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41. The Decline of Substance Use in Young Adulthood

    Changes in Social Activities, Roles, and Beliefs

    By Jerald G. Bachman, Patrick M. O'Malley, John E. Schulenberg, Lloyd D. Johnston, Alison L. Bryant, Alicia C. Merline

    Series: Research Monographs in Adolescence Series

    This book is intended as a thoughtful extension to Bachman et al.'s well-received monograph Smoking, Drinking, and Drug Use in Young Adulthood. That volume showed that the new freedoms of young adulthood lead to increases in substance use, while the responsibilities of adulthood--marriage,...

    Published June 19th 2013 by Psychology Press
42. Reductionism and the Development of Knowledge

    Edited by Terrance Brown, Leslie Smith

    Series: Jean Piaget Symposia Series

    Among the many conceits of modern thought is the idea that philosophy, tainted as it is by subjective evaluation, is a shaky guide for human affairs. People, it is argued, are better off if they base their conduct either on know-how with its pragmatic criterion of truth (i.e., possibility) or on...

    Published June 19th 2013 by Psychology Press
43. Space and Sense

    By Susanna Millar

    Series: Essays in Cognitive Psychology

    How do we perceive the space around us, locate objects within it, and make our way through it? What do the senses contribute? This book focuses on touch in order to examine which aspects of vision and touch overlap in spatial processing. It argues that spatial processing depends crucially on...

    Published June 19th 2013 by Psychology Press
44. Temperament in Context

    Edited by Theodore D. Wachs, Robert R. McCrae, Geldolph A. Kohnstamm, Geldolph A. Kohnstamm

    Although the importance of context has been emphasized by temperament researchers, until now there has been remarkably little systematic research on the unique role specific aspects of context play in the development and impact of temperament. The goal of this volume is to systematize current...

    Published June 19th 2013 by Psychology Press
45. The Auditory Cortex

    A Synthesis of Human and Animal Research

    Edited by Peter Heil, Henning Scheich, Eike Budinger, Reinhard Konig

    Understanding human hearing is not only a scientific challenge but also a problem of growing social and political importance, given the steadily increasing numbers of people with hearing deficits or even deafness. This book is about the highest level of hearing in humans and other mammals. It...

    Published June 19th 2013 by Psychology Press
46. Relating Events in Narrative, Volume 2

    Typological and Contextual Perspectives

    Edited by Sven Str”mqvist, Ludo Verhoeven, Sven Stromqvist

    Relating Events in Narrative, Volume 2: Typological and Contextual Perspectives edited by Sven Strömqvist and Ludo Verhoeven, is the much anticipated follow-up volume to Ruth Berman and Dan Slobin's successful "frog-story studies" book, Relating Events in Narrative: A Crosslinguistic...

    Published June 19th 2013 by Psychology Press
47. Reducing Intergroup Bias

    The Common Ingroup Identity Model

    By Samuel L. Gaertner, John F. Dovidio

    Series: Essays in Social Psychology

    Considers situations and interventions that can foster more inclusive representation and ways, both theoretically and practically, and that a common ingroup identity can facilitate more harmonious intergroup relations....

    Published June 19th 2013 by Psychology Press
48. Handedness and Brain Asymmetry

    The Right Shift Theory

    By Marian Annett

    Brain asymmetry for speech is moderately related to handedness but what are the rules?Are symmetries for hand and brain associated with characteristics such as intelligence, motor skill, spatial reasoning or skill at sports?In this follow up to the influential Left, Right Hand and Brain (1985)...

    Published June 19th 2013 by Psychology Press
49. Psychological Concepts

    An International Historical Perspective

    Edited by Kurt Pawlik, Gery d'Ydewalle

    Among the scientific advances over the last one hundred years, those in psychological science rank among the most prolific and revealing. The analyses of human intelligence and cognition, of human consciousness and self-awareness, of human memory and learning, and of human personality structure...

    Published June 19th 2013 by Psychology Press
50. Hypothetical Thinking

    Dual Processes in Reasoning and Judgement

    By Jonathan St. B. T. Evans

    Series: Essays in Cognitive Psychology

    Hypothetical thought involves the imagination of possibilities and the exploration of their consequences by a process of mental simulation. Using a recently developed theoretical framework called Hypothetical Thinking Theory, Jonathan St. B. T. Evans provides an integrated theoretical account of a...

    Published June 19th 2013 by Psychology Press