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Crisis Talk - Negotiating with Individuals in Crisis (Hardcover): Rein Ove Sikveland, Heidi Kevoe-Feldman, Elizabeth Stokoe Crisis Talk - Negotiating with Individuals in Crisis (Hardcover)
Rein Ove Sikveland, Heidi Kevoe-Feldman, Elizabeth Stokoe
R3,985 Discovery Miles 39 850 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Based on extensive analysis of real-time, authentic crisis encounters collected in the UK and US, Crisis Talk: Negotiating with Individuals in Crisis sheds light on the relatively hidden world of communication between people in crisis and the professionals whose job it is to help them. The crisis situations explored in this book involve police hostage and crisis negotiators and emergency dispatchers interacting with individuals in crisis who threaten suicide or self-harm. The practitioners face various communicative challenges in these encounters, including managing strong emotions, resistance, hostility, and unresponsiveness. Using conversation analysis, Crisis Talk presents evidence on how practitioners deal with the interactional challenge of negotiating with people in crisis and how what they say shapes outcomes. Each chapter includes recommendations based on the detailed analysis of numerous cases of actual negotiation. Crisis Talk shows readers how every turn taken by negotiators can exacerbate or solve the communicative challenges created by crisis situations, making it a unique and invaluable text for academics in psychology, sociology, linguistic sciences, and related fields, as well as for practitioners engaging in crisis negotiation training or fieldwork.

Cognitive Science - International Student Edition - An Introduction to the Study of Mind (Paperback, 4th Revised edition): Jay... Cognitive Science - International Student Edition - An Introduction to the Study of Mind (Paperback, 4th Revised edition)
Jay D. Friedenberg, Gordon W. Silverman, Michael J. Spivey
R2,539 Discovery Miles 25 390 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Cognitive Science provides a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the study of the mind. The authors examine the mind from the perspective of different fields, including philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, networks, evolution, emotional and social cognition, linguistics, artificial intelligence, robotics, and the new framework of embodied cognition. Each chapter focuses on a particular disciplinary approach and explores methodologies, theories, and empirical findings. Substantially updated with new and expanded content, the Fourth Edition reflects the latest research in this rapidly evolving field.

Basic Processes in Reading - Perception and Comprehension (Paperback): David LaBerge, S. Jay Samuels Basic Processes in Reading - Perception and Comprehension (Paperback)
David LaBerge, S. Jay Samuels
R1,201 Discovery Miles 12 010 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Originally published in 1977, this volume contains the most recent theoretical views and experimental findings by prominent psychologists at the time, working in areas they considered to be most basic to the reading processes. The material will still be of value to people interested in applied and basic aspects of reading, as well as those concerned with language processing and information processing in general. The volume divides conveniently into two areas, perception and comprehension. The initial chapters deal with the perceptual processes involved in reading. The second half of the volume delves into the area of comprehension. The interested reader will find a wide variety of topics covered in the volume that reflect the amazingly wide range of cognitive functions that are part of the reading process.

Transatlantic Relations - Challenge and Resilience (Paperback): Stephen Brooks, Donald Abelson Transatlantic Relations - Challenge and Resilience (Paperback)
Stephen Brooks, Donald Abelson
R1,223 Discovery Miles 12 230 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book explains how and why the transatlantic relationship has remained resilient despite persistent differences in the preferences, approaches, and policies of key member states. It covers topics ranging from the history of transatlantic relations, North Atlantic Treaty Organization and security issues, trade, human rights, and the cultural sinews of the relationship, to the impacts of COVID-19, climate change, think tanks, the rise of populism, public opinion, and the triangular relationship between the United States (US), Europe, and China. The book also conceptualizes resilience as a quality arising from myriad forms of interdependence. This interdependence helps shed light on the Atlantic partnership's capacity to withstand serious disagreements, such as those that occurred during the Reagan, George W. Bush, and Trump presidencies. With a principal focus on the US and Europe, the contributors to the volume also employ Canadian case studies to provide a unique and useful corrective. This book will interest all intermediate and senior undergraduate as well as graduate courses on relations between the US and Europe, American foreign policy, and European Union foreign policy. A specialist readership that includes academic and think tank researchers, policy practitioners, and opinion leaders will also benefit from this timely volume.

