The Roots of Perception: Individual Differences in Information Processing Within and Beyond Awareness (Advances in Psychology) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0444700757 ISBN 13: 9780444700759

Publisher: Elsevier Science, 1986

Synopsis

The subject matter of this book is subliminal perception and microgenetic perceptual processing, two important topics on the interface between perception and personality. It presents a different way of handling these topics, biological in its emphasis on process, humanistic in its focussing on the dynamics of individual experience. The reader will not only find new theoretical perspectives but a host of new, efficient and penetrating methods for analyzing problems of personality and psychopathology. The book is filled with empirical data supporting its theoretical and methodological claims. Main Features: - New perspectives on information processing in relation to personality. - New methods applicable in many fields, such as clinical psychology, developmental and personality psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience, education (creativity), etc. - Constructive analysis and critical review of the fields of subliminal perception and microgenesis.

Edition details

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0444700757
• ISBN 13: 9780444700759
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 475
• Editor: Uwe Hentschel, Gudmund Smith, Juris G. Draguns