Research & Methodology

This concise reference serves as a companion to traditional research texts by focusing on such essentials as model construction, robust methodologies and defending a compelling hypothesis. Designed to wean Master's and doctorate-level students as well as...

This book explores and provides an overview of the Norwegian psychologist Jan Smedslund's life work on Psycho-logic. His contributions to science have been radical not only in challenging the empirical foundation of psychology, but also in seeking to...

The latest volume in this multidisciplinary series on key topics in evolutionary studies, Evolutionary Perspectives on Death provides an evolutionary analysis of mortality and the consideration of death. Bringing together noted experts from a variety of...

Presenting an innovative take on researching early childhood, this book provides an international comparison of the cultural and familial influences that shape the growth of young children. The book presents a unique methodology, and includes chapters on...

The matrix laboratory interactive computing environment-MATLAB-has brought creativity to research in diverse disciplines, particularly in designing and programming experiments. More commonly used in mathematics and the sciences, it also lends itself to a...

Globally there is growing concern over charities abilities to raise funds. This is of concern to both charity organizations and policy makers. One of the key factors that determine the public's willingness to provide funds (to donate) is trust in both...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783384440471Author Aleksandra HaakFormat HardbackPage Count 188Imprint tredition GmbHPublisher tredition GmbHWeight(grams) 449g

The book covers the topic of experimental instrumentation at the turn of the 20th century. The authors introduce the role of instruments in the process of establishing psychology as a science. They concentrate on identifying historical devices and...

YIS has been thought as an annual series of volumes collecting contributes aimed at developing the integration of idiographic and nomothetic approaches in psychological and more in general social science. At the beginning, 3 years ago, we got an...

This book is the second edition of Facet Theory and the Mapping Sentence: Evolving Philosophy, Use and Application (2014). It consolidates the qualitative and quantitative research positions of facet theory and delves deeper into their qualitative...

This book combines the latest in sociology, psychology, and biology to present evidence-based research on what works in community and institutional corrections. It spans from the theoretical underpinning of correctional counseling to concrete examples...

This Brief presents a social psychological approach to understanding the reaction of communities to organized crime and illegal groups. Based on a new theoretical framework and the latest empirical evidence, this book explores questions of how criminal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781009488167Author Michael BilligFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Cambridge University PressPublisher Cambridge University Press

This book is long awaited within the contemporarily creative field of cultural psychologies. It is a theoretical synthesis that is at the level of innovations that Sigmund Freud, James Mark Baldwin, William Stern, Kurt Lewin, Jean Piaget, Lev Vygotsky...

Autoethnography Pedagogy and Practice supports and generates new insights into how autoethnography can be taught, supervised and practiced by sharing the experiences and reflections of researchers from a wide range of fields and disciplines.An...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627346092Author Tomasz WitkowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Brown Walker Press (FL)Publisher Brown Walker Press (FL)Weight(grams) 376g

Intriguing new findings on how genes and environments work together through different stages of life take the spotlight in this significant collection. Studies from infancy to late adulthood show both forces as shaping individuals' relationships within...

Bayesian inference has become a standard method of analysis in many fields of science. Students and researchers in experimental psychology and cognitive science, however, have failed to take full advantage of the new and exciting possibilities that the...

This book offers readers a uniquely detailed engagement with the ideas of legendary French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. The Freudian Thing is one of Lacan's most important texts, wherein he explains the significance and stakes of his "return to Freud" as...

This book applies a range of ideas about scientific discovery found in contemporary philosophy of science to psychology and related behavioral sciences. In doing so, it aims to advance our understanding of a host of important methodological ideas as they...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782808011365Author 50minutesFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint 50minutes.comPublisher 50minutes.comWeight(grams) 64g

Maternal filicide has been discussed in the medical, mental health, and child abuse fields, yet little research exists with a criminal justice/law enforcement perspective. Nevertheless, criminal justice professionals responsible for investigation and...

This edited volume reviews the latest research on investigative interviewing in order to provide insights on the psychological processes of the person being interviewed as well as to offer guidelines for conducting credible and useful interviews...

Contributors to this unique book explain and compare major theories drawn from several academic fields to uncover the root causes of deviance. In this unparalleled exploration of antisocial and aberrant behavior, criminologists and other experts examine...

Memory: Interdisciplinary Approaches arrays the most current research and thinking on the cognitive, social, and neural aspects of memory. An international group of experts discusses the domains of working memory and the modularity of storage processes...

Intriguing new findings on how genes and environments work together through different stages of life take the spotlight in this significant collection. Studies from infancy to late adulthood show both forces as shaping individuals' relationships within...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783656346425Author Jon Michael JachimowiczFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Grin PublishingPublisher Grin PublishingWeight(grams) 59g

Qualitative Studies of Silence brings together influential qualitative researchers from across the social sciences and humanities who have sought to understand the power of what remains unsaid, both psychologically and socially. Each chapter identifies...

This book offers original knowledge, debate, and understanding from frontline fieldwork data and the relations between mental health difficulties, mental healthcare provision, and social theory.Dominant discourse of the last half century has followed a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9791094871171Author Eric Jackson PerrinFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Eric Jackson PerrinPublisher Eric Jackson PerrinWeight(grams) 200g

Twenty years is a long time in the life of a science. While the historical roots of psychology have not changed since the first edition of this book, some of the offshoots of the various theories and systems discussed have been crit ically reexamined and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783662387023Author Albert I. RabinFormat PaperbackPage Count 638Imprint Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KPublisher Springer-Verlag...

This book applies a range of ideas about scientific discovery found in contemporary philosophy of science to psychology and related behavioral sciences. In doing so, it aims to advance our understanding of a host of important methodological ideas as they...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798224881116Author Sadanand PujariFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Sadanand PujariPublisher Sadanand PujariWeight(grams) 245g

This book explores and provides an overview of the Norwegian psychologist Jan Smedslund's life work on Psycho-logic. His contributions to science have been radical not only in challenging the empirical foundation of psychology, but also in seeking to...

This book offers original knowledge, debate, and understanding from frontline fieldwork data and the relations between mental health difficulties, mental healthcare provision, and social theory.Dominant discourse of the last half century has followed a...

In 1968, Stanley Kubrick completed and released his magnum opus motion picture 2001: A Space Odyssey; a time that was also tremendously important in the formation of the psychoanalytic theory of Jacques Lacan. Bringing these figures together, Bristow...

Despite an abysmal "success rate," practitioners still use reparative therapy in an attempt to turn gays and lesbians straight. This text exposes the pitfalls that should be considered before gays embark on this journey that typically leads...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781410204240Author Alfred BinetFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the PacificWeight(grams)...

Models of Psychological Space begins the reformulation of the construct of psychological space by bringing together in one volume a sampling of theoretical models from the psychometric, developmental, and experimental approaches. The author also...