Behavioral Psychology Books

New and Published Books

1. Neuroeconomics: Hype or Hope?

   Edited by Caterina Marchionni, Jack Vromen

   Is neuroeconomics a flimsy fad likely to pass without leaving a discernible trace in economics? Or is it a promising new field with the potential to enrich and improve economic theory? Neuroeconomics brings together a unique mix of perspectives ranging from philosophy of science to neuroeconomics...

   Published January 15th 2012 by Routledge
2. Police Responses to People with Mental Illnesses

   Global Challenges

   Edited by Duncan Chappell

   Series: Police Practice and Research

   According to the World Health Organisation during their lifetime more than one quarter of all individuals will develop one or more mental or behavioural disorders. Given prevalence data like this it is not surprising that wherever they reside on the planet many persons suffering from a mental...

   Published November 22nd 2011 by Routledge
3. Clinical Applications of Learning Theory

   Edited by Mark Haselgrove, Lee Hogarth

   This book examines a variety of psychological disorders from the perspective of the psychology of learning. Grounded in the study of classical and instrumental conditioning, learning theory provides an explanatory framework for the way in which humans acquire information, and when applied, how...

   Published November 9th 2011 by Psychology Press
4. Behavior Analysis and Learning

   Fourth Edition

   By W. David Pierce, Carl D. Cheney

   Behavior Analysis and Learning, Fourth Edition is an essential textbook covering the basic principles in the field of behavior analysis and learned behaviors, as pioneered by B. F. Skinner. The textbook provides an advanced introduction to operant conditioning from a very consistent Skinnerian...

   Published May 4th 2008 by Psychology Press
5. Behavior Analysis Around the World

   A Special Issue of the International Journal of Psychology

   Edited by Rubén Ardila

   Series: Special Issues of the International Journal of Psychology

   Behaviour analysis has tradionally been one of the main areas and main approaches to psychology. It is based on laboratory research and in conceptualizations from distinguished figures of the discipline, such as Skinner, Pavlov, Mach, and even Watson and Thorndike. It has generated a science (the...

   Published December 20th 2006 by Psychology Press
6. How to Think Like a Behavior Analyst

   Understanding the Science That Can Change Your Life

   By Jon Bailey, Mary Burch

   How to Think Like a Behavior Analyst is a revolutionary resource for understanding complex human behavior and making potentially significant quality of life improvements. Behavior analysts offer a worldview of the human condition different than almost any other professional perspective. To a...

   Published May 25th 2006 by Psychology Press
7. Personality: Critical Concepts

   Edited by Cary Cooper, Cary L. Cooper, Lawrence A. Pervin

   Series: Critical Concepts in Psychology

   Almost everything we do as humans is influenced by our personalities. This set of critical readings in personality theory brings together all the major contributions in the field. All the classical papers on the critical theories of personality are included, as well as more contemporary work on...

   Published September 30th 1998 by Routledge
8. B.F. Skinner

   A Reappraisal

   By Marc N. Richelle

   B.F. Skinner died in August 1990. He had been praised as one of the most influential psychologists of the 20th century, but was also attacked by a variety of opponents within and outside the field of psychology. This introduction to his work is first of all a guide to a correct reading of his...

   Published July 3rd 1995 by Psychology Press
9. Behaviourism

   The Early Years

   Series: History of Psychology

   Behaviourism:The Early Years collects critical articles concerned with the articulation of the behaviourist programme and reprints the full texts of five of the most important monographs contributing to the early growth of behaviourism....

   Published September 28th 1994 by Routledge
10. An Introduction to Psycho-Oncology

    By Patrice Guex

    Cancer is extremely common and in many situations a truly frightening disease, but for too long the psychological aspects and effects have been ignored. An Introduction to Psycho-Oncology deals in a clear and simple manner with the reactions of cancer patients to their illness, and the ways in...

    Published December 8th 1993 by Routledge