Presents the different aspects of comparative psychology in a balanced and exhaustive manner. History and Methods constitute the first two parts. The next three parts - Adaptation/Evolution, Genes/Hormones, and Neural Substrate - present the conceptual foundations for understanding the genesis of behaviour and cognition. The next four parts are ......
Summarizes the current state of knowledge on major topics within the fields of personality and social psychology. Coverage is contemporary, from social cognition, to emotional experience, from religious beliefs to interpersonal relations. The chapters reflect a wide range of theoretical perspectives at different levels of analysis, including ......
In this groundbreaking volume, the authors introduce a novel conditional reasoning (CR) framework to indirectly assess the implicit personality--the unconscious, inaccessible component of personality that governs much of our behavior but has always been difficult to measure.
Selection and Control in Human Information Processing
This textbook presents a comprehensive and accessible overview of the science of attention, conveying central findings and applications to real-world issues, such as its relationship with technology, learning, and memory.
This book reveals how the authors' findings from their research in psychology, neuropsychology, special education, and medicine can help clinicians assess and remediate reading and attention disorders.
In recent years, Peter N. Stearns has established himself as a historian of American emotional life. Now Stearns reveals the dichotomy at the heart of the national character: a self-indulgent hedonism and the famed American informality on the one hand, and a repressiveness on the other.
Bracketing Paradox and Direct Compositionality resolves bracketing paradoxes in Japanese through semantically reinforced morphology proper and without complex syntactic supposition or manipulation. Direct Compositionality and lexicalism are maintained in the domain of morpho-semantic interface thanks to Montagovian apparatus.
In school, but "locked out" 13 youth, each with fewer than 10 productive words to use to build their relationship with families, teachers, and friends. That is, until they were introduced to the System for Augmenting Language, or SAL. In a wonderful meshing of science and the real world, this remarkable book chronicles the process of language ......
In this work, the authors present their brief cognitive hypnosis model - an approach that incorporates a cognitive perspective and a simple way of using ""change language"" to effect rapid change.
