40 Studies That Changed Psychology (7th Edition)

The uniqueness of "40 Studies That Changed Psychology" is that it fills the gap between introductory books on psychology and research works on psychology, and expounds 40 landmark studies in the history of psychology in depth from a historical perspective. And introduced the follow-up progress of these studies and related research. The book is divided into ten topics: the biological basis of human behavior, consciousness and perception, conditioning and learning, cognition, memory and intelligence, lifespan development, motivation and emotion, personality, psychological disorders, psychotherapy, and human interaction. and social behavior.

Since its first edition in 1992, 40 Studies That Changed Psychology has been a highly regarded psychology bestseller, a reference text in many universities and schools around the world, and has been translated into 6 languages. The author, Roger Hawke, is not only a psychologist, but also an educator and writer. With his concise thinking and vivid language, he turns the "boring" classic psychology research into fascinating one after another. story. Reading this book will make you feel that psychology will no longer be "boring", "distanced from reality", and "unattainable". At the same time, reading these classic studies will also convince you that modern psychology is indeed a "hard" science, and be impressed by the brilliant ideas and genius ideas of psychology masters.

The seventh edition of this book adds two influential studies in the history of psychology. Rosch's revolutionary discovery since 1973, she has used ingenious methods to study the classification of colors by the human brain; in recent years, it has used magnetic resonance brain imaging (MRI) to intuitively reveal human brain activity for research purposes. In addition, the "Recent Applications" section of many research reports has been updated to reflect the citations of these 40 studies since the beginning of the 21st century. This revision also carefully revised and edited the translation of the whole book, and corrected many mistakes and omissions in the translation.