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Psychology

By: Daniel L. Schacter,Daniel T. Gilbert,Daniel M. Wegner

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Psychology

By: Daniel L. Schacter,Daniel T. Gilbert,Daniel M. Wegner

Your students may forget it’s a textbook. But they will always remember what they learn. View a sample chapter and student video reviews at www.worthpublishers.com/thedans Their research continues to change the way psychology is taught. Their teaching has inspired thousands of students. Their writing fascinates readers and vividly shows how psychological science is relevant to their lives. So it was no surprise that Dan Schacter, Dan Gilbert, and Dan Wegner’s introductory psychology textbook was a breakout success. With the new edition, Psychology is more than ever a book instructors are looking for—a text that students will read and keep reading. Thoroughly updated, the new edition is filled with captivating stories of real people and breakthrough research, plus a variety of proven and effective new learning tools, all carried along by the Dans’ uncanny way of making the story of psychological principles as riveting and enriching as reading a great book.

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Macmillan

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1429237198

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9781429237192

A Theory of Action Identification

By: Robin R. Vallacher,Daniel M. Wegner

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A Theory of Action Identification

By: Robin R. Vallacher,Daniel M. Wegner

First published in 1985. A person may be caught in the midst of a patently ridiculous act, interrupted in a moment of apparent confusion, or even aroused from sleep, and yet respond to a query of What are you doing? with remarkable ease. The answer that is given is an identification of action. It is the central idea of this book that such action identifications perform pivotal functions in a broad range of psychological and social processes.

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268

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Psychology Press

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131776787X

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9781317767879

Introducing Psychology

By: Daniel L. Schacter,Daniel T. Gilbert,Daniel M. Wegner

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Introducing Psychology

By: Daniel L. Schacter,Daniel T. Gilbert,Daniel M. Wegner

Reads like a good book… Written in the style of their award-winning nonfiction books, the Dans capture students’ attention in a way few textbooks can claim. Each chapter, each page is written with narrative hooks that retain student interest by engaging their curiosity, compassion, and interest in the world around them. Students who read Introducing Psychology will quickly learn to critically examine the world around them and apply the lessons of psychology to their own lives. …Teaches like a great textbook. The Dans focus the essential topics within psychology without diluting the explanation or removing examples intended to illustrate concepts. By refining their coverage to the most clear, thought-provoking, and illustrative examples, the Dans manage to accomplish two difficult goals: making thoughtful content choices covering the various fields of psychology, and doing so in a manner that retains clarity and emphasizes student engagement.

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Macmillan

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1429218215

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9781429218214

The Illusion of Conscious Will, New Edition

By: Daniel M. Wegner

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The Illusion of Conscious Will, New Edition

By: Daniel M. Wegner

A new edition of Wegner's classic and controversial work, arguing that conscious will simply reminds of us the authorship of our actions. Do we consciously cause our actions, or do they happen to us? Philosophers, psychologists, neuroscientists, theologians, and lawyers have long debated the existence of free will versus determinism. With the publication of The Illusion of Conscious Will in 2002, Daniel Wegner proposed an innovative and provocative answer: the feeling of conscious will is created by the mind and brain; it helps us to appreciate and remember our authorship of the things our minds and bodies do. Yes, we feel that we consciously will our actions, Wegner says, but at the same time, our actions happen to us. Although conscious will is an illusion (“the most compelling illusion”), it serves as a guide to understanding ourselves and to developing a sense of responsibility and morality. Wegner was unable to undertake a second edition of the book before his death in 2013; this new edition adds a foreword by Wegner's friend, the prominent psychologist Daniel Gilbert, and an introduction by Wegner's colleague Thalia Wheatley. Approaching conscious will as a topic of psychological study, Wegner examines cases both when people feel that they are willing an act that they are not doing and when they are not willing an act that they in fact are doing in such phenomena as hypnosis, Ouija board spelling, and dissociative identity disorder. Wegner's argument was immediately controversial (called “unwarranted impertinence” by one scholar) but also compelling. Engagingly written, with wit and clarity, The Illusion of Conscious Will was, as Daniel Gilbert writes in the foreword to this edition, Wegner's “magnum opus.”

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MIT Press

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0262534924

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9780262534925

Psychology Third Canadian Edition

By: Daniel L. Schacter,Daniel T. Gilbert,Daniel M. Wegner,Matthew K. Nock

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Psychology Third Canadian Edition

By: Daniel L. Schacter,Daniel T. Gilbert,Daniel M. Wegner,Matthew K. Nock

Schacter, Gilbert, Wegner, and Nock’s Psychology, Third Edition is widely acclaimed for captivating students with contemporary psychology research on the major topics of the introductory course, while helping them develop critical thinking skills that will stay with them beyond the course term. Expert coverage of the DSM-5, quirky examples of thinking gone awry, scenarios based on common psychological misconceptions, and contributions from new co-author Matthew Nock highlight the new edition. And now, this breakthrough text is available in a version created just for Canadian students and teachers. It offers the same fascinating writing, helpful study tools, and keen eye for intriguing stories as Psychology, Third Edition, but with a wide range of Canadian examples and impactful work by Canadian researchers incorporated throughout. Welcome Canadian author, Ingrid Johnsrude Ingrid’s principal area of investigation is the neural basis of understanding speech, and she leads experiments examining how utterances are transformed into acoustic signals and then into meaning via a variety of cognitive processes. Her investigations span multiple levels—from understanding the brain structures involved in hearing and comprehension to observing the ways listeners deal with challenges such as background noise.

