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Emerging Perspectives on Judgment and Decision Research by Sandra L. Schneider 9780521527187
RRP: $91.63$80.03The 'Emerging Perspectives' offers answers by a top group of experts to the question, 'Where is judgment and decision research heading as we forge into the 21st century?' The chapters represent perspectives developed by some of the most innovative... -
Finding Consciousness: The Neuroscience, Ethics, and Law of Severe Brain Damage by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong 9780190280307
RRP: $163.80$163.76Modern medicine enables us to keep many people alive after they have suffered severe brain damage and show no reliable outward signs of consciousness. Many such patients are misdiagnosed as being in a permanent vegetative state when they are actually in... -
On Aristotle "Physics 5" by of Cilicia Simplicius 9780715630679
$234.00Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Psychology and Experience by Benjamin Bradley 9780521011990
RRP: $74.08$62.95If personal experience is the basic raw material for psychology, why do all the major psychologies of the past century marginalise or deny it? In this thought-provoking new book Benjamin Bradley shows how our everyday experiences need to be at the core... -
The Psychology of Sympathy by Lauren Wispe 9780306437984
$233.98Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Spontaneous Brain: From the Mind–Body to the World–Brain Problem by Georg Northoff 9780262552820
$86.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262552820Author Georg NorthoffFormat PaperbackPage Count 536Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 369g -
Neuromotor Mechanisms in Human Communication by Doreen Kimura 9780195054927
RRP: $263.25$226.41Based upon two decades of research with patients who have experienced pathology in one hemisphere of the brain, this book deals with brain mechanisms in human communicative behaviour, and with related motor functions from a broadly biological point of... -
Cognitive Biology: Evolutionary and Developmental Perspectives on Mind, Brain, and Behavior by Luca Tommasi 9780262551892
$86.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262551892Author Luca TommasiFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 369g -
Animal Thinking: Contemporary Issues in Comparative Cognition by Randolf Menzel 9780262551496
$77.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262551496Author Randolf MenzelFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 369g -
The Spider's Thread: Metaphor in Mind, Brain, and Poetry by Keith J. Holyoak 9780262551472
$60.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262551472Author Keith J. HolyoakFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 369g -
Action Understanding by Angelika Lingnau 9781009476010
RRP: $97.48$97.21The human ability to effortlessly understand the actions of other people has been the focus of research in cognitive neuroscience for decades. What have we learned about this ability, and what open questions remain? In this Element the authors address... -
Representing Variability: How Do We Process the Heterogeneity in the Visual Environment? by Andrey Chetverikov 9781009478861
RRP: $97.48$97.21The visual world is full of detail. This Element focuses on this variability in perception, asking how it affects performance in visual tasks and how the variability is represented by human observers. The authors highlight different methods for assessing... -
Empathy: From Perception to Understanding and Feeling Others' Emotions by Shir Genzer 9781009454148
RRP: $97.48$97.21Empathy provides a cognitive and emotional bridge that connects individuals and promotes prosocial behavior. People empathize with others via two complementary perceptual routes: Cognitive Empathy or the ability to accurately recognize and understand... -
Understanding Figures in Neuroscience Research: A Guide to Interpreting Graphs and Methods by Austin Lim 9781009344227
RRP: $194.98$170.45This innovative text introduces neuroscience students to the visual language of scientific publications, teaching scientific literacy, research methods, and graphical literacy in an engaging way. Employing a 'pictures first' pedagogical approach, it... -
The Analogical Reader: A Cognitive Approach to Literary Perspective Taking by Peter Dixon 9781009344180
RRP: $185.25$166.63Perspective taking is a critical component of approaches to literature and narrative, but there is no coherent, broadly applicable, and process-based account of what it is and how it occurs. This book provides a multidisciplinary coverage of the topic,... -
The Psychology of Reading: Insights from Chinese by Erik D. Reichle 9781009272810
RRP: $175.50$158.01The Psychology of Reading reviews what has been learned about skilled reading and dyslexia using research on one of the most important but often overlooked languages and writing systems – Chinese. It provides an overview of the Chinese language and... -
The Psychology of Reading: Insights from Chinese by Erik D. Reichle 9781009272773
RRP: $58.48$50.58The Psychology of Reading reviews what has been learned about skilled reading and dyslexia using research on one of the most important but often overlooked languages and writing systems – Chinese. It provides an overview of the Chinese language and... -
Bilingual Lexical Ambiguity Resolution by Roberto R. Heredia 9781009246040
RRP: $44.83$40.29This book provides students and researchers of bilingualism with the most recent methodological and theoretical advances on how bilinguals resolve ambiguous information across languages. With reports on the latest findings from the behavioral and... -
How Language Makes Meaning: Embodiment and Conjoined Antonymy by Herbert L. Colston 9781009246026
RRP: $44.83$40.29Language's key function is to enable human social interaction, for which people are motivated to engage by powerful brain mechanisms. This book integrates recent work on embodied simulations, traditional meaning-making processes and a myriad of semantic... -
The Emergence of Insight by Carola Salvi 9781009244268
RRP: $156.00$140.73We are all familiar with the feeling of being stuck when a problem we are faced with seems intractable and we are unable to find a solution. But sometimes, a new way of seeing the problem pops into the mind from out of the blue. The missing piece of the... -
Problem Solving: Cognitive Mechanisms and Formal Models by Zygmunt Pizlo 9781009205597
RRP: $58.48$50.58Intelligent mental representations of physical, cognitive and social environments allow humans to navigate enormous search spaces, whose sizes vastly exceed the number of neurons in the human brain. This allows us to solve a wide range of problems, such... -
