List of Figures List of Tables Preface Additional Note to the Lecturer on Psychology: European Edition Tour of the Book Acknowledgements Page Publisher's Acknowledgements Psychology - The Evolution of a Science The Methods of Psychology Neuroscience and Behaviour Sensation and Perception Memory Learning Language and Thought Consciousness Intelligence Emotion and Motivation Cognitive Development Social Development Personality Social Psychology Abnormal Psychology Mental Health Glossary References Name Index Subject Index
Daniel L. Schacter Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, USA. His research has explored the relation between conscious and nonconscious forms of memory and the nature of distortions and errors in remembering. Schacter has received many awards, including the Harvard-Radcliffe Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Troland Award from the National Academy of Sciences. He is the author of Searching for Memory and The Seven Sins of Memory, both winners of the APA's William James Book Award. Daniel T. Gilbert Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, USA. His research on affective forecasting examines the mistakes people make when they try to predict their emotional reactions to future events. Gilbert has won numerous awards, including the Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the American Psychological Association's Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology. Daniel M. Wegner Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, USA. He studies problems that can arise when people try to control their thoughts and actions. Author of White Bears and Other Unwanted Thoughts and The Illusion of Conscious Will, he is a member of the Board of Reviewing Editors for Science magazine. Bruce Hood (adapter of Psychology) is Professor of Developmental Psychology in Society at the University of Bristol, UK. He has been a research fellow at Cambridge University and University College London, a visiting scientist at MIT and a faculty professor at Harvard. He has been awarded an Alfred Sloan Fellowship in neuroscience, the Young Investigator Award from the International Society of Infancy Researchers, the Robert Fantz memorial award and recipient of the British Psychology Society award for public engagement in 2014. He is a Fellow of the Society of Biology (UK), the society of American Psychological Science, the British Psychology Society and the Royal institution of Great Britain. He is also the president of the psychology section of the British Science Association. Bruce has appeared in a number of TV science documentaries and in 2011 he delivered the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures which were broadcast on the BBC to over 4 million viewers.
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