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The Worry Workbook: Twelve Steps to Anxiety-Free Living

Les Carter, Frank Minirth

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Total reviews: 3 Average rating: 3.5 of 5

Skip it! 2 out of 5 stars.
11 of 24 people found this review helpful.

This book reads too much like a college textbook. If you are doing a research paper for a psychology class, then this book is for you. I found this book's approach oftentimes so overly analytical that it felt impersonal. Also, many of the case studies were difficult to relate to. As a woman, I believe I need to find a book that is written by a FEMALE who knows full well the complexities of a woman's mind and can understand on a certain level. I'm looking for a book that offers me encouragement in a compassionate and meaningful way. This book just didn't do it for me, so I sent it back.

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Worry is one of the most common mood disorders in America. Whether you call it stress, tension, frustration, or anxiety, worry can take its toll on health and well-being. It can be caused by life changes, such as divorce or career upheaval, or it can become a debilitating chronic disorder. The Worry Workbook helps readers understand what causes anxiety and how they can move beyond worry into emotional freedom. Practical steps, interactive exercises, checklists, and guided questions help readers identify their fears, replace negative talk with positive action, learn to accept what is out of their control, and make life-enhancing choices. The Worry Workbook offers insight on letting go of self-judgment, becoming real, identifying those who help and those who hinder personal growth, and overcoming insecurities-offering those who suffer from anxiety proven ways to find relief.

Perception

Robert Sekuler, Randolph Blake

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This is a thorough revision of Sekuler and Blake's successful text on Sensation and Perception. The third edition focuses on the most recent developments in perceptual research, blending anatomy, physiology, and psychophysics to explain structure and function. New features include a revised and expanded methods section, increased coverage of speech perception, an expanded and refined touch chapter, more emphasis on cognitive issues, and greatly improved pedagogy such as chapter summaries, boxed demonstrations and computational examples.

Passion

Barbara De Angelis

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When you read a pure truth, it touches your heart profoundly 5 out of 5 stars.
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My husband of two years and I have wrangled endlessly about how to make our marriage healthy. We were at the point of divorce for the twentieth time when this book was recommended by a friend. The one hour it took to read was the most powerful I've experienced in ages! My sweetheart agreed to read it as well. We sat down and discussed several of the chapters (none more than 3-4 pages long) which were especially pertinent to us. The book opened dialog we've failed to have before and led to a reconciliation of true strength. We were clearly able to see the simple principles we'd managed to miss in creating our lives together. The book is very readable, very quotable, and very, very powerful. We dare you to live your lives with the full passion Barbara suggests.

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Barbara De Angelis explores passion and its essential place in our lives in a compact tour-de-force for all seasons. A primary motive force that invests life with color, purpose and ultimate meaning, our passion defines how we approach each day and is at the heart of our closest relationships and our most profound achievements. Now, drawing upon her years of experience as one of the world's most renowned relationship and personal growth experts, Barbara De Angelis provides the perfect antidote to a hectic world in which we all too often lose sight of our innermost goals and most important bonds. Passion is an irresistible little primer for summer contemplation, an ideal gift, and a celebration of life for inspiration throughout the year.

Love is a Story: A New Theory of Relationships

Robert J. Sternberg

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In this groundbreaking work, Robert Sternberg opens the book of love and shows you how to discover your own story--and how to read your relationships in a whole new light.
What draws us so strongly to some people and repels us from others? What makes some relationships work so smoothly and others burst into flames? Sternberg gives us new answers to these questions by showing that the kind of relationship we create depends on the kind of love stories we carry inside us. Drawing on extensive research and fascinating examples of real couples, Sternberg identifies 26 types of love story--including the fantasy story, the business story, the collector story, the horror story, and many others--each with its distinctive advantages and pitfalls, and many of which are clashingly incompatible. These are the largely unconscious preconceptions that guide our romantic choices, and it is only by becoming aware of the kind of story we have about love that we gain the freedom to create more fulfilling and lasting relationships. As long as we remain oblivious to the role our stories play, we are likely to repeat the same mistakes again and again. But the enlivening good news this book brings us is that though our stories drive us, we can revise them and learn to choose partners whose stories are more compatible with our own.
Quizzes in each chapter help you to see which stories you identify with most strongly and which apply to your partner. Are you a traveler, a gardener, a teacher, or something else entirely? Love is a Story shows you how to find out.

Darwin and Facial Expression: A Century of Research in Review

Paul Ekman

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These Are the Gifts I'd Like to Give to You: A Sourcebook of Joy and Encouragement (Self-Help)

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"Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door." - Emily Dickinson

"And all the windows of my heart I open to the day." - John Greenleaf Whittier

Filled with the most meaningful gifts that could ever be given, this book is a rare and wonderful collection. It's the perfect present for you, or for someone you care about.

Spend a few quiet moments leafing through its pages. Like everyone else, you'll discover that THESE ARE THE GIFTS I'D LIKE TO GIVE TO YOU contains terrific advice, inspiring ideas, and reassuring messages from cover to cover. Beautifully complemented with full-color illustrations, this imaginative book is a celebration of all the special and deserving things in our lives. Its gentle, whimsical, and optimistic messages have been exquisitely compiled to bring more serenity to your days and more smiles to your world.

