Books written by Michael Eysenck

Fundamentals of Psychology

The Kitty Genovese Murder (as misleadingly reported by the New York Times) Two psychologists (John Darley and Bibb Latané) read the article in the New York Times. They wondered why Kitty Genovese wasn't helped by any of the (allegedly) ...
Cognitive Psychology 6e

... M.-F. 343 Bechara, A. 521, 522 Beck, A.T. 595, 596 Beck, D.M. 618 Beck, M.R. 143 Becker, C. 254 Becker, E.S. 599, 600, 601 Becker, J.T. 278 Becker, S. 27 Beckers, G. 44 Becklen, P. 165 Beeke, S. 439 Beeman, M. 464 Beeson.
An Introduction to Applied Cognitive Psychology

LaPaglia, J.A. 169 Larkina, M. 159 Larrick, R.P. 210, 212, 217–218 Larsson, A.S. 141 Lasky, J. 251 Laughery, ... B.J. 143 Li, X. 86 Liberman, A.M. 87 Lichtenstein, S. 206 Lie, J.A.S. 263 Lieberman, H.R. 227, 270 Lindenberger, ...
Attention and Arousal: Cognition and Performance

Johnston and Heinz ( 1978 ) suggested that the essential properties of Broadbent's ( 1958 ) theory could be simulated if subjects attempted to differentiate between targets and non - targets at Stage 1 , whereas the essential properties ...
An Introduction to Applied Cognitive Psychology

Behavioural Brain Research, 76(1), 181¥189. Farris, E. (1956). Human ovulation and fertility. New York: Pitman. Fawcett, J.M., Russell, E.J., Peace, K.A. and Christie, J. (2013). Of guns and geese: a meta-analytic review of the ...
AQA Psychology: AS and A-level Year 1

The amygdala is strongly activated when people are confronted by emotional pictures or situations (Eysenck & Keane, 2015). Patients with a disease that destroys the amygdala have worse long-term memory impairment for emotional pictures ...
Fundamentals of Psychology

Levenson, R.W. (1999). The intrapersonal functions of emotions. Cognition and Emotion, 13, 481–504. Levenson, R.W., Ekman, P., & Friesen, W.V. (1990). Voluntary action generates emotion-specific autonomic nervous-system activity.
Anxiety and Cognition: A Unified Theory

Block, J. (1995). A contrarian view of the five-factor approach to personality description. Psychological Bulletin, 117, 187—2 15. Bonanno, G.A., Davis, P. J ., Singer, J .L., & Schwartz, GE. (1991). The repressor personality and ...
Attention and Arousal: Cognition and Performance

J Exp Psychol 92:123–127 Wasserman EA,Weiner B, Houston JP (1968) Another failurefor motivationto enhance traceretrieval. ... J Educ Psychol 61:144–151 Weiner B, SchneiderK (1971) Drive versus cognitive theory: A replyto Boorand Harmon.
An Introduction to Applied Cognitive Psychology

An Introduction to Applied Cognitive Psychology offers a student friendly review of recent research in the application of cognitive methods, theories and models to real-world scenarios.
The Psychology of the Paranormal

The book explains how psychologists have conducted experiments to provide insight into phenomena such as clairvoyance, astrology, and alien abduction, as well as teaching us fundamental truths about human belief systems.
AQA Psychology: AS and A-level Year 1

Another useful textbook is J.J. Foster and J. Parker (1995) Carrying out investigations in psychology: Methods and statistics (Leicester, UK: BPS Books). • The various forms of non-experimental study and qualitative analysis are ...
Attention and Arousal: Cognition and Performance

The main reason for writing this book was to at tempt to demonstrate that there can be a useful cross-fertiliza tion between cognitive and motivational-emotional psycholo gy and that there are already tantalizing glimpses of the poten tial ...
Anxiety and Cognition: A Unified Theory

It is argued in this book that there are three major approaches to anxiety.
Emotional States, Attention, and Working Memory: A Special Issue of Cognition & Emotion

In contrast, positive affect seems to enhance the shifting function and does not impair the inhibition function. The complicating role of motivational intensity is also discussed, as are implications for future research.