Brain Development in Learning Environments
This volume on bioeducational research forges a dialogue between education, neuroscience, and biology. It analyses biodynamic perspectives on how learning environments shape brain development, embodied cognition, and perceptual knowledge.
Connected Minds
This volume explores social cognition from psychological and collective viewpoints. It examines how the human mind processes social information, and how social interactions influence our cognition, shaping everything from stereotypes to entire societies.
This book presents studies on the influence of childhood abuse on adult functioning, including various symptoms, problems, and personality and neurobiological disorders. It also contains psychotherapeutic issues connected with interpersonal trauma.
This collection offers lively and informed discussions of important themes in contemporary psychoanalytic discourse. These essays demonstrate that the future of psychoanalytic studies is full of promise.
The Well-being of Chinese Older Adults
Ouyang studies the well-being of the Chinese elderly through the relationship among personal factors, environmental factors, person-environment fit, and the mediating effects of supplementary fit.
Bianaca discusses topics like monist dualism, nomiotic theory of the mind, differences between brain processes and configurations and mind processes and configurations, and the architecture of the mind. He formulates a nomiotic-wave theory of the mind grounded in 6 key aspects.
Virtual Teacher
Today’s educational system is failing. This book bridges cognitive science, neurobiology, and AI to offer a solution. It shows how to build intelligent tutoring systems that place students in an active role, as opposed to the passive one they have today.
Metacognition is “thinking about thinking.” In this book, 33 scholars offer techniques and strategies to develop it. Eighteen chapters explore its role in children’s learning, diverse students, the arts, obsessive-compulsive disorders, and as a bridge to the deaf.
Benefiting by Design
Benefitting by Design challenges the limited presence of women of color in social science. It dislodges their marginalized position by centering their experience and providing models and strategies for research and practice designed for their benefit.
Dolls & Clowns & Things
Through the lens of cognition, this work explores the symbolic relationship between self and object. It studies how objects are vehicles through which cognitive processes transform our understanding of Self as an ongoing, imaginative endeavor.
Environmental Psychology
This book contains research papers in environment-behaviour studies that address a recurring debate: how can research findings be put into real-world practice? It outlines current views and suggestions on how to more effectively address this ‘research-practice’ relationship.
The Committed Workforce
This research explores the relationship between organizational commitment and job satisfaction, showing how it is influenced by the economic sector. Job satisfaction is a key mediator, linking an employee’s commitment to positive organizational citizenship behaviours.
Researching the Self
Scholars from psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, and computer science unite to explore the self. What are its neural correlates? Can individuals have multiple selves? How do selves depend on others? Will engineers ever construct artificial selves?
Explaining the Mental
This collection presents philosophical perspectives on the mental, exploring how to define and understand mental processes, and exhibiting the contrast between naturalistic and non-naturalistic approaches to thinking, knowledge, and intentionality.
This book explores therapies for treating aggression in people with a psychiatric disorder, but one obstacle appears insurmountable: is psychopathy an untreatable disease? It reviews studies on these interventions before refocusing on the heart of the interpersonal relationship.
Different Psychological Perspectives on Cognitive Processes
This book highlights research in cognitive psychology in the Alps-Adria region, bringing together diverse authors from six countries. In a spirit of unity and interdisciplinarity, it serves as a basis for fruitful exchange beyond geographical and theoretical borders.
Practical Action
This book presents a dynamic model of practical action that challenges the one imposed by the cognitive sciences. Integrating Wittgenstein, pragmatism, and interactionist sociology, it reveals a radically contextual conception of human individual and collective behaviour.
This overview of teaching psychology internationally incorporates research from psychologists in over 30 countries. A must-read for instructors, psychologists, and students interested in the international aspects of the discipline.
Creative Learning and MOOCs
This publication showcases papers presented at the 11th Learning and Technology Conference held in Saudi Arabia in 2014, reflecting upon the recent implementation of Massive Open Online Courses, which provide opportunities for learning to large numbers of students at little cost.
Saylan covers a selection of Yeats’s poems from 1889 to 1939, discussing them within the frame of the quest to find oneself and its gyroscopic transformation. In doing so, she illustrates that self is not a single entity, but has multiple layers.
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