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Cambridge University Press has a long tradition of producing prestigious books within Psychology. Subjects range from social and cultural psychology to cognition and personality. We are currently undergoing a significant expansion and are committed to publishing the highest quality monographs, textbooks, handbooks, popular trade titles and reference books across the full spectrum of the discipline.

The Freud Files

An Inquiry into the History of Psychoanalysis

Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen, Sonu Shamdasani

This book shows how psychoanalysis attained its prominent cultural position, not through surmounting its rivals, but through rescripting history.

$24.99 (G)

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Are We Getting Smarter?

Rising IQ in the Twenty-First Century

James R. Flynn

IQ gains are persisting into the 21st century, particularly in the developing world: the 'Flynn effect' marches on! This exciting new book by James R. Flynn aims to make sense of the continued rise in IQ scores and considers what this tells us about our intelligence, our minds and society.

$22.00 (A)

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Human Learning and Memory

David A. Lieberman

Focusing on humans rather than animals, this is the first textbook to integrate learning and memory, behaviour and cognition.

$55.00 (X)

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Good Thinking

Seven Powerful Ideas That Influence the Way We Think

Denise Cummins

Do you know what economists mean when they refer to you as a "rational agent"? Or why a psychologist might label your idea a "creative insight"? After reading this book, you will know how the best and brightest thinkers judge the ways we decide, argue, solve problems, and tell right from wrong.