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A General Theory of Behaviour by David F. Marks
RRP: £51.00£41.34Psychologists like to claim that Psychology is a science, yet, until now, the discipline has lacked any real scientific laws, has had no overarching scientific paradigm and has been blighted by poor replicability of research, all of which have dogged the... -
Homelessness among Older Adults in Prague: Causes, Contexts and Prospects Marie Vagnerova 9788024645254
RRP: £16.00£15.77Following their engaging study Homelessness among Young People in Prague, the authors of this book turn their attention to an older population facing the same issue, a very different situation since these older adults grew up under a communist regime... -
Mapping Career Counseling Interventions: A Guide for Career Practitioners by Shekina Rochat
RRP: £36.99£32.53Mapping Career Counseling Interventions provides an innovative insight into identifying and resolving problems within career management. In recent years, a myriad of counselling tools has been developed so that psychologists can offer the most... -
Laboratory Psychology: A Beginner's Guide Julia Nunn 9780863777110
£39.04Experimental design is important enough to merit a book on its own, without statistics, that instead links methodology to a discussion of how psychologists can advance and reject theories about human behaviour. The objective of this book is to fulfil... -
The Evolution and Function of Cognition by Felix E. Goodson
RRP: £22.99£20.16Appropriate as a textbook for graduate courses, The Evolution and Function of Cognition provides a systematic and progressively inclusive integration of the facts and principles of cognitive psychology. It includes contributions of information processing... -
Smoking in Adolescence: Images and Identities by Barbara Lloyd
RRP: £41.99£36.75What factors influence adolescents to take up smoking? Why do more girls smoke than boys? In contrast to medical orthodoxy, Smoking in Adolescence looks at smoking from the adolescents' own points of view. What emerges is that regular smokers are seen as... -
Balancing Acts: Studies in Counselling Training by Hazel Johns
RRP: £77.99£67.90First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780415165457Author Hazel JohnsFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 392g -
Psychobabble and Biobunk: Using Psychological Science to Think Critically About Popular Psychology by Carol Tavris
RRP: £44.44£39.92This revised and updated handbook features a selection of essay-style book reviews by Carol Tavris, written for the Times Literary Supplement, The Chronicle of Higher Education, American Scientist, and The New York Times Book Review. These reviews apply... -
Forensic Psychology and Neuropsychology for Criminal and Civil Cases by Harold V. Hall
RRP: £79.99£69.60Today's increasingly sophisticated psychological and neuropsychological assessments allow for a greater understanding, and improved evaluations, in forensic psychology. By integrating discussions of modern psychological and neuropsychological tests, with... -
Teaching Contested Narratives: Identity, Memory and Reconciliation in Peace Education and Beyond by Zvi Bekerman
RRP: £61.00£54.64In troubled societies narratives about the past tend to be partial and explain a conflict from narrow perspectives that justify the national self and condemn, exclude and devalue the 'enemy' and their narrative. Through a detailed analysis, Teaching... -
del Gesto a la Palabra by Boris Cyrulnik
RRP: £22.95£14.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788497840439Author Boris CyrulnikFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Gedisa EditorialPublisher Gedisa Editorial -
Understanding Psychology: Pearson New International Edition by Charles G. Morris
RRP: £63.99£57.89Continuing Attention to Enduring Issues in Psychology Understanding Psychology, 10th edition highlights the enduring issues that cut across and unite all subfields of psychology- Person-Situation, Nature-Nurture, Stability-Change,... -
Mastering Modern Psychological Testing: Pearson New International Edition: Theory & Methods by Cecil R. Reynolds
RRP: £62.99£57.02Testing, Measurement, Assessment Mastering Modern Psychological Testing: Theory & Methods presents quality written research in a thorough and comprehensive manner that allows students to master the material. This text provides a comprehensive... -
The Decline and Fall of Hemispheric Specialization by Robert Efron
RRP: £47.99£41.81Providing a personal overview of hemispheric differences in human cognitive activity, Professor Efron is selective in his presentation of significant issues. To ensure a balanced overview, references are made to many books, review articles, and research... -
Attribution Theory: Applications to Achievement, Mental Health, and Interpersonal Conflict by Sandra Graham
RRP: £45.99£40.13This unusual volume begins with a historical overview of the growth of attribution theory, setting the stage for the three broad domains of application that are addressed in the remainder of the book. These include applications to: achievement strivings... -
Psycholinguistics (PLE: Psycholinguistics): Central Topics Alan Garnham (University of Sussex, United Kingdom) 9781138984097
RRP: £45.99£40.13Originally published in 1985, this title was an important new teaching text at the time. Alan Garnham focuses on current theories about the central cognitive aspects of language understanding, and attempts to reflect the emergence of cognitive science,... -
Personnel Selection and Assessment: Individual and Organizational Perspectives by Heinz Schuler
RRP: £47.99£41.81The impetus for this volume came from the editors' belief that most current research and thinking about personnel selection and assessment in organizations considered only the perspective of the employer. The job applicant seeking to join the... -
Musical Savants: Exceptional Skill in the Mentally Retarded by Leon K. Miller
RRP: £47.99£41.81Using the case study of "Eddie" as his framework, Professor Miller challenges the prevailing notion that musical savants are essentially phenomenal tape recorders and deals with the issue of "idiot savants" in a detailed, empirical... -
A Functional Theory of Cognition by Norman H. Anderson
RRP: £45.99£40.53A unified, general theory of functional cognition is presented in this book. Its generality appears in the titles of the 13 chapters listed below. Its unity appears in the effectiveness of the same methods and concepts across all of these areas... -
Attention and information Processing in infants and Adults: Perspectives From Human and Animal Research B. A. Campbell 9781138964082
RRP: £47.99£42.21First published in 1991. The impetus for this book and the conference upon which it was based stemmed from the authors' observation that the interrelated phenomena of attention and information processing were the focus of intensive theoretical analysis... -
