Cognition and cognitive psychology

Karl Albrecht defines social intelligence (SI) as the ability to get along well with others while winning their cooperation.

Brings anthropology, psychology and economics together through real examples to explore economic life and the human experience.

Given two events, both of which are well remembered, can we specify which event occurred first?

This book defends a novel view of mental representation-of how, as thinkers, we represent the world as being.

Neuroscience for Addiction Medicine: From Prevention to Rehabilitation: Constructs and Drugs is the latest volume from Progress in Brain Research focusing on new trends and developments in addiction research.

Individuals of Asian descent are a demographic often overlooked in mainstream body image scholarship.

Originally published in 1971, this book was a critical introduction to the psychology of human development, learning and assessment.

In The Memory System of the Brain, eminent neurobiologist J.

We live in a world of stories; yet few of us pause to ask what stories actually are, why we consume them so avidly, and what they do for story makers and their audiences.

Although scientists have discovered many fundamental physiological and behavioral mechanisms that comprise the stress response, most of current knowledge is based on laboratory experiments using domesticated or captive animals.

This unique contribution to the field of education offers a comparative look at the application of cognitive theory to instruction.

How does a visual artist manage to narrate a story, which has a sequential and therefore temporal progression, using a static medium consisting solely of spatial sign elements and, what is more, in a single image?

The Clinician's Guide to Treating Health Anxiety: Diagnosis, Mechanisms, and Effective Treatment provides mental health professionals with methods to better identify patients with health anxiety, the basic skills to manage it, and ways to successfully adapt cognitive behavioral therapy to treat it.

Originally published in 1966, the two authors combined skill in their subject with experience of teaching it to students in Africa and elsewhere.

The Whole Person explores the realms of theory and philosophy concerning minds and persons.

This book is the first to map and critically analyse the legalisation of EU-Japan cooperation in criminal justice matters, charting the existing legal instruments which regulate cooperation in the fight against crime between European states and Japan.

This volume in the Vancouver Studies in Cognitive Science series concerns metarepresentation: the construction and use of representations that represent other representations.

This book focusses on the theory and application of 'time perspective theory'.

Drawing on a vast range of previously classified government archives as well as interviews with key participants, this first volume of the official history of the Falklands Campaign is the most authoritative account of the origins of the 1982 war.

Originally published in 1989, much was known about blindness, but the field was divided into specialties.

Can you learn without knowing it?

Originally published in 1988, the purpose of this book was to explore the interrelations among communication, social cognition and affect.

This is the first hands-on methods guide for second-language (L2) reading research.

A common question posed to PhD students from friends and family is, "e;What will you do after?

This book provides in-depth description, explanation, and discussion of goal frustration.

This second edition book provides an update to multicultural psychology and counseling research findings, and the DSM-5 in sociopolitical and cultural contexts.

This volume uses unique properties of Chinese script to focus on morphological analyses during the character and word recognition process, though some of the reported work also pertains to the use of phonological information.

Shame and shame reactions are two of the most delicate and difficult issues of psychotherapy and are among the most likely to defy our usual dynamic, systemic, and behavioral theories.

What are the grounds for the distinction between the mental and the physical?

Performing Interdisciplinarity proposes new ways of engaging with performance as it crosses, collides with, integrates and/or disturbs other disciplinary concerns.

In this Element we discuss the role of perceptual processes in social contexts, and how they might facilitate joint action.

* Gold Medal Winner in the Psychology / Mental Health Category of the 2011 IPPY Awards ** Silver Medal Winner in the 2010 BOTYA Awards Psychology Category *Savant syndrome is a rare condition in which individuals with developmental disorders, including autism spectrum disorders, have one or more areas of expertise, ability, or brilliance - "e;islands of genius"e; - that exist in contrast with their overall limitations.

Parent's Quick Start Guide to Dyslexia provides parents and caregivers with an immediate overview of dyslexia and steps they can take to support and encourage their child.

This book argues that positivism, though now the dominant paradigm for both the natural and the human sciences, is intrinsically unfit for the latter.

Analyzing a Long Dream Series provides an extraordinary insight into the richness and variability of dreams, considering over 12,000 dreams that have been recorded for more than 30 years.

'This book is Masterful, Evidence-based, Memorable, Operational, Readable, and the best book for You on memory.

Fundamentals of Cognitive Neuroscience is a comprehensive and easy-to-follow guide to cognitive neuroscience.

Research on metaphor has been dominated by Aristotelian questions of processes in metaphor understanding.

This study of the workings of neural networks in perception and understanding of situations and simple sentences shows that, and how, distributed conceptual constituents are bound together in episodes within an interactive/dynamic architecture of sensorial and pre-motor maps, and maps of conceptual indicators (semantic memory) and individuating indicators (historical, episodic memory).

This book bridges the gap between models of human behavior that are based on cognitive task analysis and those based on neural networks.

THE STUDENT EQEDGE Facilitation and Activity Guide This Facilitation and Activity Guide is a companion to the book The Student EQ Edge: Emotional Intelligence and Your Academic and Personal Success .

Our self-conception derives mostly from our own experience.

This book argues that positivism, though now the dominant paradigm for both the natural and the human sciences, is intrinsically unfit for the latter.

This definitive volume provides state-of-the-art summaries of current research by leading specialists in different areas of cognitive development.

Creativity and coaching are two of the buzzwords of the twenty-first century and yet little is known about how to coach creativity.

In the highly politicized memory space of postwar South Korea, many families have been deprived of their right to mourn loved ones lost in the Korean War.

Presents ways to perceive seemingly insurmountable challenges as doable, using case studies, verified theory, and practical hints.

Poetry is the most complex and intricate of human language used across all languages and cultures.

People backslide.