psychological aspects

Psychology of technology expert Dr. Larry Rosen explains Internet addiction and the compulsive need to check in with technology and offers strategies to help overcome the obsession while still making use of technology.

Investigates where prejudices originate, and attempts to answer why and how brains form prejudices, how they can hurt an individual's health, how to diminish them, and what a world without prejudice might look like.

From sprained ankles and broken arms to life-altering brain damage from concussions, sports injuries affect millions of athletes every year. This title examines sports injuries through objective overviews, primary sources, and full-color illustrations.

Explains contemporary sport psychology.

Advice from over one hundred teens and experts on how to deal with a parent having cancer.

Contains interviews with 28 French men and women who lost one or both parents in the Holocaust.

Studying competitive arenas from the workplace, the stock market, sport, politics, the military, and schools and using the latest findings in genetics, neuroscience and behavioral psychology, Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman describe how we compete and the ingredients that sometimes stand between winning and losing.

Discusses how mixed messages about making mistakes teach people as adults to try to avoid or cover up their errors, and argues that those avoidance behaviors lead to an unwillingness to take risks or accept challenges.

Psychologist Sam Gosling reveals what people can learn about others by studying their possessions, explaining how people project and protect their true inner selves through the things they collect and do and the places they inhabit.

Examines the seven deadly sins from a psychological perspective.