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Protest and the Politics of Blame: The Russian Response to Unpaid Wages
by Debra JavelineThe wage arrears crisis has been one of the biggest problems facing contemporary Russia. At its peak, it has involved some $10 billion worth of unpaid wages and has affected approximately 70 percent of the workforce. Yet public protest in the country has been rather limited. The relative passivity of most Russians in the face of such desperate circumstances is a puzzle for students of both collective action and Russian politics. In Protest and the Politics of Blame, Debra Javeline shows that to understand the Russian public's reaction to wage delays, one must examine the ease or difficulty of attributing blame for the crisis. Previous studies have tried to explain the Russian response to economic hardship by focusing on the economic, organizational, psychological, cultural, and other obstacles that prevent Russians from acting collectively. Challenging the conventional wisdom by testing these alternative explanations with data from an original nationwide survey, Javeline finds that many of the alternative explanations come up short. Instead, she focuses on the need to specify blame among the dizzying number of culprits and potential problem solvers in the crisis, including Russia's central authorities, local authorities, and enterprise managers. Javeline shows that understanding causal relationships drives human behavior and that specificity in blame attribution for a problem influences whether people address that problem through protest. Debra Javeline is Assistant Professor of Political Science, Rice University.
The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease
by Jonathan MetzlA powerful account of how cultural anxieties about race shaped American notions of mental illness The civil rights era is largely remembered as a time of sit-ins, boycotts, and riots. But a very different civil rights history evolved at the Ionia State Hospital for the Criminally Insane in Ionia, Michigan. In The Protest Psychosis, psychiatrist and cultural critic Jonathan Metzl tells the shocking story of how schizophrenia became the diagnostic term overwhelmingly applied to African American protesters at Ionia--for political reasons as well as clinical ones. Expertly sifting through a vast array of cultural documents, Metzl shows how associations between schizophrenia and blackness emerged during the tumultuous decades of the 1960s and 1970s--and he provides a cautionary tale of how anxieties about race continue to impact doctor-patient interactions in our seemingly postracial America.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Protestant Identity and Peace in Northern Ireland
by Graham SpencerWhat role can and do Protestant churches play in the development of peace and stability in Northern Ireland? Drawing from interviews with a wide range of Protestant clergy, this book examines how identity impacts on the Protestant imagination and relates that identity to the possibility of peace. Using history and theology as a context for understanding the principles and values on which Protestantism is built, clergy talk about how those values and principles shape different Church attitudes towards forgiveness and reconciliation. Placing these comments alongside Catholic interviews, to demonstrate differences in Christian emphasis and conviction, the book moves towards a consideration of how positive relations between opposing communities might take shape and recommends a new outlook based on inclusive rather than exclusive narratives.
The Protestant Temperament: Patterns of Child-Rearing, Religious Experience, and the Self in Early America
by Philip GrevenBringing together an extraordinary richness of evidence—from letters, diaries, and other intimate family records of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries—Philip Greven explores the strikingly distinctive ways in which Protestant children were reared in America. In tracing the hidden continuities of religious experience, of attitudes toward God, children, the self, sexuality, pleasure, virtue, and achievement, Greven identifies three distinct Protestant temperaments prevailing among Americans at the time: the Evangelical, the Moderate, and the General. The Protestant Temperamentis a powerful reassessment of the role of child-rearing and religion in early American life.
Protocol Analysis: Verbal Reports as Data
by K. Anders Ericsson Herbert A. SimonVerbal data has been used increasingly to study cognitive processes in many areas of psychology, and concurrent and retrospective verbal reports are now generally accepted as important sources of data on subjects' cognitive processes in specific tasks.
Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
by Maryanne WolfMany scholars believe that humans are hard-wired for language, but no one, points out Wolf (child development, Tufts U.), believes that about reading and writing. The act of reading is not natural, she argues, either for a child or in the evolution of the brain's capacity to learn. She loves it anyway, and here shares her knowledge and joy at learning to read in both evolutionary and development contexts; she also explores reasons that some people cannot learn to read. By the way, Proust says they were just friends; the squid is not commenting.
