Psychology 101 - The 101 Ideas, Concepts and Theories that Have Shaped Our World (Furnham 2 Adrian)(Paperback / softback)

Psychology as an academic discipline, as well as a profession, is blooming. There are over 100,000 licensed practitioners in America and a similar number of students in Britain; the American Psychological Association has 55 specialist fields alone. Psychologists have always shone a torch, and often a spotlight, into many dark corners of the human mind. They study everything from art preference to altruism; coaching to criminality; jokes and humour to justice and honesty; as well as sex differences to schizophrenia. Most, but not all, psychological research is serious, often useful, and occasionally profound. Sometimes researchers are accused of researching trivial questions. But what is trivial in one generation might not be the same in the next. Students of body language and non-verbal communication were thought of as pursuing a pointless quest in the 1960s but today it forms
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