The executive director of the Design Program at Stanford and the co-founder of Electronic Arts outline strategies for enabling a thriving life by incorporating "design thinking" habits that promote fulfillment and meaning by emulating the examples of the engineers of today's most popular technologies.

Introductory psychology with an evolutionary perspective.

Peter Gray’s evolutionary perspective and emphasis on critical thinking have made his comprehensive yet accessible introduction to psychology a widely respected classroom favourite. The eighth edition continues this tradition with co-author David Bjorklund who engages and stimulates students to investigate the big ideas in psychological science.

The most widely used text in its course area, James W. Kalat's BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY has appealed to thousands of students before you. Why? Kalat's main goal is to make Biological Psychology understandable to Psychology students, not just to Biology majors and pre meds--and he delivers.

Another goal is to convey the excitement of the search for biological explanations of behavior. Kalat believes that Biological Psychology is "the most interesting topic in the world," and this text convinces m...

De psychologie ondergaat een roze revolutie. Psychiaters, psychologen, maatschappelijk werkers en coaches zijn klaar met het labelen van mensen met DSM-diagnoses. Ze erkennen dat de meeste psychische klachten menselijk zijn, invoelbaar en helemaal niet vreemd. Het is hoog tijd voor een moderne psychologie die mensen aanspreekt op hun diepste verlangens en behoeften.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) leidt deze kleurrijke parade, met Relational Frame Theory (RFT) als solide theoretisch f...

Veel mensen zitten zichzelf in de weg bij hun persoonlijke groei. Ze nemen zich telkens opnieuw voor om dingen anders te doen, maar slagen daar niet in. Deze individuele belemmeringen komen ook tot uiting op het werk. Teamleden gaan bepaalde taken uit de weg. Leidinggevenden pakken niet door op de juiste momenten of halen niet het beste uit hun team. Dat kan anders.

Met herbeslissen komen individuen én organisaties in korte tijd tot duurzame resultaten en groei.

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Real-world examples, fascinating applications, and clear explanations, help students to understand the basics of learning and memory research.

With real-world examples, fascinating applications, and clear explanations, this breakthrough text helps uninitiated students understand the basic ideas and human impact of groundbreaking learning and memory research. The text features a unified approach to behavioral studies and the biological mechanisms common to all species with integrated coverage ...

Now in a fully rewritten fourth edition, this is the authoritative presentation of motivational interviewing (MI), the powerful approach to facilitating change. It has been updated and streamlined to be even more user-friendly as a practitioner guide and course text. MI originators William R. Miller and Stephen Rollnick elucidate the four tasks of MI--engaging, focusing, evoking, and planning--and vividly demonstrate what they look like in action. A wealth of vignettes and interview examples ...

Over a century ago, psychologists who were fascinated with religion began to study and write about it. People with a background in psychology often lack a solid understanding of the religious traditions they wish to study, and theologians may not be up to date on the latest developments in psychology.

Psychological Management of Individual Performance is a unique combination of contributions from an academic and a practitioner for each topic. Leading international authors come together in this integrative and comprehensive handbook, to combine academic research findings and to provide detailed practice-relevant information, on subjects such as performance concepts, work design, cognitive ability and personality as predictors of performance, performance appraisal and potential analysis, goa...