Psychology

The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves

by Stephen Grosz

An extraordinary book for anyone eager to understand the hidden motives that shape our lives.We are all storytellers-we create stories to make sense of our lives. But it is not enough to tell tales. There must...

The Courage to Love: Principles and Practices of Self-Relations Psychotherapy

by Stephen Gilligan

This is a book about how psychotherapy may be used to cultivate the courage and freedom to love.In a time when love seems to be fading and hatred and despair rising, it presents love as a skill and force that...

The Little Book of Neuroscience Haiku

by Eric Chudler

Fun, informative poetry about the brain.Elephant on brain

"You have a lot on your mind"

Neurologist says.

The brain has fascinated philosophers and scientists for centuries. And why not? It is perhaps the most...

Failure to Launch: Guiding Clinicians to Successfully Motivate the Long-Dependent Young Adult

by Michael DeVine & Lawrence V. Tucker

Failure to Launch sets out to identify the underlying reasons for the failure to launch epidemic with adult children. Morever, it also lays out a treatment plan to help launch these children out of their parents'...

Happy Money: The Science of Smarter Spending

by Elizabeth Dunn & Michael Norton

If you think money can’t buy happiness, you’re not spending it right. Two rising stars in behavioral science explain how money can buy happiness—if you follow five core principles of smarter spending.

Happy...

Saving Normal

by Allen Frances

From "the most powerful psychiatrist in America" (New York Times) and "the man who wrote the book on mental illness" (Wired), a deeply fascinating and urgently important critique of the widespread medicalization...

The Construction of Social Judgments

by Leonard L. Martin & Abraham Tesser

Researchers have been addressing social judgment from a cognitive perspective for more than 15 years. Within recent years, however, it has become increasingly clear that many of the models and assumptions initially...

Cognitive Neuroscience of Consciousness: A Special Issue of Cognitive Neuroscience

by Anil Seth & Geraint Rees

How do conscious experience, subjectivity, and free will arise from the brain and the body? Even in the late 20th century, consciousness was considered to be beyond the reach of science. Now, understanding the...

Emotional States, Attention, and Working Memory: A Special Issue of Cognition & Emotion

by Nazanin Derakhshan & Michael Eysenck

This Special Issue is concerned with the effects of three emotional states (positive affect; anxiety; and depression) on performance. More specifically, the contributors focus on the potential mediating effects...

Memory and Amnesia: An Introduction

by Alan J. Parkin

Memory and Amnesia provides a clear and comprehensive account of amnesia set in the context of our understanding of how normal memory operates. Part I provides the reader with an up-to-date survey of contemporary...

The Uncertain Mind: Individual Differences in Facing the Unknown

by Richard M. Sorrentino & Christopher J.R. Roney

This book discusses individual differences in how people react to uncertainty. The authors show that while some people are relatively comfortable dealing with uncertainty and strive to resolve it (uncertainty-oriented),...

Multidimensional Scaling: History, Theory, and Applications

by Forrest W. Young & Robert M. Hamer

This outstanding presentation of the fundamentals of multidimensional scaling illustrates the applicability of MDS to a wide variety of disciplines. The first two sections provide ground work in the history...

The Ecological Approach To Visual Perception

by James J. Gibson

This is a book 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...

Feeding the Under 5s

by Allan Dyson & Lucy Meredith

One young child in every four is overweight and one in ten is obese, some of the reasons for this are:

• a general lack of interest and understanding of food and cooking
• junk food being consumed every day 
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Neuropsychology: From Theory to Practice

by David Andrewes

This comprehensive textbook provides an up-to-date and accessible account of the theories that seek to explain the complex relationship between brain and behaviour. Drawing on the latest research findings from...

A Handbook of Work and Organizational Psychology: Volume 2: Work Psychology

by De,Wolff, Charles, P J D Drenth & THIERRY HENK

Work Psychology, the second volume of the Handbook of Work and Organizational Psychology, concentrates on issues related to the direct relationship between the worker and the organization and on his or her task...

Behavioral Medicine Approaches to Cardiovascular Disease Prevention

by Kristina Orth-Gom‚r, Neil Schneiderman & Kristina Orth-Gomer

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the number one killer of men and women in industrialized countries. In older age groups, CVD is also the most important cause for hospitalization, and, in many countries, it is...

Human Abilities: Their Nature and Measurement

by Ian Dennis & Patrick Tapsfield

This volume brings together many of the leading researchers on human intelligence and cognition to address issues including definition, measurement, and instructional design. Its publication is a result of the...

Life Values and Adolescent Mental Health

by Patricia Cohen & Jacob Cohen

Arising from the Cohens' work on the epidemiology of childhood psychopathology, this book explores the two aspects of motivational structure--ideas and values--that underlie the development of maladaptive functioning...

Sociogenetic Perspectives on Internalization

by Brian D. Cox & Cynthia Lightfoot

The issue of how the external world becomes part of the behavioral repertoire of children has been important to psychology from its very beginning, preoccupying theorists from Sigmund Freud to George Herbert...