Behavioral Sciences News & Updates
Articles, News, Promotions and Updates from Routledge and the Taylor & Francis Group.
Articles, News, Promotions and Updates from Routledge and the Taylor & Francis Group.

Psychoanalysis, beginning with Freud, has been, albeit perhaps implicitly, a theory of masculinity. Nevertheless, according to Donald Moss, contemporary psychoanalysis has many glaring blind spots when it comes to thinking about men.
Click here to listen to an interview with Donald Moss, author of Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Man.

The International Dictionary of Music Therapy offers models, methods and interventions that range from regional to international, including several terms that have never been published before. Essential for both the seasoned and novice music therapists and those working closely with the field, it offers a comprehensive guide to key terms, explained from multiple perspectives and with reference to clinical literature.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Find out more about our new Open Access journal Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine - the journals' editorial introduction - which asks and answers the question why we need an Open Access journal in this field - is now available online.

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.

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.