Edition after edition, this comprehensive text for the adjustment course has enjoyed best-seller status in a crowded field. While professors cite the book for its academic credibility and the authors' ability to stay current with ''hot topics, '' students say it's one text they just don't want to stop reading. Its relevant examples spark students' interest in psychology, and its engaging applications that show students how psychology helps them understand themselves and their world. Students and instructors alike find the text and associated workbooks to be a highly readable, engaging, visually appealing package that provide a wealth of personal applications
Filled with comprehensive, balanced coverage of classic and contemporary research, relevant examples, and engaging applications, this book shows you how psychology helps you understand yourself and the world-and uses psychological ...
Filled with comprehensive, balanced coverage of classic and contemporary research, relevant examples, and engaging applications, this text shows you how psychology helps you understand yourself and the complex social world around you.
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Psychology Applied to Modern Life: Adjustment in the 80s
A study by Rebecca Curtis and Kim Miller ( 1986 ) shows the self - fulfilling prophecy in action . College students who were strangers were divided into pairs for a 5 - minute “ get acquainted ” conversation . Afterward , one member of ...
Students and instructors alike find the text and associated workbooks to be a highly readable, engaging, visually-appealing package that provide a wealth of personal applications. This is no ordinary applied psychology book.
Matsumoto's book is designed to help students appreciate how cultural factors moderate psychological processes and how the viewpoint of one's own culture can distort one's interpretation of the behavior of...
Phillips, D. R., Siu, O. L., Yeh, A. G., & Cheng, K. H. (2008). Informal social support and older persons' psychological well-being in Hong Kong. Journal of Cross-cultural Gerontology, 23(1), 39–55. Phillips, G., Hayes, R., Bottomley, ...
This is the first book to overtly consider how basic evolutionary thinking is being applied to a wide range of special social, economic, and technical problems.
Includes exercises designed to help form a realistic picture of one's personal qualities and capabilities.