Psychology & Psychiatry : Cognitive Psychology

A mixture of historical and forward-looking essays on key topics in decision analysis. more...

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This user-friendly handbook, written by established experts, provides a practical update to all aspects of depression where changes are occurring. A timely book to facilitate the transition from evidence-based medicine to day-to-day clinical practice more...

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Passion and emotion run deep in politics, but researchers have only recently begun to study how they influence our political thinking. Contending that the long-standing neglect of such feelings has left unfortunate gaps in our understanding of political behavior, The Affect Effect fills the void by providing a comprehensive overview of current research on emotion in politics and where it is likely to lead. In sixteen seamlessly integrated essays, thirty top scholars approach this topic from a broad array of angles that address four major themes. The first section outlines the philosophical and neuroscientific foundations of emotion in politics, while the second focuses on how emotions function within and among individuals. The final two sections branch out to explore how politics work at the societal level and suggest the next steps in modeling, research, and political activity itself. Opening up new paths of inquiry in an exciting new field, this volume will appeal not only to scholars of American politics and political behavior, but also to anyone interested in political psychology and sociology. more...

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Agenda Relevance is the first volume in the authors' omnibus investigation of. the logic of practical reasoning, under the collective title, A Practical Logic. of Cognitive Systems. In this highly original approach, practical reasoning is. identified as reasoning performed with comparatively few cognitive assets,. including resources such as information, time and computational capacity. Unlike. what is proposed in optimization models of human cognition, a practical reasoner. lacks perfect information, boundless time and unconstrained access to. computational complexity. The practical reasoner is therefore obliged to be a. cognitive economizer and to achieve his cognitive ends with considerable. efficiency. Accordingly, the practical reasoner avails himself of various. scarce-resource compensation strategies. He also possesses neurocognitive. traits that abet him in his reasoning tasks. Prominent among these is the. practical agent's striking (though not perfect) adeptness at evading irrelevant. information and staying on task. On the approach taken here, irrelevancies are. impediments to the attainment of cognitive ends. Thus, in its most basic sense,. relevant information is cognitively helpful information. Information can then be. said to be relevant for a practical reasoner to the extent that it advances or. closes some cognitive agenda of his. The book explores this idea with a. conceptual detail and nuance not seen the standard semantic, probabilistic and. pragmatic approaches to relevance; but wherever possible, the authors seek to. integrate alternative conceptions rather than reject them outright. A further. attraction of the agenda-relevance approach is the extent to which its principal. conceptual findings lend themselves to technically sophisticated re-expression. in formal models that marshal the resources of time and action logics and. label led deductive systems. Agenda Relevance is necessary reading for researchers in logic, belief. dynamics, more...

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Integrating humanistic, cognitive-behavioral, and psychodynamic perspectives, this book offers descriptions of strategies for helping clients get "unstuck," including motivational interviewing and the two-chair approach. It also includes case examples that cut across different clinical problems and therapeutic models. more...

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