Название: The Sociology and Psychology of Terrorism: Who becomes a Terrorist and Why?
Автор: Rex A. Hudson, Federal Research Division, Library of Congress
Издательство: University Press of the Pacific
Год: 2005
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 186
Размер: 2 MB
Язык: English

Preface Executive Summary: Mindsets of Mass Destruction New Types of Post-Cold War Terrorists -- New Forms of Terrorist-Threat Scenarios Introduction Terms of Analysis Defining Terrorism and Terrorists -- Terrorist Group Typologies Approaches to Terrorism Analysis The Multicausal Approach -- The Political Approach -- The Organizational Approach -- The Physiological Approach -- The Psychological Approach General Hypotheses of Terrorism Frustration-Aggression Hypothesis -- Negative Identity Hypothesis -- Narcissistic Rage Hypothesis The Psychology of the Terrorist Terrorist Motivation -- The Process of Joining a Terrorist Group.

Название: Child Psychology in Retrospect and Prospect: in Celebration of the 75th Anniversary of the institute of Child Development (Minnesota Symposia on Child Psychology)
Автор: Willard W. Hartup, Richard A. Weinberg
Издательство: Psychology Press
Год: 2002
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 296
Размер: 1 MB
Язык: English

This 32nd volume of the Minnesota Symposium on Child Psychology celebrates the 75th anniversary of the University of Minnesota's Institute of Child Development. All eight essays are devoted to developmental science, its history, and current status. Taken together, the chapters in this book show how the history of science connects past and future, how it gives the individual investigator an identity and sense of purpose, how contemporary studies occur within larger traditions, and how institutions like the Institute of Child Development, constitute cultural traditions of their own. Collectively, these essays show that the past explains a great deal--whether we want to know about the processes through which the child acquires symbolic thought or whether we want to know how and why, during the last century, a few enduring centers were established for the scientific study of children and adolescents. Reading these essays, one obtains a sense of how the past becomes evidence, how it forms models for the way we think, and how intellectual challenges arise.

Название: A Practical Guide to Building Professional Competencies in School Psychology
Автор: Timothy M. Lionetti, Edward P. Snyder (auth.), Timothy M. Lionetti, Edward P. Snyder, Ray W. Christner (eds.)
Издательство: Springer US
Год: 2011
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 278
Размер: 4 MB
Язык: English

Designed as a research-based yet matter-of-fact guide for beginning and future scientist-practitioners, A Practical Guide to Building Professional Competencies in School Psychology skillfully augments the reader’s training, supervision, and experience by providing a framework for honing essential skills in the field. This reader-friendly, evidence-based text encourages the continuing development of expertise in communication and collaborative skills, diversity awareness, technical knowledge, and other domains critical to building and maintaining an ethical, meaningful practice.

Название: The Science & Practice of Manual Therapy: Physiology, Neurology and Psychology
Автор: Eyal Lederman
Издательство: Churchill Livingstone
Год: 2005
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 335
Размер: 31 MB
Язык: English

This practical book offers an extensive examination of how manual therapy (MT) techniques work, and how to match the most suitable techniques to different conditions. Drawing on evidence-based research, it explores the physiological, neurological and psychophysiological responses of the human body to MT techniques. In doing so, it helps MT practitioners deliver a more effective and safer treatment for a broader range of conditions.Comprehensive overview helps provide an understanding of how and why MT techniques work.Content is written in jargon-free, easy-to-read style, with most terms explained.Text is enhanced by over 120 diagrams, photographs and tables.

Название: Handbook of the Teaching of Psychology
Автор: William Buskist, Stephen F. Davis
Издательство: American Psychological Association
Год: 2005
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 358
Размер: 1 MB
Язык: English

The Handbook of the Teaching of Psychology is a state-of-the-art volume that provides readers with comprehensive coverage and analysis of current trends and issues, basic mechanics, and important contextual variables related to effective teaching in psychology. Using concise and targeted chapters, written by leading scholars in the field, the volume explores a myriad of challenges in the teaching of psychology and employs a prescriptive approach to offer strategies and solutions to frequently occurring dilemmas. This book is a lively and informative volume that covers the gamut of current topics of interest to all current and future teachers of psychology.

Название: Trading for a Living: Psychology, Trading Tactics, Money Management
Автор: Alexander Elder
Издательство: Wiley
Год: 1993
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 312
Размер: 5 MB
Язык: English

Trading for a Living Successful trading is based on three M's: Mind, Method, and Money. Trading for a Living helps you master all of those three areas: * How to become a cool, calm, and collected trader * How to profit from reading the behavior of the market crowd * How to use a computer to find good trades * How to develop a powerful trading system * How to find the trades with the best odds of success * How to find entry and exit points, set stops, and take profits Trading for a Living helps you discipline your Mind, shows you the Methods for trading the markets, and shows you how to manage Money in your trading accounts so that no string of losses can kick you out of the game.

Название: Financial risk taking: an introduction to the psychology of trading and behavioural finance
Автор: Mike Elvin
Издательство: Wiley
Год: 2004
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 294
Размер: 3 MB
Язык: English

In Financial Risk Taking, trader and psychologist Mike Elvin explores the complex relationship between human behaviour patterns and the markets, offering the reader a context in which to assess their own strengths and weaknesses as investors. The book offers an apposite and uncomplicated system of skills development in the form of competences and competencies that can be applied anywhere along the continuum from casual investor to full-time day trader. Elvin presents a Comprehensive Model of Trading Competence (the MOT) as well as the concepts of analysis and refutation, the paramouncy principle, and self-sabotaging behaviours such as the Santa Claus syndrome and Bohica effect. Areas covered include:  Emotions - are they functional or disabling? How do the mechanisms of fear, greed and panic work? Motivation and perception - how do belief paradigms affect perception and performance? What perceptual errors influence decisions to the trader's detriment? Information processing and risk assessment - how does information overload affect Stress How does stress affect investment decisions? Technological and mathematical anxiety - why do we avoid learning the skills we most need? What levels of ability are required? Can psychological and biological theories assist in our understanding of investors' performance?  

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.