Psychological Science , fifth edition, is a dynamic introduction to psychology that reflects the latest APA Guidelines. With psychological reasoning at the core of this edition, students will learn to critically evaluate information and become better scientific thinkers. W. W. Norton 's new, formative, adaptive online learning tool, InQuizitive, identifies what students know, personalises review content to give them the help they need, and improves student understanding through an engaging, gamelike environment.
This state-of-the-art text dissects the psychological processes associated with fundamental legal questions: Is a suspect lying? Will an incarcerated individual be dangerous in the future? Is an eyewitness accurate?
With a focus on real-world legal situations, the book offers guidelines for presenting scientific evidence accurately and effectively in courtroom testimony and written reports.
This book will be of interest to all psychologists and social scientists, applied researchers, program designers and evaluators, educators, leaders, students, and anyone interested in applying the science of positive psychology to improve ...
For example, in the Hanson, Kilpatrick, Freedy, and Saunders (1995) study of the effects of the 1992 civil disturbances in Los Angeles on mental health, the authors included the following. In support of Hypothesis 2, higher rates of ...
Psychological Science Under Scrutiny explores a range of contemporary challenges to the assumptions and methodologies of psychology, in order to encourage debate and ground the discipline in solid science.
Although his ideas on the relationship between mind and culture and his epistemology have inspired the work of many scholars in psychology, his sizeable influence has been scarcely acknowledged. The volume is organized in two sections.
Money. The root of all evil? Arguably. Essential to our lives? Certainly. A main driver of human thought, emotion, and action?
—anthropologist Robert F. Murphy (1957, p. 1034), ethnographer of the Amazonian Mundurucú Here's a surprising claim: greater competition among voluntary associations, be they charter towns, universities, guilds, churches, monasteries, ...
"This book explores the development of ideas in psychology's past. It is the initial volume in a series intended to shape such ideas into a valuable resource for the discipline's future.
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