‘That’s just the way I am.’ A lot of people think that the way they behave is fixed in stone. Nothing could be further from the truth. This book shows you how you can consciously choose to adopt the most effective behaviour in order to improve your success rate at achieving your goals.

This book uses Leary’s Rose interaction model to give you an insight into the different communication processes. Leary’s Rose is a schematic reproduction of different ways of behaving and the effect...

Available for the first time ever in trade paperback, Dale Carnegie's enduring classic, the inspirational personal development guide that shows how to achieve lifelong success. One of the top-selling books of all time, "How to Win Friends & Influence People" has sold more than 15 million copies in all its editions.

Positive Psychology uses a storytelling approach to provide a broad and objective understanding of the science of well-being, and to show how this knowledge can be applied to our own lives and to the well-being of entire societies.

This book explores what attitudes are and how they are shaped, how they influence behaviour, and the scientific methods that are used to understand attitudes and how they change. The fourth edition has been updated to include cutting-edge topics such as attitudes to vaccines, political polarisation, and the effects of social media on attitude change.

This text provides a clinically oriented introduction to neuropsychology through a relational lens that emphasizes the importance of social and environmental factors on brain function, trauma, and recovery.

A practical guide on your PhD journey

How to get the PhD position of your dreams? How do you handle feedback, and what can you learn from it? And how do you successfully defend your dissertation? This book navigates the challenges and opportunities of pursuing a PhD through practical advice, anecdotes, and Dutch PhD regulations. Offering both personal support and academic insights, it serves as a useful companion throughout your PhD journey.

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Shows students, through interactive examples and opportunities for practice, how to effectively use psychology research in their studies to attain better grades in assessments.

Gerard Heymans (1857-1930) was the founder of psychology in the Netherlands, and established the first psychological laboratory. After becoming professor, he first looked for general psychological laws, and later became interested in how people differ. Heymans investigated this question by studying biographies and collecting survey data. With this rigorous approach that far exceeded the standards of his time, he arrived at three basic dimensions in which people can vary in their temperament. ...