PHILIP G. ZIMBARDO

Las características de esta obra respaldan un tema central: la psicología como ciencia aplicada a la vida. La finalidad de los autores ha sido desarrollar un texto que enseñe las bases científicas del razonamiento psicologico, en el que los estudiantes disfruten mientras aprenden todo lo interesante y estimulante que hay en los multiples campos de la psicologia. En el texto se da el tratamiento mas moderno, preciso y accesible de la psicologia que, sin duda, tendra una influencia significativa para todos los interesados en el conocimiento de la disciplina.

This classic text emphasizes the science of psychology, with a special focus on applying that science to students' daily lives. Psychology and Life continues to provide a rigorous, research-centered survey of the discipline while offering students special features and learning aids that will spark their interest and excite their imaginations. The seventeenth edition, which has been thoroughly updated to reflect the latest cutting-edge research, features a beautiful new design and an updated art program.Psychology and Life is now the sole, premiere text accompanying the Discovering Psychology Telecourse Series. A telecourse faculty guide and student guide to accompany the text are available through Allyn & Bacon

In The Lucifer Effect, the award-winning and internationally respected psychologist, Philip Zimbardo, examines how the human mind has the capacity to be infinitely caring or selfish, kind or cruel, creative or destructive. He challenges our conceptions of who we think we are, what we believe we will never do - and how and why almost any of us could be initiated into the ranks of evil doers.At the same time he describes the safeguards we can put in place to prevent ourselves from corrupting - or being corrupted by - others, and what sets some people apart as heroes and heroines, able to resist powerful pressures to go along with the group, and to refuse to be team players when personal integrity is at stake.Using the first in-depth analysis of his classic Stanford Prison Experiment, and his personal experiences as an expert witness for one of the Abu Ghraib prison guards, Zimbardos stimulating and provocative book raises fundamental questions about the nature of good and evil, and how each one of us needs to be vigilant to prevent becoming trapped in the Lucifer Effect, no matter what kind of character or morality we believe ourselves to have.The Lucifer Effect won the William James Book Award in 2008.

Zimbardo has put his finger on a great challenge of the modern era - The Sunday TimesMasculinity is in meltdown. Young men are failing as never before academically, socially and sexually. But why? And what needs to be done?Internationally-acclaimed psychologist Philip Zimbardo, and research partner Nikita Coulombe, show how symptoms include excessive gaming and porn use, apathy and drug abuse. They argue that digital technologies create alternative worlds that many boys find less demanding and more rewarding than real life, yet which are ultimately harmful.There is hope. Man Disconnected reveals where the solutions are to be found, and what action we can take. Controversial, provocative and insightful, this book is an alarm call ignored at our peril.

Every significant choice, every important decision we make, is determined by our perception of time. This is the most influential force in our lives, yet we are virtually unaware of it. In this fascinating book, the award-winning past president of the American Psychological Association, Philip Zimbardo, and his co-author, John Boyd, show how:- the way you perceive time is as unique as your fingerprints- these individual time perspectives shape your life, and the world around you- you can change the way you perceive time, so you get the most out of every minute- if you dont, the power of time in the modern world is so immense that it will take its toll on youThe Time Paradox is a highly readable, stimulating look at a subject that absorbs us all.

Traces the growth of the book s narrator Philip Pirrip Pip from a boy of shallow dreams to a man with depth of character As Pip unravels truth behind his own expectations in his quest to become a gentleman the mysteries of past and the fate through a series of adventures steers him towards maturity and an important discovery