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This book is for administrators, staff, faculty, and students who are interested in service learning, community engagement, and ways in which engaged teaching and scholarship can effect social change. Community organizations and non-profits will also benefit from thinking about ways they can partner with educational institutions to create local change.

A key reference source for the psychology of aesthetics and the arts - a discipline dedicated to the study of our interactions with artworks, literature, poetry, music, movies, performances, architecture and design; our experiences of beauty and ugliness; our preferences and dislikes; and our everyday perceptions of things in our world.

This Handbook provides the theoretical and methodological tools for adopting a social representations approach in field research. Scholars, researchers and students in the social sciences will find it an invaluable resource for understanding contemporary social psychological concerns such as the development of identities, communities and narratives.

This Cambridge Handbook is the first book of its kind to explore how personality and behavior affects creativity. Contributors from around the globe present cutting-edge research about how personality traits and motives make creative behavior more likely.

More than just a tool for increasing individual and organizational effectiveness, meetings provide a window into the very essence of organizations and employees' experiences with the organization. The first volume to analyze meeting science, this Handbook serves scholars across a variety of disciplines who seek to understand and improve meetings.

This comprehensive and up-to-date book will be studied in undergraduate and graduate courses in psychology, social work, education, international law, sociology, economics, public health and public policy fields, and will also be a valuable resource for established scholars, practitioners and policy-makers.

The Handbook of Psychophysiology has been the authoritative resource for more than a quarter of a century. Since the previous edition was published a decade ago, the field of psychophysiological science has seen major advances. The fourth edition of the Handbook provides state-of-the-art coverage of approaches, methods, and analyses in the field.

Written by major international experts in the field of cultural-historical psychology, this is the first handbook to focus on the inseparable unity of the mind, brain and culture, and the ways to understand it.

This Handbook provides a comprehensive examination of the psychology of prejudice, from its roots through to its manifestations and consequences. The chapters cover broad theoretical perspectives on prejudice; investigate prejudice in specific domains such as race, gender, and appearance; and develop strategies for prejudice reduction and social change.

Featuring contributions from over fifty leading experts, this comprehensive Handbook covers the theoretical, methodological, and applied issues central to acculturation psychology. The new edition addresses major world changes over the last decade, and provides updated theories and models so that readers can keep abreast of new developments in the field.

Color is ubiquitous in our perceptual world. This Handbook features comprehensive coverage of emerging theory and research from the exciting and burgeoning area of color psychology. This is a must-have resource with contributions from the top scholars in the field.

The field of mathematical psychology includes both psychological theorizing, in which mathematics plays a key role, and applied mathematics, motivated by substantive problems in psychology. The New Handbook of Mathematical Psychology explores the mathematical and computational foundations of new developments over the last half-century.

More than just a tool for increasing individual and organizational effectiveness, meetings provide a window into the very essence of organizations and employees' experiences with the organization. The first volume to analyze meeting science, this Handbook serves scholars across a variety of disciplines who seek to understand and improve meetings.

Written by major international experts in the field of cultural-historical psychology, this is the first handbook to focus on the inseparable unity of the mind, brain and culture, and the ways to understand it.

A key reference source for the psychology of aesthetics and the arts - a discipline dedicated to the study of our interactions with artworks, literature, poetry, music, movies, performances, architecture and design; our experiences of beauty and ugliness; our preferences and dislikes; and our everyday perceptions of things in our world.

Focusing on everything from basic research practices to cutting-edge technology, this book is essential for student learning and professional research.

Focusing on everything from basic research practices to cutting-edge technology, this book is essential for student learning and professional research.

The updated second edition of the only handbook to offer a comprehensive analysis of research and theory in the field of multimedia learning, or learning from words and images. It examines research-based principles to determine the most effective methods of multimedia instruction and uses cognitive theory to explain how these methods work.

Psycholinguistics is a central topic in cognitive science. This collection of chapters is written by leading researchers from a wide array of subfields, who have been shaping the field of psycholinguistics over the last decade. This is required reading for advanced researchers, graduate students and upper-level undergraduates.

Psycholinguistics is a central topic in cognitive science. This collection of chapters is written by leading researchers from a wide array of subfields, who have been shaping the field of psycholinguistics over the last decade. This is required reading for advanced researchers, graduate students and upper-level undergraduates.

This volume takes the child's environment (culture, education, family, peers and media) as an essential component of child development.

This book is a guide to a paradigm of research in cognitive science that emphasizes the role of the body and the environment in shaping how we think. Each chapter tackles either a specific area of empirical research or specific sector of the conceptual foundation underlying this research.

This Handbook provides the theoretical and methodological tools for adopting a social representations approach in field research. Scholars, researchers and students in the social sciences will find it an invaluable resource for understanding contemporary social psychological concerns such as the development of identities, communities and narratives.

This handbook marks the transformation of the topic of literacy from the narrower concerns with learning to read and write to an interdisciplinary enquiry into the various roles of writing and reading in the full range of social and psychological functions in both modern and developing societies.

This handbook marks the transformation of the topic of literacy from the narrower concerns with learning to read and write to an interdisciplinary enquiry into the various roles of writing and reading in the full range of social and psychological functions in both modern and developing societies.

This book is a guide to a paradigm of research in cognitive science that emphasizes the role of the body and the environment in shaping how we think. Each chapter tackles either a specific area of empirical research or specific sector of the conceptual foundation underlying this research.

Written in response to the growing interest within the area, in this book a distinguished cast of authors explore the significance of metaphor in language, thought, culture, and artistic expression. Presenting cutting-edge findings within a broader context than many other publications, they cover disciplines varying from music, mathematics, business and law.

Written in response to the growing interest within the area, in this book a distinguished cast of authors explore the significance of metaphor in language, thought, culture, and artistic expression. Presenting cutting-edge findings within a broader context than many other publications, they cover disciplines varying from music, mathematics, business and law.

A definitive reference source for the growing, increasingly more important, and interdisciplinary field of computational cognitive modeling. Ron Sun summarizes and explains the basic concepts, techniques and findings for a major topic, sketches its history, assesses its successes and failures, giving a sense of the directions research is currently heading.

This handbook brings together leading scholars from around the world who address the topic of consciousness from a wide variety of perspectives from philosophical to anthropological to neuroscientific. An authoritative desk reference which will also be suitable as an advanced textbook.