A Proverb in Mind: The Cognitive Science of Proverbial Wit and Wisdom
by Richard P. HoneckSEE SHORT BLURB FOR ALTERNATE COPY... A complex, intriguing, and important verbal entity, the proverb has been the subject of a vast number of opinions, studies, and analyses. To accommodate the assorted possible audiences, this volume outlines seven views of the proverb -- personal, formal, religious, literary, practical, cultural, and cognitive. Because the author's goal is to provide a scientific understanding of proverb comprehension and production, he draws largely on scholarship stemming from the formal, cultural, and cognitive views. The only book about proverbs that is written from the standpoint of cognitive science, cognitive psychology, and experimentalism, this text provides a larger, more interdisciplinary perspective on the proverb. It also gives a theoretically more integrated approach to proverb cognition. The conceptual base theory of proverb comprehension is extended via the "cognitive ideals hypothesis" so that the theory now addresses issues regarding the creation, production, and pragmatics of proverbs. This hypothesis also has strong implications for a taxonomy of proverbs, proverb comprehension, universal vs. culture-specific aspects of proverbs, and some structural aspects of proverbs. In general, the book extends the challenge of proverb cognition by using much of what cognitive science has to offer. In so doing, the proverb is compared to other forms of figurative language, which is then discussed within the larger rubric of intelligence and the inclination for using indirect modes of communication. Child developmental and brain substrates are also discussed.
Providing Affirming Care to Transgender and Gender-Diverse Youth (SpringerBriefs in Public Health)
by Adam W. Dell Jessica Robnett Dana N. Johns Emily M. Graham Cori A. Agarwal Lindsey Imber Nicole L. MihalopoulosThis book aids clinicians in supporting and caring for transgender and gender-diverse children and adolescents – youth who are born into an incongruent body. A recent study using data from 19 states reported that 1.8% of American youth identified as transgender. Many people who are transgender will experience gender dysphoria, the intense emotional distress that is caused by a discrepancy between a person's gender identity and their sex assigned at birth. In this compact volume, the authors discuss the variety of domains involved in addressing gender dysmorphia: social, psychological, medical, and legislative/advocacy. They provide clear and concise information on the types and timing of gender-affirming medications and surgical interventions and offer useful suggestions for making interactions in the clinic and the clinical space inclusive for transgender and gender-diverse youth. Among the topics covered include:identity development and gender nonconformity in early childhood and pubertythe importance of access to mental health professionals with expertise in gender nonconformitythe responsible use of developmentally appropriate gender-affirming medications and surgical interventionsrelated clinical issues such as nutrition counselling for youth receiving gender-affirming treatmentscreating a safe and inclusive healthcare environment for transgender and gender-diverse youthadvocating for transgender and gender-diverse patients by working with local and national policy makersProviding Affirming Care to Transgender and Gender-Diverse Youth is essential reading for pediatric healthcare professionals including physicians in pediatrics and family medicine, plastic surgeons, nurses, dietitians, psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and other practitioners. Students in these fields as well as policy makers also would find this a useful resource.
Providing Home Care for Older Adults: A Professional Guide for Mental Health Practitioners
by Danielle L. TerryA practical guide to providing home-based mental health services, Providing Home Care for Older Adults teaches readers how to handle the unique aspects of home-based care and apply and adapt evidence-based assessment and treatment within the home-based setting. Featuring contributions from experienced, board-certified home care psychologists, social workers, and psychiatrists, the book explains the multifaceted role of a home-based provider, offers concrete and practical considerations for working within the home, and highlights adaptations to specific evidence-based methods used in treating homebound older adults. Also covered are special topics related to hoarding, safety, capacity evaluations, caregivers, case management, and use of technology. Each chapter includes engaging case examples with practical tips that illustrate what it is like to work in this new and exciting frontier. Psychologists, counselors, and other mental health practitioners in home settings will be able to use this guide to provide effective home-based care to older adults.
Providing Mental Health Servies to Youth Where They Are: School and Community Based Approaches
by Harinder S. Ghuman Mark D. Weist Richard M. SarlesFirst Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Provision of Mental Health Counseling Services Under Tricare
by Institute of Medicine of the National AcademiesIn this book, the IOM makes recommendations for permitting independent practice for mental health counselors treating patients within TRICARE--the DOD's health care benefits program. This would change current policy, which requires all counselors to practice under a physician's supervision without regard to their education, training, licensure or experience.
