Physiological & Neuro-psychology, Biopsychology

Originally published in 1984, Cognitive Psychophysiology: Event-related Potentials and the Study of Cognition is the first volume to come out of Th...

'Mandatory for anyone with a brain' - Anna Whitehouse, founder of Mother Pukka'Relatable, practical and knowledgeable' - Gemma Bray, creator of The...

Originally published in 1986, we were living in a world in which the number of publications in behaviour genetics had reached a point where it was ...

Cultivation of emotional awareness is difficult, even for those of us not afflicted by serious mental illness. This book discusses the neurobiology...

Some people are truly committed to do whatever it takes to change the status quo. They read all they can, attend seminars, and listen to CDs every ...

Widely used by practitioners, researchers, and students--and now thoroughly revised with 70% new material--this is the most authoritative, comprehe...

By the 1970s psychology had made sizable advances with its primary emphasis on the study of overt behavior, but its progress on covert behavior had...

This key textbook, now in its fourth edition, provides students with the most comprehensive introduction to the study of human memory and its appli...

This key textbook, now in its fourth edition, provides students with the most comprehensive introduction to the study of human memory and its appli...

A psychologist and collector, Block has put his life's work, his enthusiasm, and his knowledge into this treasure trove of puzzles, illusions, and ...

This series aims to illustrate how social organization and private, emotional experience are different phases of the social process. It shows the s...

This book traces the evolution of the concept of the unconscious from an intangible, metapsychological abstraction to a psychoneurobiological funct...

Anxiety is a feeling that is familiar to all of us. But what exactly is it, and what function does it have in the development of the human personal...

Ideas in Psychoanalysis is a series of essays which explain psychoanalytical concepts, their relevance to everyday life and their ability to illumi...

In this wide-ranging and provocative study, Tom Lutz looks at the ways people have understood weeping from the earliest known representations of te...

A sense of guilt is a uniquely human experience, and a major theme in explorations of the human imagination, from Greek tragedy to headline condemn...

Drawing on every theme of the modern life sciences, Donald Nathanson shows how nine basic affects—interest-excitement, enjoyment-joy, surprise-star...

In this book, an elite group of international contributors presents the latest advances in the science of cognitive development. The authors work a...

Great Myths of the Brain introduces readers to the field of neuroscience by examining popular myths about the human brain.   Explores commonly-hel...

As we interact with our environment, our senses absorb large amounts of information that our brains interpret and catalogue. This sensory data then...

This book is an interdisciplinary exploration of how social connections are expressed at the neurological, developmental, dyadic, and group levels....

James Harvey Young describes the development of patent medicines in America from the enactment in 1906 of the Pure Food and Drugs Act through the m...

This book, by George DuPaul and Lee Kern, a school psychologist and special educator respectively, is the first to describe empirically-supported e...

"Birren presents a kaleidoscopic view of color information that has been a source of fascination." -- Color Research and Application "Keeps up with...

Do you find it difficult to 'click' with colleagues, neighbours, in-laws, or romantic partners? Loneliness has become an international epidemic, bu...

This work brings together the papers to be presented at the Second International Conference of the British Dyslexia Association. This conference is...

This edited volume provides the first comprehensive, multidisciplinary exploration of social pain, the experience of pain as a result of interperso...

Do you see the past through a rosy filter that makes it seem like Paradise Lost? Are you convinced that traffic lights always turn red for you? Do ...

This book provides a theoretical framework for empirically examining the impact of violence on marginalized peoples across the lifespan.  With anti...

Ideal for courses in vision, perception, and cognitive science, this unique text conveys the excitement and promise of the field of visual cognitio...