Psychology Applied to Modern Life: Adjustment in the 21st Century

by Wayne Weiten, Margaret A. Lloyd, Dana S. Dunn

Filled with comprehensive, balanced coverage of classic and contemporary research, relevant examples, and engaging applications, this text shows you how psychology helps you understand yourself and the world, and uses psychological principles to illuminate the variety of opportunities you have in your life and your future career. While professors cite this bestselling book for its academic credibility and the authors' ability to stay current with ''hot topics,'' students say it's one text they just don't want to stop reading. The text and associated workbook are highly readable, engaging, and visually appealing, providing you with a wealth of material you can put to use every day.

Genres: Psychology, Textbooks, Nonfiction, Self Help, Science, Personal Development, Linguistics

649 pages, Hardcover

First published December 7, 2000

About the author

Wayne Weiten is a graduate of Bradley University and received his Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Illinois, Chicago, in 1981. He currently teaches at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He has received distinguished teaching awards from Division Two of the American Psychological Association (APA) and from the College of DuPage, where he taught until 1991. He is a Fellow of Divisions 1 and 2 of the American Psychological Association. In 1991, he helped chair the APA National Conference on Enhancing the Quality of Undergraduate Education in Psychology and in 1996-1997 he served as President of the Society for the Teaching of Psychology. Wayne Weiten has conducted research on a wide range of topics, including educational measurement, jury decision making, attribution theory, stress, and cerebral specialization. His recent interests have included pressure as a form of stress and the technology of textbooks. He is also the co-author of Psychology Applied to Modern Life (Wadsworth, 2006) and the creator of an educational CD-ROM titled PsykTrek: A Multimedia Introduction to Psychology.

Reviews

[Julie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Required eText for my Applied Psychology class. Engaging and very readable, with helpful reviews at the end of each chapter. We were required to complete the personal explorations included at the back of the book and I found these truly worthy of my time and helpful in discovering personal insights.

[ALLEN · Rating 4 out of 5]

College psychology textbooks have evolved something like movies over the years -- from black-and-white to color and noticeably more expensive. This is the ninth edition of the perdurable general text (2006; the current one is the twelfth); owing to its age I got it in hardcover for less than ten dollars. It offers an overview of the "classic" psychodynamic theories (Freud, Jung, Adler) much as in the general texts of my youth in the 1970's. Yet even after all this time, I'm sorry to say, no mention is made of the late Heinz Kohut and his significant achievements in the field of self-psychology or "healthy narcissism."

More elaborate graphics like color charts and illustrative comic strips like KUDZU and SALLY FORTH are significant changes; also is the amount of space given over to help college students "find themselves." Developing interpersonal relationships and even more so, fighting stress, receive a good deal of space here. (I am reminded of something a psych professor told me years ago: that the two reasons undergraduates major in the field are (1) to learn to help others, and (2) to try to figure themselves out.) It also goes without saying that matters of human sexuality receive much more tolerant treatment than they did forty or fifty years ago.

The general-interest reader who approaches this text as a matter of curiosity will find much to learn here, and at a good price.

[Moh. Nasiri · Rating 5 out of 5]

It was an excellent psychology textbook with nice applied personality points for adjusting modern life.Here you can find psychology theories by nice examples.
Nasiri

[Jeanne · Rating 4 out of 5]

I was given a course at what felt like the last minute (it wasn't really), so I chose to use the text that the previous instructor had used. I like many things about Psychology Applied to Modern Life – a strong emphasis on stress and coping, many applications, useful figures, nice in-depth discussions of research articles in each chapter, and a brief workbook to guide reflection. Psychology Applied is readable and accessible.

I often enjoy books more at the beginning than towards the book's end. That was my experience here. I wanted to see more emphasis on values, goals, beliefs, context, and meaning, which would have enriched the book from my perspective and strengthened my students' understanding of people. As a result, Psychology Applied both felt engaging and surprisingly flat.

