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...