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Play takes up much of the time budget of young children, and many animals, but its importance in development remains contested. This comprehensive collection brings together multidisciplinary and developmental perspectives on the forms and functions of play in animals, children in different societies, and through the lifespan.

This is an ideal reference for those looking to understand, study, and practice community engagement. It discusses the different ways individuals - including faculty and management in organizations - engage in their communities. It also supplies case studies, best practices, and theoretical approaches to the study of community engagement.

This interdisciplinary Handbook brings together the top researchers in child and adolescent sexual development to redefine the issues, conflicts, and debates that characterize the field. It explores the role of sexuality in children's and adolescents' everyday experiences of identity, family, school, neighborhood, religion, and popular media.

This book showcases the best thinking and research on instructional feedback and is suitable for researchers, schoolteachers and professors. Educators at all levels and subject areas should consult this book if they want to learn about why, when, and where instructional feedback is effective, and how best to provide it.

Providing a comprehensive examination of the psychology of prejudice from its roots to its manifestations and consequences, this concise student edition of the award-winning Cambridge Handbook includes new pedagogical features such as learning objectives, key terms and definitions, summary points, discussion questions, and instructor's test bank.

This Handbook covers virtually all of the many facets of scientific research on creativity, including the related areas of innovation and imagination. It includes cutting-edge work from psychology, education, business, entrepreneurship, and neuroscience to present a complete overview of the nuanced topic of creativity.

This book provides descriptive and experimental approaches to the study of anxiety and related disorders alongside literature reviews and empirically-guided suggestions for treatment. It is written for academics and graduate students studying psychology, psychiatry, and neuroscience; as well as clinicians in medical centers or private practices.

This book showcases the best thinking and research on instructional feedback and is suitable for researchers, schoolteachers and professors. Educators at all levels and subject areas should consult this book if they want to learn about why, when, and where instructional feedback is effective, and how best to provide it.

Experts from across all industrial-organizational (IO) psychology describe how increasingly rapid technological change has affected the field. In each chapter, authors describe how this has altered the meaning of IO research within a particular subdomain and what steps must be taken to avoid IO research from becoming obsolete.

Experts from across all industrial-organizational (IO) psychology describe how increasingly rapid technological change has affected the field. In each chapter, authors describe how this has altered the meaning of IO research within a particular subdomain and what steps must be taken to avoid IO research from becoming obsolete.

Leading scientists reveal how to enhance instruction and student achievement across many domains, including science, mathematics, reading, and writing. Directed towards graduate students and seasoned scientists interested in education, it is also accessible to practitioners and students who are interested in improving learning and achievement.

This Handbook describes the extent and shape of computing education research, and articulates its boundaries with partner disciplines. Written by leading researchers from academia and industry (including Google and Microsoft), it provides both a guide for existing researchers and a practical resource for those new to the field.

This comprehensive and up-to-date book will be studied in undergraduate and graduate courses in psychology, social work, education, international law, sociology, economics, public health and public policy fields, and will also be a valuable resource for established scholars, practitioners and policy-makers.

This Cambridge Handbook is the first book of its kind to explore how personality and behavior affects creativity. Contributors from around the globe present cutting-edge research about how personality traits and motives make creative behavior more likely.

The field of mathematical psychology includes both psychological theorizing, in which mathematics plays a key role, and applied mathematics, motivated by substantive problems in psychology. The New Handbook of Mathematical Psychology explores the mathematical and computational foundations of new developments over the last half-century.

This book is for administrators, staff, faculty, and students who are interested in service learning, community engagement, and ways in which engaged teaching and scholarship can effect social change. Community organizations and non-profits will also benefit from thinking about ways they can partner with educational institutions to create local change.

This Handbook provides a comprehensive examination of the psychology of prejudice, from its roots through to its manifestations and consequences. The chapters cover broad theoretical perspectives on prejudice; investigate prejudice in specific domains such as race, gender, and appearance; and develop strategies for prejudice reduction and social change.

This book provides descriptive and experimental approaches to the study of anxiety and related disorders alongside literature reviews and empirically-guided suggestions for treatment. It is written for academics and graduate students studying psychology, psychiatry, and neuroscience; as well as clinicians in medical centers or private practices.

This Handbook presents the intellectual history and surrounding context of theories and research across a range of psychological domains. The book is topically organized, much like an introductory-psychology text, so readers can discover the intellectual history of the particular fields of psychology that interest them.

This Handbook presents the intellectual history and surrounding context of theories and research across a range of psychological domains. The book is topically organized, much like an introductory-psychology text, so readers can discover the intellectual history of the particular fields of psychology that interest them.

This interdisciplinary Handbook brings together the top researchers in child and adolescent sexual development to redefine the issues, conflicts, and debates that characterize the field. It explores the role of sexuality in children's and adolescents' everyday experiences of identity, family, school, neighborhood, religion, and popular media.

This is a review of the psychological literature on wisdom by leading experts in the field. It covers the philosophical and sociocultural foundations of wisdom, and showcases the measurement and teaching of wisdom. The connection of wisdom to intelligence and personality is explained alongside its relationship with morality and ethics.

This Handbook provides an overview and guide for state-of-the-art research methods in clinical psychological science. It is the ideal resource for clinical psychologists, graduate students studying clinical psychology, and practitioners or researchers in allied disciplines including psychiatry and social work.

This Handbook gives interpretive and practical recommendations for graduate students, researchers, and clinicians conducting clinical assessments across a number of settings. Written by experts in the field, each chapter provides a contemporary and research-informed review of the topics essential to psychological assessment and diagnosis.

This handbook integrates a wide range of perspectives on the relationship between evolution and the human condition. In addition to evolutionary psychology and behavioral ecology, the inclusion of neuroscience, feminist discourse, sociocultural anthropology, and media studies makes the handbook the most comprehensive reference in the field to date.

This handbook integrates a wide range of perspectives on the relationship between evolution and the human condition. In addition to evolutionary psychology and behavioral ecology, the inclusion of neuroscience, feminist discourse, sociocultural anthropology, and media studies makes the handbook the most comprehensive reference in the field to date.

This Handbook gives interpretive and practical recommendations for graduate students, researchers, and clinicians conducting clinical assessments across a number of settings. Written by experts in the field, each chapter provides a contemporary and research-informed review of the topics essential to psychological assessment and diagnosis.

This handbook provides an evidence-based discussion of how work, working environments, and workers have changed over several decades. The advice and insights given on how to effectively manage talent with regard to such changes are invaluable to students, researchers, practitioners, organizational leaders, and policy-makers.

This handbook provides an evidence-based discussion of how work, working environments, and workers have changed over several decades. The advice and insights given on how to effectively manage talent with regard to such changes are invaluable to students, researchers, practitioners, organizational leaders, and policy-makers.

Informed by psychological, medical, neuropsychological, and gerontological perspectives, this handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the principles that characterize a life course approach to cognitive aging, including consideration of genetics, early life experiences, motivation, emotion, social contexts, and lifestyle interventions.