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Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Experimental psychology
The ability to communicate quickly and flexibly through both spoken
and written language is one of the defining characteristics of the
human race. Yet it remains a mysterious process. The science of
psycholinguistics attempts to uncover the mechanisms and
representations underlying human language. This interdisciplinary
field has seen massive developments over the last decades, with a
broad expansion of the research base, and the incorporation of new
experimental techniques such as brain imaging and computational
modelling. The result is that real progress is being made in the
understanding of the key components of language in the mind. This
new and expanded edition of The Oxford Handbook of
Psycholinguistics brings together the views of over 80 experts in
various domains of psycholinguistic research, offering a
comprehensive and authoritative review of the field. With
contributions from the fields of psychology, linguistics, cognitive
neuroscience, attention, genetics, development, and neuropsychology
divided into five themed sections, this new edition of The Oxford
Handbook of Psycholinguistics is unparalleled in its breadth of
coverage. The comprehensive nature of this book coupled with the
accessibility of the short chapter format makes this handbook
essential reading for students and researchers in the fields of
psychology, linguistics and neuroscience.
Coming to work sick may do more harm than staying home - for the
employee, the team, and the firm. Whilst the cost of absenteeism in
organizations has been widely acknowledged and extensively
examined, the counter-issue of 'presenteeism' has only recently
attracted scholarly attention as a phenomenon that harms employee
wellbeing, disrupts team dynamism, and damages productivity. This
volume brings together leading international scholars from diverse
scientific backgrounds, including occupational psychology, health,
and medicine, to provide a pioneering review of the subject.
International in scope, the collection incorporates both Western
and East Asian perspectives, making it an informative resource for
multinational companies seeking to formulate human resource
strategies and better manage their culturally diverse workforce. It
will also appeal to scholars and graduate students researching
human resource management, organization studies, organizational
health, and organizational psychology.
There are myriad questions that emerge when one considers emotions
and decision-making: What produces emotions? Why do we have
emotions? How do we have emotions? Why do emotional states feel
like something? What is the relationship between emotion, reward
value, and subjective feelings of pleasure? How is the value of
'good' represented in the brain? Will neuroeconomics replace
classical microeconomics? How does the brain implement
decision-making? Are gene-defined rewards and emotions in the
interests of the genes? Does rational multistep planning enable us
to go beyond selfish genes to plans in the interests of the
individual? The Brain, Emotion, and Depression addresses these
issues, providing a unified approach to emotion, reward value,
economic value, decision-making, and their brain mechanisms. The
evolutionary, adaptive value of the processes involved in emotion,
the neural networks involved in emotion and decision making, and
the issue of conscious emotional feelings are all considered. The
book will be valuable for those in the fields of neuroscience,
neurology, psychology, psychiatry, biology, animal behaviour,
economics, and philosophy from the advanced undergraduate level
upwards, and for all interested in emotion and decision-making.
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