[Lily · Rating 2 out of 5]

disliked this one. must've been culture-centric. 7th edition--white cover

[Elaine Harpine · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an excellent book. It is particularly appropriate for our lives today. We are bombarded with anger, frustration, and poor "adjustment" from almost every corner of the world. This book explains why anger and frustration turns to violence. Talks about how and when we make good "adjustment" decisions and when we make bad. I am happy to recommend this book to anyone. I taught from an earlier edition of this book at the university for many years. I actually had students thank me for "forcing" them to read this book. It was the class textbook, but it does not read like a textbook. I wanted to reread the book to see if the new edition incorporated many changes. Yes, it includes updates, but I can definitely say that if you find a used copy, you will get the main content of the book. This is a book that everyone should read.

[Nikki · Rating 5 out of 5]

It was an assigned book for a psychology class.

Although, it was an assigned book for a psychology class, there were extra bonus lessons past our last chapter 16 required reading that I found helpful. Not only did it enhance my learning experience, it helped provide many new learned coping skills. The positive psychology and relaxing techniques mostly in the last four chapters were my favorite lessons. The book was very enjoyable and I will always practice the lessons because I learned so much.

[aslbk · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great price, used for class, interesting read
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[Lauren McGinney · Rating 4 out of 5]

Casual textbook introduction to a range of subjects from psychology, sociology and anthropology.
Main text, application sections and workbook worth a skim read (~3h) for anyone interested in human mind and behaviour. Links to useful resources for further information.
Layout and images were useful and high quality, complimenting the text for visual learners and skim readers.

[Randy Daugherty · Rating 4 out of 5]

Bought for a Psychology class that was required. This was actually an interesting read and one that I could see myself returning to in the future. The authors tried to ensure the material was up to date and relevant in today's world and lives. This was probably the first Psychology class where I could apply the content to my life and current situations.

[Silver · Rating 2 out of 5]

Way too focused on theory and strategies that don't work. In fact, almost the entirety of this book describes research that ultimately failed to improve human life. I spent hours trying to find anything practical and ultimately failed.

[Roman Hauksson-Neill · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ctrl+F reveals zero results for the term "replication crisis". I know this isn't a metascience textbook, but you'd think they'd have enough room in a 600-page psychology textbook published in 2023 to address arguably the most significant revelation affecting the field.

[Darshan P · Rating 4 out of 5]

I only read chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 9, 12, 16.
Lots of overlap with other books I've read and classes I've taken.
Deserves a revisit once ever three-ish months and read the chapter summaries.

[Parsa]

Very good. Basically a psychology textbook, with an emphasis on things you can apply to everyday life. A self-help textbook.

[Joe Cole · Rating 5 out of 5]

While I am new to the field of Psychology, this book touches on most research topics that I am learning in my other ASU courses. I really like the way the book is organized. My book was used and the previous owner highlighted exactly what was needed from my professors power points. Even so, it is a great book to refer back to when writing research papers for upper level undergrads and perhaps I can use it for graduate work too.

[Vanessa · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was one of my favorite textbooks to date. The format was simple and it helped me to understand concepts and theorists that I had previously learned about in other classes by breaking it down in more elementary way. The contents were just as extensive as any other class but the way they were presented was spot on for me. I used this text as a go to for several of my other classes when trying to apply theory to case studies. I read the entire thing, cover to cover, which is not a commonly easy thing to accomplish with textbooks, but with this one I really enjoyed the task.

[Linn Browning · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent text; my psychology professor used this text in a class called "Psychology of Personal Growth" and it was well-suited to the class. I had some personal issues with the one-sidedness of the chapter on careers, but it also afforded a nice opportunity to discuss in class what I disagreed with.

[Adam]

Chapter
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http://www.slideshare.net/shahrunisha...
http://www.ppc.sas.upenn.edu/positive...

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[Su Yu · Rating 1 out of 5]

biased.

[Andi · Rating 3 out of 5]

A middle of the lane textbook on personality adjustment.

[Andrei · Rating 5 out of 5]

Отличный учебник.

Но так долго читал, что теперь чувствую опустошенность.