Publisher's Synopsis
The thirteen reviews in Psychology Survey 6 are written by professionals chosen not only for their original contribution to the subjects they review, but also for their skill at communicating technical information and describing current controversies in a style that is accessible to readers with no previous knowledge of the topic.The Psychology Survey series of the British Psychological Society offers students and researchers a convenient method of keeping up to date with new developments in many different areas of the field. As with previous volumes, the thirteen reviews in Psychology Survey 6 are written by professionals chosen not only for their original contribution to the subjects they review, but also for their skill at communicating technical information and describing current controversies in a style that is accessible to readers with no previous knowledge of the topic. The book covers subjects that range from central topics in academic psychology memory, eating disorders, a cognitive approach to emotion, reasoning - to reviews of areas of more general interest - the influences of television, hypnosis, social identity, and the use of the computer.The chapters and authors are: Identity, Glynis Breakwell; Language, Social Identity and Health, Caroline Dryden and Howard Giles; The Psychological Influences of Television, Barrie Gunter; Eating and Eating Disorders, Peter Wright; The Ethics and Politics of Animal Experimentation, Jeffrey A. Gray; Experiments and Experience: Usefulness and Insight in Psychology, Keith Oatley; The Concepts of Sociobiology, John Lazarus; Human Organic Memory Disorders, Andrew Mayes; Psychology and Computer Design, David J. Oborne; Emotion: Cognitive Approaches, Brian Parkinson; Hypnosis, Graham Wagstaff; Reasoning, Jonathan St. B. T. Evans; Face Recognition, Andrew Young.Distributed for the British Psychological Society.