Individual Psychological Therapies in Forensic Settings: Research and Practice Jason Davies (ABM University Health Board, UK) 9781138955714
RRP: £125.00£108.26From the 'nothing works' maxim of the 1970s to evidence-based interventions to challenge recidivism and promote pro-social behavior, psychological therapy has played an important role in rehabilitation and risk reduction within forensic settings in... -
Politics of Social Psychology Jarret T. Crawford 9781138930605
£50.94Social scientists have long known that political beliefs bias the way they think about, understand, and interpret the world around them. In this volume, scholars from social psychology and related fields explore the ways in which social scientists... -
Understanding Happiness: A critical review of positive psychology Mick Power (Professor of Clinical Psychology and Director of Clinical Programmes at the National University of Singapore.) 9781138929241
RRP: £47.99£41.81We all want to be happy, and there are plenty of people telling us how it can be achieved. The positive psychology movement, indeed, has established happiness as a scientific concept within everyone's grasp. But is happiness really something we can... -
Developmental Disorders of the Brain Nicole J. Rinehart (Deakin University, Australia) 9781138911901
£50.94Developmental Disorders of the Brain: Brain and Behaviour addresses disabilities that occur or have their roots in the early, developmental phase of life which are of utmost concern to parents, siblings, carers and teachers.This text describes the latest... -
Children's Play: Research Developments and Practical Applications by Peter K. Smith
£106.61Originally published in 1986, in this compendium of recent research on children's play, acknowledged experts review the latest methodologies and ideas, examine salient problems, and reveal the application of current knowledge in several areas of... -
Mental Models and the Interpretation of Anaphora Alan Garnham 9781138883123
RRP: £53.99£46.87The interpretation of anaphora - how we interpret expressions such as definite pronouns (he, she, it) and verbal elliptical phrases (such as "did so, too") in the course of ordinary conversation or reading - is an important aspect of language... -
Treatment or Diagnosis: A study of repeat prescriptions in general practice by Michael Balint
RRP: £48.99£42.66Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences. This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of... -
Rationality In An Uncertain World: Essays In The Cognitive Science Of Human Understanding by Nick Chater
RRP: £41.99£37.15This book brings together an influential sequence of papers that argue for a radical re-conceptualisation of the psychology of inference, and of cognitive science more generally. The papers demonstrate that the thesis that logic provides the basis of... -
Agency: Its Role In Mental Development by Russell James
RRP: £49.99£40.70The 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... -
Autobiographical Memory and Emotional Disorder: A Special Issue of Memory Tim Dalgleish 9781138877740
RRP: £27.99£24.28For those suffering from emotional disorders such as posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or depression aspects of the personal past can dominate conscious experience in tenacious and toxic ways. For example, memories of distressing autobiographical... -
Culture And Common Mental Disorders In Sub-Saharan Africa by Vickram Patel
RRP: £42.99£37.59The influence of culture on mental illness has been the subject of considerable academic investigation and debate in recent years. This debate has provoked concerns about the validity and reliability of older methodologies which emphasised either... -
Drinking Occasions: Comparative Perspectives on Alcohol and Culture by Dwight B. Heath
RRP: £46.99£40.97The main purpose of this book is to describe the variety of drinking occasions that exist around the world, primarily in modern, industrialized countries. As such, it celebrates the diversity of normal drinking behavior and illustrates a wide range of... -
The Grasp of Consciousness (Psychology Revivals): Action and Concept in the Young Child Jean Piaget 9781138854475
RRP: £53.99£46.87Originally published in English in 1976, the book draws on and extends our knowledge of the process of learning. The subject of the study is the general stage in a child's development that comes between his successful performance of an activity without... -
Transforming Social Representations: A Social Psychology of Common Sense and Science by Caroline Purkhardt
RRP: £49.99£43.50Common sense, by definition, is familiar to us all. Science, for some of us, is more remote, yet it is not always clear what the connections are between these two ways of seeing the world. In this title, originally published in 1993, the author explores... -
Difference, Dialogue, and Development: A Bakhtinian World by Lakshmi Bandlamudi
RRP: £100.00£86.61Difference, Dialogue, and Development is an in-depth exploration of the collected works of Mikhail Bakhtin to find relevance of key concepts of dialogism for understanding various aspects of human development. Taking the reality of differences in the... -
Cognitive Development from a Strategy Perspective: A Festschrift for Robert Siegler by Patrick Lemaire
£43.00Cognitive Development from a Strategy Perspective recognises the outstanding scientific legacy of Robert S. Siegler as a pioneer of modern research on cognitive development throughout the lifespan. This volume presents a collection of essays written by... -
The Early History of Psychophysics: From Matter to Mind by David J. Murray
RRP: £135.00£117.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781138658158Author David J. MurrayFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis Ltd -
The Psychology of Effective Management: Strategies for Relationship Building by Fred Voskoboynikov
£48.96The Psychology of Effective Management combines basic psychological principles with practical recommendations for building positive and productive manager-employee relations. Each recommendation is based on real-life situations taken from respected... -
Sensation of Movement by Thor Grunbaum
RRP: £41.99£36.75Sensation of Movement explores the role of sensation in motor control, bodily self-recognition and sense of agency. The sensation of movement is dependent on a range of information received by the brain, from signalling in the peripheral sensory organs... -
Implicit Learning: 50 Years On Axel Cleeremans 9781138644298
RRP: £135.00£117.68Can we learn without knowing we are learning? To what extent is our behavior influenced by things we fail to perceive? What is the relationship between conscious and unconscious cognition? Implicit Learning: 50 Years On tackles these key questions, fifty...