Publishing Your Psychology Research

Defines the distinctive set of psychometric and operational principles which, when combined with specialized statistical applications of correlation and factor-analysis techniques, provide researchers with a systematic and rigorously quantitative means for examining human subjectivity.

The method of Five-Level QDA (R) helps researchers to analyse what makes for an expert analytic performance when using qualitative data analysis software. Written by experienced trainers, this practical guide to NVivo will allow qualitative researchers to increase the effectiveness of their data analysis.

Edited by a world-leading group of academics and researchers, this book offers an accessible, critical and practical way into qualitative research in psychology.

A proposal for a new way to do cognitive science argues that cognition should be described in terms of agent-environment dynamics rather than computation and representation.

One of the world's leading neurologists reveals the extraordinary stories behind some of the brain disorders that he and his staff at the Harvard Medical School endeavour to treat. The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller

A portable edition of the famous Red Book text and essay.

Here contributors weigh up the debates surrounding the relational perspective, taking positive and critical approaches to the essential debates.

Fully updated to reflect the latest developments, the third edition of Research Methods In Clinical Psychology offers a comprehensive introduction to the various methods, approaches, and strategies for conducting research in the clinical psychology field.

Offers an introduction to research methods in psychology. This guide includes coverage of qualitative and quantitative research methods, including surveys, case studies, laboratory observations, tests and experiments. It presents the methodologies and techniques used in psychology research.

The widespread rejection of conventional theory and method has led to the evolution of different ways to gather and analyze psychological data. This text provides a guide to key effective methods, for example, semi-structured interviews, grounded theory, and discourse analysis.

This textbook presents overviews of 12 landmark studies in psychology from diverse areas of research such as consciousness, developmental psychology, learning, memory, social psychology and psychopathology.

We have reached a turning point in our development as a species. In the coming decades we face significant global challenges in terms of climate change, biodiversity, food and water resources and violent extremism. At the local level, these seem like crazy times, with the speed of change accelerating faster than ever.

This is a book about what it takes to get back up and how owning our stories of disappointment, failure, and heartbreak gives us the power to write a daring new ending. Struggle can be our greatest call to courage and Rising Strong, our clearest path to deeper meaning, wisdom and hope.

Provides guidance on how to manage risks based on a definitive synthesis of the research literature. This title offers a survey of the whole field of risk and demonstrates how scientific, economic, political and civil society actors can participate in inclusive risk governance.

Confronting and solving problems is a painful process, which most of us attempt to avoid. Drawing on his own professional experience, the author, a psychiatrist, suggests ways in which facing our difficulties can enable us to reach a higher level of self-understanding. He discusses the nature of loving relationships.

* Challenges perceived ideas of the history of social psychology* Inter--disciplinary in that it provides a framework for understanding sociological as well as psychological forms of social psychology. .

Containing 16 chapters, this volume is intended for use as an upper level teaching resource. It is useful for upper level and graduate students studying social psychology.

Why can we never seem to keep on top of our workload, social diary or chores? Why does poverty persist around the world? Why do successful people do things at the last minute in a sudden rush of energy? This book reveals that the hidden side behind all these problems is that they're all about scarcity.

A hilarious quest to understand life's ultimate guilty pleasure - in a beautiful gift package.

Schaum's Outlines present all the essential course information in an easy-to-follow, topic-by-topic format. You also get hundreds of examples, solved problems, and practice exercises to test your skills.