(Paperback)

We may not be programmed to think in shades of grey, but it's the colour of our cognitive future.

In this ground-breaking exploration of how our brains work, Oxford University psychologist Dr Kevin Dutton explains that by understanding the nature of our black and white thinking we are better equipped to negotiate life's grey zones.

(Hardback)

Harcum maintains that the proper assumptions about human nature are established by their relative utility in solving existing human problems. In order to facilitate solutions to familiar problems of daily living, the author advocates a definition of the science of psychology that includes the concepts of human freedom and intrinsic dignity.

(Paperback)

Examines the reasons why some people risked their lives to help the Jews in Nazi Europe. The book reveals that many of these acts of bravery were not the result of the heroic impulse, but were a matter of keeping faith with a sense of morality taught from childhood.

(Hardback)

This book is the framework for a new theory of moral development that combines components from a variety of existing theories of human development with the author's original research.

(Hardback)

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.

(Hardback)

(Hardback)

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.

(Hardback)

This is a most unusual book with profound social, political, and philosophical implications that will inform the national debate on intelligence. It combines personality, temperament, and intelligence in a common theory that demonstrates the fundamental psychological and social significance of human differences in brain function.

(Hardback)

(Hardback)

An overview of smoker characteristics and interventions are represented and some of the methodological flaws are offered to alert future researchers.

(Hardback)

The authors demonstrate that the behavior analytic approach is not culture-bound. Rather, they show that behavior analytic concepts and principles can illuminate human practices in any culture.

(Hardback)

A comparative analysis of some of the disasters in U.S. history with cases of successful emergency escape.

(Hardback)

"In recent years, innovative schools have developed courses in what has been termed emotional literacy, emotional intelligence, or emotional competence. This volume evaluates these developments scienti"

(Paperback)

In this lucid portrayal of human behavior, Fred Dretske provides an original account of the way reasons function in the causal explanation of behavior.

(Paperback)

This important contribution to choice theory examines two theories of motivation and two kinds of explanation of behavior that they support. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton Univer

(Hardback)

This book provides an analysis of the human phenomenon of hesitation, the time elapsing between the stimulation of a person and that person's response.

(Hardback)

In recent years, the field of psychology has seen an increasing interest in the aftereffects of psychological trauma. In sharing the intimate details of this process, the hostage survivors have allowed us to be close observers in their efforts to redefine their world and themselves.

(Hardback)

The remaining sections cover the negative effects of coercion, the use of behavior analysis to achieve cooperation in the workplace, the relation of culture to behavior, applications to the practice of psychology, and related topics.

(Hardback)

This text consists of Wilhelm Wundt's developed point of view on topics such as the the quality of sensation, the nature of feeling, the relation of feeling to will, consciousness, the develpment of attention, the temporal course of ideas, dreams, instincts and voluntary activity.

(Hardback)

Educators are becoming aware of an ever-increasing number of students exhibiting characteristics of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD) and the resulting need to develop methods of dealing with the challenges presented by this very complex disorder.

(Hardback)

Psychologists, historians, philosophers, and advanced undergraduates and graduate students will also find the work important for its first-to-date comprehensive bibliography of Skinner's published works and for its lengthy historiography of important studies dealing with Skinner and behaviorism.

(Hardback)

The past three decades of research on human motivation have presented theories of cognitive decision-making that fail to account for numerous behavioral paradoxes such as the disproportional rise in motivation following the reduction in anxiety.

(Paperback)

The co-discoverer of the split brain" theory tells how science is recasting the age-old question of nature versus nurture to create a startling new view of human behaviour. Recent discoveries suggest that natural selection affects not only physical characteristics but also mental processes, from learning to substance abuse.

(Hardback)

While other theories of motivation provide a theoretical framework for thinking about and understanding what motivates people in the workplace, the application model presented here for the expectancy theory of motivation goes far beyond this to provide a practical framework for diagnosing and solving individual motivation problems.