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On Second Thoughtby Wray Herbert
Crown Publishing Group 2010; US$ 11.99Our lives are composed of millions of choices, ranging from trivial to life-changing and momentous. Luckily, our brains have evolved a number of mental shortcuts, biases, and tricks that allow us to quickly negotiate this endless array of decisions. We don’t want to rationally deliberate every choice we make, and thanks to these cognitive rules of thumb, we don’t need to. Yet these hard-wired shortcuts, mental wonders though they may be, can also be perilous. They can distort our thinking in ways that are often invisible to us, leading us to make poor decisions, to be easy targets for manipulators…and they can even cost us our lives. The truth is, despite all the buzz about the power... more...
Stevens' Handbook of Experimental Psychologyby Hal Pashler; Steven Yantis
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2002; US$ 135.00Now available in paperback. This revised and updated edition of the definitive resource for experimental psychology offers comprehensive coverage of the latest findings in the field, as well as the most recent contributions in methodology and the explosion of research in neuroscience. Volume One: Sensation and Perception focuses on sensory experience and complex learned perceptions through modalities such as vision, touch, smell, and hearing. more...
Handbook of Research Methods in Experimental Psychologyby Stephen F. Davis
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2008; US$ 204.95The Handbook of Research Methods in Experimental Psychology presents a comprehensive and contemporary treatment of research methodologies used in experimental psychology. Places experimental psychology in historical context, investigates the changing nature of research methodology, experimental design, and analytic procedures, and features research in selected content areas. Provides an excellent source of potential research ideas for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students. Illustrates the range of research methodologies used in experimental psychology. Contains contributions written by leading researchers. Now available in full text online via xreferplus, the award-winning reference library on the web from xrefer.... more...
The Symbolic Foundations of Conditioned Behaviorby Charles R. Gallistel
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates 2002; US$ 62.50Amidst intense discussions among researchers in animal learning about the decline of behavioralism and rise of cognitivism, Gallistel (Rutgers U.) and Gibbon (Columbia U.) argue that the two approaches complement each other. Cognitive theorizing they say, is essential for an understanding the phenomena revealed by conditioning experiments, and cond more...
Experimental Design And Statisticsby Steve Miller
Taylor & Francis 1984; US$ 24.95For this second edition, this best-selling textbook has been revised, the coverage of two-sample tests extended, and new sections added introducing one-sample tests, linear regression, and the product-moment correlation coefficient. more...
Extraordinary Knowingby Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer
Bantam Books 2007; US$ 11.99In 1991, when her daughter’s rare, hand-carved harp was stolen, Lisby Mayer’s familiar world of science and rational thinking turned upside down. After the police failed to turn up any leads, a friend suggested she call a dowser—a man who specialized in finding lost objects. With nothing to lose—and almost as a joke—Dr. Mayer agreed. Within two days, and without leaving his Arkansas home, the dowser located the exact California street coordinates where the harp was found. Deeply shaken, yet driven to understand what had happened, Mayer began the fourteen-year journey of discovery that she recounts in this mind-opening, brilliantly readable book. Her first surprise: the dozens of colleagues who’d been keeping... more...
Competition and Variation in Natural Languagesby Mengistu Amberber; Helen de Hoop
Elsevier 2005; US$ 114.00This volume combines different perspectives on case-marking: (1) typological and descriptive approaches of various types and instances of case-marking in the languages of the world as well as comparison with languages that express similar types of relations without morphological case-marking; (2) formal analyses in different theoretical frameworks of the syntactic, semantic, and morphological properties of case-marking; (3) a historical approach of case-marking; (4) a psycholinguistic approach of case-marking. Although there are a number of publications on case related issues, there is no volume such as the present one, which exclusively looks at case marking, competition and variation from a cross-linguistic perspective and within the context... more...
Acute and Transient Psychosesby Andreas Marneros; Frank Pillmann
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 50.00This book is the first comprehensive overview of the clinical features, biology, course and long-term outcome of brief and acute psychoses. The authors also address the nosological status of brief and acute psychoses and their impact on our understanding of the continuum of psychotic and affective disorders. more...
Understanding Adaptabilityby C. Shawn Burke; Linda G. Pierce; Eduardo Salas
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006; US$ 94.95Aims to increase our understanding of adaptability within complex environments by integrating the work done by experts in the field. This book also presents work on the importance of cultural adaptability, visualization requirements, measurement approaches, training strategies, and selection for adaptive performance. more...
Experimental Pragmaticsby Ira A. Noveck; Dan Sperber
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2004; US$ 110.00How does our knowledge of the language on the one hand, and of the context on the other, permit us to understand what we are told, to resolve ambiguities, to grasp both explicit and implicit content, to appreciate metaphor and irony? These issues have been studied in two disciplines: Linguistic pragmatics and psycholinguistics, with only. more...