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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Seeing is Deceiving: The Psychology of Visual Illusions
1st Edition
By Stanley Coren, Joan Girgus
February 16, 2022
In this volume, originally published in 1978, the authors survey the historical and contemporary research literature pertaining to two-dimensional visual-geometric illusions. They bring together much of the known data, summarising and evaluating theories that have been offered to explain these ...
The Psychology of Left and Right
1st Edition
By Michael C. Corballis, Ivan L. Beale
February 16, 2022
Originally published in 1976, this title deals with the problem of how we tell left from right. The authors argue that the ability to tell left from right depends ultimately on a bodily asymmetry, such as preference for one or the other hand, or dominance of one side of the brain. This has ...
The Wave Theory of Difference and Similarity
1st Edition
By Stephen W. Link
September 30, 2021
Two experimental procedures prompted the empirical development of psychophysical models: those that measure response frequency, often referred to as response probability; and those that measure response time, sometimes referred to as reaction time. The history of psychophysics is filled with ...
Early Language Development: Implications for Clinical and Educational Practice
1st Edition
By John Harris
September 05, 2021
Language is of central importance in children’s development and vital for their success at school and in the world beyond. Designed for the many professionals involved in encouraging language development, Early Language Development, originally published in 1990, will enable them to get to grips ...
Reasons for Realism: Selected Essays of James J. Gibson
1st Edition
Edited
By Edward Reed, Rebecca Jones
June 18, 2021
James J. Gibson’s numerous theoretical and empirical contributions to the understanding of how people perceive were innovative, controversial, often radical, and always profound. Many of his ideas revolutionized the science of perception, and his influence continued to grow throughout the world. ...
Artificial Intelligence: Research Directions in Cognitive Science: European Perspectives Vol. 5
1st Edition
Edited
By D. Sleeman, N. O. Bernsen
June 17, 2021
Originally published in 1992, this title reviews seven major subareas in artificial intelligence at that time: knowledge acquisition; logic programming and representation; machine learning; natural language; vision; the design of an AI programming environment; and medicine, a major application area...
Obese Humans and Rats (Psychology Revivals)
1st Edition
By Stanley Schacter, Judith Rodin
March 31, 2021
Originally published in 1974, this volume examines the behavioural similarities of obese humans and animals whose so-called feeding centre (the ventro-medial hypothalamic nuclei) has been lesioned. Both the obese human and the VMH-lesioned animal seem to share a hyposensitivity to the internal (...
Some Personality Determinants of the Effects of Participation
1st Edition
By Victor H. Vroom
November 26, 2020
Originally published in 1960, this study was carried out as part of the research of the Organizational Behavior and Human Relations Program of the Institute of Social Research. The primary purpose was to determine the effects of participation in decision-making on people with different personality ...
Voices of Feminist Therapy
1st Edition
Edited
By Elizabeth Friar Williams
December 12, 2019
Feminist therapy was created in the late 1960s, concurrent with the founding of The Association for Women in Psychology. Its early practitioners had diverse lifestyles, backgrounds, and often unconventional training, but all had a common and radical goal of providing an alternative therapy for ...
Culture and Family: Problems and Therapy
1st Edition
By Wen-Shing Tseng, Jing Hsu
June 13, 2019
Originally published in 1991, this landmark guide gave brilliant insights on dealing with the cultural aspects of family mental health. It systematically reviews various dimensions of the family from a cross-cultural perspective, including system, development, behaviour, and functioning. It then ...
Drugs, Daydreaming, and Personality: A Study of College Youth
1st Edition
By Bernard Segal, George J. Huba, Jerome L. Singer
June 12, 2019
Originally published in 1980, this book presents a detailed account of a series of investigations that examined the patterns of resort to drugs and alcohol use in college youth, and how such substance uses are linked to personality characteristics and daydreaming patterns. The Editors chose to ...
The Psychology of Questions
1st Edition
Edited
By Arthur C. Graesser, John B. Black
June 12, 2019
Originally published in 1985, the chapters in this volume collectively approach the phenomenon of questioning from many perspectives. There are studies on question comprehension, question answering, question asking and the influence of adjunct questions on text comprehension and memory. The ...