W. A. Collins 
Minnesota Symposia on Child Psychology [EPUB ebook] 
Volume 11

First published in 1982. This book offers virtually everything that is publicly known about sleep-talking, with the greatest amount and most important of this information coming from the author’s own …

Following the attacks of September 11th 2001, one of the resounding questions asked was 'What would make anyone do such a thing?’ The psychological mentality of the suicidal terrorist left a gaping h …

The Student Survival Guide for Research Methods in Psychology is designed to support students enrolled in undergraduate or graduate level research methods courses by providing them with the tools the …

This book describes the advances and insights made by social scientists from around the world into the understanding and resolution of social dilemmas. Each chapter discusses its own research finding …

What is ‘humpty-dumptying’? Do ‘arguments from analogy’ ever stand up? How do I know when someone is using ‘weasel words’? What’s the difference between a ‘red herring’ and a ‘straw man’? This superb …

The modern study of cognition finds itself with two widely endorsed but seemingly incongruous theoretical paradigms. The first of these, inspired by formal logic and the digital computer, sees reason …

Research on clinical populations and studies of normal individuals support the conclusion that there are functional differences between the cerebral hemispheres. This book captures some of the major …

A Lifetime of Communication explores the developmental processes that make for uniquely human change and growth. In this distinctive work, author Julie Yingling utilizes a single case example of a ch …

Theory of mind, or 'mindreading’ as it is termed in this book, is the ability to think about beliefs, desires, knowledge and intentions. It has been studied extensively by developmental and comparati …

In this book, Carl Bereiter–a distinguished and well-known cognitive, educational psychologist–presents what he calls 'a new way of thinking about knowledge and the mind.’ He argues that in today” …