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The Nature of Human Creativity by Robert J. Sternberg
RRP: £30.99£26.83This book provides an overview of the approaches of leading scholars to understanding the nature of creativity, its measurement, its investigation, its development, and its importance to society. The authors are the twenty-four psychological scientists... -
Discourse and Cognition by Derek Edwards 9780803976979
RRP: £60.00£52.30`For those already familiar with discursive work it will be a joy - Edwards writes with enormous clarity and insight. For psychologists whose work involves an understanding of the relations between language and cognition this book will be essential... -
Formal Approaches in Categorization by Emmanuel M. Pothos 9780521140720
RRP: £42.99£36.72The process of constructing concepts underpins our capacity to encode information in an efficient and competent manner and also, ultimately, our ability to think in terms of abstract ideas such as justice, love and happiness. But what are the mechanisms... -
Being There: Putting Brain, Body, and World Together Again by Andy Clark 9780262531566
£44.29Brain, body, and world are united in a complex dance of circular causation and extended computational activity. In Being There, Andy Clark weaves these several threads into a pleasing whole and goes on to address foundational questions concerning the new... -
The Nature of Human Intelligence by Robert J. Sternberg
RRP: £30.99£26.77The study of human intelligence features many points of consensus, but there are also many different perspectives. In this unique book Robert J. Sternberg invites the nineteen most highly cited psychological scientists in the leading textbooks on human... -
Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Irritable Bowel Syndrome: The Brain-Gut Connection by Brenda B. Toner
RRP: £40.99£32.28Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) is the most common functional gastrointestinal disorder, causing pain, discomfort, and embarrassment to millions. While medically based treatments have demonstrated only limited effectiveness, recent research strongly... -
The Mess Inside: Narrative, Emotion, and the Mind by Peter Goldie 9780198707660
RRP: £36.99£31.79Peter Goldie explores the ways in which we think about our lives-our past, present, and future-in narrative terms. The notion of narrative is highly topical, and highly contentious, in a wide range of fields including philosophy, psychology and... -
Overcoming Insomnia: A Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Approach, Therapist Guide by Jack D. Edinger 9780199339389
RRP: £59.00£37.65It is estimated that one in ten U.S. adults suffers from chronic insomnia. If left untreated, chronic insomnia reduces quality of life and increases risk for psychiatric and medical disease, especially depression and anxiety. The Overcoming Insomnia... -
What Makes Your Brain Happy and Why You Should Do the Opposite by David DiSalvo 9781616144838
RRP: £14.99£13.03This book reveals a remarkable paradox: what your brain wants is frequently not what your brain needs. In fact, much of what makes our brains "happy" leads to errors, biases, and distortions, which make getting out of our own way extremely difficult. ... -
Music, Language, and the Brain by Aniruddh D. Patel 9780195123753
RRP: £120.00£92.50In the first comprehensive study of the relationship between music and language from the standpoint of cognitive neuroscience, Aniruddh D. Patel challenges the widespread belief that music and language are processed independently. Since Platos time, the... -
Linguistic Bodies: The Continuity between Life and Language by Ezequiel A. Di Paolo 9780262547864
£44.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262547864Author Ezequiel A. Di PaoloFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 369g -
Learning and Memory by Mark A. Gluck
£70.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781319207342Author Mark A. GluckFormat HardbackPage Count 640Imprint Worth Publishers Inc.,U.S.Publisher Macmillan Learning -
Explaining the Evidence: How the Mind Investigates the World by David A. Lagnado 9780521184816
RRP: £30.99£26.77How do we make sense of complex evidence? What are the cognitive principles that allow detectives to solve crimes, and lay people to puzzle out everyday problems? To address these questions, David Lagnado presents a novel perspective on human reasoning... -
Consciousness: An Introduction by Susan Blackmore
£46.58Is there a theory that explains the essence of consciousness? Or is consciousness itself an illusion? Am I conscious now?Now considered the 'last great mystery of science', consciousness was once viewed with extreme scepticism and rejected by mainstream... -
Why We Lie by David Livingstone Smith 9780312310400
£12.19Deceit, lying, and falsehoods lie at the very heart of our cultural heritage. Even the founding myth of the Judeo-Christian tradition, the story of Adam and Eve, revolves around a lie. We have been talking, writing and singing about deception ever since... -
Useful Delusions: The Power and Paradox of the Self-Deceiving Brain by Shankar Vedantam
RRP: £21.99£17.87Everyone agrees that lies and self-deception can do terrible harm to our lives, to our communities and to the planet. But in Useful Delusions, host of Hidden Brain Shankar Vedantam argues that, paradoxically, deceiving ourselves and others can also play... -
The Radical Imagination: Social Movement Research in the Age of Austerity by Max Haiven 9781780329017
RRP: £18.99£16.78The idea of the imagination is as evocative as it is elusive. Not only does the imagination allow us to project ourselves beyond our own immediate space and time, it also allows us to envision the future, as individuals and as collectives. The radical... -
How Could Conscious Experiences Affect Brains? by Max Velmans 9780907845393
£11.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780907845393Author Max VelmansFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 350g -
Sensorimotor Life: An enactive proposal by Thomas Buhrmann 9780198786849
RRP: £71.00£69.25How accurate is the picture of the human mind that has emerged from studies in neuroscience, psychology, and cognitive science? Anybody with an interest in how minds work - how we learn about the world and how we remember people and events - may feel... -
Optimal Experience: Psychological Studies of Flow in Consciousness by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
RRP: £43.99£37.95What constitutes enjoyment of life? Optimal Experience offers a comprehensive survey of theoretical and empirical investigations of the 'flow' experience, a desirable or optimal state of consciousness that enhances a person's psychic state. The authors... -
An Introduction to CBT Research by Sarah Rakovshik
