Psychological Theory & Schools of Thought

The political and legislative changes which took place in South Africa during the 1990s, with the dissolution of apartheid, created a unique set of...

Is advertising a factor that contributes to rising costs and prices? This study, commissioned to answer just that question by the Institute of Cana...

The 'evil child' has infiltrated the cultural imagination, taking on prominent roles in popular films, television shows and literature. This collec...

This new volume is a collection of thought-provoking essays on the current state of social and organizational psychology. The topics range from dat...

Psychologic is a formal system and relationship within which psychological processes are defined. The language people ordinarily use to formulate, ...

As institutional religiosity loosens its hold, different modes of spirituality are on the rise. The essays in this volume, based on papers delivere...

This book is the third in a series based on conferences sponsored by the Metroplex Institute for Neural Dynamics, an interdisciplinary organization...

The purpose of every advertisement is to sell the thing which it advertises. Looking at the full range of the planning involved in the advertising ...

Many topics have inspired significant amounts of neuroimaging research in recent years, and the study of mental imagery was one of the earliest to ...

Over the last decade, the topic of prospective memory – the encoding, storage and delayed retrieval of intended actions – has attracted much intere...

Any experimental field consists of preparing special conditions for examining interesting objects for research. So naturally, the particular ways i...

A challenge, a mission, a hope for a better life for all in an embattled country. This was the author’s vision in The Other’s Other. The challenge ...

Today, "community" seems to be everywhere. At home, at work, and online, the vague but comforting idea of the community pervades every area of life...

There has recently been a renewed interest in the role of spatial dimensions in social cognition, and how vertical and horizontal trajectories are ...

This special issue, Verbalising Visual Memories, comprises research on: (a) verbal interference and facilitation in face and person processing; (b)...

This text comprises of reviews of work relating to music and mind. It presents a range of approaches from the psychological through the computation...

In recent years, much stimulating research has emerged on children's theories of mind, construed as the understanding of others' intentions, belief...

The 'evil child' has infiltrated the cultural imagination, taking on prominent roles in popular films, television shows and literature. This collec...

In recent years, there has been a proliferation of theoretical and empirical scholarship on how issues of human separateness, or independence, and ...

In Work and the Evolving Self, Steven Axelrod begins to remedy this serious oversight by setting forth a comprehensive psychoanalytic perspective o...

The volume begins with a historical overview of the self in social judgment and outlines the major issues. Subsequent chapters, all written by lead...

There is a general and extensive literature in the development of representational thought and symbolic processes because of its centrality in huma...

This book examines a key issue in current cognitive theories - the nature of representation. Each chapter is characterized by attempts to frame hot...