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A psychologist and a philosopher with opposing viewpoints discuss the extent to which it is possible to report accurately on our own conscious experience, considering both the reliability of introspection in general and the particular self-reported inner experiences of "Melanie," a subject interviewed using the Descriptive Experience Sampling method.

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Design for a Life explains the science of behavioural development - the biological and psychological processes that build a unique adult from a fertilised egg. Instead of the conventional opposition between nature (genes) and nurture (environment), Design for a Life offers an approach that synthesises biology and psychology.

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A guide for parents, teachers and others interested in developing creative art talent of young people. Visual art has its own language system, first experienced as images and then codified in art language form, information about the world is processed by creative imagination to produce art works.

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A guide for parents, teachers and others interested in developing creative art talent of young people. Visual art has its own language system, first experienced as images and then codified in art language form, information about the world is processed by creative imagination to produce art works.

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Explores racial/ethnic identity development as a life-long process of negotiating self, context, and others perceptions and behaviors from early adolescence to adulthood.

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A second edition of this text which offers coverage of developmental psychology for first-time readers.

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Contributors to this unique book explain and compare major theories drawn from several academic fields to uncover the root causes of deviance.

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Americans engage with screens for more than ten hours a day, changing our brains, our relationships, and our personal lives. Here, Dodgen-Magee illuminates the effects of device overuse, and offers wisdom gleaned from personal stories, research, and anecdotes from youth, parents and professionals about what healthy screen use looks like.

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This book describes and illustrates the nature of dialectical thinking as a cognitive psychological phenomenon, and makes the case that this form of cognitive organizaton is a possible successor to the adolescent formal operations stage.

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These issues are examined in this, the first volume in which the increasingly popular metaphor of dialogue is systematically applied to developmental issues.

Dialogue is a multilevel concept and can be understood (1) as a real exchange between two interacting persons, (2) as the interaction between culture at large (e.g.

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"Harvey Schwartz's territory is the severe end of the child sexual abuse continuum, where victims' experiences are so unthinkable and their adaptations so bizarre that the rest of us are tempted to pro"

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This volume provides readers with a springboard to a deeper and broader understanding of the practices of hypnotism.

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A fully cross-referenced and source-referenced dictionary which gives definitions of psychological terms as well as the history, critique, and relevant references for the terms.

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An updated and enriched edition of the most popular of the Brazelton Way titles, timeless wisdom for the behaviour problems of today

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One of America's most respected economists presents a quirky, incisive romp through everyday life that reveals how to turn economic reasoning to one's advantage--often unexpectedly.

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A study of the causes of family conflict draws on the Experience Sampling Method to argue that family life breaks down when members fail to experience the same events in the same way.

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Encouraging advice on finding happiness and enjoying life. Counseling steps, checklists, and do-at-home exercises promote happiness, build self-esteem, discourage annoying habits, and make positive changes.

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Originally published in 1924, this study of the Don Juan legend is a powerful interpretation of one of the most popular themes in Western culture. Also valuable for the insights it offers into Rank's thought immediately before his break with Freud, the book has not been available in English until now. Rank's study draws on psychoanalysis, literatur

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