From Foundations to Applications

Edited by Ward Edwards, Ralph Miles, Detlof von Winterfeldt

By framing issues, identifying risks, eliciting stakeholder preferences, and suggesting alternative approaches, decision analysts can offer workable solutions in domains ...

Paul Martin, Patrick Bateson

This eagerly awaited third edition of the market leader in behaviour analysis deals with the principles involved in the direct ...

A Philosophy of Mindfulness and Somaesthetics

Richard Shusterman

Contemporary culture increasingly suffers from problems of attention, over-stimulation, and stress, and a variety of personal and social discontents generated ...

Edited by Jaan Valsiner, Alberto Rosa

The first handbook of socio-cultural pyschology to deal with such a variety of themes and wide international scope. Valsiner and ...

Universality and Variation

Zoltán Kövecses

To what extent and in what ways is metaphorical thought relevant to an understanding of culture and society? More specifically: ...

Edited by Sarah Lichtenstein, Paul Slovic

When asked to make a decision, people often don't really know what they want; they must construct their preferences ...

William M. Ramsey

Cognitive representation is the most important explanatory notion in the sciences of the mind. This book critically examines the ways ...

Edited by Louis Schmidt, Sidney Segalowitz

Developmental psychophysiology is a rapidly growing field. It holds the key to forming the interface between structure and function necessary ...

The Perspective of Biocultural Co-Constructivism

Edited by Paul B. Baltes, Patricia A. Reuter-Lorenz, Frank Rosler

The brain as the dominant actor in the determination of human behavior is at risk of fostering the view that ...

Linguistic, Cultural and Social Perspectives

Edited by N. J. Enfield, Tanya Stivers

How do we refer to people in everyday conversation? In every language we must choose from a range of options ...

Earl Hunt

The book is intended as an introduction to the use of mathematical thinking in the social and behavioral sciences. It ...

Edited by Ursula Hess, Pierre Philippot

Do smiles and frowns mean the same thing when shown by a man or a woman, a manager or an ...

An Evolutionary Perspective

Edited by Volker Sommer, Paul L. Vasey

Homosexual behaviour is widespread throughout the animal kingdom. Homosexual Behaviour in Animals seeks to examine the evolutionary aspects of same-sex ...

Hanne Andersen, Peter Barker, Xiang Chen

Thomas Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions became the most widely read book about science in the twentieth century. In this ...

A Practical Guide for the Field

Edited by Gillian H. Ice, Gary D. James

The purpose of this book is to present state-of-the-art non-invasive methods of measuring the biological responses to psychosocial stress in ...