Psychology: A Crash Course: Become An Instant Expert

by Paul Carslake, Razwana Quadir

The way humans think and behave is endlessly fascinating and often surprising. Professional psychologists spend their working lives analyzing individuals’ mental processes and responses. Their subject is a science, but their practice and approach are governed by ethics and morality. We may all consider ourselves to be incidental psychologists in our daily interactions, confident of our ability to judge character, read body language, or to get to know someone, only to find ourselves confounded by seemingly unpredictable actions. Why do entirely good people sometimes do bad things? Is personality inherited or learned? Is there really such a thing as “being normal”? Psychology: A Crash Course looks at how these and many other questions have exercised the minds of those leading the way in psychology for more than 100 years. It’s a story of bold thinking, ingenious experiments, and sometimes startling conclusions that will make you stop and think.

160 pages, Hardcover

Published July 30, 2019

Reviews

[Emma · Rating 3 out of 5]

Divided into mini 2-page chapters, as the title gives away it's a "crash course" not a pleasant and flowing read. If you know what I mean! Unless you want to use it as a handbook per se, I wouldn't recommend it. I did learn quite a few interesting things though. The authors are an Oxford graduate and a Cambridge graduate and you can tell they know what they're talking about.