Publisher's Synopsis
"In our own experience, Introduction to Psychology is often a team-taught course. Given that psychology is such a diverse field, this team-based approach is an ideal way to introduce students to a wide range of perspectives with expertise as well as balance. It is the approach we adopt in this text as well, as your author team includes researchers with expertise in clinical neuroscience, cognitive psychology, and social psychology. We believe that this provides our text with important representation across the spectrum of psychological science. Of course, an effective team also needs to share a common set of principles, and in our case it is a commitment to writing a text that is precise and critical and that makes science accessible to a wide range of readers. Our primary goals are to maintain a solid research base and promote critical thinking, all the while offering engaging prose and analysis of contemporary events. This text is des
