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Books > Social sciences > Psychology
Former Secret Service Special Agent Evy Poumpouras shares the insights
and skills from one of the oldest elite security forces in the world -
to help you prepare for stressful situations, instantly read people,
influence how you're perceived, and live a more fearless life.
From gruelling training to clandestine interrogation rooms, to
protecting the President of the United States of America, Evy shares
rare behind-the-scenes glimpses while also exploring the psychology of
human behaviour and the strategies used by the best negotiators. Evy
demonstrates how we can learn from these experiences to heighten our
own natural instincts to detect BS, develop grit and become the most
resilient and powerful version of ourselves.
Becoming Bulletproof is a timely guide to empowerment, mental strength,
and overcoming fear and abuse - a guide to becoming bulletproof.
Informed by the Biopsychosocial Model, this Encyclopedia of Child
and Adolescent Health examines multiple aspects of child and
adolescent development and physical and mental health. According to
the Biopsychosocial Model, health is determined by the reciprocal
interactions between biological (e.g., genetics, physical
development, family health history), psychological (e.g., mental
health, identity developmental, attitudes), and social (e.g.,
family, peers, school, social supports) factors. This theory posits
that each one of these factors alone is not sufficient to
understand health; instead, it is important to understand how these
interactive components ultimately influence health outcomes. In
addition to the Biopsychosocial Model, this Encyclopedia of Child
and Adolescent Health has a translational approach. Each section
and all applicable entries include a discussion of prevention or
intervention efforts that can inform health and health promotion,
and prevent health risks.
Encyclopedia of Sleep and Circadian Rhythms, Second Edition, Six
Volume Set is the most comprehensive work on sleep and circadian
rhythms. This completely revised new edition, comprised of
contributions from 450 renowned authorities in the field, covers
what is new and known in the field. In addition to thorough
coverage of the basics (physiology, sleep disorders etc.), this new
edition includes a thorough examination of circadian rhythms that
manage the sleep-wake cycle. Although this area is highly
intertwined with sleep, it is a scientific discipline in and of
itself, and will broaden the appeal of this work to health care
providers and scientists. Other sections of interest explore
consumer wearable devices to track sleep and circadian rhythms,
artificial intelligence algorithms to detect sleep and abnormal
sleep-related conditions, and new technology to treat sleep and
circadian rhythm disorders. This book will be an ideal and primary
reference resource for students, trainees, technologists,
basic/clinical scientists, physicians, advanced practice providers,
psychologists, nurses, and other medical and research personnel who
want to explore any topic within the sleep and circadian rhythm
field.
Steven Pinker, one of the world's greatest thinkers and bestselling
author of Enlightenment Now, The Better Angels of Our Nature and The
Language Instinct, reveals the power and perils of thinking alike
As a cognitive scientist, the ultimate subject of Steven Pinker’s
fascination is how we think about each other’s thoughts, ad infinitum.
It sounds impossible, but Steven Pinker shows that we do it all the
time. This awareness, which we experience as something that is public
or “out there,” is called common knowledge, and it has a momentous
impact on our social, political, and economic lives.
Common knowledge, Pinker shows, can make sense of many of life’s
enigmas: financial bubbles and crashes, revolutions that come out of
nowhere, the posturing and pretence of diplomacy, the eruption of
social media shaming mobs and academic cancel culture, the awkwardness
of a first date. But people also go to great lengths to avoid common
knowledge—to ensure that even if everyone knows something, they can’t
know that everyone else knows they know it. And so we get rituals like
benign hypocrisy, veiled bribes and threats, sexual innuendo, and
pretending not to see the elephant in the room.
In exploring the paradoxes of human behaviour, When Everyone Knows that
Everyone Knows… invites us to understand the ways we try to get into
each other’s heads, and the harmonies, hypocrisies, and outrages that
result.
Behavioral Neuroscience is a relatively recent discipline which
unifies different fields encompassing Cognitive Psychology,
Cognitive Science, Clinical Neurology, Neuroanatomy, and
Neurophysiology. Encyclopedia of Behavioral Neuroscience, Three
Volume Set is a comprehensive, multidisciplinary work written by
the best experts in the field, addressing the relationship between
the neurological and biological basis of behavior and models of
cognition, spanning from perception to memory and covering
phenomena that occur in human and other animals. Published in 2010,
it comprised 212 articles and was a unique and essential resource
for students and professionals in several fields including
neuroscience, psychology, neurology, psychiatry, and cognitive
science. It was by far the most comprehensive reference work
available addressing the advances in all the field of behavioral
neuroscience. It does however, now need revising with the latest
science. The new edition will again cover the relationship between
brain and behavior, both in humans and other animals, as well as
mental and brain disorders. This new edition spans accross three
volumes, 250 chapters and approximately 2000 pages. It will build
on the foundations of the first edition by thoroughly updating all
current articles with the latest research that has developed in the
last decade. In addition, 40 brand new articles on the hottest
topics within behavioral neuroscience will be added, covering areas
such as advances in behavioral genetics and epigenetics, cognitive
ageing, neuroepidemiology, social neuroscience, as well as the
upsurge of new technologies like diffusion tensor imaging or
transcranial direct current stimulation. The result will be an
all-encompassing one-stop interdisciplinary major reference work on
how the brain and its disorders influence behavior, perfect for
neuroscience students, clinicians and scientists interested in
knowing more about behavior from a biological perspective.