Provocadores Del Pensamiento O Malos Sueños: Malos Sueños
by Jonathan FinchEl pensamiento nos lleva a todas partes y a ninguna. El pensamiento es un gran decisivo. Por el momento, el pensamiento es libre. Cuando se encuentre encadenado, también estaremos encadenados. Pero, paradójicamente, el pensamiento está condicionado y crece a partir de condiciones que no son libres. Por lo tanto, se debe argumentar que nuestros pensamientos están condicionados y libres. Todos disfrutan de una taza tranquila de té o café. ¿Por qué queremos ser desafiados desde la comodidad de nuestras tazas? Los provocadores del pensamiento son pequeños irritantes que nos hacen pensar. Si no nos gustan, aún tenemos que pensar en ellos para decidir por qué no nos gustan. Esta colección de ortigas mínimas está aquí para picar. Prepárate para ser picado y mira dónde colocas ese trasero tuyo. Ortigas, ortigas, ortigas, ¡y no se te permitirá que las conviertas en sopa agradable y saludable!
The Provocation of the Senses in Contemporary Theatre (Routledge Advances In Theatre And Performance Studies #13)
by Stephen Di BenedettoDi Benedetto considers theatrical practice through the lens of contemporary neuroscientific discoveries in this provoking study, which lays the foundation for considering the physiological basis of the power of theatre practice to affect human behavior. He presents a basic summary of the ways that the senses function in relation to cognitive science and physiology, offering an overview of dominant trends of discussion on the realm of the senses in performance. Also presented are examples of how those ideas are illustrated in recent theatrical presentations, and how the different senses form the structure of a theatrical event. Di Benedetto concludes by suggesting the possible implications these neuroscientific ideas have upon our understanding of theatrical composition, audience response, and the generation of meaning.
The Provocativo Joan Robinson: The Making of a Cambridge Economist
by Nahid Aslanbeigui Guy OakesOne of the most original and prolific economists of the twentieth century, Joan Robinson (1903-83) is widely regarded as the most important woman in the history of economic thought. Robinson studied economics at Cambridge University, where she made a career that lasted some fifty years. She was an unlikely candidate for success at Cambridge. A young woman in 1930 in a university dominated by men, she succeeded despite not having a remarkable academic record, a college fellowship, significant publications, or a powerful patron. In The Provocative Joan Robinson, Nahid Aslanbeigui and Guy Oakes trace the strategies and tactics Robinson used to create her professional identity as a Cambridge economist in the 1930s, examining how she recruited mentors and advocates, carefully defined her objectives, and deftly pursued and exploited opportunities. Aslanbeigui and Oakes demonstrate that Robinson's professional identity was thoroughly embedded in a local scientific culture in which the Cambridge economists A. C. Pigou, John Maynard Keynes, Dennis Robertson, Piero Sraffa, Richard Kahn (Robinson's closest friend on the Cambridge faculty), and her husband Austin Robinson were important figures. Although the economists Joan Robinson most admired--Pigou, Keynes, and their mentor Alfred Marshall--had discovered ideas of singular greatness, she was convinced that each had failed to grasp the essential theoretical significance of his own work. She made it her mission to recast their work both to illuminate their major contributions and to redefine a Cambridge tradition of economic thought. Based on the extensive correspondence of Robinson and her colleagues, The Provocative Joan Robinson is the story of a remarkable woman, the intellectual and social world of a legendary group of economists, and the interplay between ideas, ambitions, and disciplinary communities.
A Proximate Remove: Queering Intimacy and Loss in The Tale of Genji (New Interventions in Japanese Studies #2)
by Reginald JacksonA free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. How might queer theory transform our interpretations of medieval Japanese literature and how might this literature reorient the assumptions, priorities, and critical practices of queer theory? Through a close reading of The Tale of Genji, an eleventh-century text that depicts the lifestyles of aristocrats during the Heian period, A Proximate Remove explores this question by mapping the destabilizing aesthetic, affective, and phenomenological dimensions of experiencing intimacy and loss. The spatiotemporal fissures Reginald Jackson calls "proximate removes" suspend belief in prevailing structures. Beyond issues of sexuality, Genji queers in its reluctance to romanticize or reproduce a flawed social order. An understanding of this hesitation enhances how we engage with premodern texts and how we question contemporary disciplinary stances.
