Psychological Theory & Schools of Thought

Key Thinkers in Industrial and Organizational Psychology explores the lives, ideas, contributions, and impact of key figures who have shaped and de...

First Published in 2006. This book is designed for students who are learning how to evaluate published psychological research. The 41 research arti...

Ian Parker has been a leading light in the fields of critical and discursive psychology for over 25 years. The Psychology After Critique series bri...

Disability studies has become a legitimate area of academic study. It is multi-disciplinary in its critique of the oppressions that have historical...

First Published in 2017. In this book Dr. Laurie Graham Dodge shares some important fundamnetals of introductory statistics. At its core, statistic...

Ian Parker has been a leading light in the fields of critical and discursive psychology for over 25 years. The Psychology After Critique series bri...

This book offers a historical introduction to psychology. It investigates the evolutionary origins of our capacity to practice psychology, includin...

Key Thinkers in Industrial and Organizational Psychology explores the lives, ideas, contributions, and impact of key figures who have shaped and de...

•We’ve added a comprehensive basic math review to this edition. It will get your students off to a good start in statistics. • In the worksheets, s...

This is a book about cognition, emotion, memory, and learning. Along the way it examines exactly how implicit memory ("knowing how") and explicit m...

"The Future of an Illusion" reveals Freud's reflections about religion as well as his hope that in the future science will go beyond religion, and ...

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as...

The first study of its kind to address the issue of ethnic diversity, Minority Citizens in Disasters focuses on the responses of two minorities—bla...

Epicurus, and his Roman disciple Lucretius, held that the primary cause of human unhappiness was an irrational fear of death. What is more, they be...

The goal of this book is to recapture the diminished roles of affect, psychological needs, and the psychodynamic mechanisms that are crucial for un...

First Published in 1988. This book is for people who experience the type of fear that prevents them from doing what most of us take for granted. It...

The vast majority of research in social psychology focuses on momentary events: an attitude is changed, dissonance is reduced, a cognition is prime...

As the anthropological study of sex becomes more focused within the discipline, this volume offers a cross-section of current research that examine...

Learning through play is a well-established principle that underpins much educational practice, yet it is often overlooked in association with chil...

Diversity arising from the mixing of peoples from different cultural backgrounds has long been an issue in nations such as the United States and Au...