Books in the Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology series

This superb collection of renowned experts in education, social psychology, learning science, and neuroscience presents insights into positive learning outcomes. Written for a wide academic readership, it provides definitions of terms related to motivation and learning alongside a developed explanation of key findings across multiple fields.

This is a valuable reference that employs empirical methods to improve our understanding of the economic mind and economic behaviour. This second edition includes new chapters on a variety of topics, including neuroeconomics, unemployment, debt, behavioural public finance, and cutting-edge work on fuzzy trace theory and robots, cyborgs and consumption.

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 showcases a rich analysis on how imagination is understood across several disciplines of study such as anthropology, archaeology, medicine, neuroscience, psychology, philosophy and the arts. In reading this book, researchers, students and practitioners will learn about fundamental issues of relevance in relation to imagination.

This handbook provides an evidence-based discussion of how work, working environments, and workers have changed over several decades. The advice and insights given on how to effectively manage talent with regard to such changes are invaluable to students, researchers, practitioners, organizational leaders, and policy-makers.

This handbook provides an evidence-based discussion of how work, working environments, and workers have changed over several decades. The advice and insights given on how to effectively manage talent with regard to such changes are invaluable to students, researchers, practitioners, organizational leaders, and policy-makers.

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.

This Handbook gives interpretive and practical recommendations for graduate students, researchers, and clinicians conducting clinical assessments across a number of settings. Written by experts in the field, each chapter provides a contemporary and research-informed review of the topics essential to psychological assessment and diagnosis.

This Handbook gives interpretive and practical recommendations for graduate students, researchers, and clinicians conducting clinical assessments across a number of settings. Written by experts in the field, each chapter provides a contemporary and research-informed review of the topics essential to psychological assessment and diagnosis.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This Handbook presents the intellectual history and surrounding context of theories and research across a range of psychological domains. The book is topically organized, much like an introductory-psychology text, so readers can discover the intellectual history of the particular fields of psychology that interest them.

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.

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.

Experts from across all industrial-organizational (IO) psychology describe how increasingly rapid technological change has affected the field. In each chapter, authors describe how this has altered the meaning of IO research within a particular subdomain and what steps must be taken to avoid IO research from becoming obsolete.

This book provides descriptive and experimental approaches to the study of anxiety and related disorders alongside literature reviews and empirically-guided suggestions for treatment. It is written for academics and graduate students studying psychology, psychiatry, and neuroscience; as well as clinicians in medical centers or private practices.

This Handbook describes the extent and shape of computing education research, and articulates its boundaries with partner disciplines. Written by leading researchers from academia and industry (including Google and Microsoft), it provides both a guide for existing researchers and a practical resource for those new to the field.

This Handbook describes the extent and shape of computing education research, and articulates its boundaries with partner disciplines. Written by leading researchers from academia and industry (including Google and Microsoft), it provides both a guide for existing researchers and a practical resource for those new to the field.

Leading scientists reveal how to enhance instruction and student achievement across many domains, including science, mathematics, reading, and writing. Directed towards graduate students and seasoned scientists interested in education, it is also accessible to practitioners and students who are interested in improving learning and achievement.

This book provides descriptive and experimental approaches to the study of anxiety and related disorders alongside literature reviews and empirically-guided suggestions for treatment. It is written for academics and graduate students studying psychology, psychiatry, and neuroscience; as well as clinicians in medical centers or private practices.

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.

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.

Play takes up much of the time budget of young children, and many animals, but its importance in development remains contested. This comprehensive collection brings together multidisciplinary and developmental perspectives on the forms and functions of play in animals, children in different societies, and through the lifespan.

Play takes up much of the time budget of young children, and many animals, but its importance in development remains contested. This comprehensive collection brings together multidisciplinary and developmental perspectives on the forms and functions of play in animals, children in different societies, and through the lifespan.

This is a review of the psychological literature on wisdom by leading experts in the field. It covers the philosophical and sociocultural foundations of wisdom, and showcases the measurement and teaching of wisdom. The connection of wisdom to intelligence and personality is explained alongside its relationship with morality and ethics.

This is a review of the psychological literature on wisdom by leading experts in the field. It covers the philosophical and sociocultural foundations of wisdom, and showcases the measurement and teaching of wisdom. The connection of wisdom to intelligence and personality is explained alongside its relationship with morality and ethics.

This Handbook brings together leading scholars from various academic disciplines to further the discourse around the most topical issues of aging today - healthy, active, and productive aging, aging with satisfaction, and being treated with respect and dignity. It draws on a range of bio-medical, psychological and socio-demographic sciences.

This is an essential reference for studying communication in teams and groups. Combining the expertise of 76 leading scholars and practitioners, and applicable across different fields, including psychology, management studies, and education, this Handbook presents the complete methodology for coding and analyzing verbal and nonverbal interaction.