Scientists making a difference : one hundred eminent behavioral and brain scientists talk about their most important contributions /
This is a fascinating collection of first-person narratives from the top psychological scientists of the modern era. These readable essays highlight the most important contributions to theory and research in psychological science, show how the greatest psychological scientists formulate and think ab...
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword : Making a creative difference = person x environment / Peter Salovey
- Part I. Introduction : What makes a psychological scientist "eminent"? / Robert J. Sternberg
- Part II. Biological bases of psychology: genes, brain, and beyond
- Section A. Feelings fears, stressors, and coping
- Feelings and decisions / Antonio Damasio
- My career in fear / Michael Davis
- Child poverty and brain development / Martha J. Farah
- Try it an assume nothing / Michael S. Gazzaniga
- Coming full circle: from psychology to neuroscience and back / Joseph Ledoux
- Hormones, epigenetics, the brain, and behavior / Bruce S. McEwen
- Brain plasticity, science, and medicine / Michael Merzenich
- Section B. Cognitive and social neuroscience
- Social neuroscience / John T. Cacioppo
- Modulating memory consolidation / James L. McGaugh
- Memory consolidation and transformation: the hippocampus and mental time travel / Morris Moscovitch
- Imaging the human brain / Michael I. Posner
- Different mechanisms of cognitive flexibility within the prefrontal cortex / Trevor W. Robbins
- Memory and brain / Larry R. Squire
- Section C. Behavioral and molecular genetics
- Genes and behavior: nature via nurture / Thomas J. Bouchard, Jr.
- The view from the center of the triangle: psychology, psychiatry, and genetics / Irving I. Gottesman
- Bringing genetics into the mainstream of psychology / Robert Plomin
- Part III. Cognition: getting information from the world and dealing with it
- Section A. Attention and perception
- Gaining control / John Jonides
- The essential Dave Meyer: some musings on "scholarly eminence" and important scientific contributions / David E. Meyer
- Just turn it over in your mind / Roger N. Shepard
- Attention and automatism / Richard M. Shiffrin and Walter Schneider
- How the brain constructs objects / Anne Treisman
- Section B. Learning and memory
- Human memory: a proposed system and its control processes / Richard C. Atkinson and Richard M. Shiffrin
- Working memory / Alan Baddeley
- Emotionally colored cognition / Gordon H. Bower
- Levels of processing in human memory / Fergus I.M. Craik
- Falling down the duck/rabbit hole / Marcia K. Johnson
- Memory matters / Elizabeth F. Loftus
- What do you know and how do you know it?: it's all in your connections / James L. McClelland
- Serendipity in research: origins of the DRM false memory paradigm / Henry L. Roediger, III
- Memory: beyond remembering / Daniel L. Schacter
- Episodic memory / Endel Tulving
- What we learn depends on what we are remembering / Allan R. Wagner
- Section C. Complex processes
- A unified theory of mind / John R. Anderson
- Multiple intelligences: prelude, theory, and aftermath / Howard Gardner
- Heuristics and biases / Daniel Kahneman
- Comprehension / Walter Kintsch
- The perception of risk / Paul Slovic
- What does it mean to be intelligent / Robert J. Sternberg
- Part IV. Development: how we change over time
- Section A. Cognitive development
- Building a unique network of scientific enterprises / Susan Carey
- Research on children's recollections: what a difference a phone call made / Stephen J. Ceci
- Development of children's knowledge about the mind / John H. Flavell
- Real representations in two dimensions / Rochel Gelman
- Language and the social brain: the power of surprise in science / Patricia K. Kuhl
- The importance of developmental plasticity / Elissa L. Newport
- Levels of analysis in cognitive aging / Timothy A. Salthouse
- The longitudinal study of adult cognitive development / K. Warner Schaie
- How does change occur? / Robert S. Siegler
- Cognitive abilities of infants / Elizabeth Spelke
- Section B. Social/personality development
