Month: April 2014

Editor:  Susan D. Clayton, PhD Publisher: Oxford University Press – 700 pages Book Review by: Sonu Chandiram To many, the term ‘environmental psychology’ is likely very new.  So is probably ‘conservation psychology’ but you will be surprised to learn that the former is a well-established field and the latter already has a history, although much more recent. Environmental psychology studies the ways in which people perceive and respond to the physical environment, whereas conservation psychology is a body of knowledge, derived from psychological research, which focuses on protecting the natural environment.  The two fields are interdependent and related, perhaps...

Editor: Ariane Chebel D’Appollonia Publisher: Cornell University Press – 320 pages Book Review by: Paiso Jamakar This book focuses on the justification of governments in the United States and Europe for barring or excluding members of certain ethnic groups based on evidence that other members of such groups were terrorists. The shaping of immigration policy is influenced by such considerations. Investigative and detective work on some 19 people responsible for the attacks – on New York’s World Trade Center towers on September 11, 2001, and other buildings during which nearly 3,000 people died – revealed that some 19 people...

Author: Gerald M. Easter Publisher: Cornell University Press – 241 pages Book Review by: Paiso Jamakar In August 1998, the author relates to readers, the Russian government announced that it could not pay its debts because it had run out money or other means of repayment. At that time Boris Yeltsin was president, in the eighth year of his nine-year regime (1991-1999). Yeltsin who succeeded Mikhael Gorbachev, had plans to transform Russia’s “socialist command economy” into a “free market economy” through privatization. But due to the methods he used, “much of the national wealth fell into the hands of...

Editor: Todd D. Little, PhD Publisher: Oxford University Press Book Review by: Sonu Chandiram This is a book on methodology and measurement in psychological research. It uses many real-life examples to help you the student or practitioner understand concepts in concrete terms. As Dr. Scott Maxwell, a psychology professor at Notre Dame, puts it: “The frequent use of actual examples from psychological research helps readers understand the relevance of methods and establishes a clear connection between substantive research questions and the role of methods in providing answers to those questions.” 105 specialists in various areas have contributed to the...

Editors: W. Brad Johnson, PhD and Nadine J. Kaslow, PhD Publisher: Oxford University Press – 583 pages Book Review by: Sonu Chandiram This book presents in comprehensive form, the processes and practices on how professional psychologists are educated and trained for their profession in the United States. It provides you a lot of material on many topics relating to career preparation of psychologists, including: The full spectrum of historic developments Salient issues Current standards Emerging trends in psychology education and training It provides analyses of doctoral and postgraduate training programs for psychologists in clinical, counseling, and school psychology specialties....