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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

    Was $12.99 USD Now $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $31.69 USD

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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

  • 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

    $71.99 USD

  • Otto Kernberg

    A contemporary Introduction

    by Frank E. Yeomans, Diana Diamond, Eve Caligor ...
    Series series Routledge Introductions to Contemporary Psychoanalysis
    In this book, Frank E. Yeomans, Diana Diamond, and Eve Caligor provide a systemic review of Otto Kernberg’s multiple contributions to psychoanalysis, psychiatry, psychology, and our understanding of the mind and group behavior.The book spans the full scope of Kernberg’s career, both highlighting the diversity of topics on which his writings have shed light and emphasizing conceptual threads that ... Read more

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  • Key Concepts in Developmental Psychology

    by H Rudolph Schaffer ...
    Perfect for courses in child development or developmental psychology and arranged thematically in sections corresponding to chapter headings usually found in textbooks, this book is ideal for students wanting an accessible book to enrich their learning experience.Key Features:- Provides an overview of the place of each concept in Developmental Psychology under three headings, namely its meaning, ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • 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 represented in memory, and how it is later used as a basis for judgments and decisions. A major ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • How We Understand Others

    Philosophy and Social Cognition

    by Shannon Spaulding ...
    Series series Routledge Focus on Philosophy
    In our everyday social interactions, we try to make sense of what people are thinking, why they act as they do, and what they are likely to do next. This process is called mindreading. Mindreading, Shannon Spaulding argues in this book, is central to our ability to understand and interact with others. Philosophers and cognitive scientists have converged on the idea that mindreading involves ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Joint Attention

    New Developments in Psychology, Philosophy of Mind, and Social Neuroscience

    Edited by Axel Seemann ...
    Interdisciplinary perspectives on definitional concerns, underlying mechanisms, and the functional significance of joint attention.Academic interest in the phenomenon of joint attention—the capacity to attend to an object together with another creature—has increased rapidly over the past two decades. Yet it isn't easy to spell out in detail what joint attention is, how it ought to be characterized ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Social Cognition

    From brains to culture

    by Susan T. Fiske ...
    The social world is complicated and our minds are limited, so we take shortcuts. You have to make quick decisions – this person is dangerous, this one is not. The shortcuts we take mostly work well enough, because, after all, we survive. But some are deeply unjust, including racial or social class categories or other unfair stereotypes.This book will help you understand how these shortcuts work, ... Read more

    $165.59 USD