Library News for Psychology

I <3 the LibX Toolbar

The LibX Library Toolbar gives you quick access to Washington University Libraries' online resources from your web browser. With LibX installed, you can search the Washington University Libraries' catalogs (both Classic and Discovery), WorldCat.org, Full-text e-Journals, and Google Scholar. If you reguarly use Firefox or Google Chrome, I highly recomment you check it out.  Find out more @ library.wustl.edu/research/toolbar

Of note: Once you've installed LibX click on the red WU logo on the top right of your browser's toolbar in order to search the catalogs. You can also change the catalog you're searching by clicking on the name of the resource and using the drop-down menu to choose a different resource.

New MOBIUS limits

MOBIUS limits for faculty and graduate students have been raised to 30 books out at one time.  Good news, indeed!

New and Online! Encyclopedia of Social Psychology

The Libraries just secured online access to the Encyclopedia of Social Psychology.

From the introduction, "Social psychology is the study of how normal people think, feel, and act. In that sense, social psychology is at the core of all the fields that study the human experience. As one colleague (not a social psychologist) remarked to us once, social psychology is one, and perhaps the only, field that can communicate with every other department in the university."

Notable contributors include two Washington University professors - Dr. Larsen and Dr. Strube and their entries on the Independence of Positive & Negative Affect and Personalities & Behavior Patterns, Type A and Type B.

You can also find this resource listed on the Psychology Research Guide, along with many other online reference works.

Two New Ebooks Added to Collection

The Libraries continue to purchase Reference books in online format rather than print.  Here are two recent additions:

Encyclopedia of Survey Research Methods: Provides 'detailed (although not exhaustive) information about each of the many methods that survey methodologists and survey statisticians deploy in order to conduct reliable and valid surveys.' (from Introduction to ebook on the site)

Sage Encyclopedia of Qualitative Research Methods: 'Researchers and practitioners at all levels, and across disciplines, will benefit from this encyclopedia, as it defines and explains core concepts, describes the techniques involved in the implementation of qualitative methods, and presents an overview of qualitative approaches to research.' (from Introduction to ebook on the site)

You can find other electronic reference sources on my Research Guide, too!

A sampling of newly purchased titles

Note: To request an In Process item please use this form: http://library.wustl.edu/forms/inprocess.html

Drawing and the non-verbal mind:a life-span perspective / [edited by] Chris Lange-Küttner, Annie Vinter. 
Embodied communication in humans and machines / edited by Ipke Wachsmuth, Manuela Lenzen, Günther Knoblich.
Human learning: biology, brain, and neuroscience / edited by Aaron S. Benjamin ... [et al.]. 
Perspectives on cognitive analysis: historical origins and modern communities of practice / edited by Robert R. Hoffman, Laura G. Militello.
The handbook of health behavior change / Sally A. Shumaker, Judith K. Ockene, Kristin A. Riekert, editors.
Principles of visual attention: linking mind and brain / Claus Bundesen and Thomas Habekost.
The watercooler effect: a psychologist explores the extraordinary power of rumors / Nicholas DiFonzo.
Researching intimacy in families / Jacqui Gabb.
Understanding addiction as self medication: finding hope behind the pain / Edward J. Khantzian and Mark J. Albanese.
The overflowing brain: information overload and the limits of working memory / Torkel Klingberg ; translated by Neil Betteridge.
Lives across time/growing up: paths to emotional health and emotional illness from birth to 30 in 76 people / Henry Massie and Nathan Szajnberg. 
Evolving Lacanian perspectives for clinical psychoanalysis:on narcissism, sexuation, and the phases of analysis in contemporary culture / Raul Moncayo.
Creating scientific concepts / Nancy Nersessian.
Cognitive adaptation: a pragmatist perspective / Jay Schulkin.
Nature's choice: what science reveals about the biological origins of sexual orientation / Cheryl L. Weill.

The Senses: A Comprehensive Reference

The Libraries now have electronic access to The Senses: A Comprehensive Reference.  The editors of the resource boast that it covers "most of the major topics in visual neuroscience, starting from molecular fundamentals and progressing to perception and cognition."

A Sampling of New Titles in Olin

Bradberry, Travis. The personality code: unlock the secret to understanding your boss, your colleagues, your friends-- and yourself. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2007.

Clippinger, John Henry. A crowd of one: the future of individual identity. New York: PublicAffairs, 2007.

Consciousness and cognition : fragments of mind and brain / edited by Henri Cohen and Brigitte Stemmer. London ; Burlington, MA : Academic Press, 2007.

Developmental science and psychoanalysis : integration and innovation / edited by Linda Mayes, Peter Fonagy, & Mary Target. London : Karnac, 2007.

Harman, Gilbert. Reliable reasoning : induction and statistical learning theory. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2007.

Hecht Jennifer Michael. The happiness myth: Why What we think is right is wrong. HarperSanFrancisco, April, 2007.

Human behavior, learning, and the developing brain : atypical development / edited by Donna Coch, Geraldine Dawson, Kurt W. Fischer. New York : Guilford Press, 2007.

Iacocca, Lee A. Where have all the leaders gone? New York: Scribner, 2007.

Keller, Richard C. (Richard Charles). Colonial madness: psychiatry in French North Africa. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007.

Martin, Courtney E. Perfect girls, starving daughters: the frightening new normalcy of hating your body. New York: Free Press, 2007.

