Robert Stephen Feldman

"One of the nation's leading authorities on lying describes and explains the prevalence and consequences of deception in our lives."--Provided by the publisher.

The Way to Truthful Relationships

The Liar in Your Life

A brief, 14 chapter version of the best-selling Understanding Psychology, this book retains an emphasis on critical thinking and practical applications. The mission of this extensively revised new edition is to foster student empowerment by giving students the tools they need to master the content of psychology, to think critically about student phenomena, and to build an appreciation for how psychology can increase their understanding of the world around them. A key aspect of the revision is the incorporation of Robert Feldman's P.O.W.E.R. Learning System into the book and ancillary package. Based on empirical research carried out by learning researchers, the P.O.W.E.R. framework is a systematic approach to learning and studying based on five key steps (Prepare, Organize, Work, Evaluate, and Rethink) that helps the acquisition and retention of new material. - The text has been thoroughly revised to incorporate pertinent new examples and explanations. Specific attention to advances in behavioural genetics and evolutionary approaches to psychology have been added. - A completely new art program enlivens the text and clarifies key material throughout the text, but especially in the b

Understanding Psychology

"Essentials of Understanding Psychology provides broad coverage of the field of psychology, including the theories, research, and applications that form the core of the discipline"--

Essential of Understanding Psychology

Feldman

Guides students through introductory psychology concepts. This book integrates a variety of elements that foster students' understanding of psychology and its impact on their everyday lives, including a fresh Neuroscience and Life feature.

Essentials of Understanding Psychology

Bernard Rimé

This volume provides a broad and comprehensive overview of current theory and research in the field of nonverbal behavior and details the major contemporary research areas within it. The contributions, written by prominent researchers in this area of study, consider nonverbal behavior from a broad perspective, focusing on the fundamental psychological processes that underlie the phenomenon. Several meanings of nonverbal behavior are employed throughout the volume and the contributors, whose work represents disparate research traditions and methodologies, consider biological and neuropsychological approaches, cognitive processes, gestures, facial expressions, and other symbolic behavior. The papers are united by a shared conviction that nonverbal behavior represents an important phenomenon with implications both for people's understanding of their own phenomenological and emotional worlds and for the nature of their social interactions with others.

Fundamentals of Nonverbal Behavior

"14th edition of Essentials of Understanding Psychology has relied heavily-and benefited substantially-from the advice of instructors and students from a wide range of backgrounds. Effective introduction to a discipline must be oriented to students-informing them, engaging them, and exciting them about the field and helping them connect it to their worlds. All these goals are achieved in Essentials of Understanding Psychology, 14/e"--

Appealing to the many different backgrounds and career goals of individuals interested in child development, this book offers the most current, balanced coverage of theory and researchwith a focus on the application of that researchwoven into a rich chronological presentation filled with useful learning tools. Feldman's unique approach illustrates the scope and diversity of the field of child and adolescent psychology and capitalizes on readers' inherent interest in the subject by asking them to relate what they are learning to their own experience as developing humans. A lively conversational writing style exists among the many chapter topics including behavioral genetics, ethnography, brain development, cultural differences in autobiographical memories, emotional intelligence, emotional regulation and relational aggression, home schooling, teenage stress, alcohol consumption, use of Prozac and childhood depression, adolescent Web surfing, and the downside of self-esteem. For individuals with careers and an interest in the field of child development.

Robert Stephen Feldman

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