For courses in Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Engineering Psychology, Human Performance, Human Information Processing, and Applied Cognitive Psychology. This text presents both a formal and intuitive understanding of how humans process information in the performance of tasks-highlighting the strengths and limitations, as well as methods, of performance. Equal emphasis i...(展开全部)

Forming connections between human performance and design Engineering Psychology and Human Performance, 4e examines human-machine interaction. The book is organized directly from the psychological perspective of human information processing. The chapters generally correspond to the flow of information as it is processed by a human being--from the senses, through the brain, to ac...(展开全部)

Why do people resort to plastic surgery to look young? Why are stepchildren at greatest risk of fatal abuse? Why do we prefer gossip to algebra? Why must Dogon wives live alone in a dark hut for five days a month? Why are young children good at learning language but not sharing? Over the past decade, psychologists and behavioral ecologists have been finding answers to such se...(展开全部)

This book describes the capabilities and limitations of the human operator—both physical and mental—and how these should be used to guide the design of systems with which people interact. General principles of human-system interaction and design are presented, and included are specific examples of successful and unsuccessful interactions. It links theories of human performance ...(展开全部)

罗伯特 A.巴隆 (Robert A. baron) Rensselaer工艺学院的心理学教授和惠灵顿管理学教授。他于1968年在爱荷华大学获得博士学位。Baron教授曾任教于普渡大学、明厄尼苏达大学、得克萨斯大学、南卡罗来纳大学和普林斯顿大学。1982年他曾任牛津大学访问学者。1979至1981年他就任位于首都华盛顿的国家科学基金主任。他是美国心理协会会员，也是美国心理学会的会员。2001年， 他被法国政府任命为特邀资深研究员，在法国Tolouse的des sciences osciales大学担任此职。 尼拉 R.布兰斯科姆 (Nyla R.Branscombe) 美国堪萨斯大学心理学教授，普渡大学心理学博士，曾荣获美国心理学会社会与人格分会年度最佳出版奖，现为《社会与人格心理学》杂志副主编。 ...(展开全部)

罗伯特 A.巴隆 (Robert A. baron) Rensselaer工艺学院的心理学教授和惠灵顿管理学教授。他于1968年在爱荷华大学获得博士学位。Baron教授曾任教于普渡大学、明厄尼苏达大学、得克萨斯大学、南卡罗来纳大学和普林斯顿大学。1982年他曾任牛津大学访问学者。1979至1981年他就任位于首都华盛顿的国家科学基金主任。他是美国心理协会会员，也是美国心理学会的会员。2001年， 他被法国政府任命为特邀资深研究员，在法国Tolouse的des sciences osciales大学担任此职。 尼拉 R.布兰斯科姆 (Nyla R.Branscombe) 美国堪萨斯大学心理学教授，普渡大学心理学博士，曾荣获美国心理学会社会与人格分会年度最佳出版奖，现为《社会与人格心理学》杂志副主编。 ...(展开全部)

Arriving in the United States at age twenty-seven, Hungarian-born Paul Henry Lang (1901-1991) went on to exert a powerful influence on musical life and scholarship in his adopted country for more than six decades. As professor of musicology at Columbia University, editor of the Musical Quarterly, a founder of the American Musicological Society, and chief music critic of the New...(展开全部)

Remediating deficits and managing disabilities has been a central preoccupation for clinical psychologists. Positive Psychology, in contrast, is concerned with the enhancement of happiness and well-being, involving the scientific study of the role of personal strengths and positive social systems in the promotion of optimal wellbeing. Alan Carr's Positive Psychology has become ...(展开全部)

Remediating deficits and managing disabilities has been a central preoccupation for clinical psychologists. Positive Psychology, in contrast, is concerned with the enhancement of happiness and well-being, involving the scientific study of the role of personal strengths and positive social systems in the promotion of optimal wellbeing. Alan Carr's Positive Psychology has become ...(展开全部)

The first book to reveal and dissect the technical aspect of many social engineering maneuvers From elicitation, pretexting, influence and manipulation all aspects of social engineering are picked apart, discussed and explained by using real world examples, personal experience and the science behind them to unraveled the mystery in social engineering. Kevin Mitnick...(展开全部)