Pioneer Visual Neuroscience - A Festschrift for Naomi Weisstein (Hardcover): James M. Brown Pioneer Visual Neuroscience - A Festschrift for Naomi Weisstein (Hardcover)
James M. Brown
R3,913 Discovery Miles 39 130 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book honors Naomi Weisstein's foreshortened span of work published from 1964 to 1992. Naomi Weisstein was a pioneer in the areas we now call visual neuroscience, visual cognition, and cognitive neuroscience. Her enthusiastic pursuit of the mind was infectious, inspiring many others to take up the challenge. Despite her time as an active researcher being cut short, Weisstein's impact was far reaching and long lasting, and many of her ideas and insights foreshadowed today's active areas of inquiry into the inner workings of the mind. Comprising contributions from leading scholars in the field, Pioneer Visual Neuroscience outlines Weisstein's many contributions to the study of visual perception and processing and their effects on the field today. This volume will be of interest to anyone interested in visual perception, visual cognition, and cognitive neuroscience.

Kinaesthesia in the Psychology, Philosophy and Culture of Human Experience (Hardcover): Roger Smith Kinaesthesia in the Psychology, Philosophy and Culture of Human Experience (Hardcover)
Roger Smith
R1,517 Discovery Miles 15 170 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

* Interdisciplinary book that weaves together ideas from psychology, philosophy, neuroscience, and dance. * Considers how movement is central to our sense of reality, our sense of self, and our relationships with others and the surrounding world. * Accessibly written book that foregrounds the author's voice and experiences

Attention and Performance VI - Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Attention and Performance, Stockholm,... Attention and Performance VI - Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Attention and Performance, Stockholm, Sweden, July 28-August 1, 1975 (Hardcover)
Stanislav Dornic
R5,938 Discovery Miles 59 380 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Originally published in 1977, this sixth volume of an international series presented new and original material in the broad area of human performance. Included are the most recent findings, modern methodologies, and latest models and theories that indicate the trends and focus on recent points of debate. Among the topics covered are reaction processes, perceptual encoding, selective attention, visual search, processing a recognition of words as well as the reading process, and memory. This volume will be of paramount interest to experimental psychologists, from graduate students to post-graduate research workers.

Attention and Performance VII - Proceedings of the Seventh International Symposium on Attention and Performance, Senanque,... Attention and Performance VII - Proceedings of the Seventh International Symposium on Attention and Performance, Senanque, France, August 1-6, 1976 (Hardcover)
Jean Requin
R5,932 Discovery Miles 59 320 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Originally published in 1978, this seventh volume of an international series continues the objective to increase and disseminate scientific knowledge in the area of human attention, performance and information processing, and to foster international communication in this area. This volume covers the following topics: time in perception; word perception and reading; speech perception and coding; hemisphere differences; response and physiological processes; theories and models. Today it can be read and enjoyed in its historical context.

Personality and Intellectual Competence (Paperback): Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Adrian Furnham Personality and Intellectual Competence (Paperback)
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Adrian Furnham
R1,264 Discovery Miles 12 640 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book provides a comprehensive state-of-the-art review of personality and intelligence, as well as covering other variables underlying academic and occupational performance. Personality and Intellectual Competence is a unique attempt to develop a comprehensive model to understand individual difference by relating major personality dimensions to cognitive ability measures, academic and job performance, and self-assessed abilities, as well as other traditional constructs such as leadership and creativity. It will be essential reading for anyone interested in personality, intelligence, and the prediction of future achievement in general. Personality and Intellectual Competence is an outstanding account of the relationship between major individual differences constructs. With its informative summary of the last century of research in the field, this book provides a robust and systematic theoretical background for understanding the psychological determinants of future achievement. The authors have sought to combine technical expertise with applied interests, making this a groundbreaking theoretical tool for anyone concerned with the scientific prediction of human performance.

