loadWidget(); ISBN13: 9780262251112 By: Beth Crandall, Gary Klein, Robert R. Hoffman Pages: 346 Buy eBook | Buy Print Book Description Cognitive task analysis (CTA) helps researchers understand how cognitive skills and strategies make it possible for people to act effectively and get things done. CTA can yield information ...
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Why We Cooperate
loadWidget(); ISBN13: 9780262260084 By: Michael Tomasello Pages: 208 Buy eBook | Buy Print Book Description Drop something in front of a two-year-old, and she's likely to pick it up for you. This is not a learned behavior, psychologist Michael Tomasello argues. Through observations of young children in experiments ...
What We Know about Emotional Intelligence
loadWidget(); ISBN13: 9780262257381 By: Moshe Zeidner, Gerald Matthews, Richard D. Roberts Pages: 456 Buy eBook | Buy Print Book Description Emotional intelligence (or EI)—the ability to perceive, regulate, and communicate emotions, to understand emotions in ourselves and others—has been the subject of best-selling books, magazine cover stories, and ...
Touch
loadWidget(); ISBN13: 9780262251600 By: Tiffany Field Pages: 193 Buy eBook | Buy Print Book Description Winner in the 2002 AAUP Book, Jacket, and Journal competition for excellence in design in the category of Jackets. The first sensory input in life comes from the sense of touch while a baby ...
Things and Places
loadWidget(); ISBN13: 9780262253222 By: Zenon W. Pylyshyn Pages: 280 Buy eBook | Buy Print Book Description In Things and Places, Zenon Pylyshyn argues that the process of incrementally constructing perceptual representations, solving the binding problem (determining which properties go together), and, more generally, grounding perceptual representations in experience ...
The Subtlety of Emotions
loadWidget(); ISBN13: 9780262254564 By: Aaron Ben-Ze'ev Pages: 627 Buy eBook | Buy Print Book Description Why do we cry at the movies? What is the best way to manage destructive feelings such as jealousy? Although emotions pervade our lives, their nature, causes, and effects have only recently been ...
The Social Neuroscience of Empathy
loadWidget(); ISBN13: 9780262257374 Edits By: Jean Decety, William Ickes Pages: 264 Buy eBook | Buy Print Book Description In recent decades, empathy research has blossomed into a vibrant and multidisciplinary field of study. The social neuroscience approach to the subject is premised on the idea that studying empathy ...
The Rational Imagination
loadWidget(); ISBN13: 9780262254656 By: Ruth M. J. Byrne Pages: 268 Buy eBook | Buy Print Book Description The human imagination remains one of the last uncharted terrains of the mind. This accessible and original monograph explores a central aspect of the imagination, the creation of counterfactual alternatives to reality, ...
The Native Mind and the Cultural Construction of Nature
loadWidget(); ISBN13: 9780262252966 By: Scott Atran, Douglas Medin Pages: 336 Buy eBook | Buy Print Book Description Surveys show that our growing concern over protecting the environment is accompanied by a diminishing sense of human contact with nature. Many people have little commonsense knowledge about nature—are unable, for example, ...
The High Price of Materialism
loadWidget(); ISBN13: 9780262252409 By: Tim Kasser Foreward By: Brian Sutton-Smith Pages: 165 Buy eBook | Buy Print Book Description Selected as an Outstanding Academic Book for 2002 by Choice Magazine In The High Price of Materialism, Tim Kasser offers a scientific explanation of how our contemporary culture of consumerism and materialism ...