The Psychobiology of Human Motivation (Psychology Focus)
Why is one person motivated to create a business empire while another creates beautiful works of art? Psychobiology and Human Motivation explores what directs our behavior, from basic physiological needs like hunger and thirst to more complex aspects of social behavior like altruism. Hugh Wagner explores the limits of biological explanations and shows how humans can influence “basic” physiological drives in order to adapt to a complex social environment. Presenting clear, in-depth coverage of the topics with many applied examples, this concise and useful text will be welcomed by students of psychology, health and education at all levels.
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Psychology: Making Connections
Connect with science. Connect with students. Connect with Feist and Rosenberg’s Psychology. In Psychology: Making Connections, Greg Feist and Erika Rosenberg provide the tools for students to make meaningful connections with the material encompassed in Introductory Psychology while still presenting psychology as a scientific endeavor. With its focus on connections, Feist helps your students to understand both the discipline and concepts of psychology as well as psychology’s relevance to their lives. Feist provides you with the science you are seeking while bringing it alive for your students in an accessible way. By challenging students to make connections between what they are reading and learning about in class and the world around them outside the classroom, Psychology: Making Connections fosters students’ critical thinking skills. At the same time, the authors consistently reinforce the idea that science is a process and not just a collection of resulting outcomes to be memorized. In doing so, they bring to life the names and experiments on the page and vividly illustrate the human element in the scientific method.
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The Beethoven Factor: The New Positive Psychology of Hardiness, Happiness, Healing, and Hope
True or false: Stress is good for you.
Conventional wisdom insists that the statement is false, that stress is a thief robbing us of our ability to relax and enjoy life to its fullest. But for centuries, poets and philosophers have celebrated the ups and downs of life as the very essence of living, the spice that enables us to taste life fully.
So who’s right? The new, fast-emerging positive psychology movement is affirming the timeless wisdom of the philosophers by showing that it is not stress itself preventing us from enjoying life, but our negative reaction to stress that does the damage. Positive psychology confirms that rather than shrinking from adversity, we must become engaged by it-and thrive through it-before we can savor all the sweetness life has to offer.