Thomas Gilovich & Dale Griffin 
Heuristics and Biases [PDF ebook] 
The Psychology of Intuitive Judgment

This book provides a unifying structure for the activities that fall under the process typically called ‘standard setting’ on tests of proficiency. Standard setting refers to the methodology used to …

In Pioneers of Child Psychoanalysis Beatriz Markman Reubins presents the lives and theories of the early innovators of psychoanalytic theory as it is applied to child development – Sigmund Freud, Ann …

First published in 1986. This volume contains the papers presented at the ninth biennial West Virginia University conference on life-span development. The conference was held in Morgantown on May 10- …

First published in 1979. The aim of this series of Tutorial Essays, of which the present book is the second volume, is to enable the specialist in one area to discover in as painless a way as possibl …

Within a few short years, research on counterfactual thinking has mushroomed, establishing itself as one of the signature domains within social psychology. Counterfactuals are thoughts of what might …

A variety of ideas, approaches, and techniques exist — in terms of both architecture and learning — and this abundance seems to lead to many exciting possibilities in terms of theoretical advances …

For decades there has been considerable interest in the ways that interactions between children can provide a beneficial context for the study of cognitive and social development. In this book Psalti …

First published in 1982. This thirteenth volume in The Minnesota Symposia on Child Psychology set invites six developmental scholars were to present their work within the programmatic perspective in …

As a conceptual framework for the investigation of human memory, the levels-of-processing paradigm had enjoyed immense popularity since its introduction in the early 1970s. It was the impetus behind …