Psychology Press imprint: 2143 books
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Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
This book showcases papers presented at the annual Advertising and Consumer Psychology Conference. The contributors -- active scholars with both practitioner and academic backgrounds -- share an interest in the general area of psychographics, values, and lifestyle in advertising.
The interdisciplinary...
Intergroup Relations
The Role of Motivation and Emotion (A Festschrift for Amélie Mummendey)
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2009
This volume gives a survey of the most recent developments and trends in intergroup research. Diverging from classical approaches that looked at diverse needs and motives (positive distinctiveness, belongingness, etc), the present book focuses not only on the question what motivates intergroup...
by Les B. Whitbeck
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2011
What happens to homeless and runaway adolescents when they become adults? This is the first study that follows homeless youth into young adulthood and reviews the mental health consequences of runaway episodes and street life. The adolescents were interviewed every three months for three years from...
The Shape of Reason
Essays in Honour of Paolo Legrenzi
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005
Over the past three decades, there has been a rapid development of research on human thinking and reasoning. This volume provides a comprehensive review of this topic by looking at the important contributions Paolo Legrenzi has made to the field, by bridging the gap from Gestalt ideas to modern cognitive...
Cognition and Instruction
Twenty-five Years of Progress
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
This volume is based on papers presented at the 30th Carnegie Mellon Symposium on Cognition. This particular symposium was conceived in reference to the 1974 symposium entitled Cognition and Instruction. In the 25 years since that symposium, reciprocal relationships have been forged between psychology...
Aging and Caring at the Intersection of Work and Home Life
Blurring the Boundaries
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
There are not many books that address the boundaries of care of older people from a work-life perspective. This book, authored by contributors from various countries, looks at the boundaries of care by looking at private and public help, professional and personal help and paid and unpaid caregivers....
Well-Being
Positive Development Across the Life Course
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2003
This volume derived from original presentations given at a conference in Atlanta, Georgia, under the auspices of the Center for Child Well-Being. Scholars, practitioners, public health professionals, and principals in the child development community convened to address a science-based framework for...
Deception
A Young Person's Life Skill?
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
This book considers the role of deception during adolescence, and explores the factors which underpin adolescents’ choice to deceive, whether these deceptions will be successful, and the ways in which such lies could be detected. While deception is considered to be antisocial or even pathological...
Growing Points in Developmental Science
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2005
Growing Points in Developmental Science is an ISSBD publication based on the millennium symposia papers published in the International Journal of Behavioral Development in 2000. This collection of overview chapters summarises the state of the art and the way forward for this discipline.
Experienced...
Elements of Human Performance
Reaction Processes and Attention in Human Skill
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
This book presents a review of research on reaction processes and attention as it has evolved over the last 40 years in the context of the information processing tradition in cognitive psychology. It is argued and demonstrated that issues of reaction processes and attention are closely interconnected....
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The dynamic systems approach is a rapidly expanding advancement in the study of developmental research, particularly in the domain of adolescent development. It provides a unique way of examining the subject, and this innovative study of developmental processes helps social scientists to translate...
Agency
Its Role In Mental Development
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
The idea behind this book is that developing a conception of the physical world and a conception of mind is impossible without the exercise of agency, meaning "the power to alter at will one's perceptual inputs". The thesis is derived from a philosphical account of the role of agency in...
by David Katz
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
For the first time, David Katz's classic monograph The World of Touch has been translated into English. Regarded as one of the premiere experimental psychologists, Katz vigorously opposed the atomism and "tachistoscopic" mentality typical of the sensory psychology of his day.
In The...
Individual Differences
Normal And Abnormal
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
A title in the modular "Principles of Psychology" series, designed for A- level and other introductory courses. While normal individuals obviously differ from each other in various ways, psychologists have emphasized differences in intelligence and personality. This emphasis is reflected...