Researching Creativity in Second Language Acquisition (Paperback): Ashleigh Pipes Researching Creativity in Second Language Acquisition (Paperback)
Ashleigh Pipes
R1,116 Discovery Miles 11 160 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Researching Creativity in Second Language Acquisition explains the links between creativity and second language learning and how to propel the research of creativity as an individual difference in second language acquisition forward at multiple levels. It features an array of sample research questions and methods for student and professional researchers, ranging from simple projects that can be executed from start to finish in 15 weeks all the way to multi-year project guidelines for more advanced scholars with additional time and resources. It also features in-class and out-of-class activity suggestions that will reinforce concepts in fun and creative ways. Using this book as a guide will save researchers time and effort in designing and executing their next projects as well as save instructors time in class planning. This book will be an invaluable resource to students and researchers of SLA, applied linguistics, TESOL, and psychology.

Examining the Psychological Foundations of Science and Morality - Explaining the Inexplicable (Paperback): Eugene Subbotsky Examining the Psychological Foundations of Science and Morality - Explaining the Inexplicable (Paperback)
Eugene Subbotsky
R1,124 Discovery Miles 11 240 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Examining the Psychological Foundations of Science and Morality is a progressive text that explores the relationship between psychology, science and morality, to address fundamental questions about the foundations of psychological research and its relevance for the development of these disciplines. Supported by original empirical evidence, the book analyses the relationship of folk psychology to rational knowledge, outlining an original theory that connects psychology and natural sciences through the mind which creates a psychological foundation for scientific knowledge and morality. It argues that science and religion have a common psychological core of subjective experience, which diversifies into knowledge, beliefs and morality. The book considers how subjective space and time are converted into physical space and time, and how subjective 'sense of causation' is shaped into physical causality and human communication. Further, it explores the mind as a complex system of contrasting realities, with the main function being existence attribution (EXON). The chapters delve into a range of topics including theoretical analysis of consciousness, the internal self, unexplainable phenomena, analysis of empirical research into causality, morality and the mind. The book will be of great interest to postgraduate and upper-level undergraduate students studying foundations of psychology, consciousness, philosophy of science, morality, as well as professionals who deal with influence on mass consciousness or are interested in the link between human psychology, scientific knowledge and morality.

Changing Brains - Essays on Neuroplasticity in Honor of Helen J. Neville (Paperback): Aaron J. Newman, Giordana Grossi Changing Brains - Essays on Neuroplasticity in Honor of Helen J. Neville (Paperback)
Aaron J. Newman, Giordana Grossi
R1,244 Discovery Miles 12 440 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Helen Neville was a pioneer in the field of Neuroplasticity, focusing her research on deafness and contributing to an acceptance of the role that experience plays in shaping the sensory system This book will honour her work, following her untimely death in 2018 Featuring contributions from former students, collaborators, and colleagues, the book showcases Professor Neville's legacy to the field

Memory, Trauma and the Spirited Life - Remembering and Identity (Paperback): Gillian Burrell Memory, Trauma and the Spirited Life - Remembering and Identity (Paperback)
Gillian Burrell
R945 Discovery Miles 9 450 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Explores role of memory in establishing identity, a key psychoanalytic concept * Draws on literature and history as well as psychoanalysis to illustrate this thesis * Covers key theory and clinical application

Person-Centered Studies in Psychology of Science - Examining the Active Person (Paperback): Lisa M. Osbeck, Stephen L Antczak Person-Centered Studies in Psychology of Science - Examining the Active Person (Paperback)
Lisa M. Osbeck, Stephen L Antczak
R1,236 Discovery Miles 12 360 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Uses an integrative approach, examining the personal, social, and cognitive dimensions of science practice. Features engaging Case Studies across sciences and time periods for reflection and discussion Largely written by students for students, with description of each author's personal connection to the scientist examined and discussion questions following each case study. Invites discussion of questions such as "What is a scientist?" "What is science?" "What does it mean to do science, and when is one doing it?" Offers scholarly commentary on the value of case studies for psychology of science (and psychology more broadly) Includes a chapter of commentary from an authority on case study method and the philosophical foundations of psychology.