- The power of observational learning through social modeling / Albert Bandura
- Human development in evolutionary-biological perspective / Jay Belsky
- Transitions, timing, and texture: a developmental psychologist goes transdisciplinary / Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
- Longitudinal cohort research: sowing, nurturing, waiting, harvesting / Avshalom Caspi, Terrie E. Moffitt
- A conceptual and empirical bridge / Nancy Eisenberg
- Follow the evidence, ignore the words / Jerome Kagan
- The incredible shrinking conscious mind / Richard E. Nisbett
- The scientific study of self-knowledge / Timothy D. Wilson
- Part V. Motivation and emotion: how we feel and what we do
- Section A. Motivation
- The motivation for creativity / Teresa M. Amabile
- Inner processes serve interpersonal functions / Roy R. Baumeister
- Self-regulation / Charles S. Carver
- Intrinsic motivation: the inherent tendency to be active / Edward L. Deci
- Mindsets: from the classroom to the Middle East / Carol S. Dweck
- Whether you think you can, or you think you can't: you're right / Adrian Furnham
- Promotion and prevention motivations / E. Tory Higgins
- The letter to a friend that helped launch a career / Lee Ross
- The empirical study of human autonomy using self-determination theory / Richard M. Ryan
- Behavioral self-regulation: a letter optimism goes a long way / Michael F. Scheier
- The affective revolution of the 1980s / David Watson
- Section B. Emotion :-- Human aggression and violence / Craig A. Anderson
- Research on automatically elicited aggression / Leonard Berkowitz
- The nature of emotion and the impact of affect / Gerald L. Clore
- The rediscovery of enjoyment / Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- Happiness is a virtue: good for you and good for the world! / Ed Diener
- Part VI. Social and personality processes: who we are and how we interact
- Section A. Social cognition
- Doing good by doing good research / Elliot Aronson
- The incredible little shrinking man in the head / John A. Bargh
- Ethnocentrism and the optimal distinctiveness theory of social identity / Marilynn Brewer
- Psychology of gender: nature and nurture working together / Alice S. Eagly
- How warmth and competence inform your social life / Susan T. Fiske
- Two routs to persuasion / Richard E. Petty
- Section B. Personal relationship
- The "next one" / Ellen Berscheid
- Human mating strategies / David M. Buss
- Love and sex in the marketplace / Elaine Hatfield
- Section C. Group and cultural processes
- Theory to develop a cooperative, just, and peaceful world / Morton Deutsch
- The collective construction of the self: culture, brain and genes / Shinobu Kitayama
- The personal is political ... and historical and social and cultural / Hazel Rose Markus
- The science of our better angels / Steven Pinker
- Focusing on culture in psychology / Harry C. Triandis
- Part VII. Clinical and health psychology: making lives better
- Section A. Stress and coping
- Psychological stress, immunity, and physical disease / Sheldon Cohen
- A Goldilocks idea: not too big, not too small, just right / Susan Folkman
- Section B. Understanding mental disorders
- Why study autism? / Uta Frith
- Understanding clinical depression / Ian H. Gotlib
- A sociologist working in psychiatric epidemiology talks to psychologists: a career bridging fields / Ronald C. Kessler
- Closing the divide: psychological science, basic and applied / Peter J. Lang
- Section C. Psychotherapy and behavior change
- The development and evaluation of psychological treatments for anxiety disorders / David H. Barlow
- Psychosocial treatment of children with sever aggressive and antisocial behavior / Alan E. Kazdin
- Expressive writing / James W. Pennebaker
- Staging: a revolution in changing health risk behaviors / James O. Prochaska
- Section D. Health and positive psychology
- Psychological origins of cardiovascular disease / Karen Matthews
- How positive psychology happened and where it is going / Martin Seligman
- Looking back and forward / Shelley E. Taylor
- Part VIII. Conclusion
- Becoming an eminent researcher in psychological science / Robert J. Sternberg
- Afterword : Doing psychology 24x7 and why it matters / Nancy Cantor.