RRP: £31.99£26.36This highly practical book will guide students through the different levels of research within CBT by addressing the general principles, how to understand statistics and tackling with general principles. It also highlights how to critically engage with,... -
May We Suggest: Restaurant Menus and the Art of Persuasion by Alison Pearlman
RRP: £11.99£9.28We've all ordered from a restaurant menu. But have you ever wondered to what extent the menu is ordering you? In this fascinating new book, art historian and food lover Alison Pearlman takes an inquiring look at the design of physical restaurant... -
How To Think: Understanding the Way We Decide, Remember and Make Sense of the World by John Paul Minda
RRP: £14.99£9.80This book will get you thinking about thinking.We understand more about the brain than ever before and we also have more tools than ever before to help us think. This book will show you how your brain works, how your mind works, why we all make certain... -
The Cognitive Structure of Emotions by Andrew Ortony
RRP: £26.99£22.80More than 30 years after its initial publication, this new edition of The Cognitive Structure of Emotions refines and updates Ortony, Clore, and Collins's OCC model of emotions. Starting from a three-way classification of construals of the world--events,... -
The Psychology of Dyslexia: A Handbook for Teachers with Case Studies by Michael Thomson
RRP: £37.95£33.36The Psychology of Dyslexia: A Handbook for Teachers Second Edition is a superb introduction to the psychology of dyslexia for teachers. New edition of a popular title that introduces the psychology of dyslexia - the most widely diagnosed special need in... -
How to Think Straight: An Introduction to Critical Reasoning by Antony Flew 9781573922395
RRP: £15.99£12.23Practical reasoning and clear thinking are essential for everyone if we are to make sense of the information we receive each day. Being able to quickly know the difference between valid and invalid arguments, the contradictory versus the contrary,... -
Abducted: How People Come to Believe They Were Kidnapped by Aliens by Susan A. Clancy
RRP: £21.95£17.62They are tiny. They are tall. They are gray. They are green. They survey our world with enormous glowing eyes. To conduct their shocking experiments, they creep in at night to carry humans off to their spaceships. Yet there is no evidence that they exist... -
Evolving Insight by Richard W. Byrne
RRP: £41.49£37.76'Insight' is not a very popular word in psychology or biology. Popular terms-like "intelligence", "planning", "complexity" or "cognitive"- have a habit of sprawling out to include everyone's favourite interpretation, and end up with such vague meanings... -
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy: A Guide for the Practising Clinician, Volume 1 by Gregoris S. Simos
RRP: £38.99£34.22Although Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) has a well elaborated theoretical background and documented standard therapeutic process, new specific theoretical formulations and genuine techniques seem to continually appear. These new treatment... -
Enactivist Interventions: Rethinking the Mind by Shaun Gallagher
RRP: £26.99£19.99Enactivist Interventions is an interdisciplinary work that explores how theories of embodied cognition illuminate many aspects of the mind, including intentionality, representation, the affect, perception, action and free will, higher-order cognition,... -
Language, Culture and Knowledge in Context: A Functional-Cognitive Approach by Brian Nolan
£27.61This volume investigates the nature of language, culture, knowledge, and context, and their interrelationships. Each of these is defined - in terms of their relationship to language in particular, and to identify their respective properties. What exactly... -
How The Body Knows Its Mind by Sian Beilock 9781472136060
RRP: £10.99£7.40How does pacing around the room enhance creativity? Why does walking in nature boost concentration skills? Do Botox users really experience less depression? What causes fitter children to score higher in exams?The answers to these questions can all be... -
Musical Illusions and Phantom Words: How Music and Speech Unlock Mysteries of the Brain by Diana Deutsch
RRP: £34.99£30.09In this ground-breaking synthesis of art and science, Diana Deutsch, one of the world's leading experts on the psychology of music, shows how illusions of music and speech--many of which she herself discovered--have fundamentally altered thinking about... -
Making A Good Brain Great: The Amen Clinic Program for Achieving and Sustaining Optimal Mental Performance by Daniel G. Amen
RRP: £20.00£14.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400082094Author Daniel G. AmenFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Three Rivers PressPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 303gDimensions(mm)... -
Embodied: The psychology of physical sensation by Christopher Eccleston 9780198727903
RRP: £59.00£53.21We grow up thinking there are five senses, but we forget about the ten neglected senses of the body that both enable and limit our experience. Embodied explores the psychology of physical sensation in ten chapters: balance, movement, pressure (acting in... -
Working Minds: A Practitioner's Guide to Cognitive Task Analysis by Beth Crandall 9780262532815
RRP: £36.00£35.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262532815Author Beth CrandallFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Bradford BooksPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm *... -
Beyond the Brain: How Body and Environment Shape Animal and Human Minds by Louise Barrett
RRP: £22.00£17.36When a chimpanzee stockpiles rocks as weapons or when a frog sends out mating calls, we might easily assume these animals know their own motivations--that they use the same psychological mechanisms that we do. But as Beyond the Brain indicates, this is a... -
The Student's Guide to Social Neuroscience by Jamie Ward
RRP: £47.99£47.90This engaging and cutting-edge text provides an accessible introduction to the complex methods and concepts of social neuroscience, with examples from contemporary research and a blend of different pedagogical features helping students to engage with the... -
Performing Time: Synchrony and Temporal Flow in Music and Dance by Clemens Wöllner
RRP: £45.00£40.87Music and dance can change our sense of time. Both rely on synchronizing our attention and actions with sounds and with other people, both involve memory and expectation, and both can give rise to experiences of flow and pleasure. Performing Time... -
The Working Memory Advantage: Train Your Brain to Function Stronger, Smarter, Faster by Tracy Alloway 9781451650143
RRP: £21.99£13.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451650143Author Tracy AllowayFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...