Evidence law is meant to facilitate trials that are fair, accurate, and efficient, and that encourage and protect important societal values and relationships. In pursuit of these often-conflicting goals, common law judges and modern drafting committees have had to perform as amateur applied psychologists. Their task has required them to employ ......
Evidence law is meant to facilitate trials that are fair, accurate, and efficient, and that encourage and protect important societal values and relationships. In pursuit of these often-conflicting goals, common law judges and modern drafting committees have had to perform as amateur applied psychologists. Their task has required them to employ ......
Offers an explanation of religious experience from the perspectives of neuroscience and developmental psychology. This book argues that belief in God and the assent to the reality of the supernatural are produced by the mind/brain's inherent tendency to discover in religious narrative an echo of its own biological development.
Building a Win-Win Environment for Organizations and Employees
How can a psychologically healthy workplace be created and maintained? This book focuses on the complex interplay between employee and organisational outcomes across five key intervention areas: employee involvement; work-life balance; employee growth and development; employee recognition; and health and safety.
Drawing from psychology, journalism, and communication studies, this book discusses the often-debilitating anxiety when flying, as an important issue that is plaguing the human race.
Integrates the motivational and cognitive approaches to shed new light on the control of goal-directed action, presenting new findings and suggesting strategies for future research. An introduction outlines themes in the field, and chapters examine issues such as sources and contents, affective inf
Helps you to see the reality of anomalous experience as part of your own psychological tapestry. This book shows how the mind's organisational capability and its information processing set the stage for strange happenings.
Why People Are Drawn In and How to Talk Across the Divide
How do we address polarization in American society? The question has been pressing for years. The events of January 6, 2021, made it even more urgent. For Pamela Cooper-White the way forward lies in balancing the pastoral and the prophetic. Though difficult, our calling to fight for justice and our duty to love our neighbor must be held together.
Explores political development through the lens of psychological science. Fathali Moghaddam examines the psychological factors influencing whether and how democracy develops within a society, identifies several conditions necessary for democracy (such as freedom of speech, minority rights, and universal suffrage), and explains how psychological ......
