Psychology Press imprint: 2143 books
Mindreaders
The Cognitive Basis of "Theory of Mind"
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2010
Theory of mind, or "mindreading" as it is termed in this book, is the ability to think about beliefs, desires, knowledge and intentions. It has been studied extensively by developmental and comparative psychologists and more recently by neuroscientists and cognitive psychologists. This book...
The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception
Classic Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
This book, first published in 1979, is about how we see: the environment around us (its surfaces, their layout, and their colors and textures); where we are in the environment; whether or not we are moving and, if we are, where we are going; what things are good for; how to do things (to thread a...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
This book focuses on one important aspect of psychological research -- the intensive study of people measured one or more at a time. Some important historical material is detailed in several chapters making a strong connection to previous material in psychology. Several contributors present important...
by Jean Piaget, Barbel Inhelder
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Although originally published in France in 1951 this English translation was not published until 1975. The book supplements the authors’ previous publications on the development of thought in the child and is the result of two preoccupations: how thought that is in the process of formation acts...
Morphisms and Categories
Comparing and Transforming
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Despite dissent in many quarters, Piaget's epistemology and the developmental psychology derived from it remain the most powerful theories in either field. From the beginning, Piaget's fundamental epistemological notion was that all knowledge is rooted in action, and for a long time, he identified...
The Grasp of Consciousness (Psychology Revivals)
Action and Concept in the Young Child
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Originally published in English in 1976, the book draws on and extends our knowledge of the process of learning. The subject of the study is the general stage in a child’s development that comes between his successful performance of an activity without knowing how he did it – that is, what he...
Saying, Seeing and Acting
The Psychological Semantics of Spatial Prepositions
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
Our use of spatial prepositions carries an implicit understanding of the functional relationships both between objects themselves and human interaction with those objects.
This is the thesis rigorously explicated in Saying, Seeing and Acting. It aims to account not only for our theoretical comprehension...
Warring with Words
Narrative and Metaphor in Politics
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Scholars in many of the disciplines surrounding politics explicitly utilize either a narrative perspective or a metaphor perspective (though rarely the two in combination) to analyze issues -- theoretical and practical, domestic and international -- in the broad field of politics. Among the topics...
Delusions
Investigations Into The Psychology Of Delusional Reasoning
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
The authors offer cogent reviews of the literature pertaining to the formation and maintenance of delusions, but the most substantial parts of the monograph expound the empirical inquiries which they and their colleagues have carried out in recent years. Most of the research has been published elsewhere,...
Self-Esteem Issues and Answers
A Sourcebook of Current Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Research and theory on self-esteem have flourished in recent years. This resurgence has produced multiple perpectives on fundamental issues surrounding the nature of self-esteem and its role in psychological functioning and interpersonal processes.
Self-Esteem Issues and Answers brings together...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
The nature of memory for everyday events, and the contexts that can affect it, are controversial topics being investigated by researchers in cognitive, social, clinical, and developmental/lifespan psychology today. This book brings many of these researchers together in an attempt to unpack the contextual...
False-memory Creation in Children and Adults
Theory, Research, and Implications
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2000
As one of the most hotly debated topics of the past decade, false memory has attracted the interest of researchers and practitioners in many of psychology's subdisciplines. Real-world issues surrounding the credibility of memories (particularly memories of traumatic events, such as sexual abuse) reported...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Why do police officers, investigators, prosecutors, judges, and others with an interest in eliciting accurate memory-based testimony need to inform themselves of the research literature in experimental psychology that addresses the question of witness memory? The answer is straightforward, from the...
Autobiographical Memory
Theoretical and Applied Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
The organization of the first Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition (SARMAC) conference centered around two specifically identifiable research topics -- autobiographical memory and eyewitness memory. These two areas -- long-time staples on the menu of investigators of memory in more...