Behavioral Sciences Books

New and Published Books – Page 5

41. Coping with Alcohol and Drug Problems

    The Experiences of Family Members in Three Contrasting Cultures

    By Jim Orford, Guillermina Natera, Alex Copello, Carol Atkinson, Jazmin Mora, Richard Velleman, Ian Crundall, Marcela Tiburcio, Lorna Templeton, Gwen Walley

    What difference does culture make? Coping with Alcohol and Drug Problems: The Experiences of Family Members in Three Contrasting Cultures aims to deepen and extend understanding of the experiences of family members trying to cope with the excessive drinking or drug taking of a...

    Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
42. Auditory Sound Transmission

    An Autobiographical Perspective

    By Jozef J. Zwislocki

    Auditory Sound Transmission provides an integrated, state-of-the-art description and quantitative analysis of sound transmission from the outer ear to the sensory cells in the cochlea of the inner ear. It describes in detail the structures and mechanisms involved and gives their input and...

    Published March 21st 2013 by Psychology Press
43. Attention in Vision

    Perception, Communication and Action

    By A.H.C. van der Heijden

    Attention in Vision is an important work which aims to identify, address and solve some major problems and issues in the psychology of visual perception, attention and intentional control. The central aim is to investigate how people use their visual perception in the performance of tasks and to...

    Published March 21st 2013 by Psychology Press
44. Autobiographical Memory and the Construction of A Narrative Self

    Developmental and Cultural Perspectives

    Edited by Robyn Fivush, Catherine A. Haden

    It is a truism in psychology that self and autobiographical memory are linked, yet we still know surprisingly little about the nature of this relation. Scholars from multiple disciplines, including cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, anthropology, and philosophy have begun theorizing...

    Published March 21st 2013 by Psychology Press
45. Arenas of Comfort in Adolescence

    A Study of Adjustment in Context

    By Jeylan T. Mortimer, Kathleen T. Call

    Series: Research Monographs in Adolescence Series

    Adolescence is a time when the social world expands, a time of increasing engagement beyond the family sphere to the school, the peer group, and the workplace. These contexts may present experiences that differ greatly in their tone and content, either contributing to or hindering satisfaction and...

    Published March 21st 2013 by Psychology Press
46. Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents

    Epidemiology, Risk Factors and Treatment

    Edited by Cecilia A. Essau, Franz Petermann

    Recent years have seen a growing awareness of the common occurrence of anxiety disorders in children and adolescents. There has been a parallel increase in the number of studies examining the risk factors, comorbidity, course and outcome of such disorders, as well as the developments of numerous...

    Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
47. Approaching Multivariate Analysis, 2nd Edition

    A Practical Introduction

    By Pat Dugard, John Todman, Harry Staines

    This fully updated new edition not only provides an introduction to a range of advanced statistical techniques that are used in psychology, but has been expanded to include new chapters describing methods and examples of particular interest to medical researchers. It takes a very practical approach...

    Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
48. Measurement and Representation of Sensations

    Edited by Hans Colonius, Ehtibar N. Dzhafarov

    Series: Scientific Psychology Series

    Measurement and Representation of Sensations offers a glimpse into the most sophisticated current mathematical approaches to psychophysical problems. In this book, editors Hans Colonius and Ehtibar N. Dzhafarov, top scholars in the field, present a broad spectrum of innovative approaches and...

    Published March 21st 2013 by Psychology Press
49. Everyday Memory

    Edited by Svein Magnussen, Tore Helstrup

    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....

    Published March 21st 2013 by Psychology Press
50. Everyday Thinking

    Memory, Reasoning, and Judgment in the Real World

    By Stanley Woll

    Appropriate as a textbook for courses in cognitive psychology or social cognition, Everyday Thinking reviews the rapidly growing literature on cognition in naturalistic settings. It differs from other textbooks in that, where possible, it focuses on thinking in real-world settings rather than in...

    Published March 21st 2013 by Psychology Press