In an increasingly globalised world, despite reductions in costs
and time, transportation has become even more important as a
facilitator of economic and human interaction; this is reflected in
technical advances in transportation systems, increasing interest
in how transportation interacts with society and the need to
provide novel approaches to understanding its impacts. This has
become particularly acute with the impact that Covid-19 has had on
transportation across the world, at local, national and
international levels. Encyclopedia of Transportation, Seven Volume
Set - containing almost 600 articles - brings a cross-cutting and
integrated approach to all aspects of transportation from a variety
of interdisciplinary fields including engineering, operations
research, economics, geography and sociology in order to understand
the changes taking place. Emphasising the interaction between these
different aspects of research, it offers new solutions to
modern-day problems related to transportation. Each of its nine
sections is based around familiar themes, but brings together the
views of experts from different disciplinary perspectives. Each
section is edited by a subject expert who has commissioned articles
from a range of authors representing different disciplines,
different parts of the world and different social perspectives. The
nine sections are structured around the following themes: Transport
Modes; Freight Transport and Logistics; Transport Safety and
Security; Transport Economics; Traffic Management; Transport
Modelling and Data Management; Transport Policy and Planning;
Transport Psychology; Sustainability and Health Issues in
Transportation. Some articles provide a technical introduction to a
topic whilst others provide a bridge between topics or a more
future-oriented view of new research areas or challenges. The end
result is a reference work that offers researchers and
practitioners new approaches, new ways of thinking and novel
solutions to problems. All-encompassing and expertly authored, this
outstanding reference work will be essential reading for all
students and researchers interested in transportation and its
global impact in what is a very uncertain world.
Progress in Brain Research series, highlights new advances in the
field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters. Each
chapter is written by an international board of authors.
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It is estimated that as many as fifty percent of patients initially
diagnosed with major Unipolar depression (UP, MDD) will
subsequently incur a manic episode or discover a past subtle
episode and will have had Bipolar depression rather than MDD. The
average Bipolar individual suffers with episodic symptoms for ten
years before receiving an accurate diagnosis. As many as 16 million
individuals in the United States will have a Bipolar episode in
their lives, diagnosed or not. With the recognition of these
growing numbers of patients with a Bipolar Disorder, it is
imperative that patients are diagnosed and treated earlier,
accurately and efficiently. Untreated Bipolar usually gets worse.
Bipolar aims to improve recognition, acceptance, and compliance.
Dr. C. Raymond Lake applies two different approaches ,
comprehensive research and case studies, to the understanding of
Bipolar Disorders, presenting basic, selected Bipolar data
including history, diagnostic criteria, definitions of terms, and
classifications, as well as management and treatment strategies to
help the reader fully comprehend the disorder. In addition, case
studies provide the reader with real-life examples to help increase
recognition of various Bipolar presentations beyond the stark
black-and-white diagnostic criteria of the DSM and ICD.
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Relation between Sleep and
Learning in Early Development, Volume 60, the latest release in
this ongoing series, focuses on the relationship between sleep and
learning for research and practice. Specific chapters cover Sleep,
Learning, Memory and Executive Functioning in Infancy and Early
Childhood, Newly walking infants' night sleep impacts next day
learning and problem solving, The effect of napping and night-time
sleep on memory in infants, The contribution of good sleep to
working memory in 2- to 4-year-olds: A matter of duration or
regulation?, Sleep development in preschool predicts executive
functioning in early elementary school, and more.
Music and the Aging Brain describes brain functioning in aging and
addresses the power of music to protect the brain from loss of
function and how to cope with the ravages of brain diseases that
accompany aging. By studying the power of music in aging through
the lens of neuroscience, behavioral, and clinical science, the
book explains brain organization and function. Written for those
researching the brain and aging, the book provides solid examples
of research fundamentals, including rigorous standards for sample
selection, control groups, description of intervention activities,
measures of health outcomes, statistical methods, and logically
stated conclusions.
Tracing emotions across work, leisure, social media, and politics,
Practical Feelings counters old myths and shows how emotions are
practical resources for tackling individual and collective
challenges. We do not usually think of our emotions as practical -
often they are nuisances to overcome, momentary mysteries to solve,
or fleeting sensations to savor before getting back to the business
of living. But emotions interlace the practical elements of daily
life. In Practical Feelings, Marci D. Cottingham develops a theory
of emotion as practical resources. By integrating the sociology of
emotion with practice theory, Cottingham covers diverse areas of
social life to show the range of an emotion practice approach and
trace how emotions are put to use in divergent domains. Spanning
work, leisure, digital interactions, and the political sphere,
Cottingham portrays nurses, sports fans, social media users, and
political actors in more complex, holistic ways. Practical Feelings
provides the conceptual tools needed to examine emotions as effort,
energy, and embodied resources that calibrate us to the social
world.