Prozac: Questions and Answers
by Ronald R. FieveFeatured on the cover of "Newsweek" and "New York Magazine. ". . debated on television and radio, written about in daily newspapers, "Prozac has raised hopes and sparked controversies across the country. But how much do you really know about "Prozac, the alleged "miracle drug" that doctors worldwide have employed to help alleviate crippling clinical depression in their patients?The bestselling author of "Moodswing," Dr. Ronald R. Fieve is one of the nation's foremost experts on "Prozac and its uses. In a clear, concise and easy-to-use format, he provides detailed and authoritative answers to the most commonly asked questions about "Prozac. . . giving essential information to help make "informed" decisions on this complex, often confusing, prescription, and offering interpretation of the effects of "Prozac on personality as well as the dangers of prescribing "Prozac to "misdiagnosed" patients.
Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America
by Elizabeth WurtzelIn Prozac Nation, Wurtzel describes her harrowing battle with clinical depression before she was finally treated with Prozac. In a society plagued by divorce, economic instability, and AIDS, Wurtzel depicts the growing number of depressed and overmedicated people in America.
Prozac on the Couch: Prescribing Gender in the Era of Wonder Drugs
by Jonathan Michel MetzlPills replaced the couch; neuroscience took the place of talk therapy; and as psychoanalysis faded from the scene, so did the castrating mothers and hysteric spinsters of Freudian theory. Or so the story goes. In Prozac on the Couch, psychiatrist Jonathan Michel Metzl boldly challenges recent psychiatric history, showing that there's a lot of Dr. Freud encapsulated in late-twentieth-century psychotropic medications. Providing a cultural history of treatments for depression, anxiety, and other mental illnesses through a look at the professional and popular reception of three "wonder drugs"--Miltown, Valium, and Prozac--Metzl explains the surprising ways Freudian gender categories and popular gender roles have shaped understandings of these drugs. Prozac on the Couch traces the notion of "pills for everyday worries" from the 1950s to the early twenty-first century, through psychiatric and medical journals, popular magazine articles, pharmaceutical advertisements, and popular autobiographical "Prozac narratives. " Metzl shows how clinical and popular talk about these medications often reproduces all the cultural and social baggage associated with psychoanalytic paradigms--whether in a 1956 Cosmopolitan article about research into tranquilizers to "cure" frigid women; a 1970s American Journal of Psychiatry ad introducing Jan, a lesbian who "needs" Valium to find a man; or Peter Kramer's description of how his patient "Mrs. Prozac" meets her husband after beginning treatment. Prozac on the Couch locates the origins of psychiatry's "biological revolution" not in the Valiumania of the 1970s but in American popular culture of the 1950s. It was in the 1950s, Metzl points out, that traditional psychoanalysis had the most sway over the American imagination. As the number of Miltown prescriptions soared (reaching 35 million, or nearly one per second, in 1957), advertisements featuring uncertain brides and unfaithful wives miraculously cured by the "new" psychiatric medicines filled popular magazines. Metzl writes without nostalgia for the bygone days of Freudian psychoanalysis and without contempt for psychotropic drugs, which he himself regularly prescribes to his patients. What he urges is an increased self-awareness within the psychiatric community of the ways that Freudian ideas about gender are entangled in Prozac and each new generation of wonder drugs. He encourages, too, an understanding of how ideas about psychotropic medications have suffused popular culture and profoundly altered the relationship between doctors and patients.
Prozak Diaries: Psychiatry and Generational Memory in Iran
by Orkideh BehrouzanProzak Diaries is an analysis of emerging psychiatric discourses in post-1980s Iran. It examines a cultural shift in how people interpret and express their feeling states, by adopting the language of psychiatry, and shows how experiences that were once articulated in the richly layered poetics of the Persian language became, by the 1990s, part of a clinical discourse on mood and affect. In asking how psychiatric dialect becomes a language of everyday, the book analyzes cultural forms created by this clinical discourse, exploring individual, professional, and generational cultures of medicalization in various sites from clinical encounters and psychiatric training, to intimate interviews, works of art and media, and Persian blogs. Through the lens of psychiatry, the book reveals how historical experiences are negotiated and how generations are formed. Orkideh Behrouzan traces the historical circumstances that prompted the development of psychiatric discourses in Iran and reveals the ways in which they both reflect and actively shape Iranians' cultural sensibilities. A physician and an anthropologist, she combines clinical and anthropological perspectives in order to investigate the gray areas between memory and everyday life, between individual symptoms and generational remembering. Prozak Diaries offers an exploration of language as experience. In interpreting clinical and generational narratives, Behrouzan writes not only a history of psychiatry in contemporary Iran, but a story of how stories are told.
