Further reading, resources and key references
Further reading and resources
The latest editions of works are cited where possible.
Chapter 1
Goleman, D. (2007) Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships. Arrow.
Kahneman, D. (2011) Thinking, Fast and Slow. Penguin.
Pinker, S. (1995) The Language Instinct. Penguin.
Pinker, S. (1999) How the Mind Works. Penguin.
Chapter 2
Damasio, A. (2000) The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness. Vintage.
Ekman, P. (2004) Emotions Revealed. Phoenix.
Goleman, D. (2009) Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More than IQ. Bloomsbury.
Chapter 3
Cohen, D. (2012) How the Child’s Mind Develops. Routledge.
Gerhardt, S. (2004) Why Love Matters: How Affection Shapes a Baby’s Brain. Routledge.
Chapter 4
Nettle, D. (2009) Personality: What Makes You the Way You Are. Oxford University Press.
Reiss, S. (2002) Who Am I? The 16 Basic Desires that Motivate Our Actions and Define Our Personality. Jeremy P. Tarcher.
Chapter 5
Dunbar, R. (2010) How Many Friends Does One Person Need? Dunbar’s Number and Other Evolutionary Quirks. Faber and Faber.
Haidt, J. (2012)The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion. Pantheon.
Yeung, R. (2011) I is for Influence, the New Science of Persuasion. MacMillan.
Chapter 6
Ekman, P. (2009) Telling Lies: Clues to Deceit in the Marketplace, Politics and Marriage. W.W. Norton and Co.
Pinker, S. (2012) The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence has Declined. Penguin.
Zimbardo, P. (2008) The Lucifer Effect: How Good People Turn Evil. Rider.
Chapter 7
Baron-Cohen, S. (2012)The Essential Difference: Men, Women and the Extreme Male Brain. Penguin.
Fine, C. (2011) Delusions of Gender: The Real Science Behind the Sex Differences. Icon Books Ltd.
Gottman, J. (2007) The Seven Principles For Making Marriage Work. Orion.
Chapter 8
Ariely, D. (2009) Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions. HarperCollins.
Fine, C. (2007) A Mind of its Own: How your Brain Distorts and Deceives. Icon Books Ltd.
Gilbert, D. (2007) Stumbling on Happiness. Harper Perennial.
Thaler, R. H. and Sunstein, C. R. (2009) Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth and Happiness. Penguin.
Chapter 9
Increasing Access to Psychological Therapies
A government initiative to provide psychological therapy on the NHS for people in England with a range of common mental health difficulties.
interpersonalpsychotherapy.org
International Society for Interpersonal Psychotherapy
Information about IPT and links to British organisations.
MIND
Charitable organisation offering information and support on mental health issues.
MoodGYM
Interactive website using cognitive-behavioural techniques for people with depression and anxiety problems.
The ‘Overcoming’ series
A comprehensive array of books and self-help resources using cognitive-behavioural techniques to address a range of psychological difficulties, from alcoholism to weight problems.
Rethink
A national charity for everyone affected by mental illness.
Chapter 10
Lyubomirsky, S. (2010) The How of Happiness: A Practical Guide to Getting the Life You Want. Piatkus.
Nettle, D. (2006) Happiness: The Science Behind Your Smile. Oxford University Press.
Seligman, M. (2003) Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realise Your Potential for Lasting Fulfilment. Nicholas Brealey Publishing.
General
Brooks, D. (2012) The Social Animal: The Story of How Success Happens. Short Books.
The British Psychological Society
The website of the professional body that represents psychologists, which includes information on psychology as a career.
bps-research-digest.blogspot.co.uk
The British Psychological Society Research Digest
Up-to-date, easy-to-understand reports on the latest psychology findings, by Christian Jarrett.
Psyblog
Excellent, lively, easy-to-understand blog written by Jeremy Dean.
Key references
The latest editions of works are cited where possible.
Ainsworth, M. D. S., Blehar, M. C., Walters, E. and Wall, S. (1978) Patterns of Attachment: A Psychological Study of the Strange Situation. Erlbaum.
Allport, G. W. (1961) Pattern and Growth in Personality. Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
Asch, S. (1955) ‘Opinion and social pressure’, Scientific American, 193(5): 31–35.
Babiak, P. and Hare, R. D. (2007) Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work. Harper Collins.
Bandura, A., Ross, D and Ross, S. A (1961) ‘Transmission of aggression through imitation of aggressive models’, Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 63(3): 575–82.
Baron-Cohen, S. (2012) The Essential Difference: Men, Women and the Extreme Male Brain. Penguin.
Baron-Cohen, S. (2012) Zero Degrees of Empathy: A New Understanding of Human Cruelty and Kindness. Penguin.
Bartholomew, K. and Horowitz, L. M. (1991) ‘Attachment styles among young adults: a test of the four-category model’, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 61(2): 226–44.
Bartlett, F. C. (1932) Remembering: A Study in Experimental and Social Psychology. Cambridge University Press.
Baumeister, R. F. (1997) Evil: Inside Human Violence and Cruelty. Holt.
Baumrind, D. (1978) ‘Parental disciplinary patterns and social competence in children’, Youth and Society, 9, 239–76.
Beck, A. T. (1991) Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders. Penguin.
Bowlby, J. (1951) Maternal Care and Mental Health. World Health Organization.
Christakis, N. A. and Fowler, J. H. (2009) Connected: The Surprising Power of our Social Networks and How they Shape Our Lives. Little, Brown and Co.
Clark, D. A. and Beck, A. T. (2011) Cognitive Therapy of Anxiety Disorders: Science and Practice. Guilford Press.
