Author: James Danckert Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 0674984676 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 289
Book Description
No one likes to be bored. Two leading psychologists explain what causes boredom and how to listen to what it is telling you, so you can live a more engaged life. We avoid boredom at all costs. It makes us feel restless and agitated. Desperate for something to do, we play games on our phones, retie our shoes, or even count ceiling tiles. And if we escape it this time, eventually it will strike again. But what if we listened to boredom instead of banishing it? Psychologists James Danckert and John Eastwood contend that boredom isn’t bad for us. It’s just that we do a bad job of heeding its guidance. When we’re bored, our minds are telling us that whatever we are doing isn’t working—we’re failing to satisfy our basic psychological need to be engaged and effective. Too many of us respond poorly. We become prone to accidents, risky activities, loneliness, and ennui, and we waste ever more time on technological distractions. But, Danckert and Eastwood argue, we can let boredom have the opposite effect, motivating the change we need. The latest research suggests that an adaptive approach to boredom will help us avoid its troubling effects and, through its reminder to become aware and involved, might lead us to live fuller lives. Out of My Skull combines scientific findings with everyday observations to explain an experience we’d like to ignore, but from which we have a lot to learn. Boredom evolved to help us. It’s time we gave it a chance.
Author: Donna E. Palladino Schultheiss Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA) ISBN: Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 236
Book Description
A guide to the field of psychology for those thinking of studying the subject at undergraduate level. Drawing heavily on the vocational psychology literature, the books presents self-exploration tools and self-assessment exercises to help readers decide if psychology is for them.
Author: Glenn Geher Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA) ISBN: 9781433830662 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 136
Book Description
This book provides a roadmap for new psychology majors, and inspiration to help motivate students to make the most of internship, research, and service opportunities during their undergraduate years.
Author: Morgan Housel Publisher: Harriman House Limited ISBN: 085719769X Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 209
Book Description
Doing well with money isn’t necessarily about what you know. It’s about how you behave. And behavior is hard to teach, even to really smart people. Money—investing, personal finance, and business decisions—is typically taught as a math-based field, where data and formulas tell us exactly what to do. But in the real world people don’t make financial decisions on a spreadsheet. They make them at the dinner table, or in a meeting room, where personal history, your own unique view of the world, ego, pride, marketing, and odd incentives are scrambled together. In The Psychology of Money, award-winning author Morgan Housel shares 19 short stories exploring the strange ways people think about money and teaches you how to make better sense of one of life’s most important topics.
Author: Janet R. Matthews Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA) ISBN: 9781433820007 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
A comprehensive and practical resource for graduate students about to embark on their first practicum experience. A psychology student's practicum placement experience has the potential to be the most exciting time in their graduate training. This comprehensive resource is a vital guide for all students beginning their field placement, and for those curious about how the system works. In conversational and accessible language, the authors equip students with the knowledge they need to anticipate, prevent, and resolve common difficulties that may arise during practicum placement. Readers will find helpful background information on finding one's feet, developing rapport with clients, confidentiality and ethics, symptoms of psychopathology, assessment, psychopharmacology, and working with children or older adults. This second edition includes new and updated chapters that will appeal to all graduate students and advanced undergraduates.
Author: Elizabeth Marie Morgan Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA) ISBN: 9781433811456 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
If you're like many psychology graduate students and early career psychologists, you may be amply trained to conduct research but find yourself stumbling through the process of applying and interviewing for a job. This book will help you transition from graduate education to a career in an academic or professional setting.
Author: Andrew M. Pomerantz Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education ISBN: 1319030173 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 752
Book Description
My Psychology is a uniquely personal introduction to the science of psychology. Driven by easy-to-understand writing and examples centered on the everyday experiences common to college students, this innovative project shows students how the essential concepts of psychology are relevant to their lives. Integrated smartphone technology allows your students to experience psychology with the first-of-its-kind Chapter Apps feature and student-focused My Take videos. With a full chapter devoted to Diversity in Psychology as well as book-wide diversity coverage, My Psychology goes beyond others in the market to promote cultural fluency, showing how sex, gender, race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and other cultural factors affect how people experience the world. All these features come fully integrated in an online learning environment organized around learning outcomes and driven by the LearningCurve adaptive quizzing system, which gives each student a unique study plan and real-time feedback.
Author: Andrew M. Pomerantz
Author: James Danckert
Author: Donna E. Palladino Schultheiss
Author: Glenn Geher
Author: Morgan Housel
Author: Michael Gazzaniga
Author: Janet R. Matthews
Author: Elizabeth Marie Morgan
Author: Andrew M. Pomerantz
Author: Charles Williams Hayward