对统计学的学习来说，最主要的是掌握统计思想，理解相关的统计原理，能够根据实际情境提出解决问题的一个或几个合适方案，并懂得选择其中的最优。因此适合非统计专业学生的统计学理想教材，应该是能兼顾专业特点、深入浅出阐述统计学基本原理和方法，同时在轻快风趣的讲述中激发读者的学习兴趣，培养统计思维，并辅之例题分析，对使用中容易发生的错误加以提醒，切实提高学生应用统计方法分析解决实际问题的能力。《行为统计学基础》（第9版）正是这样一本非常出色的教材。本书写作风格轻松活泼，语言流畅易懂，数学深入浅出，读者在学习和阅读时不会感到枯燥乏味。
本书是心理和教育统计学方面的一本优秀的基础教材，对于在社会科学领域中的广大研究人员来说，也是一本不可多得的重要参考书

对于大多数心理学专业的学生而言，行为科学研究也许就意味着枯燥无味的数据收集、样本测量、资料的统计分析和纷繁实验方法的罗列体。然而事实真的是这样的吗？由美国最著名的统计学家弗雷德?格拉维特博士及其合作者罗妮安?佛泽诺博士根据多年教学经验共同编写的这本《行为科学研究方法》会向人们展示实验研究和非实验研究的迷人和魅力。通读全书，读者可以感受到作者不仅对行为科学研究过程非常熟练，而且他们谙熟教法，富于热情又细微周到，娓娓道来，宛如进行一次惬意的旅行，从研究的起点到论文的发表，中途偶有小憩，却是一气呵成！全书内容按照行为科学研究的实际过程来组织，将研究历程划分为九步，并对研究中的伦理学问题和资料分析进行了概括性地讨论。在这种充满盛情邀请和对话的氛围中，又提供了许多学习的辅助手段，使读者无法拒绝作者的热情，便随同他们一起去探索研究的历程-从起点一直到成果的发表，步骤分明而又环环相扣，作者强调了研究者在研究工作的每一步必须作出的决定，同时把研究方法和应用有机结合，不知不觉中把读者带入研究过程。全书根据研究的进程分为十五章。第一章、绪论：调研与科学方法；第二章、研究设想；第三章、研究中的伦理学；第四章、变量的界定与测量；第五章、研究被试的选择；第六章、研究方法和效度；第七章、描述法和相关法；第八章、实验研究方法；第九章、准实验研究方法；第十章、被试间实验设计；第十一章、被试内实验设计；第十二章、析因设计；第十三章、单被试研究设计；第十四章、数据的统计分析；第十五章、研究报告的撰写。
目录
“译丛”总序
译者序
前言
第一章引论：调研与科学方法
第一节研究方法学引论
第二节研究方法
第三节科学方法
第四节研究过程
本章小结
关键词
练习题
第二章研究设想
第一节研究的起步
第二节研究设想的来源
第三节搜索和利用背景文献
第四节进行文献检索
第五节寻找新的研究设想
第三章研究中的伦理学
第一节引论
第二节研究中的伦理问题和人类被试
第三节研究中的伦理问题和非人类被试
第四节科学研究的诚实和伦理问题
本章小结
关键词
练习题
第四章变量的界定与测量
第一节测量引论
第二节构念和操作定义
第三节测量的和信度
第四节测量量表
第五节测量的形式
第六节关于测量的其它问题
本章小结
关键词
练习题
第五章研究被试的选择
第六章研究方法和效度
第七章描述法和相关法
第八章实验研究方法
第九章准实验研究方法
第十章被试间实验设计
第十一章被试内实验设计
第十二章析因设计
第十三章单被试研究设计
第十四章数据的统计分析
第十五章研究报告的撰写
附录

Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) is now a standard tool for mapping activation patterns in the human brain. This highly interdisciplinary field involves neuroscientists and physicists as well as clinicians, and the range, flexibility and sophistication of the techniques being used are increasing rapidly. In this book, Richard Buxton, a leading authority on fMRI, provides an invaluable introduction to how fMRI works, from basic principles and the underlying physics and physiology, to newer techniques such as arterial spin labeling and diffusion tensor imaging. The book also includes discussion of how fMRI relates to other imaging techniques (such as Positron Emission Tomography, or PET) and a guide to the statistical analysis of fMRI data. This book will be useful both to the experienced researcher using fMRI, and the clinician or researcher with no previous knowledge of the technology.

