Books in the Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology series

This third edition of the acclaimed Handbook offers a fully up-to-date, comprehensive, accessible, one-stop resource on health psychology, the study and application of psychological and behavioural processes in health, illness and healthcare. It is essential for doctors, health care professionals, mental health care professionals, academics, researchers, and students.

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.

Recent technological and theoretical innovations have enabled humans to gain unprecedented insights into the contributions of the brain to creative thought. This unique volume brings together contributions by the very best scholars from several fields to offer a comprehensive overview of cutting edge research on this important and fascinating topic.

This third edition of the acclaimed Handbook offers a fully up-to-date, comprehensive, accessible, one-stop resource on health psychology, the study and application of psychological and behavioural processes in health, illness and healthcare. It is essential for doctors, health care professionals, mental health care professionals, academics, researchers, and students.

The Cambridge Handbook of Work-Family Interface is a response to growing interest from academics, practitioners, and the popular press in understanding how people manage their work and family lives, and how this management is affected by various dynamics, such as psychology, business, family studies, sociology, political science and economics.

An international overview of the current state of our knowledge in sociocultural psychology that focuses on how human actions, mediated with cultural artefacts within social practices, produce meaningful personal experiences and shape behaviour. This second edition provides expanded coverage of art and aesthetics, economics, history, religion and politics.

This volume addresses the question of whether creativity is a general ability or whether it is domain-specific, bringing together researchers across academia to explain the cognitive processes, ways of solving problems, personality and motivational attributes, guiding metaphors, and work habits that best characterize creative people.

This handbook covers current research in the science of cyber behavior. Written by international scholars from a wide range of disciplines, the chapters focus on four fundamental elements of cyber behavior: users, technologies, activities, and effects. It is the ideal overview of the field for researchers, scholars, and students alike.

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.

With comprehensive coverage of topics related to learning, training, and employee development from the primary point of view of industrial organizational psychology, this volume is a must-have resource for industrial and organizational (I/O) psychologists, human resource (HR) scholars, and adult education specialists.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.