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• Edited by Marie T. Banich, and Donna Caccamise.

While the notion of generalization fits prominently into cognitive theories of learning, there is surprisingly little research literature that takes an overview of the issue from a broad multifaceted perspective. This volume remedies this by taking a multidisciplinary perspective on generalization…

ISBN: 9781848728981

Published May 18, 2010 by Psychology Press

• Edited by Joseph P. Forgas, Joel Cooper and William D. Crano.

Human beings have a unique ability to create elaborate predispositions and evaluations based on their social experiences. The concept of attitudes is central to understanding how experience gives rise to these predispositions, and psychologists have spent the best part of the past 100 years trying…

ISBN: 9781848729087

Published May 18, 2010 by Psychology Press

• Edited by Nicola Brunswick, Sine McDougall and Paul de Mornay Davies.

This book provides a unique and accessible account of current research on reading and dyslexia in different orthographies. While most research has been conducted in English, this text presents cross-language comparisons to provide insights into universal aspects of reading development and…

ISBN: 9781841697123

Published May 13, 2010 by Psychology Press

• By Benjamin R. Newell, David A. Lagnado and David R. Shanks.

We all face a perplexing array of decisions every day. Straight Choices provides an integrative account of the psychology of decision making, in which clear connections are made between empirical results and how these results can help us to understand our uncertain world. Throughout the text,…

ISBN: 9781841695891

Published May 13, 2010 by Psychology Press

• Edited by Sergio Della Sala.

Memory and forgetting are inextricably intertwined. In order to understand how memory works we need to understand how and why we forget. The topic of forgetting is therefore hugely important, despite the fact that it has often been neglected in comparison with other features of memory. This…

ISBN: 9781848720121

Published May 04, 2010 by Psychology Press