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  • Anatomy of a Train Wreck

    The Rise and Fall of Priming Research

    by Ruth Leys ...
    A history of "priming" research that analyzes the field's underlying assumptions and experimental protocols to shed new light on a contemporary crisis in social psychology.In 2012, a team of Belgian scientists reported that they had been unable to replicate a canonical experiment in the field of psychology known as "priming." The original experiment, performed by John Bargh in the nineties, had ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Ascent of Affect

    Genealogy and Critique

    by Ruth Leys ...
    In recent years, emotions have become a major, vibrant topic of research not merely in the biological and psychological sciences but throughout a wide swath of the humanities and social sciences as well. Yet, surprisingly, there is still no consensus on their basic nature or workings.Ruth Leys's brilliant, much anticipated history, therefore, is a story of controversy and disagreement. The Ascent ... Read more

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  • Newborn Imitation

    The Stakes of a Controversy

    by Ruth Leys ...
    Series series Elements in Histories of Emotions and the Senses
    Newborn imitation has recently become the focus of a major controversy in the human sciences. New studies have reexamined the evidence and found it wanting. Imitation has been regarded as a crucial capability of neonates ever since 1977, when two American psychologists first published experiments appearing to demonstrate that babies at birth are able to copy a variety of facial movements. The ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • From Guilt to Shame

    Auschwitz and After

    by Ruth Leys ...
    Series series 20/21
    Why has shame recently displaced guilt as a dominant emotional reference in the West? After the Holocaust, survivors often reported feeling guilty for living when so many others had died, and in the 1960s psychoanalysts and psychiatrists in the United States helped make survivor guilt a defining feature of the "survivor syndrome." Yet the idea of survivor guilt has always caused trouble, largely ... Read more

    $29.59 USD

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    by Graham Richards ...
    Series series Routledge Key Guides
    Psychology: The Key Concepts is a comprehensive overview of 200 concepts central to a solid understanding of Psychology and includes the latest recommendations from the British Psychology Society (BPS). The focus is on practical uses of Psychology in settings such as nursing, education and human resources, with topics ranging from Gender to Psychometrics and Perception. ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Psychology

    by Amelie von Zumbusch ...
    Series series The Britannica Guide to the Social Sciences
    This volume is a comprehensive overview of the scientific discipline that studies psychological and biological processes and behavior in humans and other animals. It features chapters on the history of the field, the thought process, memory, theories of personality, and key figures—such as William James, Sigmund Freud, Jean Piaget, B. F. Skinner, and Daniel Kahneman—who helped shape the field. The ... Read more

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  • Desire, Self, Mind, and the Psychotherapies

    Unifying Psychological Science and Psychoanalysis

    by R. Coleman Curtis ...
    Series series New Imago
    Desire, Self, Mind, and the Psychotherapies unifies psychological science with contemporary relational psychoanalysis, arguing that the disciplines can be integrated if the concept of repression is understood as motivated forgetting, creative aspects of unconscious processes are taken into account in cognitive science, and a "new experiences" model of change is acknowledged by psychoanalysts. Such ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Personality Disorders

    A Short History of Narcissistic, Borderline, Antisocial, and Other Types

    by Allan V. Horwitz ...
    The fascinating and controversial history of personality disorders.The concept of personality disorders rose to prominence in the early twentieth century and has consistently caused controversy among psychiatrists, psychologists, and social scientists. In Personality Disorders, Allan V. Horwitz traces the evolution of defining these disorders and the historical dilemmas of attempting to mold them ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry

    Edited by KWM Fulford, Martin Davies, Richard Gipps, George Graham, John Sadler, Giovanni Stanghellini, Tim Thornton ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Philosophy has much to offer psychiatry, not least regarding ethical issues, but also issues regarding the mind, identity, values, and volition. This has become only more important as we have witnessed the growth and power of the pharmaceutical industry, accompanied by developments in the neurosciences. However, too few practising psychiatrists are familiar with the literature in this area. The ... Read more

    $68.39 USD

  • Social Communication

    Edited by Klaus Fiedler ...
    Series series Frontiers of Social Psychology
    This volume is devoted to the fascinating topic of social communication - fascinating because communication is ubiquitous, in that one cannot not communicate. And yet, the art of effective communication can be extremely demanding and elusive, because a tricky trade-off problem has to be solved. For communication to be successful, it must be at once informative - somehow indicating an intended ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Philosophy of Psychology

    An Introduction

    by Kengo Miyazono, Lisa Bortolotti ...
    Are we rational creatures? Do we have free will? Can we ever know ourselves? These and other fundamental questions have been discussed by philosophers over millennia. But recent empirical findings in psychology and neuroscience suggest we should reconsider them.This textbook provides an engrossing overview of contemporary debates in the philosophy of psychology, exploring the ways in which the ... Read more

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  • The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition

    Edited by Susan M. Gass, Alison Mackey ...
    Series series Routledge Handbooks in Applied Linguistics
    The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition brings together fifty leading international figures in the field to produce a state-of-the-art overview of Second Language Acquisition.The Handbook covers a wide range of topics related to Second Language Acquisition: language in context, linguistic, psycholinguistic, and neurolinguistic theories and perspectives, skill learning, individual ... Read more

    $79.99 USD