Contemporary and compelling: connecting developmental psychology to students own lives

Kathleen Berger's signature narrative voice, wide-ranging cultural perspective, and focus on universal themes captivates students from the outset. Including exceptionally fast moving areas such as brain development and psychopathology (incorporating DSM-5 updates) this edition remains relevant. This engaging title helps students to grasp the important theoretical and scientific work driving the field of dev...

The Third Edition of this much celebrated textbook continues to focus on the four major and influential perspectives in contemporary social psychology - social cognition, social identity, social representations, and discursive psychology.

Analyzing the historical, philosophical, psychological, biological, sociological and technological perspectives of emotion, this book will be of interest to students of psychosocial studies, the individual and society, and the increasing number of courses across the social sciences dealing with affect and emotion.

Keith Coaley outlines the key ingredients of psychological assessment, providing case studies to illustrate their application, making this an ideal textbook for courses on psychometrics or psychological assessment.

The Social Animal 12e

The Social Animal is a CLASSIC text used in social psychology classes for almost 50 years and a powerful introduction to the field for countless students across the U.S. and the world.

The new edition of this venerable text retains Elliot Aronson's clear, engaging narrative voice, while adding the scholarly insights of a new coauthor—his son, New York University professor, Joshua Aronson. With a combination of the research and scholarship of the most distinguished fath...

Maps out how to therapeutically treat sufferers of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) using a cognitive behavioural approach to treatment. Covering the spectrum of post-traumatic states, this book outlines a range of techniques for counselling clients who have suffered major trauma.

Judgment and Decision Making is a refreshingly accessible text that explores the wide variety of ways people make judgments. .

This Handbook focusses on the foundational principles, methods and underlying systems in cognitive and systems neuroscience, as well as examining cutting-edge methodological advances and innovations.

A practical guide to help students, researchers and their mentors identify, prevent, mitigate and resolve ethical issues in research, navigating through issues of institutional policies and academic freedom.

Concerned with the ways humans develop an organised set of characteristics to shape themselves and the world around them, this is a study of how people come to be 'different' and 'similar' to others, on both an individual and a cultural level. This volume explores the scientific foundations of personality and individual differences, in chapters arranged across three thematic sections.