Psychological Theory & Schools of Thought

This book is an introduction to Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtras and its core concepts about the self, suffering and consciousness. It highlights its releva...

The second edition of Behavioral Economics: The Basics summarizes behavioral economics, which uses insights from the social sciences, especially ps...

Applying experimental methods has become one of the most powerful and versatile ways to obtain economic insights, and experimental economics has es...

The authors succeed in putting Freud's models of the mind into a historical and developmental framework and show the complexity of his thinking on ...

Emotions of Menace and Enchantment examines four pivotal human emotions. It explores what defines these emotions, how they interact, and how they i...

In the classic edition of this outstanding book, originally published in 1998, Richard Frankel explores adolescence as a crucial, unique, and turbu...

This special issue collects enhanced and extended versions of papers that were presented at the Symposium on Spatial Vagueness, Uncertainty, and Gr...

Psychoanalysis and Digital Culture offers a comprehensive account of our contemporary media environment—digital culture and audiences in particular...

History reveals countless attempts by great minds to solve life’s paradoxes. But what if these attempts miss the point? What if paradox is life?Con...

The purpose of this book is to communicate findings of a research synthesis investigating the bases of reading failure and the curricular and instr...

This work is an orientation to a craft of great richness and interest. The authors describe the defining elements of the accumulated working knowle...

Religion is an important part of individual lives, playing a major role in our decision making and puchasing. Understanding the influence of religi...

This book provides a unique overview of and introduction to the work of the German psychologist and philosopher Ludwig Klages (1872-1956), an aston...

This book aims to improve real-world critical thinking.Traditional critical thinking texts neglect two crucial facts. First, as psychologists have ...

Exploring Cross-Cultural Psychology: Exercises for Instructors and Students is an accessible text that provides material for generating interactive...

Economic growth is generally regarded by governments and most ordinary people as a panacea for all problems, including issues caused by the COVID p...

This comprehensive book is an introduction to multilevel Bayesian models in R using brms and the Stan programming language. Featuring a series of f...

Dr Saugstad’s dominant interest was in the area of thinking. Many psychologists would have been familiar with his published work in this field at t...

This unusual volume presents an overview of Jean Piaget's work in psychology--from his earliest writings to posthumous publications. It also contai...

In recent years, more students have chosen to study sport and exercise psychology with a view to building careers as applied practitioners. While s...

The book explores two fundamental aspects of the human mind and their relation to one another. The first is the way that information is put to use ...

First published in 1996. The field of behavior analysis began with the research studies of B.F. Skinner in the 1930s. In 1950, Keller and Schoenfel...