Conversation Analysis and Psychotherapy

• Edited by Anssi Peräkylä
• Psychotherapy is a ‘talking cure’- clients voice their troubles to therapists, who listen, prompt, question, interpret and generally try to engage in a positive and rehabilitating conversation with their clients. Using the sophisticated theoretical and methodological apparatus of Conversation Analysis - a radical approach to how language in interaction works - this book sheds light on the subtle and minutely-organised sequences of speech in psychotherapeutic sessions.

From Teams to Knots
Studies of Collaboration and Learning at Work

• Yrjö Engeström
• Teams are commonly celebrated as efficient and humane ways of organizing work and learning. By means of a series of in-depth case studies of teams in the United States and Finland over a time span of more than ten years, this book shows that teams are not a universal and a historical form of collaboration.

The Nature of Hate

• Robert J. Sternberg and Karin Sternberg
• What is hate and why is there so much of it? How does it originate, and what can we do about it? These are some of the questions addressed in The Nature of Hate. This book opens with a discussion of how hate makes its presence felt in the real world.

The Cambridge Handbook of Computational Psychology

• Edited by Ron Sun
• This book is a definitive reference source for the growing, increasingly more important, and interdisciplinary field of computational cognitive modeling, that is, computational psychology.

Rigorous Mathematical Thinking
Conceptual Formation in the Mathematics Classroom

• James T. Kinard
• This book demonstrates how rigorous mathematical thinking can be fostered through the development of students’ cognitive tools and operations. Though this approach can be applied in any classroom, it seems to be particularly effective with socially disadvantaged and culturally different students.

The Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory of Personality

• Edited by Philip J. Corr
• One of the major neuropsychological models of personality, developed by world-renowned psychologist Professor Jeffrey Gray, is based upon individual differences in reactions to punishing and rewarding stimuli.

Reasoning
Studies of Human Inference and its Foundations

• Edited by Jonathan Adler
• This interdisciplinary work is a collection of major essays on reasoning: deductive, inductive, abductive, belief revision, defeasible (non-monotonic), cross cultural, conversational, and argumentative.

Psychological Aspects of Cyberspace
Theory, Research, Applications

• Edited by Azy Barak
• Hundreds of millions of people across the world use the Internet every day. Its functions vary, from shopping and banking to chatting and dating. From a psychological perspective, the Internet has become a major vehicle for interpersonal communication that can significantly affect people’s decisions, behaviors, attitudes and emotions.

Communicating Social Support

• Daena J. Goldsmith
• We often turn to our friends, family, spouses, and partners for help in coping with daily stress or major crises. Daena Goldsmith provides a communication-based approach for understanding why some conversations about problems are more helpful than others.

Communicating Affection
Interpersonal Behavior and Social Context

• Kory Floyd
• Few behavioral processes are more central to the development and maintenance of intimate relationships than the communication of affection. Indeed, affectionate expressions often initiate and accelerate relational development.

The Cambridge Handbook of Psychology and Economic Behaviour

• Edited by Alan Lewis
• Psychologists have been observing and interpreting economic behaviour for at least fifty years, and the last decade, in particular, has seen an escalated interest in the interface between psychology and economics. The Cambridge Handbook of Psychology and Economic Behaviour is a valuable reference resource dedicated to improving our understanding of the economic mind and economic behaviour.

The Psychology of Genocide
Perpetrators, Bystanders, and Rescuers

• Steven K. Baum
• Genocide has tragically claimed the lives of over 262 million victims in the last century. Jews, Armenians, Cambodians, Darfurians, Kosovons, Rwandans, the list seems endless. Clinical psychologist Steven K. Baum sets out to examine the psychological patterns to these atrocities.

Memory In Autism
Theory and Evidence

• Edited by Jill Boucher
• Many people with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) are remarkably proficient at remembering how things look and sound, even years after an event. They are also good at rote learning and establishing habits and routines.

Evolutionary Psychology
An Introduction

• Lance Workman
• Evolutionary psychology starts from the premise that the human brain is the product of natural selection; therefore, by adopting an evolutionary stance, we might come to better understand the mind and behaviour.

The Cambridge Handbook of Metaphor and Thought

• Edited by Raymond Gibbs
• The Cambridge Handbook of Metaphor and Thought offers the most comprehensive collection of essays in multidisciplinary metaphor scholarship that has ever been published. These essays explore the significance of metaphor in language, thought, culture, and artistic expression.

Echoes of the Trauma
Relationship Themes and Emotions in the Narratives of the Children of Holocaust Survivors

• Hadas Wiseman
• This book discusses the echoes of the trauma that are traced in the relational narratives that the sons and daughters of Holocaust survivors tell about their experiences growing up in survivor families.

Artificial Dreams

• Hamid R. Ekbia
• This book is a critique of Artificial Intelligence (AI) from the perspective of cognitive science – it seeks to examine what we have learned about human cognition from AI successes and failures.

Assessment, Equity, and Opportunity to Learn

• Edited by Pamela Moss

• This book offers educators, researchers, and policy analysts new to sociocultural perspectives a readable and engaging introduction to fresh ideas for conceptualizing, enhancing, and assessing OTL; encourages those who already draw on sociocultural resources to focus attention on OTL and assessment; and nurtures collaboration among members of discourse communities who have rarely engaged one another’s work.

The Others Within Us

• Dan Bar-On
• Dan Bar-On’s psychosocial approach sees identity as dynamic, constructed in contra-distinction to various “Others.” Drawing parallels to other societies, he looks closely at identity formation among Israelis, more precisely, among the largely secular Jews from European lands who formed the hegemonic backbone of Israeli society.

The Normal Personality

A New Way of Thinking About People

Steven Reiss

Many Psychologists regard personality and mental illness as closely related. The shadow of Freudian analysis looms over modern psychopathology, driving many psychologists to try to understand their clients' personal troubles and personalities using constructs developed to study mental illness.

What is Intelligence?

Beyond the Flynn Effect

• James R. Flynn
• Professor James Flynn is one of the most creative and influential psychologists in the field of intelligence. The 'Flynn Effect' refers to the massive increase in IQ test scores over the course of the twentieth century and the term was coined to recognize Professor Flynn's central role in measuring and analyzing these gains.

Cognition and Multi-Agent Interaction
From Cognitive Modeling to Social Simulation

• Ron Sun
• This book explores the intersection between cognitive sciences and social sciences. In particular, it explores the intersection between individual cognitive modeling and modeling of multi-agent interaction (social stimulation).

Therapy After Terror
9/11, Psychotherapists, and Mental Health

• Karen M. Seeley

• Therapy After Terror examines the 2001 World Trade Center attack from the perspectives of New York City mental health professionals who treated the psychologically wounded following the attack.

The Culture of Morality
Social Development, Context, and Conflict

• Elliot Turiel
• The Culture of Morality examines how explanations of social and moral development inform our understandings of morality and culture. A common theme in the latter part of the twentieth century has been to lament the moral state of American society and the decline of morality among youth.