Behavioral Sciences

This textbook augments the first edition through the inclusion of a set of reseach and review papers selected by the authors to supplement the contents of each chapter by providing a discussion of research issues and detailed investigation of individual cases.; One or two papers supplement each chap... More

When people make judgments and choices, especially when faced with uncertainty, they behave in a manner that seems complex and irrational. Cognitive psychologists have identified and organized these patterns of behavior into a descriptively accurate model of human judgments and choices called behavi... More

The articles reprinted in this collection represent noteworthy developments in the field's understanding of attitudes. Together, the readings provide a representative and broad coverage of the literature, illustrating well what the field has come to learn about the structure, function, and consequen... More

This Text Critically Reviews The Literature On Attention And Emotion, And offers an integrative cognitive attentional model of the development and Maintenance Of Emotional Disorders. It Highlights The Similarities And differences between disorders and offers specific new treatment implications.; The... More

This second edition of "The Child as Thinker" has been thoroughly revised and updated to provide an informed and accessible overview of the varied and extensive literature on children's cognition. Both theory and research data are critically examined and educational implications are discussed.After ... More

Why is one person motivated to create a business empire while another creates beautiful works of art? "Psychobiology and Human Motivation" explores what directs our behavior, from basic physiological needs like hunger and thirst to more complex aspects of social behavior like altruism. Hugh Wagner e... More

Involuntary memory was identified by the pioneering memory researcher Hermann Ebbinghaus more than a century ago, but it was not until very recently that cognitive psychologists began to study this memory phenomenon. This book is the first to examine key topics and cutting-edge research in involunta... More

The karaoke machine is much more than an instrument which allows us to be a star for three minutes. Using the theoretical framework of thinkers from Erving Goffman to Foucault, the contributors to this volume consider the technological, spatial, communicative, ethnic, national, political, musical an... More

"Persuasive Messages" is a guide to successful persuasion, providing a balance between theory and application. Firmly grounded in decades of research in the field, it offers a new approach using the Elaboration Likelihood Model to help readers understand how to construct effective persuasive message... More

The second edition of "Simply Psychology" aims to give a comprehensive account of the subject to those with little or no previous knowledge. As with the first edition, the book covers the main areas of psychology - biological, cognitive, social, developmental and individual differences. Some of the ... More

Few developments in the intellectual life of the past quarter-century have provoked more controversy than the attempt to engineer human-like intelligence by artificial means. Born of computer science, this effort has sparked a continuing debate among the psychologists, neuroscientists, philosophers,... More

This book is a fascinating introduction to the mental life of the child. Writing in simple, accessible language, the author explores key elements of the child's mind without overwhelming the reader with complicated theories. Tackling diverse topics, from the nature of intelligence to the cultivation... More

In the course of their professional lives many people need to understand facts about human memory. For example, a client who is suddenly "remembering" being sexually abused as a child may be referred to a social worker. A lawyer may be confronted with a client who claims "amnesia" when charged with ... More

Tying together almost four decades of neo-Piagetian research, "Cognitive Development" provides a unique critical analysis and a comparison of concepts across neo-Piagetian theories. Like Piaget, neo-Piagetian theorists take a constructivist approach to cognitive development, are broad in scope, and ... More

Research into thinking has made considerable developments over the last two decades. This international and comprehensive handbook brings three of the important topics of thinking together--reasoning, judgment and decision making--and discusses key issues in each area. The studies described range f... More

The editors conceived this book with the double purpose of introducing to a larger public a new approach to the study of animal abilities and of stimulating additional studies in the new research program described in this volume. The research program, which we call 'comparative developmental evoluti... More

MEMORY explores some of the many ways that individuals and societies remember, forget, and commemorate events of the past. This thought-provoking and unusual collection will delight a wide variety of readers. 15 photos. 30 diagrams.Memory is both a private, personal phenomenon and a collective inter... More