Psychology and the real world : essays illustrating fundamental contributions to society

Learn about some of the most important psychology research of our time from the actual scientists behind the studies as Psychology and the Real World devles into the research that has not only reshaped our understanding of brain, mind, and behavior, but has significantly changed the way we live our lives. FRONT COVER FRONT INSIDE FOREWORD PREFACE CHAPTER 1: Introduction James R. Pomerantz and Morton Ann Gernsbacher: Psychology and the Real World: An Introduction CHAPTER 2: Methods of Psychology John H. Krantz: Can the World Wide Web Be Used for Research? Paul R. Sackett: Integrity Testing for Personnel Selection: The Role of Research Methods CHAPTER 3: Neuroscience Bruce S. McEwen: Neurobiology of Stress and Adaptation: Implications for Health Psychology, Behavioral Medicine, and Beyond Emanuel Donchin: Can the Mind Be Read in the Brain Waves? CHAPTER 4: Sensation and Perception Donald D. Hoffman: Human Vision as a Reality Engine Jeremy M. Wolfe: Visual Search: Is It a Matter of Life and Death? CHAPTER 5: Learning Elizabeth Ligon Bjork and Robert A. Bjork: Making Things Hard on Yourself, But in a Good Way: Creating Desirable Difficulties to Enhance Learning Henry L. Roediger, III, Kathleen B. McDermott, and Mark A. McDaniel: Using Testing to Improve Learning and Memory CHAPTER 6: Memory Fergus I. M. Craik: Levels of Processing in Human Memory Elizabeth F. Loftus: Crimes of Memory: False Memories and Societal Justice CHAPTER 7: Language and Thought Susan Goldin-Meadow: Creating and Learning Language by Hand Herbert S. Terrace: Thinking without Language CHAPTER 8: Consciousness Bernard J. Baars: Thinking About Consciousness Daniel M. Wegner: When You Put Things Out of Mind, Where Do They Go? CHAPTER 9: Intelligence Howard Gardner: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences Robert J. Sternberg: The Rainbow Project and Beyond: Using a Psychological Theory of Intelligence to Improve the College Admissions Process CHAPTER 10: Emotion and Motivation Paul Ekman and David Matsumoto: Reading Faces: The Universality of Emotional Expression E. Tory Higgins: Human Self-Regulation and Emotion CHAPTER 11: Development Barbara Rogoff, Maricela Corr ea-Chávez, and Katie G. Silva: Cultural Variation in Children’s Attention and Learning Carolyn Rovee-Collier: Preserving Infant Memories CHAPTER 12: Personality Mark Snyder: Products of Their Personalities or Creatures of Their Situations? Personality and Social Behavior Have the Answer H. Hill Goldsmith: The Functional Significance of Temperament CHAPTER 13: Psychological Disorders Irving I. Gottesman: Predisposed to Understand the Complex Origins of Behavioral Variation Susan Nolen-Hoeksema: Lost in Thought: The Perils of Rumination CHAPTER 14: Treatment of Psychological Disorders David H. Barlow: The Development and Evaluation of Psychological Treatments for Panic Disorder Alan E. Kazdin: Treatments for Children with Severe Aggressive and Antisocial Behavior CHAPTER 15: Stress and Health Barbara L. Fredrickson: Positive Psychology: Cultivating Resilience and Health through Everyday Positive Emotions Shelley E. Taylor: Positive Illusions: How Ordinary People Become Extraordinary CHAPTER 16: Social Psychology Elliot Aronson: Reducing Prejudice and Building Empathy in the Classroom Harry T. Reis: When Good Things Happen to Good People: Capitalizing on Personal Positive Events in Relationships CHAPTER 17: Psychology at Work Adam M. Grant: Work and the Art of Motivation Maintenance Ruth Kanfer: Work Motivation: From Processes to Purpose Mark Costanzo: Lie Detection in the Interrogation Room and the Courtroom AFTERWORD Steven Pinker BACK INSIDE BACK COVER A project of the FABBS Foundation, Psychology and the Real World gives students the opportunity to learn about some of the most important psychology research of our time from the best possible sources -- the actual scientists behind the studies. These psychological scientists and their studies have not only reshaped our understanding of brain, mind, and behavior, but have significantly changed the way we live our lives. In Psychology and the Real World, each contribution is an original essay written exclusively for this project, with the "Who's Who" gathering of authors explaining, clearly and passionately, the work they have pursued and what it means to us. In this edition, we add eight new essays from learding psychological scientists