Psychology Press imprint: 2143 books
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Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Leading theoreticians and researchers present current thinking about the role played by group memberships in people's sense of who they are and what they are worth. The chapters build on the assumption, developed out of social identity theory, that people create a social self that both defines them...
Developmental Pathways Through Middle Childhood
Rethinking Contexts and Diversity as Resources
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2006
When can contexts and diversity be resources, rather than risks, for children's developmental pathways? Scholars, policy makers, and practitioners increasingly realize that middle childhood matters as a time when children's pathways diverge, as they meet new and overlapping contexts they must navigate...
Encouraging Sustainable Behavior
Psychology and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Increasingly it is being recognized that consumer behavior may be a key trigger in the march toward sustainable development. Several lines of psychological theory and approaches have been developed relatively independently, each of which may provide major implications and action points on how consumers...
Putting A New Spin on Groups
The Science of Chaos
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2005
Putting a New Spin on Groups: The Science of Chaos, Second Edition continues to challenge orthodoxy and static ideas about small group dynamics. A primary goal is to offer an alternative model of group development that addresses three factors:
*The model integrates old ideas from previous models of...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Originally presented at the Sixth Adult Development Symposium, the papers in this volume examine possible relationships between the fields of organizational and (adult) developmental psychology with particular emphasis given to the grand developmental theories of Lawrence Kohlberg, Jean Piaget, Lev...
Linking Emotional Intelligence and Performance at Work
Current Research Evidence With Individuals and Groups
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
In this edited volume, leading edge researchers discuss the link between Emotional Intelligence (EI) and workplace performance. Contributors from many areas such as social science, management (including organizational practitioners), and psychologists have come together to develop a better understanding...
Conceptual Coordination
How the Mind Orders Experience in Time
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1999
This book bridges the gap between models of human behavior that are based on cognitive task analysis and those based on neural networks. The author argues that these approaches are incomplete and not properly related to each other. His synthesis reconciles the very different conceptualizations of...
Backpropagation
Theory, Architectures, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Composed of three sections, this book presents the most popular training algorithm for neural networks: backpropagation. The first section presents the theory and principles behind backpropagation as seen from different perspectives such as statistics, machine learning, and dynamical systems. The...
From Learning Theory to Connectionist Theory
Essays in Honor of William K. Estes, Volume I; From Learning Processes to Cognitive Processes, Volume II
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
These two volumes consist of chapters written by students and colleagues of W.K. Estes. The books' contributors -- themselves eminent figures in the field -- reflect on Estes' sweeping contributions to mathematical as well as cognitive and experimental psychology. As indicated by their titles, Volume...
by Daniel S. Levine
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
The second published collection based on a conference sponsored by the Metroplex Institute for Neural Dynamics -- the first is Motivation, Emotion, and Goal Direction in Neural Networks (LEA, 1992) -- this book addresses the controversy between symbolicist artificial intelligence and neural network...
Cognition, Information Processing, and Psychophysics
Basic Issues
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
The plan for this volume emerged during the international Leipzig conference commemorating the centenary of the death of Gustav Fechner. The contributors suggested that while many features of modern psychological theory were anticipated by Fechner, many new theoretical approaches owe much more to...
by William R. Uttal
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
For many years behaviorism was criticized because it rejected the study of perception. This rejection was based on the extreme view that percepts were internal subjective experiences and thus not subject to examination. This book argues that this logic is incorrect and shows how visual perception,...
Mathematical Principles of Human Conceptual Behavior
The Structural Nature of Conceptual Representation and Processing
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
The ability to learn concepts lies at the very core of human cognition, enabling us to efficiently classify, organize, identify, and store complex information. In view of the basic role that concepts play in our everyday physical and mental lives, the fields of cognitive science and psychology face...
Knowledge Spaces
Theories, Empirical Research, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1999
Based on the formal concept of "knowledge structures" originally proposed by Jean-Claude Falmagne and Jean-Paul Doignon, this book contains descriptions of methodological developments and experimental investigations as well as applications for various knowledge domains. The authors address...