Psychological Science Textbooks

New and Published Textbooks

1. Contemporary Debates in Childhood Education and Development

   Edited by Sebastian Suggate, Elaine Reese

   What are the risks and benefits of non-parental care for young children? What are the short- and long-term effects of academically vs. play-focused environments for learning? How and when should we teach reading? What are the purposes of Education? What is the best way to teach mathematics...

   Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge
2. Applied Statistics for the Social and Health Sciences

   By Rachel A. Gordon

   Applied Statistics for the Social and Health Sciences provides graduate students in the social and health sciences with the basic skills that they need to estimate, interpret, present, and publish statistical models using contemporary standards. The book targets the social and health science...

   Published May 8th 2012 by Routledge
3. Sex/Gender

   Biology in a Social World

   By Anne Fausto-Sterling

   Series: The Routledge Series Integrating Science and Culture

   Sex/Gender presents a relatively new way to think about how biological difference can be produced over time in response to different environmental and social experiences. This book gives a clearly written explanation of the biological and cultural underpinnings of gender. Anne Fausto-Sterling...

   Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge
4. The Emotions

   A Philosophical Introduction

   By Julien Deonna, Fabrice Teroni

   The emotions are at the centre of our lives and, for better or worse, imbue them with much of their significance. The philosophical problems stirred up by the existence of the emotions, over which many great philosophers of the past have laboured, revolve around attempts to understand what this...

   Published March 4th 2012 by Routledge
5. Advertising Theory

   Edited by Shelly Rodgers, Esther Thorson

   Series: Routledge Communication Series

   Advertising Theory provides detailed and current explorations of key theories in the advertising discipline. The volume gives a working knowledge of the primary theoretical approaches of advertising, offering a comprehensive synthesis of the vast literature in the area. Editors Shelly Rodgers and...

   Published February 22nd 2012 by Routledge
6. Understanding and Preventing Online Sexual Exploitation of Children

   Edited by Ethel Quayle, Kurt Ribisl

   Over the last decade there has been dramatically increased interest in the ways that technology has been used in the abuse and exploitation of children, due in part to increasing numbers of convictions for child pornography-related offenses. Opinion swings between those who feel that there is a...

   Published February 20th 2012 by Routledge
7. Thinking and Reasoning

   An Introduction to the Psychology of Reason, Judgment and Decision Making

   By Ken Manktelow

   The area of psychological research reviewed in this book is one that is not only increasing in popularity in college curricula, but is also making an ever larger impact on the world outside the classroom. Drawing upon research originally cited in Ken Manktelow’s highly successful publication...

   Published February 13th 2012 by Psychology Press
8. Sport and Exercise Psychology

   A Critical Introduction, 2nd Edition

   By Aidan Moran

   Although sport is played with the body, it is won in the mind. Inspired by this idea, the second edition of this popular textbook provides a comprehensive critical introduction to sport and exercise psychology – a discipline that is concerned with the theory and practice of helping athletes to...

   Published February 8th 2012 by Routledge
9. Families with Futures

   Family Studies into the 21st Century, Second Edition

   By Meg Wilkes Karraker, Janet R. Grochowski

   Noted for its interdisciplinary approach to family studies, Families with Futures provides an engaging, contemporary look at the discipline's theories, methods, essential topics, and career opportunities. Featuring strong coverage of theories and methods, readers explore family concepts and...

   Published February 8th 2012 by Routledge Academic
10. From Birth to Sixteen

    Children's Health, Social, Emotional and Linguistic Development

    By Helen Cowie

    From Birth to Sixteen outlines children’s physical, social, emotional and language development from infancy through to adolescence. In both its practical application of research and its contribution to the assessment of child development, this text provides essential reading for those studying, or...

    Published February 1st 2012 by Routledge