Bücher der Reihe Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology

This Handbook covers virtually all of the many facets of scientific research on creativity, including the related areas of innovation and imagination. It includes cutting-edge work from psychology, education, business, entrepreneurship, and neuroscience to present a complete overview of the nuanced topic of creativity.

This handbook provides an accessible summary of cutting-edge personality research in all its forms, giving students, researchers, and practitioners a comprehensive resource for understanding personality theory and application. It also introduces the leading methods in the field, from molecular genetics to narrative inquiry.

This book is an essential resource for the rapidly evolving field of personality disorders for researchers and clinicians at all career stages in disciplines including psychology, psychiatry, social work, and nursing. It covers the causes, course, assessment, and treatment of personality disorders with commentaries and a rejoinder for each chapter.

Providing a comprehensive examination of the psychology of prejudice from its roots to its manifestations and consequences, this concise student edition of the award-winning Cambridge Handbook includes new pedagogical features such as learning objectives, key terms and definitions, summary points, discussion questions, and instructor's test bank.

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.

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.

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.

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.

With the field of personal relationships having grown dramatically in the past quarter century, The Cambridge Handbook of Personal Relationships serves as a benchmark of the current state of scholarship, synthesizing the extant theoretical and empirical literature, tracing its historical roots, and making recommendations for future directions.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 2005 guide to the body of knowledge, theory, policy and practice of age researchers and gerontologists around the world. While the main focus of the book is the behavioural and social sciences, it provides comprehensive, accessible and authoritative accounts of all the key topics in the field.

This handbook, first published in 2005, presents an overview of basic and applied research on visuospatial thinking - how people differ on visuospatial abilities, how people perform complex visuospatial thinking tasks and how to use what we know about visuospatial thinking in applied contexts, such as map reading and multimedia design.

This handbook, first published in 2005, presents an overview of basic and applied research on visuospatial thinking - how people differ on visuospatial abilities, how people perform complex visuospatial thinking tasks and how to use what we know about visuospatial thinking in applied contexts, such as map reading and multimedia design.

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

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.

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.