Psychology Revivals
About the Book Series
Psychology Revivals is an initiative aiming to re-issue a wealth of academic works which have long been unavailable. Following the success of the Routledge Revivals programme, this time encompassing a vast range from across the Behavioural Sciences, Psychology Revivals draws upon a distinguished catalogue of imprints and authors associated with both Routledge and Psychology Press, restoring to print books by some of the most influential scholars of the last 120 years.
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Aggression in the Schools: Bullies and Whipping Boys
1st Edition
By Dan Olweus
August 03, 2026
Originally published in 1978, Aggression in the Schools: Bullies and Whipping Boys is widely considered to be the first scientific study of bullying. This was an investigation of a largely hidden and neglected problem in schools at the time – some children, whipping boys, were exposed over long ...
Australian Psychology: Review of Research
1st Edition
Edited
By Norman T. Feather
August 03, 2026
Originally published in 1985, this volume commissioned by the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia presents a survey of research in some of the major areas of psychology with which Australian psychologists had been identified at the time. The chapters cover basic processes; psychometrics and...
Coping with Disorder in the Family
1st Edition
Edited
By Jim Orford
August 03, 2026
Many illnesses, disabilities or disorders can have profound effects upon family life. With a shift to community care in the 1980s the burden on family members was increasing. Relatives had often been ignored by helping agencies, and professional theories about family disorders had sometimes ...
Gay and Lesbian Youth: Expressions of Identity
1st Edition
By Ritch C. Savin-Williams
August 03, 2026
Originally published in 1990, Gay and Lesbian Youth: Expressions of Identity, reissued here with a new preface, addresses self-esteem in gay and lesbian adolescents and challenges the idea that this is lower than in the ‘normal’ adolescent. First, theoretical positions on self-esteem and coming out...
Psychological Perspectives in Youth Sports
1st Edition
Edited
By Frank L. Smoll, Ronald E. Smith
August 03, 2026
Originally published in 1978, Psychological Perspectives in Youth Sports came out of symposium designed to foster communication in the field of sport psychology, which was fragmented at the time. The presentations departed from previous youth sport symposia in that they were all data based and this...
Psychological Perspectives on Sexual Problems: New Directions in Theory and Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Jane M. Ussher, Christine D. Baker
August 03, 2026
Sexuality has always been conceptualised as a potential problem. The regulation of sexuality and the distinction between normality (healthy sexuality) and abnormality (sexual problem) have a long history, in which psychologists have been deeply involved. Yet all attempts to develop a single ...
Pupillometry: The Psychology of the Pupillary Response
1st Edition
By Michel Pierre Janisse
August 03, 2026
The history of research on the pupillary light reflex goes back to 1765. Since 1960, particularly after 1965, the interest of psychologists and other behavioral and social scientists in the pupillometry response had increased enormously. Originally published in 1977, Pupillometry offered an ...
Social and Psychological Research in Community Settings: Designing and Conducting Programs for Social and Personal Well-Being
1st Edition
By Ricardo F. Muñoz, Lonnie R. Snowden, James G. Kelly
August 03, 2026
Originally published in 1979, the primary emphasis in Social and Psychological Research in Community Settings is on research-oriented interventions. The focus of the book is two-fold: to showcase model research studies of change in community contexts and to present the process of carrying out such ...
Stress and Anxiety: Volume 9
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter B. Defares
August 03, 2026
Originally published in 1985, this volume of Stress and Anxiety was number nine in the series first started in 1975. During this time stress research had continued to proliferate, and demands for practical solutions for stress-related problems had accelerated at an even faster pace. While much had ...
Test Anxiety: Theory, Assessment, and Treatment
1st Edition
Edited
By Charles D. Spielberger, Peter R. Vagg
August 03, 2026
In the 1990s test scores were increasingly being used in evaluating applicants for jobs and for admission into educational programs, examination stress and test anxiety had therefore become pervasive problems in modern society. In response, a broad range of treatment programs had been developed to ...
The Effects of Structural Relations on Transfer: Psychological Monographs on Cognitive Processes, Volume Two
1st Edition
By Z. P. Dienes, M. A. Jeeves
August 03, 2026
Originally published in 1970 The Effects of Structural Relations on Transfer follows on from the investigation reported in the first volume Thinking in Structures. It deals with four problems: 1. How far is it true that learning is accelerated by tackling the more difficult tasks first? 2. Do ...
The Power of Mathematics: A Study of the Transition from the Constructive to the Analytical Phase of Mathematical Thinking in Children
1st Edition
By Z. P. Dienes
August 03, 2026
Originally published in 1964, The Power of Mathematics was written at a time when a rethinking of the role of mathematics in schools was being undertaken in many parts of the world, coupled in some centres with actual experimental work in the classroom. In his first book Building up Mathematics Dr ...