Prüfungsangst und Lampenfieber
by Werner Metzig Martin SchusterWer kennt nicht das Herzklopfen vor einer Prüfung, einem Bewerbungsgespräch, einem Vortrag oder einem Auftritt vor Publikum? Die Autoren zeigen, mit welchen wissenschaftlich begründeten Methoden man sich auf diese Situationen effektiv vorbereiten kann, um Stress, Angst und Lampenfieber zu reduzieren. In der 4. Auflage wurde das Buch auf den aktuellen Stand der Wissenschaft gebracht und um weitere Fallbeispiele sowie eigene Untersuchungen der Autoren ergänzt.
Prüfungstrainer zur Entwicklungspsychologie im Kindes- und Jugendalter: Lernhilfe-Begleitbuch zum Lehrbuch
by Sabina Pauen Margarita StolarovaDieser Prüfungstrainer richtet sich in erster Linie an Studierende, die mit dem Lehrbuch „Entwicklungspsychologie im Kindes- und Jugendalter“ arbeiten.Der Prüfungstrainer bieteteine Auswahl unterschiedlicher Frageformate zu jedem Kapitel des Lehrbuches, die zur Erarbeitung und Wiederholung dieneneine großartige Möglichkeit zur Selbstüberprüfung und zum nachhaltigen Lerneneine hervorragende Ergänzung zum Lehrbuch und weiterführende Hinweise, um wesentliche Inhalte abwechslungsreich und zielgerichtet zu vertiefeneine ideale Vorbereitung auf schriftliche und mündliche PrüfungenFragen per App, um das eigene Wissen direkt zu prüfenDas Werk kann individuell oder in Lerngruppen, zum Eigenstudium und als Strukturierungshilfe zum Einsatz kommen.Auch Dozierende der Entwicklungspsychologie profitieren davon, indem sie den Fragenkatalog begleitend zum Lehrbuch in eigenen Lehrveranstaltungen einsetzen und um eigene Schwerpunkte erweitern. Auch können Auszüge daraus eine wertvolle Diskussionsgrundlage bieten sowie zur Wiederholung und zur Strukturierung dienen.Zu den AutorinnenDr. Margarita Stolarova studierte Psychologie an der Universität Konstanz, der University of Minnesota und der Medizinischen Universität zu Lübeck und promovierte anschließend in Neuropsychologie an der Universität Konstanz. Neben Entwicklungspsychologie unterrichtet sie Neuropsychologie, Pädagogische Psychologie und Informationskompetenz an Universitäten, Hochschulen und in Berufsbildungsgängen. Sie leitet aktuell die Fachgruppe Pädagogische Konzepte für die Kindheit in der Abteilung Kinder und Kinderbetreuung am Deutschen Jugendinstitut in München.Prof. Dr. Sabina Pauen leitet seit 2002 an der Universität Heidelberg die Abteilung Entwicklungspsychologie und Biologische Psychologie. Sie ist Herausgeberin der deutschen Fassung des Lehrbuchs "Entwicklungspsychologie im Kindes- und Jugendalter", auf das sich dieser Prüfungstrainer bezieht. Ihre inhaltlichen Schwerpunkte liegen im Bereich der grundlagen- und anwendungsbezogenen Forschung zur frühen Kindheit sowie im Transfer von Forschungswissen in die Praxis.
Prüfungstrainer zur Entwicklungspsychologie im Kindes- und Jugendalter: Lernhilfe-Begleitbuch
by Margarita Stolarova Sabina PauenDieser Prüfungstrainer richtet sich in erster Linie an Studierende, die mit dem Lehrbuch "Entwicklungspsychologie im Kindes- und Jugendalter" arbeiten und sich eine strukturierte Unterstützung bei der Prüfungsvorbereitung wünschen. Dieses Werk bietet auch Lehrenden der Entwicklungspsychologie hilfreiche Anregungen für die Gestaltung von Lehrveranstaltungen und Prüfungsaufgaben. Der Prüfungstrainer ist eine ideale Ergänzung zur 5. Auflage des Lehrbuchs „Entwicklungspsychologie im Kindes- und Jugendalter“ und dient zur optimalen Vorbereitung auf schriftliche und mündliche Prüfungen durch: unterschiedliche Frageformate zu jedem Kapitel des Lehrbuches, die zur Erarbeitung und Wiederholung der Inhalte dienen; die großartige Möglichkeit zur Selbstüberprüfung und zu strukturiertem, nachhaltigem und verständnisorientiertem Lernen; weiterführende Hinweise und Tipps, die wesentliche Inhalte abwechslungsreich und zielgerichtet vertiefen sowie Fragen per Flashcard-Lern-App, um das eigene Wissen direkt zu überprüfen und zu vertiefen.