Software Simulation and Modeling in Psychology: MATLAB, SPSS, Excel
and E-Prime describes all the stages of psychology experimentation,
from the manipulation of factors, to statistical analysis, data
modeling, and automated stimuli creation. The book shows how
software can help automate various stages of the experiment for
which operations may quickly become repetitive. For example, it
shows how to compile data files (instead of opening files one by
one to copy and paste), generate stimuli (instead of drawing one by
one in a drawing software), and transform and recode tables of
data. This type of modeling in psychology helps determine if a
model fits the data, and also demonstrates that the algorithmic is
not only useful, but essential for modeling data.
Language, Volume 68, the latest release in the Psychology of
Learning and Motivation, features empirical and theoretical
contributions in cognitive and experimental psychology, ranging
from classical and instrumental conditioning, to complex learning
and problem-solving. Each chapter thoughtfully integrates the
writings of leading contributors, with this volume presenting the
latest on Perceptual Learning for Native and Non-Native Speech,
Common representations of serial order in language and memory,
Neurocomputational Emergentism as a framework for language
development, Syntactic adaptation, Neural indices of structured
sentence representation: state-of-the-art, A review of familial
sinistrality and language, Monitoring and control in language
production, and more.
International Review of Research in Developmental Disabilities,
Volume 54 shares the latest research on the interactions between
families of individuals with intellectual and developmental
disabilities and service delivery systems. Chapters discuss
Strengthening service access for children of color with autism
spectrum disorders, Assessing the service impact of early
intervention on young children with IDD and their families,
Family-professional partnership with refugee families whose
children have disabilities, Post high school transition for
individuals with Down syndrome, Supporting families and school
professionals to be engaged partners in the transition to adulthood
for young adults with disabilities, amongst other timely topics.
International Review of Research in Developmental Disabilities,
Volume 55, provides a scholarly look at research on the causes,
effects, classification systems and syndromes of developmental
disabilities. Chapters in this new release include topics such as,
Sensory Dysfunction Across Developmental Disabilities, The Role of
natural communication partners in early communicate interventions
for children with IDD, Adult employment in ID, The Future of
Interventions to Foster Early Motor Development in Children with
IDD, Developmental Perspectives of Problem Behaviors in DD.
Contributors in this ongoing series come from wide-ranging
perspectives, including genetics, psychology, education, and other
health and behavioral sciences.
Cerebral Lateralization and Cognition: Evolutionary and
Developmental Investigations of Motor Biases, Volume 238, the
latest release in the Progress in Brain Research series, discusses
interdisciplinary research on the influence of cerebral
lateralization on cognition within an evolutionary framework.
Chapters of note in this release include Evolutionary Perspectives:
Visual/Motor Biases and Cognition, Manual laterality and cognition
through evolution: An archeological perspective, Laterality in
insects, Motor asymmetries in fish, amphibians and reptiles, Visual
biases and social cognition in animals, Mother and offspring
lateralized social interaction across animal species, Manual bias,
personality and cognition in common marmosets and other primates,
and more.
Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 57, the latest
release in this highly cited series in the field, contains
contributions of major empirical and theoretical interest that
represent the best and brightest in new research, theory and
practice in social psychology. Topics discussed in this new release
include the Consequences of Thought Speed, Attitudes Towards
Science, What Makes Moral Disgust Special? An Integrative
Functional Review, the Psychological Roots of Inequality: How
Hierarchical Processes Produce and Perpetuate the Class Divide, and
a section on Contextualized Attitude Change, amongst other timely
topics. This serial is part of the Social Sciences package on
ScienceDirect, and is available online beginning with Volume 32.
This volume's precursor, Community Psychology: Analysis, context, and action, was published in 2007 and has been updated to reflect the many dramatic events and changes since then, including the impact of Covid-19, countless disasters related to climate change, and rapid technological advances-all events and changes that have impacted the dynamics and wellbeing of communities to varying degrees. There have also been significant changes in the field of community psychology itself-such as the field's increasing focus on decolonisation, climate justice, and digital spaces as spaces of community mobilisation. The current volume, Community Psychology: Global crises, local realities, and action, reflects these changes. This volume was developed with two key objectives in mind. The first, to provide readers with a comprehensive, diverse, and wide-ranging collection of insights, debates, and research on key theoretical, analytical, teaching, learning, and action-oriented approaches in community psychology. The second, to promote collaboration between community psychology students, researchers, activists, and others across geographical and national boundaries, given the reality and possibilities of increasing global interconnectedness
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