It was Patricia Evans who first brought the critical issue of verbal abuse to national attention with the publication of her groundbreaking classic "The Verbally Abusive Relationship". In the decade since, she's become the foremost advocate for the billions of victims of verbal abuse here and around the world. From her bestselling books to her ...
Social psychologists Tavris and Aronson take an in-depth look into how the brain is wired for self-justification. Backed by years of research and delivered in lively prose, their book offers a fascinating explanation of self-deception--how it works, the harm it can cause, and how to overcome it.
The brain is capable of change and, when it is cared for, the results are amazing. "Making a Good Brain Great" offers the tools needed to optimize brain power and enrich one's health and life in the process. The principles and exercises in this book, based on years of cutting-edge neuroscience research and the experiences of thousands of people, ...
This guide draws on the authors' experience as clinicians and teachers of cognitive therapy to help clients successfully understand and improve their moods, alter their behaviour, and enhance their relationships. Illustrated with case examples, the book presents the skills for identifying problems, setting goals, and achieving the desired changes.
From breaking the law to breaking a promise, how do people lie and how can they be caught? Ekman study describes how lies vary in form and can differ from other types of misinformation, as well as how a person's body language, voice, and facial expressions can give away a lie but still escape detection.
From the acclaimed author of "Proust Was a Neuroscientist" comes a fascinating look at the new science of decision-making. Lehrer explores two questions: How does the human mind make decisions? and How can those decisions be made better?
This smart and funny book by a prominent Harvard psychologist, which uses groundbreaking research and (often hilarious) anecdotes, reveals why people are so lousy at predicting what will make them happy--and what they can do about it.
Written in a clear, step-by-step style, this ideal teaching text makes cognitive therapy immediately accessible to students, beginning therapists, and seasoned practitioners who are not familiar with the cognitive approach.
Take a trip back to the classroom and rediscover the assortment of practical, ingenious mnemonics devised to help children learn and understand hundreds of important facts, including spelling, time, mathematics, history, trivia, and more.
Donald A. Norman, the author of THE DESIGN OF EVERYDAY THINGS, continues his theorizing, emphasizing the role of emotion in consumerism. Norman believes that it's not reason alone that dictates a purchase but an intangible reaction to an object's appearance and performance, and--perhaps most important--the meaning it has for the individual. Norman ...
This therapy of Dr Burns is based on the premise that people create their own moods, and thus can learn to change the way they look and feel. He shows how to apply techniques and provides strategies for overcoming fears, phobias and panic attacks. He deals with hypochondria and various forms of social anxiety; improving intimate interpersonal ...
In this work, Marsha M. Linehan not only provides specific guidelines that creatively combine the best elements of behavioral, personality, psychoanalytic, strategic and other commonly employed modalities, but helps the therapist survive the process.
This text's success has come in large part from its up--to--date coverage of important research and theories and offers the latest and most comprehensive overview of cognition on the market today. Recent developments in perception, imagery, problem solving, and creativity are highlighted along with advances in such areas as memory and language and ...
Connect the study of cognition to everyday life with COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY. Covering both the landmark studies and the cutting-edge research that define this fascinating field, this textbook includes concrete examples and illustrations to help you understand the theories of cognition -- driving home both the scientific importance of the theories ...
Millions have benefited from memory expert Kevin Trudeau's Mega Memory system--an innovative program designed to stimulate the brain's photographic memory and increase one's powers of recall. Each home-study lesson takes no more than 30 minutes a day, and with this simple system, readers will instantly remember names, phone numbers, financial data ...
Hailed by "The Guardian" as "essential reading from Washington to Westminster" this is a groundbreaking study of how the mind works, and what this means for why candidates win and lose elections.Since the 18th Century, the idea of mind that has captured the imagination of philosophers, cognitive scientists, economists and political scientists is ...
This "important and marvelous book" ("The New York Times") gives Eric Kandel's account of how his personal quest to understand memory intersected with the emergence of a new science. It relates the story of how four distinct disciplines - behaviourist psychology, cognitive psychology, neuroscience and molecular biology - converged into a powerful ...
The new edition of this textbook gives students a balanced perspective on the study of human behaviour. It continues to offer unparalleled coverage of neuroscience, together with fully targeted examples of social and cultural behaviour. The book features strong links between scientific research and their applications, giving plenty for students to ...
Dr. Carl Sagan takes us on a great reading adventure, offering his vivid and startling insight into the brain of man and beast, the origin of human intelligence, the function of our most haunting legends--and their amazing links to recent discoveries. "A history of the human brain from the big bang, fifteen billion years ago, to the day before ...
One of the world's most celebrated animal scientists merges a lifetime of study with her extraordinary perceptions as an autistic person in a groundbreaking book that revolutionizes the understanding of how animals think and feel.
"Biological Psychology Fifth Edition" is a comprehensive survey of the bases of behaviour that is both authoritative and up-to-date. Building on the strengths of its predecessors, it continues to offer an outstanding illustration program and a very broad perspective - encompassing lucid descriptions of behaviour, evolutionary history, development, ...
John Dewey, one of America's greatest popular philosophers and educators, emphasises the importance of critical thinking and the vital role education should play. In this progressive work, written more than 80 years ago, Dewey, recognising that we are born with the ability to think, argues that the educator's fundamental role is to train us to ...
The widely acclaimed "father of cognitive psychotherapy" adds a new introduction to the gold-standard book on anxiety disorders and phobias At the forefront of the cognitive revolution, renowned psychiatrist Aaron T Beck turned to information processing in order to understand the sources, consequences and cures of anxiety disorders and phobias. In ...
Human Learning, fifth edition, is the leading text on learning theories applied to education. It covers a broad range of learning theories, including behaviorist, social cognitive, cognitive, and developmental. Complex learning and cognition, including metacognition, transfer, and social processes in knowledge construction are also covered, as ...
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