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The Decade of Behavior (2000-2010) is a multidisciplinary initiative to
focus the talents, energy, and creativity of the behavioral and social
sciences on meeting many of society's most significant challenges.
The following books have been dedicated to the Decade of Behavior to inform
readers about specific topics related to the initiative's themes (safety,
health, education, prosperity, and democracy).
- Acculturation: Advances in Theory, Measurement, and Applied Research
This book is a comprehensive review and the most up-to-date analysis of theoretical and applied developments available in the measurement and use of acculturation. (Hardcover)
- Aging and Cognition: Research Methodologies and Empirical Advances
This book takes an interdisciplinary look at cognitive aging -- how it happens and how to study it. (Hardcover)
- Animal Research and Human Health: Advancing Human Welfare Through Behavioral Science
This APA book demonstrates the interplay between human and animal research that led to significant advances in diverse areas of psychology including anxiety, stress, and disorders. (Hardcover)
- Behavior Genetics Principles: Perspectives in Development, Personality, and Psychopathology
This book presents presents work that addresses both historical and novel approaches to the study of genetic and environmental influences on behavior. (Hardcover)
- Categorization Inside and Outside the Laboratory: Essays in Honor of Douglas L. Medin
This book presents the state of knowledge on how people partition the world into categories. (Hardcover)
- Chaos and Its Influence on Children's Development: An Ecological Perspective
This book explores how, why, and at what level, chaos at the familial and societal level affects children. (Hardcover)
- Child Development and Social Policy: Knowledge for Action
This edited volume focuses on both the influence of social policy on children’s development and the unique perspective, insight, and skills that developmentalists bring to this policy and its formation. (Hardcover)
- Children's Peer Relations: From Development to Intervention
A compilation of virtually everything that is known about the association between children’s peer relations and the development of peer rejection, aggression, and antisocial behavior. (Hardcover)
- Commemorating Brown: The Social Psychology of Racism and Discrimination
Offers a critical retrospective on the role of psychological research in the fight against racism and discrimination and an up-to-date review of the psychology of racism and its implications for schools, the workplace, and public policy. (Hardcover)
- Couples Coping With Stress: Emerging Perspectives on Dyadic Coping
This book presents an in-depth look at original research on how couples cope with stress, including acute and chronic stress, stresses within and outside of the family, and stress caused by physical and mental illnesses. (Hardcover)
- Developing Individuality in the Human Brain: A Tribute to Michael I. Posner
This book describes the breadth of Posner's influence on the field of cognitive, affective, and developmental neurosciences. (Hardcover)
- Emerging Adults in America: Coming of Age in the 21st Century
This book portrays the lives of young Americans between adolescence and young adulthood. (Hardcover)
- Experimental Cognitive Psychology and Its Applications
This book brings together distinguished experimental psychologists who explain how their research findings can be applied. (Hardcover)
- Family Psychology: Science-Based Interventions
This book explores the latest research and practices in family intervention therapy. (Hardcover)
- Inhibition in Cognition
Thoroughly addresses the concept of inhibition and how it has developed over the past 20 years, including what consensus can be reached on its meaning. (Hardcover)
- Measuring Psychological Constructs: Advances in Model-Based Approaches
This book presents groundbreaking explanatory approaches to model-based measurement that provide various psychological constructs with more authentic measures such as constructed-response tasks and performance assessment. (Hardcover)
- Medical Illness and Positive Life Change: Can Crisis Lead to Personal Transformation?
This book focuses on how positive life change might be fostered in the context of medical illness. (Hardcover)
- Models of Intelligence: International Perspectives
This book explores how intelligence relates to other constructs such as emotion and temperament. (Hardcover)
- New Methods for the Analysis of Change
APA book offering methodological and statistical strategies for the analysis of change including measurement methods for estimating and evaluating models of growth and change. (Hardcover)
- Participatory Community Research: Theories and Methods in Action
This book illustrates how participatory approaches in community research have led to high quality collaborations, interventions, and prevention projects. (Hardcover)
- Personality Psychology in the Workplace
APA book offers new developments in measurement and methodology showing the relevance of personality theory in personnel selection, job performance, management and leadership. (Hardcover)
- Perspectivism in Social Psychology: The Yin and Yang of Scientific Progress
This book in honor of William J. McGuire highlights his work in the area of social cognition. (Hardcover)
- Primate Perspectives on Behavior and Cognition
Experts with a diverse range of perspectives explore the contributions made to the study of primate cognition and behavior. (Hardcover)
- Principles of Experimental Psychopathology: Essays in Honor of Brendan A. Maher
This book celebrates the contributions of Brendan A. Maher to the development and emergence of experimental psychopathology. (Hardcover)
- Racial Identity in Context: The Legacy of Kenneth B. Clark
A tribute to and an evaluation of the work and legacy of Kenneth B. Clark, the psychologist whose groundbreaking studies on racial identity helped shape the momentous Brown v. Board of Education decision. (Hardcover)
- The Social Psychology of Group Identity and Social Conflict: Theory, Application, and Practice
In this edited volume, distinguished scholars elaborate on Herbert C. Kelman's scholarship through the examination of their own theories and research. (Hardcover)
- Strengthening Couple Relationships for Optimal Child Development: Lessons From Research and Intervention
This volume presents cutting-edge research and theory on couple relationships, with an emphasis on the implications for child development. (Hardcover)
- Strengthening Research Methodology: Psychological Measurement and Evaluation
This book both explores and demonstrates how measurement, methodology, and evaluation in psychology have been influenced by preeminent scholar Lee Sechrest. (Hardcover)
- Transcending Self-Interest: Psychological Explorations of the Quiet Ego
This book provides comprehensive research on both the problems of egocentrism and ways of transcending it. (Hardcover)
The following books are also in this series but out of print.
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