游戏与网络成瘾已经成为令人担忧的社会问题。《青少年电子游戏与网络成瘾》介绍了电子游戏与网络本身的特点，并从精神病学角度揭示网络成瘾的原因，详细介绍各类人群网络成瘾界定的评估方法和治疗方案，并附成瘾调查问卷

赫胥黎把人類精神成長的基本趨勢稱為「永恆哲學」，奧斯汀認為這種趨勢表示一種動態的、直接的「永恆心理生理學」，因為覺醒或開悟發生在人類的腦經歷重大改變的時刻。開悟的顛峰經驗是什麼？這些狀態如何能深入強化，卻又能簡化腦的運作？
在這本書裡，禪學變成廣泛探索意識的楔子。為了要釐清哪些腦機制產生禪的狀態，我們必須對腦的解剖、生理和生化有某種程度的瞭解。奧斯汀是腦神經科學家，同時也是禪修行者，他把腦研究與他的禪經驗交織在一起：科學的部分廣泛而嚴謹，禪的部分清晰又吸引人。
第一部分談到禪是什麼，不是什麼；第二部分檢視禪的基本生理機制，不是它的偶發現象；第三部分整理腦研究的新近相關發展；第四部分定義意識的通常狀態和不同狀態。這項基礎工作，也作為第五到第七部分的序曲：首先提供幾種不同意識狀態的特殊實例，接著討論意識如何、何處與何時在人類腦的深處浮現。最後，第八部分是超越短暫經驗的澄清持續開悟階段，和它對社會的影響。
《禪與腦》總結呈現最新的證據，這本書同時也是一位神經科醫師個人的探索，以及專業研究的故事。

本书是一部杰作。作者充满感情和同理心的深入视角，令人深信今后对心理创伤幸存者的治疗会日益人性化，极大地拓展了自我调控和疗愈的方式，同时也激发了更多关于创伤及其有效治疗方式的研究创新。作者范德考克通过充分呈现他人工作中令人信服的证据，连同他自己的开拓性探索以及在此过程中获取的经验，证实了身体会记录创伤的经历。除此之外，他开发了一套借助瑜伽、运动和戏剧表演的方法，巧妙地将人们的身体和心灵（以及他们的思想和情感）联系起来。这个新鲜观点是美好和令人欢迎的，并为心理治疗界带来了新的可能性。

This lovely book uses metaphors to convey the extraordinary complexity of what happens when we read—and to describe how important it is to pause and read deeply. As Wolf notes: “whenever we name even a single letter, we are activating entire networks of specific neuronal groups in the visual cortex, which correspond to entire networks of equally specific language-based cell groups, which correspond to networks of specific articulatory-motor cell groups—all with millisecond precision.
“It takes years for deep-reading processes to be formed, and as a society we need to be sure that we are vigilant about their development in our young from a very early age. It takes daily vigilance by us, the expert readers of our society, to choose to expend the extra milliseconds needed to maintain deep reading over time.”
This is a book well worth reading, if only to remind us of the value of reading slowly and deeply.

这是一本关于数字在人类文明和人类社会发展进程中发挥作用的简史类佳作，作者用故事化的语言介绍了人类学、认知心理学、语言学、进化论等多领域跨学科的新研究成果，为读者详细介绍了数字概念的由来及演化，破除了人们对数字司空见惯的印象，令人们重新认识数字这一发明之于人类的重大意义和深刻影响。

