Jere R. Behrman 
Parental Investments and Children’s Human Capital in Low-to-Middle-Income Countries [PDF ebook] 

Positive psychological science has experienced extraordinary growth over the past two decades. Research in this area is revealing new strategies and interventions for improving everyday life, health …

Published in 1980,  Applications of Item Response Theory To Practical Testing Problems is a valuable contribution to the field of Education. …

This edition was conceived and compiled to meet the need for a comprehensive book for practitioners, academics, and students on the research of emotions in organizational behavior. The book is the fi …

In simple, jargon-free language, Herbert Schlesinger sets out to demystify technique, to show how it is based on basic principles that are applicable both to psychoanalysis and to the psychotherapies …

This book provides a state-of-the-art review and critical evaluation of research into ”flashbulb” memories. The opening chapters explore the ”encoding” view of flashbulb memory formation and crit …

Although references to stigma were commonplace in the field of social policy and elsewhere, the concept was often used in a rather imprecise way. Originally published in 1984, this book assesses the …

People cope with threats to their identities in many different ways. Until the original publication of this title in 1986, there had been no theoretical framework within which to analyse their strate …

Originally published in 1988 Applied Cognitive Psychology draws on the psychology of perception, attention, and cognition to give an understanding of some everyday activities and skills. Paul Barber …

Some of the worst selection practices to be found anywhere can be found at the top of organisations. Even when senior selection is not egregiously bad, rarely is it as good as it could be. Front-line …

Within psychology, emotion is often treated as something private and personal. In contrast, this book tries to understand emotion from the ”outside, ” by examining the everyday social settings in w …