Adult Biliteracy

Sociocultural and Programmatic Responses

Edited by Klaudia M. Rivera, Ana Huerta-Macías

Offering an in-depth view of adult literacy/biliteracy by merging two fields—adult literacy and English as a Second Language—this volume brings to the forefront linguistic, demographic,...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-8058-5362-9 (Routledge)

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Psychology of Physical Activity

Determinants, Well-Being and Interventions

By Stuart J.H. Biddle, Nanette Mutrie

In today’s urbanised and technologised society, physical activity is becoming an increasingly peripheral part of our daily lives.

This new edition is updated to reflect new...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-36665-6 (Routledge)

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Stereotype Dynamics

Language-Based Approaches to the Formation, Maintenance, and Transformation of Stereotypes

Edited by Yoshihisa Kashima, Klaus Fiedler, Peter Freytag

This volume addresses the role of communication in stereotype dynamics, while placing the phenomenon of social stereotypes appropriately in the socio-cultural context. Stereotype Dynamics assembles...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-8058-5678-1 (Psychology Press)

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Learning From Winners

How the ARF Ogilvy Award Winners Use Market Research to Create Advertising Success

By Raymond Pettit

This book demonstrates how the best companies use the creative application of research, done up front, to produce the big ideas with significant impact on...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-8058-5653-8 (Psychology Press)

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Single-Word Reading

Behavioral and Biological Perspectives

Edited by Elena L. Grigorenko, Adam J. Naples

As the first title in the new series, New Directions in Communication Disorders Research: Integrative Approaches, this volume discusses a unique phenomenon in cognitive science,...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-8058-5350-6 (Psychology Press)

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Sport and Spirituality

An Introduction

By Jim Parry, Mark Nesti, Simon Robinson, Nick Watson

Sport science can quantify many aspects of human performance but the spiritual dimensions of sports experience cannot be fully understood through measurement. However, the spiritual...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40483-9 (Routledge)

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The Self and Social Relationships

Edited by Joanne V. Wood, Abraham Tesser, John G. Holmes

Although the two major research areas of the "Self" and "Social Relationships" have flourished, they have done so largely independently of each other. More and...

2007 | Hardback: 978-1-84169-488-7 (Psychology Press)

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The Education-Drug Use Connection

How Successes and Failures in School Relate to Adolescent Smoking, Drinking, Drug Use, and Delinquency

By Jerald G. Bachman, Patrick M. O'Malley, John E. Schulenberg, Lloyd D. Johnston, Peter Freedman-Doan, Emily E. Messersmith

Does success in school protect teenagers from drug use? Does drug use impair scholastic success? This book tackles a key issue in adolescent development and...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-8058-6171-6 (Psychology Press)

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Communication Perspectives on HIV/AIDS for the 21st Century

Edited by Timothy Edgar, Seth M. Noar, Vicki S. Freimuth

Reflecting the current state of research into the communication aspects of HIV/AIDS, this volume explores AIDS-related communication scholarship, moving forward from the 1992 publication AIDS:...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-8058-5827-3 (Routledge)

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Attitudes

Their Structure, Function, and Consequences

Edited by Russell H. Fazio, Richard E. PettyArie W. Kruglanski

The study of likes and dislikes - what social psychologists refer to as "attitudes" - has been a central focus of the field for decades....

2007 | Paperback: 978-1-84169-010-0 (Psychology Press)

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