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  • Intelligence and How to Get It: Why Schools and Cultures Count

    Why Schools and Cultures Count

    by Richard E. Nisbett ...
    “[Nisbett] weighs in forcefully and articulately . . . [using] a thoroughly appealing style to engage . . . throughout.”—Publishers WeeklyWho are smarter, Asians or Westerners? Are there genetic explanations for group differences in test scores? From the damning research of The Bell Curve to the more recent controversy surrounding geneticist James Watson’s statements, one factor has been ... Read more

    $17.19 CAD

  • Mindware

    Tools for Smart Thinking

    by Richard Nisbett ...
    Learn how to think more effectively, at work and at home.Many scientific and philosophical ideas are so powerful that they can be applied to our lives at home and work and school to help us think smarter and more effectively about our behaviour and the world around us. Surprisingly, many of these ideas remain unknown to most of us.In Mindware, the world-renowned psychologist Richard Nisbett ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Rules for Reasoning

    Edited by Richard E. Nisbett ...
    This book examines two questions: Do people make use of abstract rules such as logical and statistical rules when making inferences in everyday life? Can such abstract rules be changed by training? Contrary to the spirit of reductionist theories from behaviorism to connectionism, there is ample evidence that people do make use of abstract rules of inference -- including rules of logic, statistics, ... Read more

    $138.78 CAD

  • The Person and the Situation: Perspectives of Social Psychology

    by Lee Ross, Richard E Nisbett ...
    How does the situation we're in influence the way we behave and think? Professors Ross and Nisbett eloquently argue that the context we find ourselves in substantially affects our behavior in this timely reissue of one of social psychology's classic textbooks. ... Read more

    $9.59 CAD

  • The Geography of Thought

    How Asians and Westerners Think Differently...and

    by Richard Nisbett, Ph.D. ...
    A “landmark book” (Robert J. Sternberg, president of the American Psychological Association) by one of the world's preeminent psychologists that proves human behavior is not “hard-wired” but a function of culture.Everyone knows that while different cultures think about the world differently, they use the same equipment for doing their thinking. But what if everyone is wrong?The Geography of ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Drawn on the Way

    A Guide to Capturing the Moment Through Live Sketching

    by Sarah Nisbett ...
    Learn to observe the world more deeply—with curiosity, empathy, and joy—as you sketch the stories unfolding all around you.In Drawn on the Way, Sarah Nisbett shares her techniques for creating captivating line drawings that capture the moments and moods that you encounter on the train, in a café, outdoors, anywhere: a young woman lost in thought, a pair of hands clasped on a lap, a peppy beagle, a ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Denying Death

    An Interdisciplinary Approach to Terror Management Theory

    Edited by Lindsey A. Harvell, Gwendelyn S. Nisbett ...
    This volume is the first to showcase the interdisciplinary nature of Terror Management Theory, providing a detailed overview of how rich and diverse the field has become since the late 1980s, and where it is going in the future. It offers perspectives from psychology, political science, communication, health, sociology, business, marketing and cultural studies, among others, and in the process ... Read more

    $116.79 CAD

  • Innovations and Implications of Persuasive Narrative

    Edited by Stephanie G. Schartel Dunn, Gwendelyn S. Nisbett ...
    Narratives and storytelling are how we create shared meaning and experience the world with others. Implications of narrative are vast and apply to many disciplines. The persuasive function of narrative can be seen in marketing, advertising, strategic social media, and public relations whose practitioners are using narrative based strategies to deeply engage audiences.This interdisciplinary volume ... Read more

    $114.39 CAD

  • A Distinctive Approach To Psychological Research

    The Influence of Stanley Schachter

    Edited by Neil E. Grunberg, R. E. Nisbett, Judith Rodin, Jerome E. Singer ...
    First published in 1987. Stanley Schachter’s direct contributions are well-known and are widely cited in original investigations, scholarly reviews, and textbooks and courses in general psychology, social psychology, and health psychology. Schachter’s distinctive approach to psychological research has broken new ground in the study of deviance, affiliation, emotions, obesity, cigarette smoking, ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

  • Culture Of Honor

    The Psychology Of Violence In The South

    by Richard E Nisbett ...
    This book focuses on a singular cause of male violence—the perpetrator's sense of threat to one of his most valued possessions, namely, his reputation for strength and toughness. The theme of this book is that the Southern United States had—and has—a type of culture of honor. ... Read more

    Was $94.99 CAD Now $85.19 CAD

  • Thought and Feeling

    Cognitive Alteration of Feeling States

    by Richard E. Nisbett ...
    Recently there has been growing awareness and acceptance of the proposition that people do not exist in a world of physically defined forces and events, but in a world defined by their own perceptions, cognitions, conclusions, and imaginations. We respond and react not to some objectively defined set of stimuli, but to our own apperceptions of stimuli that we define subjectively. The original ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • High Temperature Superconductor and Me

    A Scientist's Journey Across Oceans

    by Ruling Meng ...
    Translated by William Nisbett, Wei Li ...
    Ruling Meng, the author, is an exceptional scientist from Texas Center for Superconductivity at University of Houston. This autobiography describes her colorful life in detail, with high-temperature superconductivity research as the through line from beginning to end. The book is divided in two parts. The first illustrates the fierce competition in high-temperature superconducting material ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD