Using a novel organizational framework, one that emphasizes domains of knowledge about human nature, this trusted text presents the field of contemporary personality psychology as a collection of interrelated topics and themes. The emphasis, as always, is on the scientific basis of understanding human nature. The fourth edition continues to answer the needs of instructors by co...(展开全部)

H elps students relate current research in the field of personality psychology to their daily lives. This book introduces students to the basic foundations and latest findings by presenting the fundamental questions, accumulated knowledge, and latest findings in genetics, neuroscience, traits, self and identity, intrapsychic aspects, regulation, motivation, and c...(展开全部)

H elps students relate current research in the field of personality psychology to their daily lives. This book introduces students to the basic foundations and latest findings by presenting the fundamental questions, accumulated knowledge, and latest findings in genetics, neuroscience, traits, self and identity, intrapsychic aspects, regulation, motivation, and c...(展开全部)

Wilson is a sophisticated and marvelously humane writer. His vision is a liberating one, and a reader of this splendid book comes away with a sense of the kinship that exists among the people, animals, and insects that share the planet. (New Yorker 20041219) Compellingly interesting and enormously important...The most stimulating, the most provocative, and the most illuminating...(展开全部)

Wilson is a sophisticated and marvelously humane writer. His vision is a liberating one, and a reader of this splendid book comes away with a sense of the kinship that exists among the people, animals, and insects that share the planet. (New Yorker 20041219) Compellingly interesting and enormously important...The most stimulating, the most provocative, and the most illuminating...(展开全部)

Anybody in science, if there are enough anybodies, can find the answer—it’s an Easter-egg hunt. That isn’t the idea. The idea is: Can you ask the question in such a way as to facilitate the answer? —GERALD EDELMAN Even if, ultimately, everything turns out to be connected to everything else, a research program rooted in that realization might well collapse of its own weight. —HO...(展开全部)

Positive Psychology: The Scientific and Practical Explorations of Human Strengths comprehensively covers the science and application of positive psychology. Authors Shane J. Lopez, Jennifer Teramoto Pedrotti, and C. R. Snyder bring positive psychology to life by illustrating issues such as how psychological strength can help increase positive outcomes in school and the workplac...(展开全部)

Shelley E. Taylor is Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles. She received her Ph.D. in social psychology from Yale University. After a visiting professorship at Yale and assistant and associate professorships at Harvard University, she joined the faculty of UCLA. Her research interests concern the psychological and social factors tha...(展开全部)

This eighth edition of "Health Psychology" highlights health issues that face the college student and his or her family through both accessible research examples and profiles of interventions. It also highlights health issues relevant to the college student's immediate and global environment with both accessible research examples and profiles of interventions. This edition cont...(展开全部)

The seventh edition of "Health Psychology" highlights health issues that face the college student and his or her family through both accessible research examples and profiles of interventions. It also highlights health issues relevant to the college student's immediate and global environment with both accessible research examples and profiles of interventions. This edition cont...(展开全部)