Peter M. Kappeler & Carel P. van Schaik 
Sexual Selection in Primates [PDF ebook] 
New and Comparative Perspectives

Adaptive Learning and the Human Condition provides a coherent and comprehensive introduction to the basic principles of classical (Pavlovian) and instrumental (Skinnerian) conditioning. When combined …

This book considers the evidence for freeing ourselves from the creeping medicalisation of psychological theory and practice. Contributors from a range of modalities illustrate how to practise in a d …

To their everyday life with children, parents bring a number of ideas about development and about parenting. Some of these ideas are about their own children and about themselves as parents. Others a …

First published in 1985. The present volume is a theoretical and methodological supplement to the Nuttin »s book  »Motivation, planning and action: A relational theory of behaviour dynamics’, in whic …

Psychological tests provide reliable and objective standards by which individuals can be evaluated in education and employment. Therefore accurate judgements must depend on the reliability and qualit …

Every day we are asked to fulfil others’ requests, and we make regular requests of others too, seeking compliance with our desires, commands and suggestions. This accessible text provides a uniquely …

What determines whether stepfamilies remain together? What helps stepfamilies overcomes the difficulties of remarriage and become mutually supportive family units? How can mental health professionals …

Originally published in 1991. Addressing the ways in which the ideology of gender and its social construction determine autobiographical self-representations, the essays here consider several women’s …

Originally published in 1928, this volume, by a world authority on the subject, sums up our knowledge of the social insects. It inquires what are the social insects and what it is that makes us call …