Robert J. Sternberg

Renowned psychologist Robert J. Sternberg assembles a diverse group of experts to examine how hate originates, develops, manifests, and spreads—and how it can be counteracted.

We are writing to express our deep concern and dismay over the events and actions taken subsequent to the release of the Hoffman Report.

This book helps early-career academic psychologists jump-start their careers and lay a solid foundation for tenure and promotion.

This book will help future psychologists find their optimal career path. The chapters describe 30 exciting graduate-level careers in academia, clinical and counseling psychology, and specialized settings such as for-profit businesses, nonprofits, the military, and schools.

This engaging, personable volume imparts the wisdom accumulated over one renowned psychologist's lifetime. The life lessons are particularly tailored for early-career psychologists and graduate students.

This book offers distinctive perspectives, seeks common ground, and reveals legitimate differences, unanswered questions, and promising avenues for improving psychotherapy.

This ground-breaking book brings together experts on the psychology of hate to present their diverse viewpoints in a single volume.

The emphasis of this volume is on the theoretical issue of whether the attributes that lead to creativity in one domain are the same as those that lead to creativity in another domain.

In this final column, I would like to describe what I view as my four main accomplishments, and also say where I believe I was less successful than I would have liked.

In all domains of intellectual and other pursuits, creative people find that, rather than being rewarded for their creative ideas, they usually are punished.

The terrorism, massacres and genocides the world has faced, seemingly throughout human history, may have part of their origins in the development and even cultivation of hate.

We need to understand other cultures, which means working with local collaborators to find or devise instruments appropriate to assessing them and programs appropriate for teaching them.

Hostile reviews can discourage investigators, cheapen the level of discourse and scientific exchange, hurt us in funding, and violate everything we know about how effectively to achieve behavioral change in those to whom we give feedback.

Psychologists ought to have the prescribing option because psychologists treat the whole person, they are more available than psychiatrists, and it's now politically feasible.

What distinguishes those who are highly successful from others is, in large part, resilience in the face of humiliations, defeats and setbacks of various kinds.

What all these labels have in common is that they place the blame for difficulties in learning squarely on the child at the same time that they absolve the educational system of responsibility for the child's difficulties in learning.

Smart people who are foolish tend to show one or more of four fallacies in their thinking: egocentrism, omniscience, omnipotence or invulnerability.

Unity allows psychology conserve resources, recognize interdependence, gain credibility and have a positive effect.

If an organization is largely unmodifiable, then it may not be worth staying with it because it has little or no hope for a better future.

This book explores how intelligence relates to other constructs such as emotion and temperament.

The mentor is professionally and personally supportive, a source of advice, a sounding board when a student needs one, and a helper in times of distress.

What are the elements of the university culture and sometimes even of the culture of psychological practice that impede psychology's contribution to education?