and confusing? Have you ever wished for someone to explain the basics in a clear and easy-to-follow style? This accessible textbook gives a step-by-step introduction to all the topics covered in introductory statistics courses for the behavioural sciences, with...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Evaluating and making decisions about other people are key aspects of doing business, especially for managers and human resource professionals. Industrial and organizational psychologists devise systematic methods to remove human errors in judgment, such as biases and stereotypes. However many decisions...
Self-theories
Their Role in Motivation, Personality, and Development
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
This innovative text sheds light on how people work -- why they sometimes function well and, at other times, behave in ways that are self-defeating or destructive. The author presents her groundbreaking research on adaptive and maladaptive cognitive-motivational patterns and shows:
* How these...
Functional Job Analysis
A Foundation for Human Resources Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1999
This book was written to address the need for timely, thorough, practical, and defensible job analysis for HR managers. Under continuing development over the past 50 years, Functional Job Analysis (FJA) is acknowledged by major texts in HR and industrial/organizational psychology as one of the premier...