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41. Social Comprehension and Judgment

    The Role of Situation Models, Narratives, and Implicit Theories

    By Robert S. Wyer, Jr.

    Written by one of the foremost authorities in social cognition, Social Comprehension and Judgment examines how people process information encountered in their everyday lives. In the book, Dr. Wyer proposes a new theory about the way in which information acquired in everyday life is comprehended and...

    Published January 10th 2013 by Psychology Press
42. Representation, Memory, and Development

    Essays in Honor of Jean Mandler

    Edited by Nancy L. Stein, Patricia J. Bauer, Mitchell Rabinowitz, George Mandler

    A festschrift to honor Jean Mandler, this volume contains contributions from leading scholars focusing on the child's development of memory, visual representation, and language. It is appropriate for students and researchers in cognitive psychology, language acquisition, and memory....

    Published January 10th 2013 by Psychology Press
43. Purkinje's Vision

    The Dawning of Neuroscience

    By Nicholas J. Wade, Josef Brozek, Jir¡ Hoskovec

    The life of Jan Evangelista Purkinje (1787-1869) has fascinated students from many disciplines. Histologists marvel at his early descriptions of cells; physiologists admire his attempts to relate structure to function; pharmacologists view in awe his heroic experiments on self-administered drugs;...

    Published January 10th 2013 by Psychology Press
44. Psycholinguistic Phenomena in Marketing Communications

    Edited by Tina M. Lowrey

    The field of psycholinguistics and the application of psycholinguistic theory to advertising and marketing communication has become a topic of great prominence in the field of consumer behavior. Psycholinguistic Phenomena in Marketing Communications is the first book to address the growing research...

    Published January 10th 2013 by Psychology Press
45. New Directions in Human Associative Learning

    Edited by Andy J. Wills

    The editor and authors of this book present a synthesis of work on human associative learning, tracing some of its historical roots but concentrating mainly on recent developments. It is divided into three sections: an introduction to the recent data and controversies in the study of human...

    Published January 10th 2013 by Psychology Press
46. Motivated Social Perception

    The Ontario Symposium, Volume 9

    Edited by Steven J. Spencer, Steven Fein, Mark P. Zanna, James M. Olson

    Series: Ontario Symposia on Personality and Social Psychology Series

    This volume highlights state-of-the-art research on motivated social perception by the leaders in the field. Recently a number of researchers developed influential accounts of how motivation affects social perception. Unfortunately, this work was developed without extensive contact between the...

    Published January 10th 2013 by Psychology Press
47. The Regulation of Emotion

    Edited by Pierre Philippot, Robert S. Feldman

    The main goal of this volume is to present, in an integrated framework, the newest, most contemporary perspectives on emotion regulation. The book includes empirically-grounded work and theories that are central to our understanding of the processes that constitute emotion regulation and their...

    Published January 10th 2013 by Psychology Press
48. Handbook of Self-Regulatory Processes in Development

    New Directions and International Perspectives

    Edited by Karen Caplovitz Barrett, Nathan A. Fox, George A. Morgan, Deborah J. Fidler, Lisa A. Daunhauer

    The development of self- and emotional regulatory processes helps children to regulate their behavior based on their cultural context and to develop positive social relationships. This handbook brings together heretofore disparate literatures on self- and emotional regulation, brain and...

    Published December 17th 2012 by Psychology Press
49. Working Memory

    The Connected Intelligence

    Edited by Tracy Packiam Alloway, Ross G. Alloway

    Series: Frontiers of Cognitive Psychology

    Working memory – the conscious processing of information – is increasingly recognized as one of the most important aspects of intelligence. This fundamental cognitive skill is deeply connected to a great variety of human experience – from our childhood, to our old age, from our...

    Published December 6th 2012 by Psychology Press
50. Category Specificity in Brain and Mind

    Edited by Emer Forde, Glyn Humphreys

    Series: Brain, Behaviour and Cognition

    Some of the most fascinating deficits in neuropsychology concern the failure to recognise common objects from one semantic category, such as living things, when there is no such difficulty with objects from another, such as non-living things. Over the past twenty years, numerous cases of these '...

    Published December 6th 2012 by Psychology Press