From aggression to altruism, prejudice to persuasion, Essential Social Psychology, Fourth Edition introduces students to the discoveries and debates that define social psychology today.

This book helps nursing students recognise why they need to know about psychology, how it can affect and influence their individual nursing practice as well as the role it plays in health and illness.

In the Third Edition of The Psychology Research Handbook expert researchers provide graduate students and research assistants with a comprehensive framework for conducting psychology research. The book is organized around the idea of a "research script," following the step-by-step process of planning, design, data collection, analysis, and dissemination.

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.

Growth Mindsets are recognized as a powerful teaching and learning tool in the UK and this book offers clear guidance that is backed up by research and avoids quick fixes or suggestions with little evidence base. The text will appeal to teachers as a pragmatic and trusted guide to a well-known strategy proven to enhance learning.

A step-by-step guide on how to undertake each stage of the psychosocial assessment process in practice.

Cultures lead to differences in children's development, but equally important, culture is an essential component of every child's psychological development. Taking a chronological approach, this book offers a complete picture of child development.

Everything a student needs to learn statistics starting from the basics and progressing onto sophisticated statistical modelling. A genuine one-off that uses humour, and the quirks of the everyday, to bring statistics to life and to make it accessible. Â

This Handbook focusses on the foundational principles, methods and underlying systems in cognitive and systems neuroscience, as well as examining cutting-edge methodological advances and innovations.

Shows the historical development of the bioecological model and the ecology of human development. This book presents cultural and historical comparisons. It explores the concepts of the bioecological model and the ecology of human development which represent a contribution to the field of developmental psychology.