Cognition and cognitive psychology

This brief, accessible treatise harnesses the neurophysiological processes of learning to create an innovative and powerful approach to therapy.

Thisvolume presents a Type Theory of Law (TTL), claiming that this is a uniquetheory of law that stems from the philosophical understanding of Jung spsychological types applied to the phenomenon of law.

This book critically evaluates the popular notion that today's society is suffering from 'sleep debt', or what Horne calls 'societal insomnia' - an apparent chronic loss of sleep, which can lead to obesity and related physical and mental disorders including heart disease.

This handbook offers the first comprehensive reference guide to the interdisciplinary field of model-based reasoning.

This exciting volume brings together leading figures across existential psychology in a clear-sighted guide to its current practice and therapeutic possibilities.

This ambitious and accessible guide reviews innovative technologies enhancing the field of neuropsychological testing.

This volume is a collection of researchstudies on the modeling of emotions in complex autonomous systems.

This eye-opening text brings together research from behavioral science, neuroscience, and other fields to make a cogent case for emotions acting as a practical framework for living our lives.

A more nuanced perspective on cognition, behavior,personality, and pathology.

This book addresses the fundamentals of machine ethics.

This book focuses on the importance of adaptation and personalization in today's society and the upgraded role computational systems and the Internet play in our day-to-day activities.

In this thorough revision, updating, and expansion of his great 2007 book, Empathy in Patient Care, Professor Hojat offers all of us in healthcare education an uplifting magnum opus that is sure to greatly enhance how we conceptualize, measure, and teach the central professional virtue of empathy.

This book reassesses the seminal work of Wilhelm Wundt by discussing the history and philosophy of psychology.

This volume offers a look at the fundamental issues of present and future AI, especially from cognitive science, computer science, neuroscience and philosophy.

This book examines how and why collaborative quality assurance techniques, particularly pair programming and peer code review, affect group cognition and software quality in agile software development teams.

This book presents a collection of authoritative contributions on the concept of time in early twentieth-century philosophy.

This intriguing book was born out of the many discussions the authors had in the past 10 years about the role of scale-free structure and dynamics in producing intelligent behavior in brains.

This magistral treatise approaches the integration of psychology through the study of the multiple causes of normal and dysfunctional behavior.

This volume presents a knowledge-based approach to concept-level sentiment analysis at the crossroads between affective computing, information extraction, and common-sense computing, which exploits both computer and social sciences to better interpret and process information on the Web.

This volume offers very selected papers from the 2014 conference of the "e;International Association for Computing and Philosophy"e; (IACAP) - a conference tradition of 28 years.

This volume combines psycholinguistic experiments with typological investigations in order to provide a comprehensive exploration of the linguistic structure of verb-number agreement in bilingual speakers, with a particular focus on the Turkish language.

This brief but potent reference combines cognitive-behavioral and rational-emotive theory and techniques in an effective group program for parents of children with externalizing disorders.

This book explores how digital technology is altering the relationships between people and how the very nature of interface itself needs to be reconsidered to reflect this - how we can make sense of each other, handle ambiguities, negotiate differences, empathise and collectively make skilled judgments in our modern society.

This multidisciplinary volume offers insights on oral and written language development and how it takes place in literate societies.

social neuroscience, social psychology, developmental, psychology, social cognition, vision research and clinical psychology.

This book clarifies the role and relevance of the body in social interaction and cognition from an embodied cognitive science perspective.

"e;Di Iorio offers a new approach to Hayek's Sensory Order, linking neuroscience to the old Verstehen tradition and to contemporary theories of self-organizing systems; this should be on the reading list of everyone who is interested in Hayek's thought.

Providing a methodology for evaluating indoor thermal comfort with a focus on children, this book presents an in-depth examination of children's perceptions of comfort.

This clinical guide reviews the basics of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy and presents a quartet of tested protocols for treating anxiety disorders in children and adults.

This book focuses on the very nature and function of intuitive thought.

This book proposes an applied epistemological framework for investigating science, social cognition and religious thinking based on inferential patterns that recur in the different domains.

The book questions two key dichotomies: that of the apparent and real, and that of the internal and external.

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

Using a wealth of anecdotes, data from academic literature, and original research, this very accessible little book highlights how we all struggle to cope with the maelstrom of choices, influences and experiences that come our way.

This pioneering volume brings a rarely-studied population--wives and girlfriends of men who molest children--into the clear focus necessary to understand the dynamics of these disturbed families.

This book argues that in order to be truly effective, public health must embrace a group of reasoning strategies that have traditionally been characterized as informal fallacies.

This book details the state-of-the-art of research and development in design computing and design cognition.

This book looks at causative reasons behind creative acts and stylistic expressions.

This visionary work explores the sensitive balance between the personal and private aspects of grief, the social and cultural variables that unite communities in bereavement, and the universal experience of loss.

This wide-ranging collection demonstrates the continuing impact of evolutionary thinking on social psychology research.

What are the limitations of computer models and why do we still not have working models of people that are recognizably human?

This volume explores the role and status of phenomena such as feelings, values, willing, and action in the domain of perception and (social) cognition, as well as the way in which they are related.

This book explores the basic concept of agency and develops it further in psychology using it to better understand and explain psychological processes and behavior.

Verbs play an important role in how events, states and other "e;happenings"e; are mentally represented and how they are expressed in natural language.

Based on decades of established research findings in cognitive and developmental psychology, this volume explores and integrates the leading scientific advances into infancy and brain-memory linkages as well as autobiographical and strategic memory.

This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction into the areas of human action planning and action control.

This proceedings volume gathers a selection of papers presented at the Fifth International Conference on High Performance Scientific Computing, which took place in Hanoi on March 5-9, 2012.

For all our knowledge of psychopathology and sociopathology--and despite endless examinations of abuse and torture, mass murder and genocide--we still don't have a real handle on why evil exists, where it derives from, or why it is so ubiquitous.

This book combines a scholarly introduction with state-of-the-art research in the characterization of Internet addiction.

This book connects seminal work in affect research and moves forward to provide a developing perspective on affect as the "e;decisive variable"e; of the mathematics classroom.