Название: Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life (Masterminds Series)
Автор: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Издательство: Basic Books
Год: 1998
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 97
Размер: 33 MB
Язык: English

I didn't realize that this wasn't the first of the Flow books when I ordered it. Otherwise I would not have bothered. Csikszentmihalyi's work had been recommended to me by a friend.

I have a feeling I would have gotten much more out of this had I read Flow first. As it was, this felt to me like a patchwork of ideas, anecdotes and research fragments about an idea that the author assumed I already knew at least a little bit about. My fault, not his, probably. Some of it was interesting.

Название: Statistics in Psychology: An Historical Perspective
Автор: Michael Cowles
Издательство: Psychology Press
Год: 2000
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 277
Размер: 14 MB
Язык: English

This book presents an historical overview of the field--from its development to the present--at an accessible mathematical level. This edition features two new chapters--one on factor analysis and the other on the rise of ANOVA usage in psychological research. Written for psychology, as well as other social science students, this book introduces the major personalities and their roles in the development of the field. It provides insight into the disciplines of statistics and experimental design through the examination of the character of its founders and the nature of their views, which were sometimes personal and ideological, rather than objective and scientific. It motivates further study by illustrating the human component of this field, adding dimension to an area that is typically very technical. Intended for advanced undergraduate and/or graduate students in psychology and other social sciences, this book will also be of interest to instructors and/or researchers interested in the origins of this omnipresent discipline.

Название: The Psychology of Humor: An Integrative Approach
Автор: Rod A. Martin
Издательство: Academic Press
Год: 2006
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 444
Размер: 15 MB
Язык: English

Research on humor is carried out in a number of areas in psychology, including the cognitive (What makes something funny?), developmental (when do we develop a sense of humor?), and social (how is humor used in social interactions?) Although there is enough interest in the area to have spawned several societies, the literature is dispersed in a number of primary journals, with little in the way of integration of the material into a book. Dr. Martin is one of the best known researchers in the area, and his research goes across subdisciplines in psychology to be of wide appeal.

Название: The Psychology of Money: An Investment Manager's Guide to Beating the Market (Wiley Finance)
Автор: Jim Ware
Издательство: Wiley
Год: 2000
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 272
Размер: 2 MB
Язык: English

Discover the Ideal Investment Strategy for Yourself and Your Clients"To enhance investment results and boost creativity, Jim Ware replaces the maxim know your investments with know yourself. And he gives us specific testing tools to do the job."-Dean LeBaron, Founder, Batterymarch Financial Management, Chairman, Virtualquest.company, and investment author and commentator"Many investment firms fail, even though they are run by intelligent, qualified professionals, because they lack creativity. This book can rescue you. Jim Ware explains how to organize your business to encourage creative thinking.

Название: Creativity, Psychology and the History of Science
Автор: Howard E. Gruber, Katja Bodeker
Издательство: Springer
Год: 2005
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 532
Размер: 2 MB
Язык: English

Creativity, Psychology, and the History of Science offers for the first time a comprehensive overview of the oeuvre of Howard E. Gruber, who is noted for his contributions both to the psychology of creativity and to the history of science. Gruber is a pioneer in combining history of science and cognitive psychology by means of detailed and meticulous case studies. His award-winning books 'Darwin on man' and 'The essential Piaget' are both modern classics. The present book includes papers from a wide range of topics. In the contributions to creativity research, Gruber proposes his key ideas for studying creative work. Gruber focuses on how the thinking, motivation and affect of extraordinarily creative individuals evolve and how they interact over long periods of time. Gruber?s approach bridges many disciplines and subdisciplines in psychology and beyond, several of which are represented in the present volume: cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, history of science, aesthetics, and politics. The volume thus presents a unique and comprehensive contribution to our understanding of the creative process. Many of Gruber's papers have not previously been easily accessible; they are presented here in thoroughly revised form. The book is for psychologists, historians and philosophers of science interested in the intersection of psychology and the history of science.

Название: Psychology: Pythagoras to Present
Автор: John C. Malone
Издательство: MIT Press
Год: 2009
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 576
Размер: 3 MB
Язык: English

John C. Malone is Professor of Psychology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Название: Motivation, Emotion, and Cognition: Integrative Perspectives on Intellectual Functioning and Development (Educational Psychology Series)
Автор: David Yun Dai, Robert J. Sternberg
Издательство: Lawrence Erlbaum
Год: 2004
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 480
Размер: 3 MB
Язык: English

The central argument of this book is that cognition is not the whole story in understanding intellectual functioning and development. To account for inter-individual, intra-individual, and developmental variability in actual intellectual performance, it is necessary to treat cognition, emotion, and motivation as inextricably related. Motivation, Emotion, and Cognition.

Название: Qualitative Research in Psychology: Expanding Perspectives in Methodology and Design
Автор: Paul Marc Camic, Jean E. Rhodes, Lucy Yardley, Michael Bamberg
Издательство: American Psychological Association (APA)
Год: 2003
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 315
Размер: 5 MB
Язык: English

Qualitative Research in Psychology brings together a diverse group of scholars who share valuable qualitative research techniques and rich case examples. Qualitative methodologies and the different paradigms which guide them can be seen as both an alternative and complementary approach to quantification and positivism in social, personality, developmental, health, clinical, counseling, community and school psychology. Qualitative methodology seen as an alternative approach seeks to answer questions that cannot be answered through quantification, random sampling, probability testing and other measures, which seek to control the environment of the participant. Viewed as a complementary approach to research, qualitative methodology can be utilized alongside quantitative methods, bringing a new depth and richness to data analysis. The wide variety of innovative techniques and theoretical perspectives offered in this volume will challenge readers to think about and expand on their understanding of qualitative research and its continually emerging applications.

Название: Empirical Methods for Evaluating Educational Interventions (Educational Psychology)
Автор: Gary D. Phye, Daniel H. Robinson, Joel Levin
Издательство: Academic Press
Год: 2005
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 299
Размер: 1 MB
Язык: English

New US government requirements state that federally funded grants and school programs must prove that they are based on scientifically proved improvements in teaching and learning. All new grants must show they are based on scientifically sound research to be funded, and budgets to schools must likewise show that they are based on scientifically sound research.

Название: The Science of Stories: An Introduction to Narrative Psychology
Автор: Janos Laszlo
Издательство:
Год: 2008
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 241
Размер: 3 MB
Язык: English

The Science of Stories explores the role narrative plays in human life. Supported by in-depth research, the book demonstrates how the ways in which people tell their stories can be indicative of how they construct their worlds and their own identities. Based on linguistic analysis and computer technology, Laszlo offers an innovative methodology which aims to uncover underlying psychological processes in narrative texts. The reader is presented with a theoretical framework along with a series of studies which explore the way a systematic linguistic analysis of narrative discourse can lead to a scientific study of identity construction, both individual and group. The book gives a critical overview of earlier narrative theories and summarizes previous scientific attempts to uncover relationships between language and personality. It also deals with social memory and group identity: various narrative forms of historical representations (history books, folk narratives, historical novels) are analyzed as to how they construct the past of a nation. The Science of Stories is the first book to build a bridge between scientific and hermeneutic studies of narratives. As such, it will be of great interest to a diverse spectrum of readers in social science and the liberal arts, including those in the fields of cognitive science, social psychology, linguistics, philosophy, literary studies and history.