Behavioral Sciences Books

New and Published Books

1. Motherhood and Maternal Subjectivity

   Transformations of Self and Other in the Maternal Experience

   Edited by Maura Sheehy

   This collection, drawn from twelve years of the influential journal Studies in Gender and Sexuality, offers a groundbreaking advance in thinking and theorizing about what happens to women when they become mothers. It explores how women are changed and shaped by interaction with their children and...

   Published February 3rd 2013 by Routledge
2. European Review of Social Psychology: Volume 23

   Edited by W Stroebe, Miles Hewstone

   Series: Special Issues of the European Review of Social Psychology

   The European Review of Social Psychology (ERSP) is an e-first journal published under the auspices of the European Association of Social Psychology. ERSP is an international journal which aims to further the international exchange of ideas by providing an outlet for substantial accounts of...

   Published January 31st 2013 by Psychology Press
3. Nutrition and Mental Health

   By Ruth Leyse-Wallace

   Although primary advanced vitamin and mineral deficiencies are rare in the developed world, many common health conditions deplete nutritional status, including sub-optimal dietary intake, frequent alcohol consumption, changes in appetite due to aging, food allergies or sensitivities, special diets,...

   Published January 28th 2013 by CRC Press
4. The Disordered Mind

   An Introduction to Philosophy of Mind and Mental Illness, 2nd Edition

   By George Graham

   The Disordered Mind: An Introduction to Philosophy of Mind and Mental Illness, second edition examines and explains, from a philosophical standpoint, what mental disorder is: its reality, causes, consequences, and more. It is also an outstanding introduction to philosophy of mind from the...

   Published January 28th 2013 by Routledge
5. Early Childhood Education

   A Practical Guide to Evidence-Based, Multi-Tiered Service Delivery

   By Gina Coffee, Corey E. Ray-Subramanian, G. Thomas Schanding, Jr., Kelly A. Feeney-Kettler

   Series: School-Based Practice in Action

   In the past several years, models of multi-tiered service delivery have emerged as a framework for supporting the needs of school-aged children in schools across the country and have received much attention in scholarly publications of education and related fields. Despite the needs of young...

   Published January 28th 2013 by Routledge
6. The Clinical Management of Early Alzheimer's Disease

   A Handbook

   Edited by Reinhild Mulligan, Martial Van der Linden, Anne-Claude Juillerat

   The enormous human and economic toll of Alzheimer's Disease in societies in which more and more people are living into old age is well-recognized. Scientists and practitioners alike have been working to limit it. Their major focus has been patients in the later stages of the disease, when dementia...

   Published January 28th 2013 by Psychology Press
7. Human Spatial Memory

   Remembering Where

   Edited by Gary L. Allen

   The chapters in Human Spatial Memory: Remembering Where present a fascinating picture of an everyday aspect of mental life that is as intriguing to people outside of academia as it is to scientists studying human cognition and behavior. The questions are as old as the study of mind itself: How do...

   Published January 28th 2013 by Psychology Press
8. Psychoanalytic Reflections on a Gender-free Case

   Into the Void

   Edited by Ellen L. K. Toronto, Gemma Ainslie, Molly Donovan, Maurine Kelly, Christine C. Kieffer, Nancy McWilliams

   The past two decades of psychoanalytic discourse have witnessed a marked transformation in the way we think about women and gender. The assignment of gender carries with it a host of assumptions, yet without it we can feel lost in a void, unmoored from the world of rationality, stability and...

   Published January 28th 2013 by Routledge
9. The On-line Study of Sentence Comprehension

   Eyetracking, ERPs and Beyond

   By Manuel Carreiras, Charles Clifton, Jr.

   This book addresses important findings, assumptions, problems, hopes, and future guidelines on the use of advanced research techniques to study the moment-by-moment mental processes that occur while a reader or listener is understanding language. The core techniques are eye tracking and ERPs, with...

   Published January 28th 2013 by Psychology Press
10. The Psychology of Evaluation

    Affective Processes in Cognition and Emotion

    Edited by Jochen Musch, Karl C. Klauer

    The affective connotations of environmental stimuli are evaluated spontaneously and with minimal cognitive processing. The activated evaluations influence subsequent emotional and cognitive processes. Featuring original contributions from leading researchers active in this area, this book reviews...

    Published January 28th 2013 by Psychology Press