The Rough Guide to Psychology An Introduction to Human Behaviour and the Mind (Rough Guides)

People are appalled and fascinated by crime in equal measure. Most of us aspire to live in a safe, crime-free society, yet we’re ...

THE ROUGH GUIDE TO PSYCHOLOGY Of those people with a criminal record, one subgroup had only begun to display criminal behaviour ...

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF CRIME Their research has shown that individuals in the life-course persistent category are three times more li ...

THE ROUGH GUIDE TO PSYCHOLOGY film Minority Report, in which the authorities arrest people in anticipa- tion of crimes they have ...

with the perfect riposte, implanting in participants the false childhood memory of having met Bugs Bunny at Disneyland – a truly ...

THE ROUGH GUIDE TO PSYCHOLOGY are more accurate. These misconceptions have serious consequences for justice. According to one es ...

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF CRIME Lie detection Most of us are poor lie detectors. In a meta-analysis of 206 studies involving over twenty ...

THE ROUGH GUIDE TO PSYCHOLOGY The polygraph test, still widely used in America, faces the same problem. The squiggly lines produ ...

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF CRIME that certain brain areas are more active when people lie than when they tell the truth, most of this res ...

THE ROUGH GUIDE TO PSYCHOLOGY So why do people make false confessions? One problem is that inno- cent people often turn down the ...

Business Psychology Despite the best efforts of The Idler – the periodical which aims “to return dignity to the art of loafing, ...

model of personality (see p.177) find that those who score high on consci- entiousness and low on neuroticism tend to perform be ...

BUSINESS PSYCHOLOGY side of the nervous candidate. In this regard, there are some intriguing research-findings which show, for e ...

THE ROUGH GUIDE TO PSYCHOLOGY The order that candidates are called to interview could also make a difference. In 2005, Wandi de ...

BUSINESS PSYCHOLOGY foster a sense of meaning in one’s work. Over the ensuing months, staff who completed the programme reported ...

THE ROUGH GUIDE TO PSYCHOLOGY psychologist Sandi Mann warned of signs that boredom at work was on the increase, perhaps because ...

BUSINESS PSYCHOLOGY Everyone has been guilty of procrastination at one time or another, but the habit is particularly thought to ...

THE ROUGH GUIDE TO PSYCHOLOGY the Challenger space-shuttle disaster to the decisions that led to the Iraq war. Groupthink occurs ...

BUSINESS PSYCHOLOGY had witnessed either the sexual harassment of female staff, or uncivil, rude or condescending behaviour towa ...

THE ROUGH GUIDE TO PSYCHOLOGY Space psychology Work psychologists don’t just provide advice to office-based organi- zations. Per ...