Bücher der Reihe Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

This 2005 book is a comprehensive and authoritative handbook of all the core topics of the field of thinking and reasoning. Chapters focus on research from cognitive psychology, cognitive science, and cognitive neuroscience and also include work related to philosophy, economics, artificial intelligence, linguistics, education, law, and medicine.