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Macmillan Higher Education

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1464157030

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9781464157035

The Mind Club

Who Thinks, What Feels, and Why It Matters

By: Daniel M. Wegner,Kurt Gray

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The Mind Club

Who Thinks, What Feels, and Why It Matters

By: Daniel M. Wegner,Kurt Gray

“Compelling, and so beautifully written…’The Mind Club’ deftly brings the most up-to-date research about other minds to readers of all backgrounds. It may cause you to think differently about crime and punishment, about business transactions and health care, and even about the upcoming elections. Things might just start looking up.”–The Wall Street Journal From dogs to gods, the science of understanding mysterious minds—including your own. Nothing seems more real than the minds of other people. When you consider what your boss is thinking or whether your spouse is happy, you are admitting them into the "mind club." It’s easy to assume other humans can think and feel, but what about a cow, a computer, a corporation? What kinds of mind do they have? Daniel M. Wegner and Kurt Gray are award-winning psychologists who have discovered that minds—while incredibly important—are a matter of perception. Their research opens a trove of new findings, with insights into human behavior that are fascinating, frightening and funny. The Mind Club explains why we love some animals and eat others, why people debate the existence of God so intensely, how good people can be so cruel, and why robots make such poor lovers. By investigating the mind perception of extraordinary targets—animals, machines, comatose people, god—Wegner and Gray explain what it means to have a mind, and why it matters so much. Fusing cutting-edge research and personal anecdotes, The Mind Club explores the moral dimensions of mind perception with wit and compassion, revealing the surprisingly simple basis for what compels us to love and hate, to harm and to protect.

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Penguin

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0143110020

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9780143110026

Virtual Agency, digital original edition

A BIT of The Illusion of Conscious Will

By: Daniel M. Wegner

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A BIT of The Illusion of Conscious Will

By: Daniel M. Wegner

Do we consciously cause our actions, or do they happen to us? Philosophers, psychologists, neuroscientists, theologians, and lawyers have long debated the existence of free will versus determinism. This BIT, excerpted from an influential book by the late Daniel Wegner, offers an innovative view of one aspect of free will. Wegner argues that when people project action to imaginary agents, they create virtual agents, apparent sources of their own volition.

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MIT Press

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026231973X

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9780262319737

Scientific American Reader to Accompany Schacter/Gilbert/Wegner

By: Daniel L. Schacter

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Scientific American Reader to Accompany Schacter/Gilbert/Wegner

By: Daniel L. Schacter

The result of an exclusive partnership with Scientific American, the articles in this collection were personally selected from the pages of world's foremost scientific magazine by the authors Dan Schacter, Dan Gilbert, and Dan Wegner.

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1429223227

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9781429223225

Computational Intelligence

Engineering of Hybrid Systems

By: Mircea Gh. Negoita,Daniel Neagu,Vasile Palade

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Computational Intelligence

Engineering of Hybrid Systems

By: Mircea Gh. Negoita,Daniel Neagu,Vasile Palade

Hybrid Intelligent Systems has become an important research topic in computer science and a key application field in science and engineering. This book offers a gentle introduction to the engineering aspects of hybrid intelligent systems, also emphasizing the interrelation with the main intelligent technologies such as genetic algorithms – evolutionary computation, neural networks, fuzzy systems, evolvable hardware, DNA computing, artificial immune systems. A unitary whole of theory and application, the book provides readers with the fundamentals, background information, and practical methods for building a hybrid intelligent system. It treats a panoply of applications, including many in industry, educational systems, forecasting, financial engineering, and bioinformatics. This volume is useful to newcomers in the field because it quickly familiarizes them with engineering elements of developing hybrid intelligent systems and a wide range of real applications, including non-industrial applications. Researchers, developers and technically oriented managers can use the book for developing both new hybrid intelligent systems approaches and new applications requiring the hybridization of the typical tools and concepts to computational intelligence.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540232192

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9783540232193

The Mind Club

Who Thinks, What Feels, and Why It Matters

By: Daniel M. Wegner,Kurt Gray

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Who Thinks, What Feels, and Why It Matters

By: Daniel M. Wegner,Kurt Gray

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The Illusion of Conscious Will, New Edition

By: Daniel M. Wegner

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By: Daniel M. Wegner

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0262344882

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Brainstorms

Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology

By: Daniel Clement Dennett

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Brainstorms

Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology

By: Daniel Clement Dennett

For those concerned with artificial intelligence, philosophy, & cognitive psychology.

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0262040646

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9780262040648

Book's by Daniel M. Wegner

Psychology

Psychology

A Theory of Action Identification

A Theory of Action Identification

Introducing Psychology

Introducing Psychology

The Illusion of Conscious Will, New Edition

The Illusion of Conscious Will, New Edition

Psychology Third Canadian Edition

Psychology Third Canadian Edition

The Mind Club

The Mind Club

Virtual Agency, digital original edition

Virtual Agency, digital original edition

Scientific American Reader to Accompany Schacter/Gilbert/Wegner

Scientific American Reader to Accompany Schacter/Gilbert/Wegner

Computational Intelligence

Computational Intelligence

The Mind Club

The Mind Club

The Illusion of Conscious Will, New Edition

The Illusion of Conscious Will, New Edition

Brainstorms

Brainstorms

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