Psychology Around Us, 2nd Edition - Hardcover

Comer, Ronald; Gould, Elizabeth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1118012070 ISBN 13: 9781118012079

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons, 2012

Synopsis

Comer and Gould's Psychology Around Us demonstrates the many-often surprising, always fascinating-intersections of psychology with students' day-to-day lives. Every chapter includes sections on human development, brain function, individual differences and abnormal psychology that occur in that area. These "cut-across" sections highlight how the different fields of psychology are connected to each other and how they connect to everyday life.

Every chapter begins with a vignette that shows the power of psychology in understanding a whole range of human behavior.  This theme is reinforced throughout the chapter in boxed readings and margin notes that celebrate the extraordinary processes that make the everyday possible and make psychology both meaningful and relevant.  The text presents psychology as a unified field the understanding of which flows from connecting its multiple subfields and reinforces the fact that psychology is a science with all that this implies (research methodology, cutting edge studies, the application of critical thinking).

 

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About the Author

Ronald Comer has taught in Princeton University's Department of Psychology for the past 35 years and has served as Director of Clinical Psychology Studies for most of that time. His courses have been among the university's most popular offerings with students. Comer has received the President's Award for Distinguished Teaching at the university. He also is the author of the textbooks Abnormal Psychology, now in its seventh edition, and Fundamentals of Abnormal Psychology, now in its fifth edition, and the co­author of Case Studies in Abnormal Psychology. Comer is the producer of a range of educational videos, including Introduction to Psychology Video Clipboard, Developmental Psychology Video Clipboard, Video Segments in Abnormal Psychology, and Video Segments in Neuroscience. In addition, he has published numerous journal articles in clinical psychology, personality, social psychology, and family medicine.

Elizabeth Gould has taught in Princeton University's Department of Psychology for the past 12 years. Gould, an international leader in the study of neurogenesis (the production of new neurons in the mammalian brain), was the winner of the 2006 NARSAD Distinguished Investigator Award and the 2009 Royal Society of the Arts Benjamin Franklin Medal. She serves on the editorial boards of The Journal of Neuroscience, Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, and Biological Psychology.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1118012070
• ISBN 13: 9781118012079
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 840