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Wie wir zu unseren Urteilen und Entscheidungen kommen, und warum wir so oft danebenliegen.Was brachte zwei Wissenschaftler aus dem Nahen Osten dazu, sich Gedanken darüber zu machen, was in einem Gehirn vorgeht, wenn es Baseballspieler, Anlagemöglichkeiten oder Präsidentschaftskandidaten beurteilen soll? Wie gelangen wir zu Entscheidungen, wenn wir mit Unwägbarkeiten konfrontiert sind? Wie gehen wir mit Informationen aus Sportereignissen, Quart...

A psychiatrist presents a compelling argument for how human purpose and caring emerged in a spontaneous and unguided universe.Can there be purpose without God? This book is about how human purpose and caring, like consciousness and absolutely everything else in existence, could plausibly have emerged and evolved unguided, bottom-up, in a spontaneous universe.A random world--which according to all the scientific evidence and despite our intuiti...

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When developmental psychologists set forth the theory that the roots of adult psychopathology could be traced to childhood experience and behavior, the idea quickly took hold. Subsequently, as significant research in this area advanced during the past decade, more sophisticated theory, more accurate research methodologies, and improved replication of empirical findings have been the result.The Third Edition of the Handbook of Developmental Psy...

This volume addresses basic family processes and approaches for describing family dynamics, as well as families who have risk factors such as poverty, malnutrition, and dev'l. delay and retardation. For researchers, clinicians, and educators.

This volume examines the early emotional development, emotional regulation and the links between emotion and social or cognitive functioning in atypically developing children as a basis for promoting more effective strategies for teaching and intervening in their lives.

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The American Left played a significant part in the origins of that movement, whose history has traditionally been focused on the later 1940's and early 1950's. This book deals with the forgotten history of the civil rights movement.

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The Adventures of Lil Mikey is filled with nonstop action and adventure for everyone who enjoys literature not just for the purpose of entertaining, persuading, or informing, but also to challenge them to think and always make the right decision. The Adventures of Lil Mikey chronicles the development of a young boy as he successfully endures various day-to-day challenges that are presented to him by life using moral principles and the sound gu...

«Packendes Porträt der Zwanzigerjahre voller legendärer Charaktere... eine überzeugende Satire auf die Konformität der amerikanischen Mittelschicht.» (The Guardian) Sinclair Lewis ist der Chronist der US-amerikanischen Mittelschicht. Den Zwang zu Konsum und Konformismus, die Pervertierung des Amerikanischen Traums hat niemand so prägnant und dabei so amüsant beschrieben wie der Nobelpreisträger. Sein berühmter Roman "Babbitt" ergründet die See...

The Bayeux Tapestry, perhaps the most famous, yet enigmatic, of medieval artworks, was the subject of an international conference at the British Museum in July 2008. This volume publishes 19 of 26 papers delivered at that conference.

This book provides readers with a fresh look at both Derridean deconstruction and Lacanian theory from a perspective that is informed by recent trends in twentieth century thought.

Michael Lewis examina en este brillante libro cómo la amistad entre David Kahneman y Amos Tversky revolucionó radicalmente nuestra manera de entender el funcionamiento de la mente humana. Hace más de cuarenta años, una serie de experimentos totalmente originales de dos jóvenes psicólogos, Daniel Kahneman y Amos Tversky, desmontaron todas las suposiciones existentes respecto al funcionamiento de la mente humana y la toma de decisiones. Deshacie...

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Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original papers that invented the field of behavioral economics. One of the greatest partnerships in the history of science, Kahneman and Tversky's extraordinary friendship incited a revolution in Big Data studies, advanced evidence-based medicine, led to a new approach to government regulation, and made much of Michael Lewis's own work pos...