Recent Psychology Press News
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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.
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The Developmental Course of Romantic Relationships
This multidisciplinary text highlights the development of romantic relationships, from initiation to commitment or demise, by highlighting the historical context, current research and theory, and diversity of patterns. Engagingly written with colorful examples, the authors examine the joy, stress, power-struggles, intimacy, and aggression that characterize these relationships.
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Stereotyping and Prejudice
This volume presents a contemporary and comprehensive overview of the great diversity of theoretical interests, new ideas, and practical applications that characterize social psychological approaches to stereotyping and prejudice.
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How Open Access will change Psychology and the Behavioral Sciences
In a major contribution to the era-defining debate, this full Special Issue of Psychological Inquiry offers a range of views on how the Open Access Science movement will impact the study and practice of Psychology and the Behavioral Sciences.
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Handbook of Automated Essay Evaluation: Current Applications and New Directions
This comprehensive, interdisciplinary handbook reviews the latest methods and technologies used in Automated Essay Evaluation (AEE) methods and technologies. Highlights include the latest in the evaluation of performance-based writing assessments and recent advances in the teaching of writing, language testing, cognitive psychology, and computational linguistics.
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New Editor wanted for Basic & Applied Social Psychology
Our outstanding journal Basic & Applied Social Psychology is seeking a new Editor. Do you know the right person? Is it YOU?
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Congratulations to author Michael E. Lamb!
Michael E. Lamb has won the 2014 G. Stanley Hall Award for Distinguished Contribution to Developmental Psychology and the 2013 Award for Distinguished Contribution to Psychology and Law, from the American Psychology-Law Society.
For more on the award, click here.
For a full listing of Michael E. Lamb's publications with Routledge/Psychology Press, click here.
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Psychology Press congratulates Catriona Macleod!
Professor Catriona Macleod has been named the winner of the Rhodes University Vice-Chancellor's Book Award 2012.