《重返美丽新世界》是20世纪英国著名作家阿道司·赫胥黎晚年最重要的包含社会学、心理学和传播学的论著，也是其内容最精简、信息量却最庞大的作品。书稿出版于1958年，而本书是国内第一个未删减版本。该作品对二战后人类社会的命运进行了精彩绝伦的分析，预言了世界两大主流意识形态的未来；同时他还对自己的经典反乌托邦小说《美丽新世界》和奥威尔的著名小说《1984》做了详细的比较。舆论认为，赫胥黎对现代人类社会的认识超出普通人50年，在今时今日阅读他的作品，能让读者有一种重新认识了人类社会本质的感觉。
※随《重返美丽新世界》附录《美丽新世界》最新译本。
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在这部新作中，赫胥黎再次运用了他对人类关系的博识，将我们周边的这个真实世界和他那个预言性的1931年进行了比较。这确实让人感觉毛骨悚然，因为你会发现他对遥远未来的那种讽刺性预言居然在这么短的时间内成为了现实……在这个处于变动之中的世界里，《重返美丽新世界》在为心灵增添力量方面具有至关重要的作用。
——《纽约时报书评周刊》
《重返美丽新世界》是赫胥黎先生对社会问题进行了严肃而具有清晰逻辑的思考后的产物，其中传达的信息绝不该被忽视。他在其中所表现出的那种批判精神早已超越了其早先作品中那种单纯的愤世嫉俗。最后几页尤其令人震动，其中传达了这样一个悲伤的信号：或许人类本身并不希望获得拯救。
——曼努埃尔·布拉干萨，《时间和潮汐》
在《1984》中，人们被对痛苦的恐惧所控制；《美丽新世界》中，人们则被对快乐的盲目追逐所控制。
——《娱乐至死》作者 尼尔·波兹曼
反乌托邦的思路则提醒我们，未来也可能是坏的，今天的一切未必事事胜过昨天，而明天的一切也未必事事强似今天。
——王蒙

Psycholinguistics is an interdisciplinary field, and hence relationships are at its heart. First and foremost is the relationship between its two parent disciplines, psychology and linguistics, a relationship which has changed and advanced over the half century of the field's independent existence. At the beginning of the 21st Century, psycholinguistics forms part of the rapidly developing enterprise known as cognitive neuroscience, in which the relationship between biology and behavior plays a central role. Psycholinguistics is about language in communication, so that the relationship between language production and comprehension has always been important, and as psycholinguistics is an experimental discipline, it is likewise essential to find the right relationship between model and experiment. This book focuses in turn on each of these four cornerstone relationships: Psychology and Linguistics, Biology and Behavior, Production and Comprehension, and Model and Experiment. The authors are from different disciplinary backgrounds, but share a commitment to clarify the ways that their research illuminates the essential nature of the psycholinguistic enterprise.

According to many clinical psychologists, when the mind is forced to endure a horrifying experience, it has the ability to bury the entire memory of it so deeply within the unconscious that it can only be recalled in the form of a flashback triggered by a sight, a smell, or a sound. Indeed, therapists and lawyers have created an industry based on treating and litigating the cases of people who suddenly claim to have "recovered" memories of everything from child abuse to murder. This book reveals that despite decades of research, there is absolutely no controlled scientific support for the idea that memories of trauma are routinely banished into the unconscious and then reliably recovered years later. Since it is "not" actually a legitimate psychological phenomenon, the idea of "recovered memory"--and the movement that has developed alongside it--is thus closer to a dangerous fad or trendy witch hunt.

本书是1998年诺贝尔经济学奖获得者阿马蒂亚·森教授的代表作之一，是阿马蒂亚·森根据他1986年在加利福尼亚大学伯克利分校洛尔讲座的讲稿写成的。在本书中，作者通过对人的本能与理性的分析，用伦理学说明了人类的经济行为；用经济学阐释了社会的道德规范，进而揭示了伦理学、经济学及其社会福利之间的关系。

What separates your mind from an animal's? Maybe you think it's your ability to design tools, your sense of self, or your grasp of past and future – all traits that have helped us define ourselves as the planet's preeminent species. But in recent decades, these claims have been eroded, or even disproven, by a revolution in the study of animal cognition: take the octopuses that use coconut shells as tools; the elephants that classify humans by age, gender, and language; or Ayumu, the young male chimpanzee at Kyoto University whose flash memory puts that of humans to shame. Based on research involving crows, dolphins, parrots, sheep, wasps, bats, whales, and of course chimpanzees and bonobos, Frans de Waal demonstrates that we have grossly underestimated both the scope and the depth of animal intelligence. He offers a firsthand account of how science has stood traditional behaviorism on its head by revealing how smart animals really are.

