Recent Psychology Press News
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Handbook of Personality at Work
This handbook brings together into a single volume the diverse areas of work psychology where personality constructs have been applied and investigated, providing expert review and analysis based on the latest advances in the field.
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Pure Sport: Practical sport psychology, 2nd Edition
Pure Sport goes back to basics by highlighting practical concerns for those involved with competitive sport at every age and level. Drawing on their considerable experience as both applied sport psychologists and academics, the authors present practical advice and a powerful array of techniques for channelling and harnessing mental skills with the goal of improving sporting performance.
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Authors of the Month June 2013: John Kremer and Aidan Moran
Following a bestselling first edition, applied sport psychologists John Kremer and Aidan Moran are back with a fully updated guide on how to make the most out of your sporting performance.
The second edition of Pure Sport: Practical sport psychology sets out, in everyday language, the lessons you can take from contemporary sport psychology – helping you recognize what works and what doesn’t when it comes to improving performance.
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Life-Span Maintenance of Knowledge
This volume describes how well we maintain the knowledge we acquire throughout life. Research traditionally focuses on memory for events that are retained over short time periods that can be accommodated in experiments. This book, by contrast, uniquely describes the evolution of methods suitable for investigating memory of complex knowledge acquired over several years and retained during the entire life-span.
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Neuroscience of Prejudice and Intergroup Relations
This volume provides the first integrated view on the specific drawbacks and benefits of each type of measure, illuminates how standard paradigms in research on prejudice and intergroup relations can be adapted for the use of neuroscientific methods, and illustrates how different methodologies can complement each other and be combined to advance current insights into the nature of prejudice.
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How is Testing Supposed to Improve Schooling?
Testing is a ubiquitous tool for day-to-day decision making in schools, communicating learning goals and evaluating progress. Testing also brings unintended consequences.
This major, free Special Issue of Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives explores the ramifications of testing in the classroom, with a view to maximizing the benefits and minimizing possible drawbacks of current educational testing applications.
Click here to read How is Testing Supposed to Improve Schooling? for free, in full.
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Handbook of Vocational Psychology: Theory, Research, and Practice, 4th Edition
Handbook of Vocational Psychology identifies, reports, and evaluates significant developments in vocational psychology and career counseling, and in doing so provides both professional clinicians and students with an informed understanding of both the current state and continuing progress in the field.
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Expertise and Skill Acquisition: The Impact of William G. Chase
The chapters in this volume document the enduring scientific contributions of William G. Chase to current knowledge and understanding of human expertise and skill acquisition and applications his work has supported. It will be of interest to those researching, studying, and working in the multiple fields that were greatly influenced by Chase's work.
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An Emergence Approach to Speech Acquisition: Doing and Knowing
The central assertion in this volume is that the young child uses general skills, scaffolded by adults, to acquire the complex knowledge of sound patterns and the goal-directed behaviors for communicating ideas through language and producing speech.
Throughout, an evaluation is made of the research on patterns of typical development across languages in monolingual and bilingual children and children with speech impairments affecting various aspects of their developing complex system.
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Athletes’ Careers Across Cultures
The first book of its kind to bring together a truly global spread of leading sports psychology career researchers and practitioners into one comprehensive resource. This extensive volume traces the evolution of athlete career research through a cultural lens and maps the complex topography of athletes’ careers across national boundaries exploring how social and cultural discourses shape their development.
