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This book helps you experience the excitement of this fascinating field, while helping you study and retain what you learn Filled with practical ways that you can apply psychology to your everyday life, this best-selling psychology textbook is an experience in learning that you'll remember long after you complete your introductory psychology course. "Critical Thinking Applications" in every chapter give you specific critical thinking strategies you can apply to what you read.

This text is designed for the Critical Thinking and Logic courses found in philosophy and general education departments at both universities and colleges.

The most unique feature of the text is its solid foundation in logic. The discussion of fallacies is integrated with logic in a way not seen in other texts. This treatment provides students with tools to evaluate their own and other peoples thinking logically as well as analyze and assess an argument.

Viktor Frankl offers a more straightforward alternative to traditional Freudian psychoanalysis: one's problems may be rooted in a failure to find a meaning in life beyond one's interior world. The basis for his interpretation, however, is not so straightforward. It lies in Frankl's existential analysis, plumbing for the reasons that people have repressed their consciences, their love, their creativity. By legitimizing a spiritual aspect of the human mind, Frankl has separated us definitively from the animal kingdom, but it is still up to each of us to rise to our human potential.

Eisenberg investigates the forces that compel Americans to shop till they drop, taking a critical look at an often downplayed aspect of American economic prosperity.

Dr. Christopher Evans, a psychologist and computer scientist, has developed a theory of dreaming which is based upon recent studies of computers.

Probing the mystery of Africa’s loyalty to one of its worst dictators, Holland explores the contraditctions that cloud the life of the man who had embodied a continent’s promise.