Course Adoption Books on Experimental Psychology

• Adaptation to Changing Health

  This book examines response shift in quality of life, including theoretical underpinnings, methodology, and application to treatment outcomes research and medical decision making.

• Alterations of Consciousness

  This comprehensive overview of altered states examines consciousness from the physiological, cognitive, and experiential points of view.

• Animal Research and Human Health

  This book demonstrates the interplay between human and animal research that led to significant advances in diverse areas of psychology including anxiety, stress, and disorders.

• Categorization Inside and Outside the Laboratory

  This book presents the state of knowledge on how people partition the world into categories.

• Cognitive Methods and Their Application to Clinical Research

  This book discusses the popularly used cognitive tasks in applied research, including the Stroop, Selective Attention, Implicit Memory, Directed Forgetting, and Autobiographical Memory tasks.

• Comprehending Suicide

  This volume gathers in one book 13 of the most thought-provoking works of the century that offer invaluable insights on suicide and on responses to it.

• Critical Thinking About Psychology

  This book challenges psychologists to re-examine basic assumptions of psychology so as to debunk myths and false assumptions.

• Developing Individuality in the Human Brain

  This book describes the breadth of Michael I. Posner's influence on the field of cognitive, affective, and developmental neurosciences.

• Essentials of Clinical Hypnosis

  This book brings hypnosis into the mainstream of science-based clinical psychotherapy.

• Evocative Images

  This APA book retraces the roots of the Thematic Apperception Test, along with the circumstances that shaped, and continue to shape, its use.

• Experimental Cognitive Psychology and Its Applications

  This book brings together distinguished experimental psychologists who explain how their research findings can be applied.

• Handbook of Bereavement Research

  This APA book provides a broad view of diverse approaches to bereavement, examining both normal adaptation and complicated manifestations of grief.

• How Expectancies Shape Experience

  This ground-breaking APA volume brings together prominent scientists who have studied the effect of response expectancies in human function and dysfunction and practitioners who have applied these findings.

• The Human Image in Postmodern America

  This book is a thought-provoking critique of the basic premises underlying the explanations of human behavior frequently offered by psychologists, demonstrating the nonmechanical nature of our behavior in real-life situations.

• Humanistic Psychotherapies

  This APA handbook offers readers an outstanding compendium of the latest research and practice techniques in humanistic psychotherapies.

• In Defense of Human Consciousness

  APA book that offers a model of the mind that reinforces the role of free will in consciousness.

• Learning and Individual Differences

  This APA book demonstrates where the field of research in learning and individual differences has been, where it is today, and where the challenges are for tomorrow.

• Measuring Environment Across the Life Span

  This APA book provides theoretical models and testing methods for quantifying the effects of the environment on human development.

• Memory Consolidation

  This book presents experiments and research in human neurobiology including studies of models of memory formation in honor of James McGaugh.

• Motivational Styles in Everyday Life

  APA book offers a unique perspective of motivational styles and a definitive statement of reversal theory with research support from a wide variety of areas.

• The Nature of Remembering

  APA book in honor of Robert G. Crowder presents new research on memory and cognition as well as examining Crowder’s life, work, and legacy.

• New Methods for the Analysis of Change

  APA book offering methodological and statistical strategies for the analysis of change including measurement methods for estimating and evaluating models of growth and change.

• On the Consequences of Meaning Selection

  This APA book presents the latest research in the study of comprehension and discourse processes—lexically ambiguous words, how they are accessed, and how meaning is derived.

• Optimal Data Analysis

  This guidebook is a powerful new tool for examining information and making predictions.

• Optimism and Pessimism

  This APA book offers reviews of empirical foundations and the cultural, biological and psychological factors of optimism and pessimism with implications for theory, research, and psychotherapy.

• The Origin of Mind

  This ground-breaking book sets out a comprehensive, integrated theory of why and how the human mind has developed to function as it does.

• Origins and Development of Schizophrenia

  This APA book presents some of the most exciting experimental psychopathology research in this area during the past 10 years and sheds new light on schizophrenia.

• Presenting Your Findings

  In an engaging and accessible format, this APA handbook provides invaluable guidance on the proper table format for a wide range of statistical analyses.

• Principles of Experimental Psychopathology

  This book celebrates the contributions of Brendan A. Maher to the development and emergence of experimental psychopathology.

• The Process of Group Psychotherapy

  This APA book provides a rich source for theory building and research design in analyzing change in groups and complexities of group process.

• The Psychodynamics of Gender and Gender Role

  This APA book reviews cutting-edge empirical research in the psychoanalytic theories of gender and gender role, including child development, defense and coping, and psychopathology.

• Psychology and the National Institute of Mental Health

  As a history, this book reveals important insights into the remarkable expansion of psychology since World War II and illuminates the role of government in shaping the lives and practices of its citizens through its funding.

• Reading and Understanding MORE Multivariate Statistics

  This APA book provides easy-to-understand explanations of more multivariate statistics not covered in Reading and Understanding Multivariate Statistics.

• Schizophrenia in Late Life

  This volume presents a uniquely comprehensive picture of the current research about older adults diagnosed with schizophrenia.

• Self-Relations in the Psychotherapy Process

  APA book elucidating the paradox of the self in the psychotherapeutic process that also examines the major tenets of postmodernism in relation to psychotherapy practice.

• Social Cognition and Schizophrenia

  APA book offering new social cognitive models of schizophrenia with implications for the development, course, and outcome of the disorder.

• Unraveling the Complexities of Social Life

  This APA book explores themes central to the work of Robert B. Zajonc, including the interface between thinking and feeling, and social psychological phenomena mediation by conscious thought.

• Varieties of Anomalous Experience

  In this book, leading scholars explore such phenomena as out-of-body experiences, alien abductions, mysticism, anomalous healings, and psi events to explain the totality of human experience.

• Virtue and Psychology

  This book describes an alternative framework that not only acknowledges virtue, but also shows how values that we already hold in common may be incorporated into psychological practice, and into our lives as a whole.

• Women and Victimization

  This book is the first book to comprehensively examine and integrate a vast and diverse literature base, drawing from divergent findings to reveal a picture of complexity and of intertwining risk and resilience factors.

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