"Each day brings with it the miracle of a new beginning. Many of the moments ahead will be marvelously disguised as ordinary days, but each one of us has the chance to make something extraordinary out of them." - Douglas Pagels

Psychophysiology: Human Behavior and Physiological Response

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A comprehensive intro to psychophysiology for upper-level undergraduate & graduate students,& professionals seeking basic information.Updated & now with separate chapters on pupillography and eye movements, chap. summaries and a lab safety appendix.

The Nature of Emotion: Fundamental Questions (Series in Affective Science)

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The editors of this unique volume have selected 24 leading emotion theorists and asked them to address 12 fundamental questions about the subject of emotion. For example; Are there basic emotions? How do you distinguish emotions from moods, temperament, and emotional traits? Can we control our emotions? Can emotions be non-conscious? What is the relation between emotion and memory? What develops in emotional development? Each chapter addresses a different one of these fundamental questions about emotion, with often divergent answers from 3 to 7 of the following leading researchers: James Averill, Gordon Bower, Linda Camras, Lee Clark, Gerald Clore, Richard Davidson, Judy Dunn, Paul Ekman, Phoebe Ellsworth, Nico Frijda, Hill Goldsmith, Jeffrey Gray, Carroll Izard, Jerome Kaga, Richard Lazarus, Joseph Le Doux, Robert Levenson, Jaak Panksepp, Mary Rothbart, Klaus Shere, Richard Shweder, David Watson, and Robert Zajonc. At the end of each chapter the editors -- Ekman and Davidson -- highlight the areas of agreement and disagreement about each of the 12 questions about emotion. In the final chapter Affective Science: A Research Agenda, the editors describe the research they believe would help answer each of the questions. Not a textbook offering a single viewpoint, The Nature of Emotion, uniquely reveals the central issues in emotion research and theory in the words of many of the leading scientists working in the field today. It is ideal for students, researchers, and clinicians interested in emotion.

Psychometric Theory (McGraw-Hill Series in Psychology)

Jum C. Nunnally

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get the 2nd edition 3 out of 5 stars.
13 of 15 people found this review helpful.

I am in a management PhD program and we have to read this book for our required class in psychometric theory. I totally agree with one of the other reviewers that almost no term is clearly defined by Nunnally and Bernstein in this 3rd edition. The book goes on and on and on talking about validity, reliability, scaling, ... without defining any single term in a concise manner. It is very frustrating!
So, my suggestion for everyone is to get the 2nd edition. I read it and was happily surprised. Nunnally is great, Ira Bernstein messed the 3rd edition up (Nunnally died a while ago and Bernstein was responsible for the writing of this edition). The previous edition is much, much shorter and has better organized chapters that go right to the point (well, relatively speaking ). In addition, I recommend several short Sage books (e.g., factor analysis from Kim and Mueller), which are much clearer.
In any case, this book or better the 2nd edition, is a must have for any social science researcher (or wanna be researcher ).

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The classic text is Psychometric Theory. Like the previous edition, this text is designed as a comprehensive text in measurement for researchers and for use in graduate courses in psychology, education and areas of business such as management and marketing. It is intended to consider the broad measurement problems that arise in these areas and is written for a reader who needs only a basic background in statistics to comprehend the material. It also combines classical procedures that explain variance with modern inferential procedures.

Motor Control and Learning: A Behavioral Emphasis

Richard A Schmidt

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Schmidt and Lee Have Provided A Tribute to Motor Learning 5 out of 5 stars.
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Franklin Henry is acknowledged as the father of motor behavior research. His work on reaction time, the motor program, and development of the Specificity Hypothesis have spurred an unparalleled amount of research in the field. Building off the work of Henry, Schmidt, who is a direct student of Henry developed the Schema Theory of Motor Learning. Over the past 30 years the theory has generated much research, being referenced in over 700 journal articles, and achieving the `citation classic' award by the Institute for Scientific Information (Lee, 2003).

Schmidt has also founded the Journal of Motor behavior. Therefore no one is more qualified to write a book on Motor Behavior. Further, Richard Lee is just as qualified, publishing extensively in motor behavior and psychology journals. He is also on the cutting edge of Motor program research, constructing his Cognitive Effort Theory of motor learning.

As a second generation student of Henry, I have been fortunate to have studied under and researched with two first generation students of Henry. Including Dr. Ostarello and Dr. Caplain, as well as studied extensively with one of the nations greatest scientists, and a second generation student of Henry, Dr. Sawyer. I have also instructed in College Motor Control Labs.

Through my extreme study of Motor Behavor, including countless journal articles, and an extensive list of Motor Behavior books I can say with assuredy that this is the most proficient, and outstanding book in its class on the market.

What I am especially impressed with, is the detail Schmidt and Lee go into when describing a certain motor phenomenon. For example in the Speed Accuracy Trade off Chapter, they take you from the work of Woodworth (1899) in which he first formally studied the phenomenon, to the work of Fitts. In doing so they painstakingly and accurately describe each study used by these Giants. They then take you to the present and discuss if these scientists theories have continued to recieve support. Of particular interest in that Chapter was work presented by Schmidt on the Linear Speed accuracy trade off.

Current dominant theory on how movements, namely ballistic movements are controled is Henry's (1958) Motor Program Theory origionally called the Memory Drum Theory. Schmidt has carried this research to the more modern Schema Motor Program Theory. As critical as this concept is to Motor Behavior students, it is a priveledge to be able to read directly from the men who devised these theories. This book provides just that.

Whether you are a student, professor, or scientist working in the field, this book should be on your shelf.

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An authoritative and reader-friendly introduction to the important issues, theories, people, and research in motor behaviour. Includes an online study guide.