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Language and Self-Transformation
Social scientists have long been fascinated by the Christian conversion, a form of religious experience that believers say both strengthens their... Les mer
Human Cognitive Abilities
This long awaited work surveys and summarizes the results of more than seventy years of investigation, by factor analysis, of a variety of cognitive... Les mer
The Professionalization of Psychology in Nazi Germany
It has been widely believed that psychology in Germany, faced with political antipathy and mass emigration of its leading minds, withered under... Les mer
The Adaptive Decision Maker
The Adaptive Decision Maker argues that people use a variety of strategies to make judgments and choices. The authors introduce a model that shows... Les mer
Interaction in Cooperative Groups
Interaction in Cooperative Groups brings together current, related research from education, developmental psychology, and social psychology in an... Les mer
Social Facilitation
Humans may run faster, read less, or type more quickly, simply because someone else is present. The presence of one person affects the behaviour of... Les mer
Affect and Accuracy in Recall
Recollections of unexpected and emotional events (called flashbulb memories) have long been the subject of theoretical speculation. Previous meetings... Les mer
Passions and Perceptions
The philosophers of the Hellenistic schools in ancient Greece and Rome (Epicureans, Stoics, Sceptics, Academics, Cyrenaics) made important... Les mer
Handbook of Bereavement
The Handbook of Bereavement constitutes a comprehensive review of scientific knowledge on the consequences of losing a loved person through death.... Les mer
The Future of Folk Psychology
The essays in this volume are concerned with the theoretical developments in cognitive science for our everyday system of exploration of human... Les mer
The Basic Fault
When it was first published in 1968, Michael Balint's The Basic Fault laid the groundwork for a far-ranging reformation in psychoanalytic theory.... Les mer
Optimal Experience
What constitutes enjoyment of life? Optimal Experience offers a comprehensive survey of theoretical and empirical investigations of the ‘flow’... Les mer
Emerging Visions of the Aesthetic Process
This book is about aesthetic processes and play from the perspectives of psychologists, philosophers, and semiologists. They explore the underlying... Les mer
Perspectives on Language and Thought
From the time of birth through the early school years, young children rapidly acquire two complex cognitive systems: They organize their experiences... Les mer
Motivation and Personality
Motivation and Personality is the first book to be devoted to content analysis systems for assessment of characteristics of the individuals, groups,... Les mer
Att förstå drogmissbruk
Drogmissbruk har länge varit ett expertområde för behandlare och behandlingsforskare, som bara har ställt frågan hur missbrukaren ska bli fri... Les mer
Situated Learning
In this important theoretical treatist, Jean Lave, anthropologist, and Etienne Wenger, computer scientist, push forward the notion of situated... Les mer
The Skills of Argument
The Skills of Argument presents a comprehensive empirical study of informal reasoning as argument, involving subjects across the life span. Subjects... Les mer
Reasoning and Choice
Drawing on a multitude of data sets and building on analyses carried out over more than a decade, this book offers a major new theoretical... Les mer
Psychology
This second Companion deals with the ancient theories of the psyche. The essays range over more than eight hundred years of psychological enquiry and... Les mer
Automatism, Insanity, and the Psychology of Criminal Responsibility
This is a book about the role that psychological impairment should play in a theory of criminal liability. Criminal guilt in the Anglo-American legal... Les mer
The Call to Personhood
This book is an attempt to answer the question What is a person?. Although the answer is given in largely theoretical terms, the author is concerned... Les mer
Chronic Childhood Disease
The author draws extensively on the published research findings in child health psychology, and also on her own experience of working with paediatric... Les mer
Metaphors of Mind
Metaphors of Mind seeks to help readers understand human intelligence as viewed from a variety of standpoints, such as those of psychology,... Les mer