Psychology

Want to browse our psychology materials but finding the number of psychology books daunting?  Here are links to catalogued materials in smaller subareas of psychology that may interest you:

• Animal Psychology:  Resources about how animals think and behave.
• Applied Psychology:  Materials discussing the application of psychology in various fields (advertising, counseling, etc.).
• Behaviorism:  Works involving the behaviorism school of psychology, which posits that primarily observable phenomena should be studied in psychology.
• Child Psychology:  Materials involving the mental growth and characteristics of children.
• Clinical Psychology:  Works about the use of psychological theories and practices in a clinical context (for instance, as a practitioner).
• Cognitive Psychology:  Resources focusing on the school of psychology that focuses on studying mental activity and inner thought.
• Developmental Psychology:  Works about the ways in which people develop psychologically throughout their lifetimes, from infancy to old age.
• Educational Psychology:  Resources involving how human learning works.
• Evolutionary Psychology:  Materials examining how certain human behaviors and forms of cognition may have evolved over time.
• Feminist Psychology:  Resources about feminist perspectives on and criticisms of certain aspects of psychology.
• Human Behavior:  Works involving observable human actions and reactions.
• Logic:  Materials about all forms of logic, including general, deductive, and the combination of inductive and deductive.  (You can find materials involving only inductive logic here.)
• Memory:  Materials involving human memory and how memory works.
• Mental Health:  Works involving various aspects of mental well-being.
• Political Psychology:  Resources about the relationship between political thought and action and human psychology.
• Social Psychology:  Works involving the relationship between the way people think, feel, or behave and the society around them.