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With each new edition, I’ve found myself traveling a familiar path. When it is first
published, I am relieved after many months of intense effort, and I am thrilled—sure
that it is my best effort yet. But before long, as new research appears,…

This book is an introductory text to the area of qualitative research, intended for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students.

This book constitutes a systematic and historically informed defense of the controversial thesis that empathy is epistemically central to our folkpsychological ability to understand other agents. I will develop the argument for empathy in the…

Ever since machinery was first developed to help man with his labours a
heavy price in injuries and damage has been paid for the convenience. In
the early days of the Industrial Revolution when labour was cheap, little
regard was paid to the pain…

Any mature discipline and profession requires understanding of its core competencies. Also, the exercise of
defining core competencies is itself well worth while,
because it prompts a profession to look closely at itself,
its goals and its…

BARBARA KEESLING, PH.D., has more than twenty years’ experience as a sex therapist and surrogate partner. She has a doctorate in health psychology,teaches Human Sexuality at California State University, Fullerton, and
maintains a private sexual…

We review the extensive benchmark data on short‐term memory for order, and discuss the prominent computational theories accounting for serial order memory. On the basis of recent diagnostic results, we identify four explana- tory constructs that we…

With the building of the International Space Station (ISS), humans are committing
themselves to a continuing presence in space. This enterprise follows earlier space
stations under the Salyut, Skylab, and Mir programs. But the ISS represents a…

We want to recognize an extraordinarily powerful set of thinkers and prac- titioners who shed themselves of the vestiges of “old think” and embraced the possibilities of a new beginning. Our sincere thanks to Superintendent Dr. Richard Lalley,…

The School Psychologist test assesses understanding of key concepts that school psychologists need to know
in order to do their jobs. In developing assessment material for this test, Educational Testing Service (ETS)
worked in collaboration with…