Rowe, Dorothy. My dearest enemy, my dangerous friend: making and breaking sibling bonds. Routledge/Taylor & Francis Inc, 2007.

Savarese, Ralph James. Reasonable people : a memoir of autism & adoption : on the meaning of family and the politics of neurological difference. New York : Other Press, 2007.

Science of memory : concepts / edited by Henry L. Roediger III, Yadin Dudai, and Susan M. Fitzpatrick. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Scott, Susie. Shyness and society : the illusion of competence. Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

New Books Ordered - Oct. 3-30, 2006

• How to think like a behavior analyst : understanding the science that can change your life / by Jon S. Bailey and Mary R. Burch. 
• Like wind, like wave : fables from the land of the repressed / Stefano Bolognini.
•  Second nature : brain science and human knowledge / Gerald M. Edelman.
• Understanding violence/ Elizabeth Kandel Englander.
• Journalists under fire: the psychological hazards of covering war / Anthony Feinstein.
• Cultures of fetishism/ Louise J. Kaplan.
• The herald dream : an approach to the initial dream in psychotherapy / Richard Kradin. 
• Anomia : theoretical and clinical aspects / Matti Laine and Nadine Martin.
• Laws of seeing / Wolfgang Metzger.
• The making of modern social psychology : the hidden story of how an international social science was created.
• Jewish philosophy and psychoanalysis: narrating the interhuman / Michael Oppenheim.
• The self-sabotage cycle: why we repeat behaviors that create hardships and ruin relationships / Stanley Rosner, Patricia Hermes. 
• Globalization challenged : conviction, conflict, community / George Rupp.
• Sigmund Freud and the history of Anna O: reopening a closed case.
• The culture of our discontent: beyond the medical model of mental illness / Meredith F. Small.
• True to our feelings : what our emotions are really telling us / Robert C. Solomon.
• Shunned : discrimination against people with mental illness.
• Dialogues on difference: studies of diversity in the therapeutic relationship / edited by J. Christopher Muran.
• Longing : psychoanalytic musings on desire / edited by Jean Petrucelli. 
• Psychiatry and sexual health : an integrative approach / edited by Juan E. Mezzich and Ruben Hernandez-Serrano. 
• Psychology and the Internet : intrapersonal, interpersonal, and transpersonal implications / edited by Jayne Gackenbach. 
• Sleep disorders and sleep deprivation : an unmet public health problem.

New Online Books - October, 2006

The Libraries have subscribed to the online content of books available from SpringerLink.  Where print and online options are available, the Libraries will only carry the online version.  Here's a link to the books that came out in October in the Behavioral Science subject.  From the list, click on the title of a book and you'll be able to view a listing of chapter titles.  Then you can link to the .pdf version of the particular chapters.

New Books Ordered - Aug. 8-Sept. 4, 2006

• Models and cognition : prediction and explanation in everyday life and in science.
• The child as musician : a handbook of musical development / Jonathan A. Waskan 
• Handbook on animal-assisted therapy : theoretical foundations and guidelines for practice / edited by Aubrey H. Fine. 
• The new psychology of love / edited by Robert J. Sternberg and Karin Weis. 
• Perversion : psychoanalytic perspectives/perspectives on pyschoanalysis / edited by Dany Nobus and Lisa Downing. 
• A brief history of modern psychology / Ludy T. Benjamin, Jr. 
• Assessing and managing violence risk in juveniles / Randy Borum, David Verhaagen.
• Targeting autism : what we know, don't know, and can do to help young children with autism spectrum disorders / Shirley Cohen. 
• The intelligibility of nature : how science makes sense of the world / Peter Dear. 
• Understanding anger disorders / Raymond DiGiuseppe and Raymond Chip Tafrate.
• Stress and coping in autism / edited by M. Graace Baron.
• Self-disclosure in psychotherapy / Barry A. Farber. 
• Changing minds : the art and science of changing our own and other people's minds / Howard Gardner. 
• American vulgar : the politics of manipulation versus the culture of awareness / Robert Grudin. 
• The practice of family therapy : key elements across models / Suzanne Midori Hanna. 
• Broken glass : a family's journey through mental illness / Robert V. Hine.
• Getting your way : strategic dilemmas in the real world / James M. Jasper. 
• Remembering Judith / by Ruth Joseph. 
• The psychopathy of everyday life : how antisocial personality disorder affects all of us / Martin Kantor. 
• Dyadic data analysis / David A. Kenny.
• A leader's legacy / James M. Kouzes.
• The prenatal theme in psychotherapy / Philippe Ploye ; foreword by Alessandra Pointelli. 
• Freud and tragedy / Heinz Politzer ; edited and with an introductory essay by Wilhelm W. Hemecker ; translated by Michael Mitchell. 
• Putnam camp : Sigmund Freud, James Jackson Putnam and the purpose of American psychology / George Prochnik. 
• Inside the minds of serial killers : why they kill / Katherine Ramsland.
• Community media : a global introduction / Ellie Rennie. 
• Therapy's best : practical advice and gems of wisdom from twenty accomplished counselors and therapists / Howard Rosenthal. 
• Dialogical meetings in social networks / Jaakko Seikkula & Tom Erik Arnkil ; foreword by Lynn Hoffman. 
• Fear in contemporary society : its negative and positive effects / Vladimir Shlapentokh. 
• Leading with character : stories of valor and virtue and the principles they teach / John J. Sosik.
• Vigilant memory : Emmanuel Levinas, the Holocaust, and the unjust death / R. Clifton Spargo