Psychology Books
Psychology books
Everyone loves a good story. The series of TED videos demonstrates that a good story is at the crux of making some sort of point. Countless fiction authors have made good on this idea for centuries. Taking a page from their playbook, social scientists started doing the same thing in pop-psychology books that quickly turned into best-sellers. Which begets the question. If a story is such a fertile medium to share science in, shouldn’t the books mention they are contributing to the same irrationality they are trying to warn you against? Samuel McNermey…
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Psychology Press, 2002 - 200 Seiten What does a Criminological Psychologist do? The popular image is that of a latter-day Sherlock Holmes helping the police to solve crimes and mysteries, but the reality is much more complex. Psychology and Crime is a new introduction to the topic of Criminological Psychology that helps dispel these popular myths by providing a comprehensive overview of the topic of Criminological Psychology. The book includes both classic and contemporary psychological theory and research on a range of criminological issues including…
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I’m working on my own book about the psychology of video games, and in the process I’ve come across some others that touch on a lot of the same topics. Let me be honest: once my book is out, I’ll shamelessly promote it as the super best, most awesome thing to read about the topic. (Have you signed up for my book progress newsletter yet?) But in the meantime, I thought I’d highlight three other good reads in descending order of publication date. Ever wondered how the appearance of the avatar you use while playing games affects you or other players?…
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It turns out, though, that in at least some circumstances, children can learn better from watching TV than they can from spending an equivalent amount of time with a book. Normally, I try to write about baby experiments that are adaptable for the home, so that parents can perform them on their own kids. This experiment is tough to do without the right props, but it s just so interesting that I think it s worth sharing anyway. The Experiment In a 2011 study published in the journal Child Development, researchers split 18- and 24-month-olds into three…
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By Maria Popova It’s often said that every song, every poem, every novel, every painting ever created is in some way “about” love. What this really means is that love is a central theme, an underlying preoccupation, in humanity’s greatest works. But what exactly is love? How does its mechanism spur such poeticism, and how does it lodge itself in our minds, hearts and souls so completely, so stubbornly, as to permeate every aspect of the human imagination? Today, we turn to 5 essential books that are “about” love in a different way — they turn an…
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We asked faculty for recommendations of papers (and books) that every graduate student in psychology should read. This is not intended to be a complete list of papers. Not by a long shot. In fact, it s limited to the kinds of papers that graduate students might miss in the regular course of their research. We don t include important review papers, experimental findings, or theories. You ll find those on your own. The papers we list below are intended to be pretty general in that they inform the way we think about our science and how we do our science…
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Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, 2011 – If you want to understand how people think and how and why they react, then this is a must read. Daniel Kahneman is a Nobel prize winner in Economics, but this book is all about how people think and react. It s very well written, but I will warn you, it s not an easy read. Plan to spend time reading this one. But it will be worth it for the understanding you get into why we do the things we do. Redirect by Timothy Wilson, 2011 – If you want to know how to make permanent and lasting change in your…
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