Why do fools fall in love? Why does a man's annual salary, on average, increase $600 with each inch of his height? When a crack dealer guns down a rival, how is he just like Alexander Hamilton, whose face is on the ten-dollar bill? How do optical illusions function as windows on the human soul? Cheerful, cheeky, occasionally outrageous MIT psychologist Steven Pinker answers all of the above and more in his marvelously fun, awesomely informative survey of modern brain science.
Edited by: englishcology - 27 November 2008
Reason: Title modified : From( The Language Instinct) to (How the Mind Works) + book cover replaced ,too.
The programme that examines how we think and why we behave as we do, with psychologist, Claudia Hammond
In the wake of the schisms besetting the American Psychological Association, we look at the role of psychologists in defence in the UK. All in the Mind talks to Professor Karen Carr, Director of the Centre for Human Systems at the Defence Academy at Cranfield University, a psychologist with over 20 years’ experience of human factors in defence and Dr David Harper, reader in clinical psychology at the University of East London
Classification and Diagnosis of Psychological Abnormality (Routledge Modular Psychology.)
(Routledge) Univ. of Kent, UK. Pocket introduction includes a concise overview of the definitions and models psychological abnormality and investigates current practice by exploring procedures, research, and cultural variability. Softcover, hardcover also available. DNLM: Mental Disorders--diagnosis.
This is the third edition of Mark Tennant's popular and highly regarded text, which examines the role of psychology in informing adult education practice. It explores the seminal transitions of key psychological theories, and discusses issues and problems in applying them to an understanding of adult learning and development.
Relational Frame Theory: A Post-Skinnerian Account of Human Language and Cognition
Relational frame theory, or RFT, is a psychological theory of human language and cognition, developed largely through the efforts of Steven C. Hayes and Dermot Barnes-Holmes and currently being tested in about three dozen laboratories around the world. Based on the philosophical roots of functional contextualism, it focuses on how humans learn language through interactions with the environment. Functional contextualism is an extension and contextualistic interpretation of B.F. Skinner's radical behaviorism, and emphasizes the importance of predicting and influencing psychological events, such as thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, by focusing on manipulable variables in their context.(Wikipedia)
