Psychological Theory & Schools of Thought

Imitation: The Basics is an engaging introduction to the topic of imitation behavior in humans, providing a summary of existing scientific research...

Originally published in 1988, this is the final volume in the set. The original intent of the tetralogy was to review neural explanations of high l...

First Published in 1999. This is Volume VIII of ten in the Physiological Psychology series. Written in 1930, is a look at the works of Frederic Pau...

Beginning with his doctoral dissertation in 1950 which introduced the study of event perception and the application of vector analysis to perceptio...

This volume examines the scientific basis of reductionist approaches to understanding visual perception. The author makes the provocative argument ...

First published in 1999. The author writing in 1923, starts with the assumption that conduct originates in the actor himself, and tries to discover...

Spatial cognition is a broad field of enquiry, emerging from a wide range of disciplines and incorporating a wide variety of paradigms that have be...

The philosophy of cognitive science has recently become one of the most exciting and fastest growing domains of philosophical inquiry and analysis....

Originally published in 1973, this volume looks at the organisation of memory data in, what at the time was termed, ‘mental handicap’. The first pa...

First Published in 1998. This book deals with what may well turn out to be the missing element in the study of individual differences - cognitive s...

One of the paradoxes in developmental theory is the child's simultaneous intrapsychic and interpsychic development. While the child is growing in m...

Research into parent-child relationships is a diverse field of inquiry, attracting investigators from a variety of disciplines and subdisciplines. ...

If Paul Ricoeur is correct in seeing the various currents of contemporary philosophy all converging on the problem of a "grand philosophy of langua...

This is a special issue of Military Psychology and includes articles on training and development issues in operational psychology.

Modern Man in Search of a Soul is the perfect introduction to the theories and concepts of one of the most original and influential religious think...

The beginning of the 1990's saw a partisan debate about the nature of recovered memories for highly emotional events. Some authors claimed that rec...

Invariances in Human Information Processing examines and identifies processing universals and how they are implemented in elementary judgemental p...

This is Volume V of ten in a series on Physiological Psychology. Originally published in 1928, this is a study of the author’s work and research on...

This volume presents current thought and criticism on evolutionary epistemology -- the evolution of knowledge and knowing. As the theme of the four...

This book uses insights from the cognitive sciences to illuminate Kafka’s poetics, exemplifying a paradigm for literary studies in which cognitive-...

Violence against women is a global problem and despite a wealth of knowledge and inspiring action around the globe, it continues unabated. Bringing...

This book discusses the theoretical rationale for the research on reading and writing from a developmental neuropsychological perspective. It revie...

Research in collective memory is a relatively new area capturing the interest of scholars in social psychology, memory, sociology, and anthropology...

This is Volume VIII of twenty-one in the Individual Differences series with the library of Psychology. First published in 1929, this study provides...

Originally published in 1980, this title came about after many late night discussions between the authors during a 3-week workshop on Mathematical ...

These two special issues of Applied Developmental Science include eight major studies of the impacts of the September 11th, 2001, terrorist attacks...

The concept of archetypes is at the core of C. G. Jung’s analytical psychology. In this interesting and accessible volume, Roesler summarises the c...

This volume continues the tradition of the Life-Span Development Series, presenting overviews of research programs on a variety of developmental to...

First Published in 1999. This text outlines developments in psycho-analysis, from the consistent application of the method created by Freud and fro...

This highly topical book is the first of its kind to provide a comprehensive theoretical and empirical discussion of the social psychology of toler...

This highly topical book is the first of its kind to provide a comprehensive theoretical and empirical discussion of the social psychology of toler...

First published in 1998. This is an accessible book about working with people who have challenging behaviours for professionals, parents and carer....

This book is the first of its kind to apply social contextual analysis to the issue of poverty. It sets out detailed accounts of poverty based on o...

Brilliant and innovative, Jacques Lacan's work has had a tremendous influence on contemporary discourse. Lacan lies at the epicenter of contemporar...

Using vivid case examples, she looks at the "intimate edge", intense encounters and playfulness in a way that is based in traditional psychoanalyti...

Behavioural Economics and Terrorism can be used as a guide to help us think about thinking and, in doing so, to appreciate the deep quirkiness of h...

Psychopathology is a psychologically based account of the major mental illnesses, including schizophrenia, personality disorders, anxiety and mood ...

Since the so-called 'cognitive revolution' in psychology in the 1960s, it has often been said that 'behaviourism is dead'. This book demonstrates w...

Once the basic premise of self psychology - that from birth to death we are utterly dependent on one another for the provision of psychological exp...

This unique textbook explores the complex topic of social class, explaining the many psychological nuances of class and classism in people’s lives ...

This book uses an interdisciplinary approach to explore the ways in which sexual difference can be understood as an encounter with otherness throug...

This book provides easy to read, concise, and clinically useful explanations of over 1800 terms and concepts from the field of psychoanalysis. A hi...

In 1956 Stella Chess and Alexander Thomas launched the pioneering New York Longitudinal Study, a systematic investigation into the concept of tempe...

A brilliantly original exploration of the interface between feminism, psychoanalysis, semiotics and film theory.