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This psychological study explores the nature and formation of attitudes in an individual, and how attitudes are changed by outside forces.

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The book considers the important issue of what is 'normal' and what is 'atypical' in child development. It examines the main processes involved in developing atypically, as well as the circumstances and conditions associated with it. The second edition is fully updated and features new research, case studies, real-life examples and figures.

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Auditory Scene Analysis addresses the problem of hearing complex auditory environments, using a series of creative analogies to describe the process required of the human auditory system as it analyzes mixtures of sounds to recover descriptions of individual sounds.

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This volume, a collection of papers presented at the 1988 biennial conference of the International Society for Comparative Psychology in Australia, affirms how comparative psychology can help confront global environmental problems by analyzing and comparing the behavior of humans and animals.

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This handbook provides an overview of the current scientific understanding of autism spectrum disorders, as well as a cultural and historical perspective on the controversies that plague the field.

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This work presents an attempt to elucidate and develop Bettelheim's controversial insights on the behaviour of concentration camp inmates. A discussion of the significance of Bettelheim's findings about inmate behaviour and how we can protect ourselves against assaults on our autonomy.

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In this book, Waehler describes bachelors' internal processes and interpersonal styles along a continuum with three specific bachelor types: Flexible, Entrenched, and Conflicted.

Bachelors is the first and the only book to examine the inner workings of the bachelor mind.

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Bayes or Bust provides the first balanced treatment of the complex set of issues involved in this nagging conundrum in the philosophy of science.

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Exploring the idea that brain, body and world are united in a complex and extended computational activity, this book addresses foundational questions concerning the tools and techniques needed to make sense of the embodied mind. Ideas from robotics, neuroscience and psychology are used.

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In this persuasive book, a "New York Times" columnist shows that mistakes are everywhere, and suggests that when they are acknowledged and identified correctly, lives can improve.

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JOSEPH NEWIRTH CONTENDS THAT LOCATING SUBJECTIVITY in the unconscious frees us from the 19th-century bias that privileged consciousness and rational thought, and suggests that the analytic enterprise is not to make the unconscious conscious, but rather to make the conscious unconscious.

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This volume focuses on the concepts of stress and hope, their psychological and physical outcomes. Students and scholars studying health psychology, stress management or stress and coping will appreciate the information presented, as will those involved with medical science, nursing, and sociology.

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In addition to lifestyle structure, Walters examines the three factors believed to be responsible for selection of a lifestyle over adaptation and preference for one lifestyle over another: incentive or type of fear experienced, opportunity or specific learning experiences, and choice or decision making apparatus.

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A collection of writings developing the ideas of Dr Carl Rogers, originator of the Person-Centred Approach.

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Examines the nature of late adolescent and adult thought and concludes that there is describable and significant cognitive development during those stages of life which goes beyond Piaget's stage of formal operations.