Bücher von Hans Eysenck

Presents a descriptive and causal model of human personality in accord with the major concepts of experimental psychology and the physiological and neurological mechanisms that form the biological basis of behavior patterns. The author postulates the causal links between personality variables and neurological and physiological discoveries.

Although there is little that scientists can do about war and its prevention, or about social unrest and upheaval, or about strikes and other confrontations there are a number of questions to which they can give tentative answers. This book deals with some of these questions, and finds some of the answers.

This is a book on reminiscence, or more modestly a book on reminiscence in motor tasks, or more modestly still on reminiscence in pursuit rotor learning, with occasional references to other types of reminiscence.

Here, Hans Eysenk applies the principles of modern learning theory to account for the observed phenomena of hysteria and anxiety. Such principles were initially developed through the experimnts and theories of Pavlov, Hull, and Tolman.

Most people accept the connection between smoking and lung cancer. This study questions the experimental techniques and results interpretation used to prove this, arguing that psychological methods are better predictors of heart disease and cancer and are also an effective treatment.

What is meant by the term "intelligence" and, once defined, how do we go about achieving a valid measurement of this faculty? This textbook draws on methods for determining the effect of genetics and environment on the development of intelligence and examines the validity of the term as defined in relation to internal as well as external criteria.

The book is the result of a concentrated and co-operative effort to discover the main dimensions of personality and to define them operationally, that is, by means of strictly experimental, qualitative procedures. More than three dozen separate researches were carried out on some 10,000 normal and neurotic subjects.