Linguistics and Psychoanalysis - A New Perspective on Language Processing and Evolution (Paperback): Thomas Paul Bonfiglio Linguistics and Psychoanalysis - A New Perspective on Language Processing and Evolution (Paperback)
Thomas Paul Bonfiglio
R1,123 Discovery Miles 11 230 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This ground-breaking, provocative book presents an overview of research at the disciplinary intersection of psychoanalysis and linguistics. Understanding that linguistic activity, to a great extent, takes place in unconscious cognition, Thomas Paul Bonfiglio systematically demonstrates how fundamental psychoanalytic mechanisms-such as displacement, condensation, overdetermination, and repetition-have been absent in the history of linguistic inquiry, and explains how these mechanisms can illuminate the understanding of the grammatical structure, evolution, acquisition, and processing of language. Re-examining popular misunderstandings of psychoanalysis along the way, Bonfiglio further proposes a new theoretical configuration of language and expertly sets the future agenda on this subject with new conceptual paradigms for research and teaching. This will be an invaluable, fascinating resource for advanced students and scholars of theoretical and applied linguistics, the cognitive-behavioral sciences, metaphor studies, humor studies and play theory, anthropology, and beyond.

Linguistic Morphology in the Mind and Brain - Representations in the Mind and Brain (Paperback): Davide Crepaldi Linguistic Morphology in the Mind and Brain - Representations in the Mind and Brain (Paperback)
Davide Crepaldi
R1,184 Discovery Miles 11 840 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Linguistic Morphology is a unique collection of cutting-edge research in the psycholinguistics of morphology, offering a comprehensive overview of this interdisciplinary field. This book brings together world-leading experts from linguisics, experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience to examine morphology research from different disciplines. It provides an overview of how the brain deals with complex words; examining how they are easier to read, how they affect our brain dynamics and eye movements, how they mould the acquisition of language and literacy, and how they inform computational models of the linguistic brain. Chapters discuss topics ranging from subconscious visual identification to the high-level processing of sentences, how children make their first steps with complex words through to how proficient adults make lexical identification in less than 40 milliseconds. As a state-of-the-art resource in morphology research, this book will be highly relevant reading for students and researchers of linguistics, psychology and cognitive neuroscience. It will also act as a one-stop shop for experts in the field.

Stuttering Perspectives - A Journey Through Research, Treatment, Controversies, and Personal Accounts (Paperback, 2nd edition):... Stuttering Perspectives - A Journey Through Research, Treatment, Controversies, and Personal Accounts (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Dale F. Williams
R1,179 Discovery Miles 11 790 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Stuttering Perspectives is a highly engaging book that interweaves discussion and research about stuttering with personal accounts. Written in a reader-friendly and informal style, the book considers stuttering from a variety of angles, providing the reader with a nuanced and holistic view. In this way, topics such as therapy, support groups, listener reactions, and many others are not only explained within the context of current research, but also illustrated with lively examples demonstrating the stuttering experience. Fully updated in its second edition, the book includes new stories, additional discussion questions, and inclusion of contemporary stuttering issues not contained in the original version. This book is highly relevant reading for speech and language professionals, as well as students of communication sciences and disorders. It will also be of great interest to people who stutter and anyone with an interest in fluency disorders.

The Power of Us - Harnessing Our Shared Identities to Improve Performance, Increase Cooperation, and Promote Social Harmony... The Power of Us - Harnessing Our Shared Identities to Improve Performance, Increase Cooperation, and Promote Social Harmony (Hardcover)
Jay J Van Bavel, Dominic J. Packer
R755 R632 Discovery Miles 6 320 Save R123 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Evolution of Human Cleverness (Paperback): Richard Hallam The Evolution of Human Cleverness (Paperback)
Richard Hallam
R1,133 Discovery Miles 11 330 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The Evolution of Human Cleverness presents a unique introduction to the way human cognitive abilities have evolved. The book comprises a series of mini-essays on distinct topics in which technical terms are simplified, considering how humans made the long journey from our ape-like ancestors to become capable of higher-level reasoning and problem solving. All the topics are cross-linked, allowing the reader to dip in and out, but certain key concepts run through the underlying reasoning. Chiefly, these are adaptation and selection, the distinction between ultimate and proximate causes of behaviour, gene-culture co-evolution, and domain-general versus domain-specific cognitive processes. The book should help the reader draw lessons for the human species as a whole, especially in view of the environmental threats to its own existence. Entries have been carefully crafted to cut through scientific jargon, providing bite-sized and digestible chunks of knowledge, making the topic accessible for students and lay readers alike. The author draws on research from diverse fields including Psychology, Anthropology, Archaeology, Biology, and Neuroscience to provide an unbiased account of the field, making it an ideal text for students of all levels.

