Helps you to see the reality of anomalous experience as part of your own psychological tapestry. This book shows how the mind's organisational capability and its information processing set the stage for strange happenings.
Integrates the motivational and cognitive approaches to shed new light on the control of goal-directed action, presenting new findings and suggesting strategies for future research. An introduction outlines themes in the field, and chapters examine issues such as sources and contents, affective inf
Drawing from psychology, journalism, and communication studies, this book discusses the often-debilitating anxiety when flying, as an important issue that is plaguing the human race.
Building a Win-Win Environment for Organizations and Employees
How can a psychologically healthy workplace be created and maintained? This book focuses on the complex interplay between employee and organisational outcomes across five key intervention areas: employee involvement; work-life balance; employee growth and development; employee recognition; and health and safety.
Offers an explanation of religious experience from the perspectives of neuroscience and developmental psychology. This book argues that belief in God and the assent to the reality of the supernatural are produced by the mind/brain's inherent tendency to discover in religious narrative an echo of its own biological development.
Evidence law is meant to facilitate trials that are fair, accurate, and efficient, and that encourage and protect important societal values and relationships. In pursuit of these often-conflicting goals, common law judges and modern drafting committees have had to perform as amateur applied psychologists. Their task has required them to employ ......
Evidence law is meant to facilitate trials that are fair, accurate, and efficient, and that encourage and protect important societal values and relationships. In pursuit of these often-conflicting goals, common law judges and modern drafting committees have had to perform as amateur applied psychologists. Their task has required them to employ ......
This volume presents cutting-edge theory and research on emotions as constructed events rather than fixed, essential entities. It provides a thorough introduction to the assumptions, hypotheses, and scientific methods that embody psychological constructionist approaches. Leading scholars examine the neurobiological, cognitive/perceptual, and ......
Renshon (political science, City U. of New York) traces the increasing importance of character as an issue in political campaigns, detailing two approaches to the issue of presidential psychology involving the mental health of candidates and personal qualities such as honesty and motivation. He pre