Cosmides, L. and Tooby, J. (1996) ‘Cognitive adaptations for social exchange’. In The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture. Oxford University Press.
Cosmides, L. and Tooby, J. (1997) Evolutionary Psychology: A Primer. Center for Evolutionary Psychology.
Damasio, A. (2006) Descartes’ Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain. Vintage.
Dunbar, R. (2011) How Many Friends Does One Person Need? Dunbar’s Number and Other Evolutionary Quirks. Faber and Faber.
Ehrenreich, B. (2010) Smile or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the World. Granta Books.
Ekman, P. (2004) Emotions Revealed. Phoenix.
Ekman, P. (2009) Telling Lies: Clues to Deceit in the Marketplace, Politics and Marriage. W.W. Norton and Co.
Etcoff, N. (2000) Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty. Anchor Books.
Fine, C. (2011) Delusions of Gender: The Real Science Behind the Sex Difference. Icon Books Ltd.
Fisher, H. (2005) Why We Love: The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love. Holt McDougal.
Frankl, V. E. (2006) Man’s Search for Meaning. Beacon Press.
Fredrickson, B. (2011) Positivity: Groundbreaking Research to Release Your Inner Optimist and Thrive. One World Publications.
Gerhardt, S. (2004) Why Love Matters: How Affection Shapes a Baby’s Brain. Routledge.
Gilbert, D. (2007) Stumbling on Happiness. Harper Perennial.
Gilbert, P. (2010) The Compassionate Mind. Constable.
Goleman, D. (2007) Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships. Arrow.
Goleman, D. (2009) Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More than IQ. Bloomsbury.
The Gottman Relationship Institute (2012) www.gottman.com/49853/Research-FAQs.html (retrieved November 2012)
Haidt, J. (2012) The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion. Pantheon.
Harlow, H.F. and Harlow, M. K. (1969) ‘Effects of various mother-infant relationships on rhesus monkey behaviour’. In B. M. Foss (ed.) Determinants of Infant Behaviour. Methuen.
Hare, R. D. (1999) Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us. Guilford Press.
Harris, J. R. (1999) The Nurture Assumption. Bloomsbury.
James, W. (1957) The Principles of Psychology. Dover Publications.
Jamison, K. R. (1996) Touched with Fire: Manic-depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament. Simon and Schuster.
Kabat-Zinn, J. (2006) ‘Mindfulness for Beginners’ . Sounds True Inc.
Kahneman, D. (2011) Thinking, Fast and Slow. Penguin.
Loftus, E. F. and Palmer, J. C. (1974) ‘Reconstruction of automobile destruction: An example of the interaction between language and memory’, Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behaviour, 13: 585–89.
Loftus, E. F. and Pickrell, J. E. (1995) ‘The formation of false memories’, Psychiatric Annals, 25: 720–25.
Lyubomirsky, S. (2010) The How of Happiness: A Practical Guide to Getting the Life You Want. Piatkus.
Maslow, A. (2011) Toward a Psychology of Being. Wilder Publications Ltd.
Milgram, S. (1974) Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View. Harper and Row.
Miller, G. (1956) ‘The magical number seven plus or minus two: some limits on our capacity for processing information’, Psychological Review, 63: 81–97.
Miller, G. (2001) The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature. Vintage.
Mischel, W., Ebbesen, E., Zeiss, A. (1972) ‘Cognitive and attentional mechanisms in delay of gratification’, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 21(2): 204–18.
Neisser, U. (1967) Cognitive Psychology. Prentice Hall.
Nettle, D. (2009) Personality: What Makes You the Way You Are. Oxford University Press.
Ofman, Daniel (2002) Core Qualities: A Gateway to Human Resources. Scriptum Publishers.
Pennebaker, J. W. (1997) ‘Writing about emotional experiences as a therapeutic process’, Psychological Science, 8(3): 162–66.
Piaget, J. and Inhelder, B. (1972) The Psychology of the Child. Basic Books.
Pinker, S. (1995) The Language Instinct. Penguin.
Pinker, S. (1999) How the Mind Works. Penguin.
Reiss, S. (2002) Who Am I? The 16 Basic Desires that Motivate Our Actions and Define Our Personality. Jeremy P Tarcher.
Salovey, P. and Mayer, J. D. (1990) ‘Emotional Intelligence’, Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 9: 185–211.
Seligman, M. (2012) Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-being. Free Press.
Sherif, M., Harvey, O., White, B. J., Hood, W. and Sherif, C. (1961) ‘Intergroup Conflict and Cooperation: The Robbers Cave Experiment’. Norman: University of Oklahoma, Insitute of Group Behaviour.
Skinner, B. F. (2002) Beyond Freedom and Dignity. Hackett Publishing Co.
Sternberg, R. and Sternberg, K. (2008) The Nature of Hate. Cambridge University Press.
Thaler, R. H. and Sunstein, C. R. (2009) Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth and Happiness. Penguin.
Thompson-Cannino, C. J., Cotton, R. and Torneo, E. (2010) Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption. St Martin’s Griffin.
Thorndike, E. (1920) ‘Intelligence and its uses’, Harper’s Magazine, 140, 227–35.
Tiedens, L. Z. (2001). ‘Anger and advancement versus sadness and subjugation: The effects of negative emotion expressions on social status conferral’, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 80, 86–94.
Watson, J. B., and Rayner, R. (1920) ‘Conditioned emotional reactions’, Journal of Experimental Psychology, 3, 1–14.
Zimbardo, P. (2008) The Lucifer Effect: How Good People Turn Evil. Rider.