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Their papers aim to test, or to reflect on, common prejudices about the links between mental health and religion, especially when they are thought to be mediated by personality characteristics.

This book presents self-organization as a common theoretical foundation for a variety of therapy styles. In contrast to other highly theoretical and technical discussions of the subject, this book gives a wider audience an understanding of recent developments.

Those interested in the relationships between psychological and physiological functions will again and again be impressed by the fact that great individual differences and large situational variability are manifested in psychophysiological data.

Spurred by reports in 1980 detailing the ineffectiveness of long-term treatment with benzodiazepines, the authors of this volume began a study to investigate the reasons behind the addiction, quickly adopting a psychological approach to treatment.

The Expression of Attitude deals with a number of broad but interrelated questions: what are attitudes, how do they relate to behavior, how are they acquired, and in what ways can they be shared?

A Narrative History of Experimental Social Psychology presents lengthy and intensive interviews with the contemporary scientists that founded and shaped the field of social psychology.

While this monograph indicates that the ability to think abstractly declines slightly with age, there are a number of variables determining abstract thinking and its relation to intelligence over the life-span. This monograph defines abstraction from all angles of thought, contrasting it with high-order thinking and stereotyped thinking;

Enriched and Impoverished Environments: Effects on Brain and Behaviour is the most recent review of the active area of neuronal plasticity. speculations and investigations concerning the role of the brain in this process have entered a particularly exciting phase as of the late 1980's.

Not being foolhardy, however, he took the precaution of choosing Paris as the meeting place. The meeting took place at the 'Maison des Belges' of the Cite Universitaire, Boulevard Jourdan, in front of the Parc Montsouris. The next meeting took place in Nijmegen, in November 1971, under the loving care of Eddy Roskam.

The Quantification of Human Defence is to be welcomed both for its scientific merit, and as an example of international collaboration and cooperation between psychologists, psychiatrists and clinicians from many countries.

In view of the present attempts to broaden the scope of educational research as far as learning is concerned, there has been increased interest in the functional environment of the learner.

This volume is the third volume of papers originating from the European Mathematical Psychology Group. It should therefore not surprise that psychometric topics, and topics in scaling are represented in this volume, alongside with topics of a more 'purely' mathematical nature.

Contents Preface vii 1 Literature Review 1 1. 1 Introduction 1 1. 2 Marriage and the Family '2 1. 3 Correlates of Family and Marital Satisfaction 3 1. 6 Self-Esteem and Satisfaction 11 2 Satisfaction with One's Family Relations 14 2. 1 Introduction 14 2. 2 Descriptive Statistics for World Sample, Males and Females 14 2.

Early Fraction learning is centrally of interest to studentsand researchersin mathematics education, tackling as itdoes one of that discipline's most vexing problems: why arefractions so difficult to learn and to teach?

40.) In the first chapter, "Experimental Research and the Distinctive Features of Accounting Settings," Robert Libby presents an encompassing and knowledgeable summary of the changes that have taken place during the last decade in human information processing research in accounting and experimental economics as it relates to those issues.

When trying to understand the mathematical experiences of a child, one can do no better than to interact with the child in a mathematical context guided by the intention to specify the child's current knowledge and the progress the child might make.

Since the establishment of the first alcohol education course (ABC) for young offenders in 1981, this fono of service delivery has been expanded across the United Kingdom. Prerelease young offenders were randomly assigned to either a no-intervention control group or a behavioral ABC group.

This book pre-sents new issues and new research in examining attributionsfrom such diverse viewpoints as existential attributions toinformation processing and decision making to examining fee-lings of success in terms of corporate scripts in the work-place.

In our opinion, past research has failed to make important conceptual distinctions which has resulted in an underestimation of the potential utility of parent-teen communication. First, we wanted to identify important conceptual and methodological points that future researchers can consider in exploring this important area of inquiry.

The papers in this volume were prepared after a preliminary symposium held at The University of Michigan in honor of Clyde Coombs. v Acknowledgements The preparation of this volume in memory of Clyde Coombs owes much to the many friends, students, and colleagues of Clyde Coombs who generously provided their support and encouragement.

In the last 25 years, there is no issue in personality psychology which has been as hotly debated as that of consistency.

Test builders, like cognitive scientists, are aware of the cen trality of analogical reasoning and figure, correctly, that a test that samples a student's ability to think analogically may well be a good predictor of success in a variety of fields.

Large Group Awareness Training: An Historical Context Groups associated with the human potential movement have been a controversial feature of American life during the last three decades.

This research monograph describes a new approach to the measurement of thinking processes. Traditionally, thinking has been defined in terms of the logical thought processes which lead to warranted conclusions. Current tests of critical thinking reflect the "logical" approaches to measuring thinking;

I guess everyone has a cousin Ernest. Cousin Ernest went to the high school for genius children and got all A's, even in French. As the years went by, I lost contact with Cousin Ernest. While legally he was compelled to tell patients about the risks they were undertaking, he said that risk disclosure was a useless exercise.

Now, however, the time is ripe for taking a new step, based on new research, towards understanding children and helping others to understand them., this time by publishing "Learning to learn", which is a description of how children have actually been taught to learn in preschool.

Many of the diseases which afflict people in an affluent society like the United States seem to be related to food consumption (e.g., adult-onset diabetes mellitus, hyperlipidemia, and colon cancer).

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