Wie slim is en goed nadenkt over leven en carrière, is vaker succesvol. Maar zijn slimme mensen daardoor ook vaker gelukkig? Niets is minder waar. Onderzoek wijst er zelfs op dat de voorwaarden voor succes geluk juist in de weg staan. Raj Raghunathan kon het niet geloven en ging op onderzoek uit. Hij verslond alles wat de wetenschap hem kon bieden op het gebied van geluk. In dit boek neemt hij je mee op een avontuurlijke zoektocht naar de betekenis van geluk. Hij ontdekte hardnekkige misvatt...

'Niemandskinderen' prikt de fabel door dat ouders per definitie liefde voelen voor hun kinderen. 'Niemandskinderen' is een boek voor volwassenen die worstelen met de last die een onveilige jeugd met zich meebrengt, en voor therapeuten/hulpverleners die met deze groep te maken hebben.

Niemandskinderen

Niet (kunnen) houden van je kind is een onderwerp waar niet of nauwelijks over gesproken wordt – niet door de ouder(s), maar ook niet door het verwaarloosde kind zelf, dat de illusie van liefde...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER`A supremely practical and useful book.' Mark Manson, author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ck. A revolutionary system to get 1 per cent better every dayPeople think when you want to change your life, you need to think big. But world-renowned habits expert James Clear has discovered another way. He knows that real change comes from the compound effect of hundreds of small decisions - doing two push-ups a day, waking up five minutes early, or holding a single shor...

The Social Animal 12e

The Social Animal is a CLASSIC text used in social psychology classes for almost 50 years and a powerful introduction to the field for countless students across the U.S. and the world.

The new edition of this venerable text retains Elliot Aronson's clear, engaging narrative voice, while adding the scholarly insights of a new coauthor—his son, New York University professor, Joshua Aronson. With a combination of the research and scholarship of the most distinguished fath...

Nominated as one of the 2019 Thinkers50 Radar group

Research shows that self-awareness is the meta-skill of the 21st century – the foundation for high performance, smart choices, and lasting relationships. Unfortunately, we are remarkably poor judges of ourselves and how we come across, and it’s rare to get candid, objective feedback from colleagues, employees, and even friends and family. We can ALL learn to be more self-aware.

Integrating hundreds of studies with her own research and wo...

A brief, accessible, and engaging journey through Childhood and Adolescence

Janet Belsky’s Experiencing Childhood and Adolescence reflects a scientist’s understanding of key research, a psychologist’s understanding of people, and a teacher’s understanding of students. With all of this, the book itself is at just the right length and level of coverage to fit comfortably in a single-term course. With its clear presentation and integration of detailed real-world examples, this acclaimed ...

This Fourth Edition provides the most comprehensive coverage of positive psychology's science and applications, presenting new frameworks for understanding positive emotions and human strengths, and exploring various positive conditions such as empathy, altruism, gratitude, attachment and love.

Child and Adolescent Psychology provides an accessible and thorough introduction to human development by integrating insights from typical and atypical development. This integration cements understanding since the same processes are involved. Knowledge about atypical development informs the understanding of typical development, and knowledge about typical development is a necessary basis for understanding atypical development and working with children with disorders.

Based on international re...

This book brings the state of the science together for Distributed Cognition (DCOG) in complex socio-technical systems. It introduces the latest thinking on the Event Analysis of Systemic Teamwork (EAST) method with practical guidance and applications in domains as diverse as: aviation, rail transportation, road transportation, and sports science.