Psychology, Fifth Canadian Edition (5th Edition)

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The primary goal of this text is the integration of critical and scientific thinking into the fabric of the writing, The most important job being to help students learn to think like psychologists and to understand why scientific and critical thinking is so important to the decisions they make in their own lives.

 

Carole Wade is affiliated with the Dominican University in California. Her Ph.D. is in cognitive psychology and her areas of interest include gender, ethnicity and a focus on the teaching and development of critical thinking skills. In addition to this text, she and Carol Tavris have written Invitation to Psychology; Psychology in Perspective; and The Longest War: Sex Differences in Perspective.

 

Carol Tavris earned her Ph.D. in social psychology and as a writer and lecturer focuses on educating the public about the importance of critical and scientific thinking in psychology.

She has written on psychological topics for a wide variety of magazines, journals, edited books, and newspapers; some of her essays have been collected in Psychobabble and Biobunk: Using Psychological Science to Think Critically about Popular Psychology. Dr. Tavris lectures widely on topics involving science vs. pseudoscience in psychology and many other subjects of contemporary interest.

 

Dr. Wade and Dr. Tavris are Fellows of the American Psychological Association and charter members of the American Psychological Society.

 

Maryanne Garry earned her PhD and did postdoctoral training prior to moving to Victoria. She is best known for her research on the causes and consequences of false memories, including “imagination inflation” and its dangers as a therapeutic technique, the effects of inert substances such as fake alcohol on susceptibility to misleading information, and the power of photographs to rewrite our childhood stories and bias our decisions.

 

Deborah Saucier is the current Dean of Science at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. Prior to that, she was a Canada Research Chair at the University of Lethbridge where she taught a variety of courses including behavioural neuroscience and introductory psychology. Dr. Saucier researches the long-term effects of early brain damage on behaviour in nonhuman animals, the effects of cannabinoids on epilepsy and behaviour, and the effects of steroid hormones on cognitive abilities in humans. Her research has been published in Nature, Behavioural Neuroscience, Journal of Neuroscience, Brain and Cognition, Laterality, and Cognitive Brain Research. She earned her B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in psychology from the University of Victoria and her Ph.D. at the University of Western Ontario.

 

Lorin Elias is a full professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Saskatchewan. He has won several teaching excellence awards and teaches a variety of courses in cognitive neuroscience and evolutionary psychology at both undergraduate and graduate levels while maintaining an active research program. His federally funded research program has mainly focused on the functional differences between the left and right hemisphere of the brain. However, he has also investigated a number of unusual perceptual phenomena, including a condition called Synesthesia. Dr. Elias’s research has been published in a number of academic journals, including Neuropsychologia, Brain and Cognition, Laterality, Neurosurgery, Cognitive Brain Research, and Behavioural Neuroscience.