Przywództwo z Synercube: Dynamiczna kultura przywództwa w dążeniu do doskonałości
by Anatoly Zankovsky Christiane von der HeidenOpis teorii przywództwa Synercube z praktycznymi przykładami. W książce omówionych zostało 10 stylów przywódczych opartych na trzech wymiarach: ludzie, zadania i wartości. Czytelnik ma okazję poznać różne rodzaje interakcji zachodzących w środowisku organi-zacji oraz dowiedzieć się, jak dzięki sile organizacji i za pomocą dostępnych zasobów uzyskiwać doskonałe wyniki, budując tym samym trwałą kulturę organizacyjną. Teoria Sy-nercube jest przewodnikiem na drodze do zmian. Model Synercube odnosi się do szeregu efektów psychologicznych oraz behawioralnych. Wprowadzanie zmian w oparciu o model Synercube staje się skuteczne, a efekty trwałe. Menadżerowie zarówno małych, jak i dużych organizacji z pewnością skorzystają na lekturze tej książki.
Pseudoscience: The Conspiracy Against Science (The\mit Press Ser.)
by Allison B. Kaufman James C. KaufmanCase studies, personal accounts, and analysis show how to recognize and combat pseudoscience in a post-truth world.In a post-truth, fake news world, we are particularly susceptible to the claims of pseudoscience. When emotions and opinions are more widely disseminated than scientific findings, and self-proclaimed experts get their expertise from Google, how can the average person distinguish real science from fake? This book examines pseudoscience from a variety of perspectives, through case studies, analysis, and personal accounts that show how to recognize pseudoscience, why it is so widely accepted, and how to advocate for real science. Contributors examine the basics of pseudoscience, including issues of cognitive bias; the costs of pseudoscience, with accounts of naturopathy and logical fallacies in the anti-vaccination movement; perceptions of scientific soundness; the mainstream presence of “integrative medicine,” hypnosis, and parapsychology; and the use of case studies and new media in science advocacy.ContributorsDavid Ball, Paul Joseph Barnett, Jeffrey Beall, Mark Benisz, Fernando Blanco, Ron Dumont, Stacy Ellenberg, Kevin M. Folta, Christopher French, Ashwin Gautam, Dennis M. Gorman, David H. Gorski, David K. Hecht, Britt Marie Hermes, Clyde F. Herreid, Jonathan Howard, Seth C. Kalichman, Leif Edward Ottesen Kennair, Arnold Kozak, Scott O. Lilienfeld, Emilio Lobato, Steven Lynn, Adam Marcus, Helena Matute, Ivan Oransky, Chad Orzel, Dorit Reiss, Ellen Beate Hansen Sandseter, Kavin Senapathy, Dean Keith Simonton, Indre Viskontas, John O. Willis, Corrine Zimmerman
Pseudoscience and Extraordinary Claims of the Paranormal: A Critical Thinker's Toolkit (Wiley Desktop Editions Ser.)
by Jonathan C. SmithPseudoscience and Extraordinary Claims of the Paranormal: A Critical Thinker's Toolkit provides readers with a variety of "reality-checking" tools to analyze extraordinary claims and to determine their validity. Integrates simple yet powerful evaluative tools used by both paranormal believers and skeptics alike Introduces innovations such as a continuum for ranking paranormal claims and evaluating their implications Includes an innovative "Critical Thinker’s Toolkit," a systematic approach for performing reality checks on paranormal claims related to astrology, psychics, spiritualism, parapsychology, dream telepathy, mind-over-matter, prayer, life after death, creationism, and more Explores the five alternative hypotheses to consider when confronting a paranormal claim Reality Check boxes, integrated into the text, invite students to engage in further discussion and examination of claims Written in a lively, engaging style for students and general readers alike Ancillaries: Testbank and PowerPoint slides available at www.wiley.com/go/pseudoscience