The Saboteur at Work - How the Unconscious Mind Can Sabotage Ourselves, Our Organisations and Society (Paperback): Michael... The Saboteur at Work - How the Unconscious Mind Can Sabotage Ourselves, Our Organisations and Society (Paperback)
Michael Drayton
R950 Discovery Miles 9 500 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book is more than a self-help book, it is based on rigorous research but translated into a language for all. Describes how the unconscious impacts individuals, groups and society. Written by a recognised consultant and coach in the field of personal and team development. Discusses the saboteur in relation to new modes of working, e.g. remote working.

The Pleasure of Pictures - Pictorial Experience and Aesthetic Appreciation (Hardcover): Jerome Pelletier, Alberto Voltolini The Pleasure of Pictures - Pictorial Experience and Aesthetic Appreciation (Hardcover)
Jerome Pelletier, Alberto Voltolini
R3,931 Discovery Miles 39 310 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The general aim of this volume is to investigate the nature of the relation between pictorial experience and aesthetic appreciation. In particular, it is concerned with the character and intimacy of this relationship: is there a mere causal connection between pictorial experience and aesthetic appreciation, or are the two relata constitutively associated with one another? The essays in the book's first section investigate important conceptual issues related to the pictorial experience of paintings. In Section II, the essays discuss the notion of styles, techniques, agency, and facture, and also take into account the experience of photographic and cinematic pictures. The Pleasure of Pictures goes substantially beyond current debates in the philosophy of depiction to launch a new area of reflection in philosophical aesthetics.

Origins - Brain and Self Organization (Paperback): Karl H. Pribram Origins - Brain and Self Organization (Paperback)
Karl H. Pribram
R1,007 Discovery Miles 10 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The result of the second Appalachian conference on neurodynamics, this volume focuses on the problem of "order," its origins, evolution, and future. Central to this concern lies our understanding of time. Both classical and quantum physics have developed their conceptions within a framework of time symmetry. Divided into four major sections, this book: * provides refreshingly new approaches to the problem of the evolution of order, indicating the directions that need to be taken in subsequent conferences which will address learning and memory more directly; * addresses the issue of how information becomes transmitted in the nervous system; * shows how patterns are constructed at the synaptodendritic level of processing and how such pattern construction relates to image processing; and * deals with the control operations which operate on image processing to construct entities such as visual and auditory objects such as phonemes. The aim of the conference was to bring together professionals to exchange ideas -- some were fairly worked out; others were in their infancy. As a result, one of the most valuable aspects of the conference is that it fostered lasting interactive relationships among these leading researchers.

Think Like a Freak - The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain (Paperback): Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner Think Like a Freak - The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain (Paperback)
Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
R483 R396 Discovery Miles 3 960 Save R87 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Science and Art of Dreaming (Paperback): Mark Blagrove, Julia Lockheart The Science and Art of Dreaming (Paperback)
Mark Blagrove, Julia Lockheart
R954 Discovery Miles 9 540 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

An engaging account of the science of dreaming. Written by a leading sleep researcher and a professional dream artist. Makes the biological, psychological, personal, and cultural causes of dreaming accessible. Surveys current theories of the function and meaning (or lack thereof) of dreams. Covers all current scientific work on dreaming, from what happens in the brain when we dream to how dream content relates to our waking life experiences * Each chapter tackles a different type of dream, illustrated through a scientific overview and a professional colour painting

Neuropsychoanalysis - A Contemporary Introduction (Paperback): Georg Northoff Neuropsychoanalysis - A Contemporary Introduction (Paperback)
Georg Northoff
R659 Discovery Miles 6 590 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The first book to provide an accessible introduction to neuropsychoanalysis. Covers the theoretical foundations and history of the field, along with an overview of current models relevant to psychoanalysis. It presents the state-of-the-art in neuropsychoanalytic research and theory as well as suggestions for future research and clinical-therapeutic implications.

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