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  • Transition Expertise and Identity

    A Study of Individuals Who Succeeded Repeatedly in Life and Career Transitions

    by Christopher Connolly, Fernand Gobet ...
    Through a systematic review of relevant literature and an analysis of in-depth interviews with key expert performers, this book examines the nature of expertise that enables individuals to make repeated successful transitions over the course of their career. Focusing on business, sports, and music, it examines the roles of motivation, cognitive flexibility, personal intelligence, generative ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • The Psychology of Chess

    by Fernand Gobet ...
    Series series The Psychology of Everything
    Do you need to be a genius to be good at chess? What does it take to become a Grandmaster? Can computer programmes beat human intuition in gameplay?The Psychology of Chess is an insightful overview of the roles of intelligence, expertise, and human intuition in playing this complex and ancient game. The book explores the idea of ‘practice makes perfect’, alongside accounts of why men perform ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Moves in Mind

    The Psychology of Board Games

    by Fernand Gobet, Jean Retschitzki, Alex de Voogt ...
    Board games have long fascinated as mirrors of intelligence, skill, cunning, and wisdom. While board games have been the topic of many scientific studies, and have been studied for more than a century by psychologists, there was until now no single volume summarizing psychological research into board games. This book, which is the first systematic study of psychology and board games, covers topics ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Scientific Discovery in the Social Sciences

    Edited by Mark Addis, Peter C. R. Lane, Peter D. Sozou, Fernand Gobet ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This volume offers selected papers exploring issues arising from scientific discovery in the social sciences. It features a range of disciplines including behavioural sciences, computer science, finance, and statistics with an emphasis on philosophy.The first of the three parts examines methods of social scientific discovery. Chapters investigate the nature of causal analysis, philosophical issues ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

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    by Dorothy MacKeracher ...
    Learning is an inseparable part of human experience. Understanding how adults learn and applying that expertise to practical everyday situations and relationships opens the window on a broader understanding of the capacity of the human mind.Dorothy MacKeracher's Making Sense of Adult Learning was first published in 1996, and was acclaimed for its readability and value as a reference tool. For the ... Read more

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  • Surfing Uncertainty

    Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind

    by Andy Clark ...
    How is it that thoroughly physical material beings such as ourselves can think, dream, feel, create and understand ideas, theories and concepts? How does mere matter give rise to all these non-material mental states, including consciousness itself? An answer to this central question of our existence is emerging at the busy intersection of neuroscience, psychology, artificial intelligence, and ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • Bernoulli's Fallacy

    Statistical Illogic and the Crisis of Modern Science

    by Aubrey Clayton ...
    There is a logical flaw in the statistical methods used across experimental science. This fault is not a minor academic quibble: it underlies a reproducibility crisis now threatening entire disciplines. In an increasingly statistics-reliant society, this same deeply rooted error shapes decisions in medicine, law, and public policy with profound consequences. The foundation of the problem is a ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • Rationality for Mortals : How People Cope with Uncertainty

    How People Cope with Uncertainty

    by Gerd Gigerenzer ...
    Series series Evolution and Cognition
    Gerd Gigerenzer's influential work examines the rationality of individuals not from the perspective of logic or probability but from the point of view of adaptation to the real world of human behavior and interaction with the environment. Seen from this perspective human behavior is more rational than it might otherwise appear. This work is extremely influential and has spawned an entire research ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Memory

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Jonathan K. Foster ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Why do we remember events from our childhood as if they happened yesterday, but not what we did last week? Why does our memory seem to work well sometimes and not others? What happens when it goes wrong? Can memory be improved or manipulated, by psychological techniques or even 'brain implants'? How does memory grow and change as we age? And what of so-called 'recovered' memories? This book brings ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • The Science of Reading

    The Brain Science, Language Development, and Phonemic Awareness Behind Literacy

    by DK, Kareem Weaver, Wiley Blevins, Melissa Loftus, Lori Sappington, Chase Young ...
    How we learn to read is not a secret formula, it’s a science. More than five decades of research conducted across the world informs the Science of Reading. This one-stop guide examines the crucial aspects of literacy development.Uncover the workings of the brain in processing language stimuli and print information, bridging the gap between sound and text for effective reading. Delve into language ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Handbook of Music and Emotion

    Theory, Research, Applications

    Edited by Patrik N. Juslin, John Sloboda ...
    Music's ability to express and arouse emotions is a mystery that has fascinated both experts and laymen at least since ancient Greece. The predecessor to this book 'Music and Emotion' (OUP, 2001) was critically and commercially successful and stimulated much further work in this area. In the years since publication of that book, empirical research in this area has blossomed, and the successor to ... Read more

    $60.29 USD

  • Prospect Theory

    For Risk and Ambiguity

    by Peter P. Wakker ...
    Prospect Theory: For Risk and Ambiguity, provides a comprehensive and accessible textbook treatment of the way decisions are made both when we have the statistical probabilities associated with uncertain future events (risk) and when we lack them (ambiguity). The book presents models, primarily prospect theory, that are both tractable and psychologically realistic. A method of presentation is ... Read more

    $61.49 USD