Personality psychology is a field devoted to the study of all that it means to be human, and with Personality Psychology 8e, Larsen and Buss capture the excitement of the discipline. This text is unique in two significant ways. First, rather than arranging their text around the traditional grand theories of personality, Larsen and Buss instead used a framework of six domains of knowledge about personality functioning: the dispositional domain, the biological domain, the intrapsychic domain, t...

For courses in English Composition. The gold standard of handbooks - unmatched in accuracy, currency, and reliability The Little, Brown Handbook is an essential reference tool and classroom resource designed to help students find the answers they need quickly and easily. While keeping pace with rapid changes in writing and its teaching, it offers the most comprehensive research and documentation available-with grammar coverage that is second to none. With detailed discussions of critical read...

From the development of skills through learning and practice, to how self-confidence and decision-making can be honed to boost our expertise, The Psychology of Performance is an invaluable account for anyone who wants to perform to their best.

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Exploring Psychology offers creative ways to help students retain psychology’s key principles, and do better in all their classes, not just psychology. The authors combine market-leading currency, fresh teaching ideas, fascinating applications, effective new study tools and technologies, with a compassionate and compelling storytelling voice. The result is a text which not only supports stud...

If you have ever felt at a disadvantage when joining in a conversation on a subject that you aren't confident about, this new series is for you. Each book features definitions of two hundred words frequently used to describe and discuss a smart subject. Psychology can be baffling, as well as fascinating, to the best of us. Let Michael Britt guide you through gestalt theory, the placebo effect, prejudice, critical thinking and so much more.

The Psychology of Running provides a unique insight into why running is such a popular form of exercise and competition.

This accessible, evidence-based book provides readers with a practical framework to understand, formulate, and treat PTSD using the cognitive model while creatively adapting for complexity.

This manual for clinicians presents a ground-breaking, accessible and unifying new model for understanding Functional Neurological Disorder (FND) that bridges the gap between theoretical FND specific models and the more practical, but non-FND specific CBT models.

This edited volume explores the singularity of embodiment and somatic approaches in the healing of trauma from a dramatherapy, theatre and performance perspective.

This book joins the bestselling Routledge Overcoming Series, which includes publications approved by the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies and highly commended by the British Medical Association.