Böcker i Psychology Revivals-serien

First published in 1982, this is a collection of the most important of James J. Gibson¿s essays on the psychology of perception. The editors have selected over 30 works dealing with topics as ecological optics, event perception, pictorial representation, and the conceptual foundations of psychology.

First published in 1984, most of the contributors were trained as or by social psychologists. All share a common approach, focusing on the individual as s/he is buffeted about by social forces and copes with these forces. All consider situational and psychological factors and apply their expertise to the study of health-related issues.

First published in 1977, these examples of research and scholarly argument were collected in honour of Sidney W. Bijou. Since 1955, Bijou had worked almost exclusively within the approach variously labelled as the functional analysis of behavior, the experimental analysis of behavior, operant conditioning, or Skinnerian psychology.

Originally published in 1982, this book provides rich evidence of the relevance of the temporal aspects of behavior. The generalized areas of learning, memory, operant scheduled behavior, task performance, vigilance, mood and motivation and their rhythmic components are explored in varying detail.

First published in 1982, this work represents one of the first attempts to bring together the perspectives of a variety of different researchers investigating a specific, well defined content domain. It presents theoretical views and research findings investigating the early acquisition of addition and subtraction skills by young children.

First published in 1986, this book looks at reactions to exposure to toxic substances as well as some predictors of response in groups faced with increased medical risk subsequent to some of the most common and hazardous toxic exposures found at the time: radiation, toxic waste, asbestos, lead, contaminated water, and toxic chemical fire and leak.

In the 1980s our understanding of how advertising affects consumer behaviour was undergoing a dramatic transformation. However, there were still many unanswered questions. Originally published in 1985, the chapters in this volume provide insights into these questions.

First published in 1991, this title contains critical essays on significant aspects of children's development and developmental inquiry. Providing a collective case-study in the recent history of ideas, they honor the intellectual and personal influence of William Kessen.

Originally published in 1984, this book proposes a structural theory of social attitudes, presents the empirical evidence for the theory, and defines and explores liberalism and conservatism and the justification for associating social attitudes with these terms.

First published in 1984, this book is a developmental text with substantial evolutionary and cross-cultural work. It presents cognitive developmental, as well as personality, social and socialization issues, with an emphasis on culture. It also includes education-related research, such as material on schools, reading, mathematics, and IQ.

In many areas of psychology, a number of issues have characterized methodological evolution of the discipline, including questions regarding context and reductionism, or laboratory versus field research. Originally published in 1985, this volume explores some of the issues characterizing work on health, environment, and behavior.

The majority of cancer-related deaths are associated with nutritional problems. Originally published in 1985, the purpose of this book was to meet the needs of both the clinician and the researcher by bringing together data and theory about nutrition and cancer from several disciplines, as considered from a biobehavioral perspective.

First published in 1985, Behaviour Analysis and Contemporary Psychology presents chapters from the first European Meeting on the Experimental Analysis of Behaviour. The book is divided into six parts and provides a useful account of issues and work in behaviour analysis by both European and North American contributors at the time.

First published in 1984, this is the first volume to comne out of The Carmel Conferences. The resulting book provides an interesting snapshot of the status of Event-Related Brain Potential (ERP) research just as it was venturing assertively into cognitive science.

Originally published in 1975, this title provides a history of hypothesis theory (H theory), along with the author's research from the previous decade.

First published in 1986, this book looks at physical appearance as a determinant of personality and social behavior. There is no doubt that appearance has some impact on the way one is perceived and treated; and presumably, owing to the socially reflected nature of the self, personality likewise will be affected by appearance.

First published in 1978, this title examines a phenomenon that relies on many realms of human cognition: language comprehension, memory retrieval, and language generation. Problems in computational question answering assume a new perspective when question answering is viewed as a problem in natural language processing.

Originally published in 1981, this volume presents papers from the first Ontario Symposium on Personality and Social Psychology held at the University of Western Ontario from August 25-27, 1978. The general theme of the symposium was social cognition.

First published in 1931, Crime as Destiny throws a beam of light across the darkness which enshrouds the study of the deeper causes of crime.

First published in 1963, this account, based on a lifetime of experience of the growing child, covers all the situations and problems which a child ¿ and its parents and educators ¿ meet in the first 12 years of life, from the earliest of feeding and sleeping right through to learning to read, write, and adjust happily to other people.