Author: Magnussen/Helst
Publisher: Psychology Press
Keywords: memory, everyday
Number of Pages: 340
Published: 2007-03-06
List price: $70.00
ISBN-10: 1841695793
ISBN-13: 9781841695792

This book presents an authoritative overview of memory in everyday contexts. Written by an expert team of international authors, it gathers together research on some of the more neglected but revealing areas of memory, to provide a comprehensive overview of remembering in real life situations.Contributions from leading experts deal with a variety of important questions concerning everyday memory, from under-researched areas such as memory for odours, to more well known areas, like collective memory. Topics covered also include:* Beliefs about memory and the metaphors used to discuss memory* Th

Author: Vivien Burr
Publisher: Psychology Press
Keywords: psychology, focus, social, person
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2002-04-05
List price: $61.95
ISBN-10: 1841691801
ISBN-13: 9781841691800

Traditional social psychology assumes that the person has an already-existing nature that then becomes subject to the influence of social environment.The Person in Social Psychologychallenges this model,drawing on theories from micro-sociology and contemporary European social psychology to suggest a more "social" re-framing of the person. In this book Vivien Burr has provided a radical new agenda for students of social psychology and sociology. She argues for an understanding of the person, where the social world is not a set of variables that affect a pre-existing individual, but is instead t

Author: Michaela Waenke
Publisher: Psychology Press
Keywords: social, psychology, frontiers, consumer, behavior
Number of Pages: 385
Published: 2008-12-16
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 1841694983
ISBN-13: 9781841694986

This volume provides coverage of the latest social-psychological research into consumer behavior, including cognitive and affective processes, media influences, and self-regulation.

Author: Hans-Werner Bierhoff
Publisher: Psychology Press
Keywords: modular, course, psychology, social, behaviour, prosocial
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2002-10-29
List price: $42.50
ISBN-10: 0863777740
ISBN-13: 9780863777745

How can social bonds in society be strengthened? How do we learn and develop prosocial behaviour? This comprehensive textbook provides up-to-date coverage of the social phenomenon of prosocial behaviour, incorporating all the major developments in the fields of developmental and social psychology. The first section identifies different forms of prosocial behaviour, including estimates of prevalence in everyday situations and the controversy between biological and cultural perspectives as explanatory models of prosocial behaviour. The second and third sections focus on learning and development

Author: Wendy S. Grolnick
Publisher: Psychology Press
Keywords: parenting, backfires, meant, control, parental, psychology
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2002-08-03
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0805835415
ISBN-13: 9780805835410

What is parental control? Is it positive or negative for children? What makes parents controlling with their children, even when they value supporting children’s autonomy? Are there alternatives to control and how might we apply them in important domains of children’s lives, such as school and sports? This book addresses these and other questions about the meaning and predictors of parental control, as well as its consequences for children’s adjustment and well-being. While the topic of parental control is not new, there has been controversy about the concept, with some resea

Author: Philip David Zelazo
Publisher: Psychology Press
Keywords: development, special, issue, journal, cognition, cognitive, changes, behavior, implications, shaped
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2004-03-31
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0805895671
ISBN-13: 9780805895674

Interest in U-shaped development increased in November and December 2000 when a vigorous discussion took place on U-shaped patterns and their potential explanations. This debate led to a special issue devoted to the topic. The articles raise three main questions: Why are U-shaped curves of interest? What do U-shaped curves tell about the processes that produce cognitive development? What does the resurgence of interest in U-shaped curves tell about where the field of cognitive development is going? The increasing attention to U-shaped performance that is reflected throughout is indicative of a

Authors:Stanley J. Bolanowski, Stanley J. Bolanowski Jr., G
Publisher: Psychology Press
Keywords: memory, stevens, honor, magnitude, scaling, psychological, ratio
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 1990-10-01
List price: $125.00
ISBN-10: 0805807101
ISBN-13: 9780805807103

Presenting the proceedings of a conference held at Syracuse University in honor of S.S. Stevens, a pioneer in the scaling of sensory magnitudes and the originator of the method of magnitude estimation, this volume brings together the work of 20 authorities on the procedures of ratio scaling. These experts--psychophysicists, physiologists, and theoreticians--offer their views on whether or not psychological magnitudes can be measured and whether the judgments of psychological magnitudes constitute the basis for the construction of a ratio scale. Also discussed is the question of whether any sin