Behavioral Sciences

Suspecting that your baby or toddler may have autism spectrum disorder or another developmental delay can be scary and overwhelming. But there is a lot you ...

p.e.t., Or parent Effectiveness Training, Began Almost Forty Years Ago As The First National Parent-training Program To Teach Parents How To Communicate M...

The word "lovemap" was first used by Dr. John Money in lectures at Johns Hopkins University in 1980 to symbolize "the neutral template expressed in every i...

in Recent Years The Field Of Cognitive Aging Has Flourished And Expanded Into Many Different Disciplines. It Is Probably, Therefore, Inevitable That Some ...

Every single year in Canada, one-third of all deaths among Indigenous youth are due to suicide. Studies indicate youth between the ages of ten and nineteen...

ellis (b. 1913), The Founder Of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, Regards Self-esteem As The Greatest Emotional Disturbance Known ..... After Reviewing The...

From the award-winning author of A Splendid Exchange, a fascinating new history of financial and religious mass manias over the past five centuries "We ar...

In The Growth Of The Mind Stanley Greenspan Offers A Profoundly New View Of The Origins Of Our Minds' Highest Capacities. Contrary To Traditional Notions, H...

The Purpose Of This Book Is To Lay The Foundation For Solid Conceptual And Methodological Approaches For Mental Health Professionals In Offering Effective R...

In the spirit of the mega-selling On Bullshit, philosopher Aaron James presents a theory of the asshole that is both intellectually provocative and existen...

what Is The Difference Between Choking And Panicking? Why Are There Dozens Of Varieties Of Mustard-but Only One Variety Of Ketchup? What Do Football Playe...

Although Africa has long been known to be rich in oil, extracting it hadn’t seemed worth the effort and risk until recently. But with the price of Middle ...

This important contribution to the sociology of religion provides an analysis that clarifies the often ironic interaction between religion and society. Be...

John R. Stilgoe.Categories: Science & Math Earth Sciences GeographyGeneral

Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) is based on the premise that behavior can be influenced by changes in environment and by the reinforcing consequences of th...

developed By Two Master Clinicians With Extensive Experience In Cognitive Therapy Treatment And Training, This Popular Workbook Shows Readers How To Impro...

From The Trailblazing, New York Times–bestselling Author Of Thinking In Pictures, A Landmark Book That Reveals, Celebrates, And Advocates For The Special ...

CBT is a proven and effective approach to mastering your thoughts, and here the authors of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy For Dummies show you step-by-step ...

An analysis of the nature, causes, and significance of violence in the second half of the twentieth century. Arendt also reexamines the relationship betwee...

Empty Place: Poetry, Space and Being Among the Foi of Papua New Guinea: No. 675Categories: Science & Math Behavioral SciencesAnthropology

In this sweeping overview of life in the ancient Near East, Daniel Snell surveys the history of the region from the invention of writing five thousand year...

Teaching children how to manage their intense emotions is one of the most difficult aspects of parenting or educating gifted children. Emotional Intensity ...

The Author Steven Kotler And High-performance Expert Jamie Wheal Spent Four Years Investigating How Silicon Valley Executives, The Navy Seals, And Maverick ...

About the Author\Mark Freestone, PhD is a Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Psychiatry, Queen Mary University of London. He has worked in prisons and forens...

"If you are not already a Steven Pinker addict, this book will make you one." --Jared DiamondIn Words and Rules, Steven Pinker explores profound mysteries ...

the Coeditor Of The Enormously Popular Jewish Catalog Help[s] Readers Understand More Fully The Meaning Of Our Holidays And Thereby To Observe These Festi...

Polly Young-eisendrath, Florence L. Wiedemann. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 233-237.Categories: Science & Math Behavioral SciencesBehavioral Psychol...

Can There Still Be Anything New To Say About The Erotic, Sexy Play, And Desire? Yes , Because What Drives Each Of Us To Any Sexual Fixation--from Feet Or Fa...

Ever since its emergence in colonial-era Cuba, Afro-Cuban Santería (or Lucumí) has displayed a complex dynamic of continuity and change in its institution...

The Sixth Edition of David F. Bjorklund and Kayla B. Causey’s topically organized Children’s Thinking presents a current, comprehensive, and dynamic exa...

Canadian children are safer now than at any other time in history. So why are we so fearful for them? When they’re young, we drive them to playdates, fill...

anger Is A Daily Experience. It Is Encountered In A Number Of Interpersonal, Family And Occupational Situations. Research Indicates That Even Normal Paren...

Working Memory Refers To How We Keep Track Of What We Are Doing Moment To Moment Throughout Our Waking Lives. This Book Brings Together In One Volume, State...

The life you want is in reach, if only you can master the power of focus\Anxiety, stress, worry, and fear—these are the mental maladies that literally pla...

Robert Trivers. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 433-455.Categories: Science & Math EvolutionGeneral

An Accessible Introduction To The Science Of Evolutionary Psychology And How It Explains Many Aspects Of Human Nature. Unlike Many Books On The Topic, Which...

Do you panic at the thought of walking into a room full of people you don't know? Do you feel as if a cloud of gloom is always hovering over your head? Do y...

A Guide To How Languages Around The World Differ From One Another Far More Than We Realize And Point To Fundamental Differences In How People Conceive Of Ev...

Few Concepts Are More Unshakable In Our Culture Than Free Will, The Idea That Individuals Are Fundamentally In Control Of The Decisions They Make, Good Or B...

This Book Is A Practical Guide To Doing Psychotherapy Which, Unlike Most Other Manuals That Present An Idealized View Of The Therapist-patient Relationship,...

Step-by-step guides to self-improvement that introduce the methods of the highly regarded cognitive behavioral therapy technique to help readers conquer a b...

The Value of Life is an exploration of the actual and perceived importance of biological diversity for human beings and society. Stephen R. Kellert identif...

Traditional Economics Assumes Rational Actors. Early In His Research, Thaler Realized These Spock-like Automatons Were Nothing Like Real People. Whether Buy...

In Kwaio Religion, Roger Keesing examines how the Kwaio, challenged by 110 years of European colonialism and now by the militant Christianity of their own ...

Solve serious behavior challenges in K–8 classrooms with this easy-to-use book, the first practical guide to the research-proven Prevent-Teach-Reinforce (...

Applied behavior analysis (ABA) is a highly effective, rigorously researched intervention for children with autism spectrum disorders—but most teachers d...

Examines The History Of Behavioral Economics, Discussing The Theory Of Israeli Psychologists Who Wrote The Original Studies Undoing Assumptions About The De...

The new Lite Version of the famous Sniffy software simulates the elementary phenomena of operant and classical conditioning that are discussed in courses on...