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)

Starting with its origins in the work of Charles Darwin, the book covers all the key areas of evolutionary psychology, including the role played by genetics in our sexual behavior, parental decision-making, and how babies learn about and adapt to the world.

Starting with its origins in the work of Charles Darwin, the book covers all the key areas of evolutionary psychology, including the role played by genetics in our sexual behavior, parental decision-making, and how babies learn about and adapt to the world.

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)

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)

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)

In "Psychology and the Human Dilemma," Rollo May, the distinguished psychoanalyst, presents his penetrating views of the conflicts involved in being a person in our modern socitey. Here he deals with man's loss of identity in the contemporary world, the sources of his anxiety, and the ultimate paradox of the concepts of freedom and responsibility. Even as he acknowledges that t...(展开全部)

罗洛•梅（1909－1994），美国存在心理学家和人本主义心理学家。1930年获得奥柏林学院文学学士学位，1938年获得纽约联合神学院神学学士学位，1949年获得哥伦比亚大学临床心理学博士学位。先后在怀特研究院和纽约社会研究新学院长期工作。获得过美国心理学会的临床心理学科学和职业杰出贡献奖和美国心理学基金会的心理学终身成就奖章等奖励。出版了《咨询的艺术》、《焦虑的意义》、《人的自我寻求》、《存在》、《爱与意志》、《权力与无知》、《创造的勇气》、《自由与命运》、《存在之发现》和《祈望神话》等20多部著作。

- Invites the reader to explore the exciting boundaries of science - Provides an energetic romp through some of the most fascinating problems in evolutionary biology and psychology - Addresses questions such as why religion is a cross-cultural universal and why do humans love the arts? Why do men have shorter lifespans, and why do women have orgasms? For all that science knows ...(展开全部)