Cognitive Psychology Arena

Individual Differences in Emotion Components and Dynamics

A Special Issue of Cognition & Emotion

• Edited by Peter Kuppens, Jeroen Stouten and Batja Mesquita.

Published November 2009

Our emotions define us as individuals: Each of us has unique ways of feeling and emotionally responding. In this Special Issue several contemporary approaches to emotion are used to gain insight in the ways people differ with regard to two of the most central features of emotions, their…
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Modern Psychometrics, Third Edition

The Science of Psychological Assessment

• By John Rust, and Susan Golombok.

Published December 2008

Today psychometrics plays an increasingly important role in all our lives as testing and assessment occurs from preschool until retirement. This book introduces the reader to the subject in all its aspects, ranging from its early history, school examinations, how to construct your own test,…
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Mating Intelligence

Sex, Relationships, and the Mind's Reproductive System

• Edited by Glenn Geher, and Geoffrey Miller.

Published July 2007

Human intelligence is sexually attractive, and strongly predicts the success of sexual relationships, but the behavioral sciences have usually ignored the interface between intelligence and mating. This is the first serious scholarly effort to explore that interface, by examining both universal and…
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The Contribution of Cognitive Psychology to the Study of Individual Cognitive Differences and Intelligence

A Special Issue of the European Journal of Cognitive Psychology

• Edited by Cesare Cornoldi.

Published February 2006

What is intelligence? How can we examine individual differences in intelligence? What does it mean to be very intelligent or dumb? Such questions have always pervaded human thinking, and have been raised during the development of scientific psychology. However, for many years, the practical needs…
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Advances in Personality Psychology

Volume II

• Edited by Andrzej Eliasz, Sarah E. Hampson and Boele de Raad.

Published December 2005

The second volume in the Advances in Personality Psychology series, this book presents an authoritative collection of works by leading experts in the field. It focuses on three of the major issues in personality psychology: personality, affect and arousal; personality and intelligence; and…
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Individual Differences in Arithmetic

Implications for Psychology, Neuroscience and Education

• By Ann Dowker.

Published September 2005

Standards in numeracy are a constant concern to educational policy-makers. However, why are differences in arithmetical performance so marked? In Individual Differences in Arithmetic, Ann Dowker seeks to provide a better understanding of why these differences in ability exist, encouraging a more…
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Moves in Mind

The Psychology of Board Games

• By Fernand Gobet, Jean Retschitzki and Alex de Voogt.

Published August 2004

Board games have long fascinated as mirrors of intelligence, skill, cunning, and wisdom. While board games have been the topic of many scientific studies, and have been studied for more than a century by psychologists, there was until now no single volume summarizing psychological research into…
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The Psychology of Intelligence

• By Jean Piaget.
• Translated by D.E Berlyne, and Malcolm Piercy.

Published May 2001

Think of developmental psychology, and the name of Jean Piaget immediately springs to mind. His theory of learning lies at the very heart of the modern understanding of the human learning process, and he is celebrated as the founding father of child psychology. A prolific writer, is the author of…
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Human Performance

Cognition, Stress and Individual Differences

• By D. Roy Davies, Gerald Matthews, Rob B. Stammers and Steve J. Westerman.

Published August 2000

Human Performance provides the student and researcher with a comprehensive and accessible review of performance, in the real world and essential cognitive science theory.Four main sections cover both theoretical and practical issues: Section One outlines the perspectives on performance offered by…
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The Development of Intelligence

• Edited by Mike Anderson.

Published August 2000

The Development of Intelligence is an attempt to influence the next generation who will research the central question of this book - what is the nature of intelligence and how does it develop? The book provides a contemporary review of methods and theories of the development of intellectual…
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