Managed Heart
In private life we try to induce or suppress love, envy, and anger through deep acting or "e;emotional work,"e; just as we manage our outer expressions through surface acting. But what happens when this system of adjusting emotions...
Why We Sleep
'Astonishing ... an amazing book ... absolutely chocker full of things that we need to know' Chris Evans'Matthew Walker is probably one of the most influential people on the planet' Evening StandardTHE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERTLS, OBSERVER, SUND...
The Biopsychology Colouring Book
LEARN AND REVISE BIOPSYCHOLOGY - THROUGH COLOURING! Getting to grips with the basics of Biological Psychology has never been so easy. Each chapter guides you through the most important aspects of this topic using diagrams to...
Energy Rising
Your success in lifeat work and at homerises when you harness the energy that powers your brain. A neuropsychologist explains how.Your drive to create change, catalyze impact, and build relationships all come from neuroelectrical energyreal, elect...
Psychology of Facial Expression
This reference work provides broad and up-to-date coverage of the major perspectives - ethological, neurobehavioral, developmental, dynamic systems, componential - on facial expression. It reviews Darwin's legacy in the theories of Izard and Tomki...
Skrattet
Henri Bergson (1859-1941) var en av de mest inflytelserika tänkarna under 1900-talets förra hälft. Hans idéer påverkade och stimulerade många författare, kanske främst Marcel Proust.Bergsons filosofi präglas av föreställningen om det...
Short-Cut to Understanding Affective Neuroscience
A Short-Cut to Understanding Affective Neuroscience is a remarkable book that will appeal to academics and laymen, theoreticians and clinicians. Readers will appreciate Lucy Biven's thorough research and her straightforward language. She does not ...
Kort om hjärnan
Människans hjärna innehåller hundra miljarder nervceller och är kanske universums mest komplexa maskin. På något sätt skapar den vårt medvetande och styr våra handlingar och tankar. Men hur fungerar hjärnan? Michael O"Shea ger ...
Radicalizing Enactivism
A book that promotes the thesis that basic forms of mentality-intentionally directed cognition and perceptual experience-are best understood as embodied yet contentless. Most of what humans do and experience is best understood in terms of dynamica...
The Body Machines
The Futurica Trilogy:In the late 1990"s, Swedish social theorists Alexander Bard and Jan Söderqvist started working on a radical new theory called The Netocracy Hypothesis. Mr Bard held a renowned series of lectures at the Stock...
From the Inside Out
You have just received your new biofeedback device with its instruction manual. You ask yourself: How can I personally use the equipment to encourage my self-growth? How can I help my patient to relax his spastic colon? How best can I use the equi...
Love
In 1818, when he was in his mid-thirties, Stendhal met and fell passionately in love with the beautiful Mathilde Dembowski. She, however, was quick to make it clear that she did not return his affections, and in his despair he turned to the writte...
Ensamhet
En beprövad rådgivare belyser olika aspekter av ensamhet och ger förslag på hur den kan övervinnas.
Vänner och älskande
Om öppenhet, tillgivenhet, vänskap, själslig gemenskap, känslor, kärlek, sexualitet, äktenskap, skilsmässa m.m.
What Emotions Really Are
This study argues that much research of the emotions has been misguided. It attempts to show that "emotion" encompasses psychological states of very different, and thus not comparable, kinds. Some emotions, such a brief flaring u...
Autism
Based on Francesca Happe s best-selling textbook, Autism: An Introduction to Psychological Theory, this completely new edition provides a concise overview of contemporary psychological theories about autism. Fletcher-Watson and Happe explore the r...
Empathy
Empathy has long been a topic of interest to psychologists, but it has been studied in a sometimes bewildering number of ways. In this volume, Mark Davis offers a thorough, evenhanded review of contemporary empathy research, especially work that h...
Psychophysics
Psychophysics: A Practical Introduction, Second Edition , is the primary scientific tool for understanding how the physical world of colors, sounds, odors, movements, and shapes translates into the sensory world of sight, hearing, touch, ta...
Passions
An abridged reprint of the Doubleday edition of 1976, with new preface and conclusion by the author.
Brainwashed
What can't neuroscience tell us about ourselves? Since fMRI,functional magnetic resonance imaging,was introduced in the early 1990s, brain scans have been used to help politicians understand and manipulate voters, determine guilt in court cases, a...
Neuropsychology
The second edition of this comprehensive textbook for students of Neuropsychology gives a thorough overview of the complex relationship between brain and behaviour. With an excellent blend of clinical, experimental and theoretical coverage, it dra...
Emotions
Are emotions becoming more conspicuous in contemporary life? Are the social sciences undergoing an an 'affective turn'? This Reader gathers influential and contemporary work in the study of emotion and affective life from across the range of the s...
Autism
Based on Francesca Happé's best-selling textbook, Autism: An Introduction to Psychological Theory, this completely new edition provides a concise overview of contemporary psychological theories about autism. Fletcher-Watson and Happé explore the r...
Happiness Paradox
The dream of a happy life has preoccupied thinkers since Plato, and in modern times it has become one of the signature tunes of our age - the rise of therapists, gurus, New Age cults and the use of Prozac are familiar indicators of how ubiquitous ...
Maladapted Mind
Newly available in paperback, this is the first book to bring together classic and contemporary readings illustrating the new subdiscipline, evolutionary psychopathology. Each chapter demonstrates how evolutionary arguments are being brought to be...
Breaking Hearts
Throughout history, unrequited love has inspired ballads, arias, poetry, drama, and literature. Almost always, however, the tale of the star-crossed lovers has been told from the point of view of the heartbroken pursuer. This illuminating new work...
Biological Psychology
This accessible introductory text addresses the core knowledge domain of biological psychology, with focused coverage of the central concepts, research and debates in this key area. Biological Psychology outlines the importance and purp...
Biological Psychology
Assuming no prior knowledge of biology and building upon previous editions, Biological Psychology¿third edition uses everyday experiences to explain complex concepts in an interesting and highly accessible way.¿ This is complemented by a ran...
Human Amygdala
Building on pioneering animal studies, and making use of new, noninvasive techniques for studying the human brain, research on the human amygdala has blossomed in recent years. This comprehensive volume brings together leading authorities to synth...
European Art
A bold revision of the history of European art, told through the lens of neuroscience Ambitious and much anticipated, this book celebrates the value of recent neuroscientific discoveries as tools for art-historical analysis. Case studies ranging a...
The Emotions
` There is much that is fascinating here. Long-established experiments and conclusions are rubbished and reinterpreted, long-established assumptions and beliefs about emotions are soundly trounced, and generally a good going-over is delivere...
Developmental Neuropsychology
This fully updated edition of Developmental Neuropsychology: A Clinical Approach addresses key issues in child neuropsychology with a unique emphasis on evidence-informed clinical practice rather than research issues. Although research findings ar...
Attention and Orienting
Orienting is the gateway to attention, the first step in processing stimulus information. This volume examines these initial stages of information intake, focusing on the sensory and motivational mechanisms that determine such phenomena as stimulu...