Behavioral Sciences Handbooks

New and Published Handbooks

1. Handbook of Test Security

   Edited by James A. Wollack, John J. Fremer

   High stakes tests are the gatekeepers to many educational and professional goals. As such, the incentive to cheat is high. This Handbook is the first to offer insights from experts within the testing community, psychometricians, and policymakers to identify and develop best practice guidelines for...

   Published March 25th 2013 by Routledge
2. Handbook of Orthography and Literacy

   Edited by R. Malatesha Joshi, P.G. Aaron

   Until about two decades ago, the study of writing systems and their relationship to literacy acquisition was sparse and generally modeled after studies of English language learners. This situation is now changing. As the worldwide demand for literacy continues to grow, researchers from different...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
3. Routledge Handbook of Sports Performance Analysis

   Edited by Tim McGarry, Peter O'Donoghue, Jaime Sampaio

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   Sport performance analysis techniques help coaches, athletes and sport scientists develop an objective understanding of actual sport performance, as opposed to self-report, fitness tests or laboratory based experiments. For example, contemporary performance analysis enables elite sports people and...

   Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
4. Routledge Handbook of Motor Control and Motor Learning

   Edited by Albert Gollhofer, Wolfgang Taube, Jens Bo Nielsen

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   The Routledge Handbook of Motor Control and Motor Learning is the first book to offer a comprehensive survey of neurophysiological, behavioural and biomechanical aspects of motor function. Adopting an integrative approach, it examines the full range of key topics in contemporary human movement...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
5. The Routledge Companion to Identity and Consumption

   Edited by Ayalla A. Ruvio, Russell W. Belk

   Series: Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Accounting

   "Tell me what you eat, I'll tell you who you are," said Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. Today, "You are what you consume" is more apt. Barbara Krueger’s ironic twist of Descartes - "I shop therefore I am" - has lost its irony. Such phrases have become commonplace descriptions of our identity in the...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
6. Handbook of Self-Regulatory Processes in Development

   New Directions and International Perspectives

   Edited by Karen Caplovitz Barrett, Nathan A. Fox, George A. Morgan, Deborah J. Fidler, Lisa A. Daunhauer

   The development of self- and emotional regulatory processes helps children to regulate their behavior based on their cultural context and to develop positive social relationships. This handbook brings together heretofore disparate literatures on self- and emotional regulation, brain and...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Psychology Press
7. Handbook of Family Theories

   A Content-Based Approach

   Edited by Mark A. Fine, Frank D. Fincham

   Organized by content areas rather than by theory, this comprehensive, accessible handbook helps readers gain greater insight into how key theories have impacted today’s family research. Most competing books, organized by theory, do not provide a strong sense of the links between theory and research...

   Published December 5th 2012 by Routledge Academic
8. Handbook of Father Involvement

   Multidisciplinary Perspectives, Second Edition

   Edited by Natasha J. Cabrera, Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda

   This second edition reviews the new research findings and theoretical advances on fathers, families, child development, programs, and policies that have occurred in the past decade. Contributors from a range of disciplines and countries showcase contemporary findings within a new common chapter...

   Published November 4th 2012 by Routledge Academic
9. The Routledge Handbook of Family Communication

   2nd Edition

   Edited by Anita L. Vangelisti

   Series: Routledge Communication Series

   With a synthesis of research on issues key to understanding family interaction, as well as an analysis of many theoretical and methodological choices made by researchers studying family communication, the Handbook serves to advance the field by reframing old questions and stimulating new ones. The...

   Published October 31st 2012 by Routledge
10. Handbook of Cultural Developmental Science

    Edited by Marc H. Bornstein

    Researchers and theoreticians commonly acknowledge the profound impact of culture on all aspects of development. However, many in the field are often unaware of the latest cultural literatures or how development proceeds in places other than their home locations. This comprehensive handbook covers...

    Published October 28th 2012 by Psychology Press