Problem Solving: Cognitive Mechanisms and Formal Models by Zygmunt Pizlo 9781009205566
RRP: $175.48$157.97Intelligent mental representations of physical, cognitive and social environments allow humans to navigate enormous search spaces, whose sizes vastly exceed the number of neurons in the human brain. This allows us to solve a wide range of problems, such... -
The Cognitive Science of Belief: A Multidisciplinary Approach by Julien Musolino 9781009009850
RRP: $77.98$67.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781009009850Author Julien MusolinoFormat PaperbackImprint Cambridge University PressPublisher Cambridge University Press -
Reasoning: Studies of Human Inference and its Foundations by Jonathan E. Adler 9780521848152
RRP: $181.35$167.86This interdisciplinary work is a collection of major essays on reasoning: deductive, inductive, abductive, belief revision, defeasible (non-monotonic), cross cultural, conversational, and argumentative. They are each oriented toward contemporary... -
The Cambridge Handbook of Metaphor and Thought by Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr. 9780521841061
RRP: $206.70$186.79A comprehensive collection of essays in multidisciplinary metaphor scholarship that has been written in response to the growing interest among scholars and students from a variety of disciplines such as linguistics, philosophy, anthropology, music and... -
The Construction of Preference by Sarah Lichtenstein 9780521834285
RRP: $202.80$182.97One of the main themes that has emerged from behavioral decision research during the past three decades is the view that people's preferences are often constructed in the process of elicitation. This idea is derived from studies demonstrating that... -
Conflict and Tradeoffs in Decision Making by Jonathan Baron 9780521772389
RRP: $214.50$172.20What makes some decisions easy and others difficult? Research in judgment and decision making indicates that conflict plays a decisive role in decision-making processes. The essays in this book address questions about the causes of conflict and its... -
Cognition and Multi-Agent Interaction: From Cognitive Modeling to Social Simulation by Ron Sun 9780521728959
RRP: $68.23$59.46This book explores the intersection between cognitive sciences and social sciences. In particular, it explores the intersection between individual cognitive modeling and modeling of multi-agent interaction (social stimulation). The two contributing... -
The Cambridge Handbook of Literacy by David R. Olson 9780521680523
RRP: $101.38$88.12This handbook marks the transformation of the topic of literacy from the narrower concerns with learning to read and write to an interdisciplinary enquiry into the various roles of writing and reading in the full range of social and psychological... -
Feeling and Thinking: The Role of Affect in Social Cognition by Joseph P. Forgas 9780521642231
RRP: $214.50$172.20The role of affect in how people think and behave in social situations has been a source of fascination to laymen and philosophers since time immemorial. Surprisingly, most of what we know about the role of feelings in social thinking and behavior has... -
Causes and Consequences of Feelings by Leonard Berkowitz 9780521633253
RRP: $122.85$108.65This engaging, scholarly book by one of the leading social psychologists in the world reviews the rapidly growing body of research on the antecedents and consequences of positive and negative affect. Starting with studies that identify the dimensions... -
Judgment and Decision Making: An Interdisciplinary Reader by Terry Connolly 9780521626026
RRP: $132.58$117.23Researchers in a growing number of fields - public policy, law, business, medicine, psychology, engineering, and others - are working to understand and improve human judgment and decision making. This book, which presupposes no formal training, brings... -
Emotion, Development, and Self-Organization: Dynamic Systems Approaches to Emotional Development by Marc D. Lewis 9780521525275
RRP: $97.48$84.67In the last twenty to thirty years, a new way to understand complex systems has emerged in the natural sciences - an approach often called non-linear dynamics, dynamical systems theory, or chaos theory. This perspective has allowed scientists to trace... -
The Conceptual Self in Context: Culture Experience Self Understanding by Ulric Neisser 9780521482035
RRP: $212.55$181.02What is the self-concept and how does it develop? Do people in different cultures have sharply different concepts of self? Can we believe what our informants tell us on this point? What is known about the self-concepts of depressives? of schizophrenics?... -
Developing the Horizons of the Mind: Relational and Contextual Reasoning and the Resolution of Cognitive Conflict by K. Helmut Reich 9780521521079
RRP: $72.13$61.05Developing the Horizons of the Mind is a comprehensive book on Relational and Contextual Reasoning (RCR), a theory of the human mind which powerfully addresses key areas of human conflict such as the ideological conflict between nations, the conflict in... -
Situated Cognition: On Human Knowledge and Computer Representations by William J. Clancey 9780521444002
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Judgment and Decision-Making Research in Accounting and Auditing by Robert H. Ashton 9780521418447
RRP: $200.85$172.20The study of behavioural decision-making has expanded into the area of accounting and auditing. This branch of research seeks to understand the cognitive processes that govern such necessary functions as the pricing of products and services, evaluating... -
The Adaptive Decision Maker by John W. Payne 9780521415057
RRP: $130.65$117.04The Adaptive Decision Maker argues that people use a variety of strategies to make judgments and choices. The authors introduce a model that shows how decision makers balance effort and accuracy considerations and predicts which strategy a person will... -
Human Cognitive Abilities: A Survey of Factor-Analytic Studies by John B. Carroll 9780521382755
RRP: $222.30$201.40This 1993 work surveys and summarizes the results of more than seventy years of investigation, by factor analysis, of a variety of cognitive abilities, with particular attention to language, thinking, memory, visual and auditory perception, creativity... -
Incentive Relativity by Charles F. Flaherty 9780521381185
RRP: $195.00$159.92Disappointment and recovery occur frequently in life; as does irritation regarding ones financial or economic state compared to others. Incentive relativity is the study of this phenomenon, and this book provides a full account of the subject, suitable...