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Author
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
215 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2011: Top 25 Books" Tom R. Tyler is the Macklin Fleming Professor of Law and Professor of Psychology at Yale Law School.
Any organization's success depends upon the voluntary cooperation of its members. But what motivates people to cooperate? In Why People Cooperate, Tom Tyler challenges the decades-old notion that individuals within groups are primarily motivated by their self-interest. Instead,...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 257 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
We have decided by consensus that consensus is good: in the boardroom and the halls of government, in the jury box and the corner bar, we value reaching agreement. Unfortunately, although the wisdom of crowds might be a good way to answer trivia questions, the truth is not as democratic as we might like to believe. Group decision-making often allows widely held assumptions to go unchallenged in favor of harmony and cohesiveness. Agreement can lead...
Author
Pub. Date
1965
Edition
1st Harper colophon ed.
Physical Desc
xvi, 141 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In his classic treatise Self-Renewal, John W. Gardner examines why great societies thrive and die. He argues that it is dynamism, not decay, that is dramatically altering the landscape of American society. The twentieth century has brought about change more rapidly than any previous era, and with that came advancements, challenges, and often destruction. Gardner cautions that "a society must court the kinds of change that will enrich and strengthen...
Author
Pub. Date
1959
Edition
3rd. ed. [rev. and enl.]
Physical Desc
xxiv, 288 pages : tables ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Explore the fascinating world of childhood cognition with Jean Piaget's groundbreaking work, "The Language and Thought of the Child." This seminal book provides an in-depth analysis of how children develop language and thought, offering profound insights into the cognitive processes that shape their understanding of the world.
Jean Piaget, a renowned Swiss psychologist, revolutionized our understanding of child development through his meticulous...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1957
Physical Desc
478 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Verbal Behavior is a 1957 book by psychologist B. F. Skinner, in which he describes what he calls verbal behavior, or what was traditionally called linguistics. Skinner's work describes the controlling elements of verbal behavior with terminology invented for the analysis-echoics, mands, tacts, autoclitics and others-as well as carefully defined uses of ordinary terms such as audience.
Author
Pub. Date
1963
Physical Desc
472 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jean Piaget-best known as developmental psychologist but also philosopher, logician, and educator-is one of the most remarkable figures in contemporary behavioral science. For more than forty years he and his associates have been constructing, in bits and pieces across an enormous bibliography, a broad and highly original theory of intellectual and perceptual development. Like Freudian theory, with which one is tempted to compare it in certain respects,...
Author
Pub. Date
1943
Physical Desc
191 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
This book looks at the record of children in modern war told honestly and completely, by two of the world's outstanding child psychologists, Anna Freud and Dorothy Burlingham. The work focuses on how war affects psychological development in children; the need for personal attachment, for emotional stability, and for permanency of educational influence.
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
7 audio discs (8.00 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
At some point today you will have to influence or persuade someone - your boss, a co-worker, a customer, client, spouse, your kids, or even your friends. What is the smallest change you can make to your request, proposal or situation that will lead to the biggest difference in the outcome?
In The small BIG, three heavyweights from the world of persuasion science and practice -- Steve Martin, Noah Goldstein and Robert Cialdini -- describe how, in today's...