This succinct but absorbing book covers the main way stations on James Reason's 40-year journey in pursuit of the nature and varieties of human error. In it he presents an engrossing and very personal perspective, offering the reader exceptional insights, wisdom and wit as only James Reason can. The journey begins with a bizarre absent-minded action slip committed by Professor Reason in the early 1970s - putting cat food into the teapot - and continues up to the present day, conveying his uni...

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A revolutionary guide that will transform your relationship with failure, from the pioneering researcher of psychological safety and award-winning Harvard Business School professor Amy Edmondson.

We used to think of failure as the opposite of success. Now, we’re often torn between two “failure cultures”: one that says to avoid failure at a...

Life Span Motor Development, Eighth Edition With HKPropel Access, is a leading text for helping students understand a person’s movement abilities as the interaction of the individual’s development and maturation, the environment, and the task being performed. This model of constraints approach, combined with an unprecedented collection of video clips marking motor development advancements, facilitates an unmatched learning experience for the study of motor development across the life span...

An indispensable guide to the key research and study skills that students need to develop, and then put into effective practice at all levels.

A comprehensive biological psychology textbook that fits with the BPS guidelines for undergraduate study, this title represents an inexpensive, yet graphical, colourful, research-rich, and pedagogically developed textbook fully in tune with lecturers' and students' needs in biological psychology.

In this pioneering book, Joseph Shaules presents exciting new research from cultural psychology and neuroscience. It sheds light on the hidden influence of culture on the unconscious mind, and helps people get more out of their intercultural journeys. The Intercultural Mind presents new perspectives on important questions such as: What is culture shock, and how does it affect us? Why are we blind to our own cultural conditioning? Can cultural differences be measured? What does it mean to have...

In "New resources for Individual Psychological Diagnosis" adiagnostic instrument is presented. The instrument can be usedboth in the field of cognition as in the field of emotion and is meant to be for daily practice. The cognitive approach providesverifiable data and the approach to emotions provides descriptivedata in a subtle interplay of conscious and unconsciousprocesses. The unconscious is seen as the absolute reliableexperience basis in every human. The instrument is designed tolet the...

There are many books written about burn-out and depression. When illustrator Marieke went through that difficult time she found out she did not have the focus to read. Therefore after her recovery, she decided to draw her own book instead.

Today over 17.500 people have used the Dutch version of the book and psychologists and psychiatrists work with the book in their programs.

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The author takes you through the book with lots of love, humor and patience. It's not about ...

Afraid of being found out! The Impostor Syndrome.Do you ever feel as if you are pretending to be bigger or better than you are in reality? That everyone has expectations of you that you may not be able to live up to? That you are afraid of being found out, while you do know that, actually, that is not correct? Or perhaps there is nothing wrong at all with your self-confidence, and you really know what you are capable of. You exude confidence as well. And yet, sometimes there is that little vo...