Psychological Science Books

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51. Developmental Variations in Learning

    Applications to Social, Executive Function, Language, and Reading Skills

    Edited by Victoria J. Molfese, Victoria J. Molfese

    Developmental changes in cognitive abilities in childhood have long been of interest to researchers across many fields, including behavioral sciences, communications, education, and medicine. With the publication of research findings showing individual differences in the development of children's...

    Published April 30th 2013 by Psychology Press
52. Statistics for Psychologists

    An Intermediate Course

    By Brian S. Everitt

    Built around a problem solving theme, this book extends the intermediate and advanced student's expertise to more challenging situations that involve applying statistical methods to real-world problems. Data relevant to these problems are collected and analyzed to provide useful answers. Building...

    Published April 30th 2013 by Psychology Press
53. Social Psychology of Inclusion and Exclusion

    Edited by Dominic Abrams, Michael A. Hogg, José M. Marques

    This book is about the social psychological dynamics and phenomenology of social inclusion and exclusion. The editors take as their starting point the assumption that social life is conducted in a framework of relationships in which individuals seek inclusion and belongingness. Relationships...

    Published April 30th 2013 by Psychology Press
54. Parenting Beliefs, Behaviors, and Parent-Child Relations

    A Cross-Cultural Perspective

    Edited by Kenneth H. Rubin, Ock Boon Chung

    The purpose of this book, is to present a rather simple argument. Parents' thoughts about childrearing and the ways in which they interact with children to achieve particular parenting or developmental goals, are culturally determined. Within any culture, children are shaped by the physical and...

    Published April 30th 2013 by Psychology Press
55. Validity Generalization

    A Critical Review

    Edited by Kevin R. Murphy

    Series: Applied Psychology Series

    This volume presents the first wide-ranging critical review of validity generalization (VG)--a method that has dominated the field since the publication of Schmidt and Hunter's (1977) paper "Development of a General Solution to the Problem of Validity Generalization." This paper and the work that...

    Published April 30th 2013 by Psychology Press
56. Dualism

    The Original Sin of Cognitivism

    By William R. Uttal

    Directed to scholars and senior-level graduate students, this book is an iconoclastic survey of the history of dualism and its impact on contemporary cognitive psychology. It argues that much of modern cognitive or mentalist psychology is built upon a cryptodualism--the idea that the mind and brain...

    Published April 30th 2013 by Routledge
57. Twenty-First Century Psycholinguistics

    Four Cornerstones

    Edited by Anne Cutler

    Psycholinguistics is an interdisciplinary field, and hence relationships are at its heart. First and foremost is the relationship between its two parent disciplines, psychology and linguistics, a relationship which has changed and advanced over the half century of the field's independent existence....

    Published April 30th 2013 by Routledge
58. The Clinician, the Brain, and 'I'

    Neuroscientific findings and the subjective self in clinical practice

    By Tony Schneider

    Series: Explorations in Mental Health

    The clinician needs to make sense of many client experiences in the course of daily practice: do these experiences reflect the simple product of complex neurochemical activity, or do they represent another dynamic involving the subjective self? When research findings from the neurosciences are...

    Published April 28th 2013 by Routledge
59. Managing Uncertainty in Organizational Communication

    By Michael W. Kramer

    Series: Routledge Communication Series

    In this book, Michael W. Kramer applies uncertainty reduction theory (URT)--a key theory in current communication scholarship--to the context of organizational communication. Examining URT and the range of research applicable to organizational settings, Kramer proposes a groundbreaking theory of...

    Published April 23rd 2013 by Routledge
60. Dialogue With Bakhtin on Second and Foreign Language Learning

    New Perspectives

    Edited by Joan Kelly Hall, Gergana Vitanova, Ludmila A. Marchenkova

    This volume is the first to explore links between the Russian linguist Mikhail Bakhtin's theoretical insights about language and practical concerns with second and foreign language learning and teaching. Situated within a strong conceptual framework and drawing from a rich empirical base, it...

    Published April 23rd 2013 by Routledge