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Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Metacognition refers to thinking about our own thinking. It has assumed a prominent role in social judgment because our thoughts about our thoughts can magnify, attenuate, or even reverse the impact of primary cognition. Metacognitive thoughts can also produce changes in thought, feeling, and behavior,...
Peace Education
The Concept, Principles, and Practices Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2005
Peace Education:
* presents views on the nature of peace education, its history, and relationships to neighboring fields;
* examines relevant psychological and pedagogical principles, such as the contact experience, conciliation through personal story telling, reckoning with traumatic memories, body-work,...
Comparative Psychology of Invertebrates
The Field and Laboratory Study of Insect Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Hidden Costs of Reward
New Perspectives on the Psychology of Human Motivation
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Originally published in 1978, this volume provided a broad survey of the latest research and theory, at the time, concerning the potential detrimental effects of inappropriate uses of tangible rewards to modify behaviour. Overall, this research questions the dominant paradigm within which reinforcers,...
When Groups Meet
The Dynamics of Intergroup Contact
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Research and theory on intergroup contact have become one of the fastest advancing and most exciting fields in social psychology in recent years. The work is exciting because it combines basic social psychological concerns -- human interaction, situational influences on behavior -- with an effective...
Social Identity at Work
Developing Theory for Organizational Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Social identity research is very much on the ascendancy, particularly in the field of organizational psychology. Reflecting this fact, this volume contains chapters from researchers at the cutting edge of these developments.
by John L. Bradshaw
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
The last decade has seen an explosive burst of new information about human origins and our evolutionary status with respect to other species. We have long been considered unique as upright, bipedal creatures endowed with language, the ability to use tools, to think and introspect. We now know that...
Visual Navigation
From Biological Systems To Unmanned Ground Vehicles
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
All biological systems with vision move about their environments and successfully perform many tasks. The same capabilities are needed in the world of robots. To that end, recent results in empirical fields that study insects and primates, as well as in theoretical and applied disciplines that design...
Cultural Psychology
A Special Issue of the journal of Consumer Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2014
First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Academic Paths
Career Decisions and Experiences of Psychologists
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
This book contains the intimate autobiographies of 13 psychologists who work in academic settings. Their experiences are as diverse as their specializations and the academic institutions from which they come. However, all of the contributors have in common an infectious enthusiasm for their academic...
by Stuart Oskamp, P. Wesley Schultz
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2005
Notable advances resulting from new research findings, measurement approaches, widespread uses of the Internet, and increasingly sophisticated approaches to sampling and polling, have stimulated a new generation of attitude scholars. This extensively revised edition captures this excitement, while...
Models of Achievement
Reflections of Eminent Women in Psychology, Volume 3
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
This outstanding book contains inspiring stories of late 20th century women who broke new ground in psychological knowledge and its applications. The lives and careers of 53 women are examined within social and historical contexts using three levels of analysis--the individual, the group, and the...
Models of Achievement
Reflections of Eminent Women in Psychology, Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Providing role models of excellence for contemporary women and men and contributing to the understanding of the educational and career development of high achieving women, these autobiographical essays of seventeen women and their achievements generate a deeper appreciation of the vital role of women in the development of contemporary psychology.
Criteria for Competence
Controversies in the Conceptualization and Assessment of Children's Abilities
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
One of developmental psychology's central concerns is the identification of specific "milestones" which indicate what children are typically capable of doing at different ages. Work of this kind has a substantial impact on the way parents, educators, and service-oriented professionals deal...