Behavioral Sciences News & Updates
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Recent Articles
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How is Testing Supposed to Improve Schooling?
Testing is a ubiquitous tool for day-to-day decision making in schools, communicating learning goals and evaluating progress. Testing also brings unintended consequences.
This major, free Special Issue of Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives explores the ramifications of testing in the classroom, with a view to maximizing the benefits and minimizing possible drawbacks of current educational testing applications.
Click here to read How is Testing Supposed to Improve Schooling? for free, in full.
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Handbook of Vocational Psychology: Theory, Research, and Practice, 4th Edition
Handbook of Vocational Psychology identifies, reports, and evaluates significant developments in vocational psychology and career counseling, and in doing so provides both professional clinicians and students with an informed understanding of both the current state and continuing progress in the field.
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Expertise and Skill Acquisition: The Impact of William G. Chase
The chapters in this volume document the enduring scientific contributions of William G. Chase to current knowledge and understanding of human expertise and skill acquisition and applications his work has supported. It will be of interest to those researching, studying, and working in the multiple fields that were greatly influenced by Chase's work.
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Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine: An Open Access Journal
Find out more about our new Open Access journal Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine - the journals' editorial introduction - which asks and answers the question why we need an Open Access journal in this field - is now available online.
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An Emergence Approach to Speech Acquisition: Doing and Knowing
The central assertion in this volume is that the young child uses general skills, scaffolded by adults, to acquire the complex knowledge of sound patterns and the goal-directed behaviors for communicating ideas through language and producing speech.
Throughout, an evaluation is made of the research on patterns of typical development across languages in monolingual and bilingual children and children with speech impairments affecting various aspects of their developing complex system.
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Athletes’ Careers Across Cultures
The first book of its kind to bring together a truly global spread of leading sports psychology career researchers and practitioners into one comprehensive resource. This extensive volume traces the evolution of athlete career research through a cultural lens and maps the complex topography of athletes’ careers across national boundaries exploring how social and cultural discourses shape their development.
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The Developmental Course of Romantic Relationships
This multidisciplinary text highlights the development of romantic relationships, from initiation to commitment or demise, by highlighting the historical context, current research and theory, and diversity of patterns. Engagingly written with colorful examples, the authors examine the joy, stress, power-struggles, intimacy, and aggression that characterize these relationships.
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Celebrate Mental Health Awareness with 20% off
To celebrate Mental Health Awareness Month in the US and Mental Health Awareness Week in the UK we are offering customers a 20% discount on all of our Mental Health titles purchased through www.routledgementalhealth.com.
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Stereotyping and Prejudice
This volume presents a contemporary and comprehensive overview of the great diversity of theoretical interests, new ideas, and practical applications that characterize social psychological approaches to stereotyping and prejudice.
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Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association Seeking Editor-in-Chief for 2015
The American Art Therapy Association, representing approximately 5,200 members, seeks applications for the position of Editor of Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association. The journal's mission is to inform the readership of research, recent innovations, and critical issues related to art therapy. Deadline for nominations or applications is June 1, 2013. View the complete Call for Editors.