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Think Like a Psychologist
A healthy society depends upon our capacity to understand both ourselves and others. To this end, the science of psychology aims to explain and predict human thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. This compelling volume is an accessible introduction to the questions that emerge from the workings of the human mind and the reasons that lie beneath why we do the things we do.
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Think Like a Psychologist
A healthy society depends upon our capacity to understand both ourselves and others. To this end, the science of psychology aims to explain and predict human thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. This compelling volume is an accessible introduction to the questions that emerge from the workings of the human mind and the reasons that lie beneath why we do the things we do.
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Think Like a Psychologist

Think Like a Psychologist

by Anne Rooney
Think Like a Psychologist

Think Like a Psychologist

by Anne Rooney

Overview

A healthy society depends upon our capacity to understand both ourselves and others. To this end, the science of psychology aims to explain and predict human thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. This compelling volume is an accessible introduction to the questions that emerge from the workings of the human mind and the reasons that lie beneath why we do the things we do.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781499471014
Publisher: Rosen Publishing Group, Incorporated, The
Publication date: 07/30/2021
Series: Think Like a... Series
Pages: 160
Product dimensions: 6.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range: 12 - 17 Years

About the Author

Anne Rooney has taught English at Cambridge and York universities and was Royal Literary Fellow at Newnham College, Cambridge University in 2014-16. She has written many books on science and technology, and was short-listed for the ALCS Educational Writers' Award in 2015.

Table of Contents

Introduction: What is psychology anyway?
Chapter 1: What can we learn from the brain?
Chapter 2: What drives you?
Chapter 3: Don't you have a mind of your own?
Chapter 4: All for one and one for all?
Chapter 5: Who cares what celebrities think?
Chapter 6: Does attention spoil a baby?
Chapter 7: Is morality natural?
Chapter 8: Wasting your time in a daydream?
Chapter 9: Would you do that again?
Chapter 10: Why won't you get up?
Chapter 11: Can you be bored to death?
Chapter 12: How cruel can you be?
Chapter 13: Why are you wasting my time?
Chapter 14: Why didn't anybody help?
Chapter 15: Are you the best that 'you' can be?
Chapter 16: Carrot or stick?
Chapter 17: Can you spot a psychopath?
Chapter 18: What do you see?
Chapter 19: Do violent images make you aggressive?
Chapter 20: What did you come in here for?
Chapter 21: Mind answering a few questions?
Chapter 22: Does power corrupt?
Chapter 23: What are you waiting for?
Chapter 24: Who cares if you're outbid on eBay?
Chapter 25: Will smiling make you happy?
Chapter 26: Is it really just a stage?
Chapter 27: Is it worth doing the lottery?

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