从8个令人惊奇的问题开始，带你理解迷一样的人类行为，以全新的眼光看待我们自身。
跟着作者不断解谜，如侦探小说般神经的逻辑，彻底明白我们日常的心理与行为的机制。
【人类竟是如此神奇】听声辨位、梦中杀人、左右互搏、多重人格、心灵操控……这样小说般的情节都是真的！本书展现了很多人类超乎自己想象的行为。每章都从一个惊奇问题开始，带领读者不断解谜，充满阅读推理作品的快感。
【神经科学一本通】覆盖神经科学的各领域和多种方法，习惯、记忆、梦境、疏忽、幻觉等等日常心理机制都得到了解释，在快乐阅读中了解人脑和人类行为的方方面面，以全新的眼光看待人类自身。
【帮你生活更轻松】经常回到家才想起路上该买的东西没买？是否知道要减肥的话不能一边吃东西一边看电视？怎么抵御商家在不知不觉中对自己的剁手诱惑？还有躺在床上就能健身这种好事？假笑识破率还能提高？……理解了这些心理和行为的机制，就能更有意识地在生活中躲开陷阱，抄到近路！
《神经的逻辑》令人大开眼界，它既轻松有趣，又是极富启发性的研究，也解释了我们为什么会做那些最为奇怪的事。斯滕伯格撬开了我们的心灵，解释了脑的运作方式，对一系列诸如感知、习惯、催眠、语言、学习等话题都给出了真知灼见。就如何面对人类大脑的无意识逻辑这一问题，本书为读者提供了专业性的指导。读罢掩卷，我对“我这个人到底是谁”有了更多的体悟。
——列奥纳德· 莫洛迪诺夫，《大设计》第二作者斯滕伯格对脑的怪行背后隐秘逻辑的解释，是神经科学界一支全新的声音。
——承现峻，《连接组》作者本书每章读起来都像侦探小说，每一页都闪耀着作者对神经病学的热情。它同时还非常适合哲学家和心理学家，正能治疗他们的“神经元嫉妒症”。
——V. S. 拉马钱德兰，《讲故事的脑》作者如果你想知道人们为什么用不理性的方式思考和行动，想为此找出合理回答，那本书就该是你的第一本书。
——迈克尔· 舍默，怀疑论者学会创始人我们解释事情时通常有一些叙事套路，而本书却是对这些叙事套路背后真正的神经回路进行丰富详尽的研究。作者破解、打开了脑中的“黑箱”，检查其中并行的有意识和无意识两套系统，探究从做梦、自动模式行为到记忆、幻觉、创伤等一系列问题。
——《自然》杂志
从最怪异的梦和幻觉，到精神分裂症与多重人格，脑是各式各样怪念怪行的肇事者。从外部看，这些现象常显得“疯狂”，但其实它们都有逻辑可循，这套逻辑使我们能创造经验、保全自我。
无论是哈欠会传染、虚假记忆、不饿却进食、色情片盛行、感同身受等常见的行为、心理状况和情感，还是清醒梦、濒死体验、盲人看到的景色、梦游杀人等惊奇案例，《神经的逻辑》都为我们娓娓道来。以这些现象为契机，斯滕伯格博士深入脑和神经系统的内部，揭示并解读脑与神经中理性的有意识系统和幽深的无意识系统，解释两套系统怎样造就了我们或平常或怪异的行为。弄清楚脑与神经系统的运作模式和逻辑，不仅可以改变我们对心理疾病和超自然体验的看法，也会让我们更加了解自身的隐秘之处，做出更正确的决策。

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A brain scientist's journey from a debilitating stroke to full recovery becomes an inspiring exploration of human consciousness and its possibilities
On the morning of December 10, 1996, Jill Bolte Taylor, a thirty-seven-year-old Harvard-trained brain scientist, experienced a massive stroke when a blood vessel exploded in the left side of her brain. A neuroanatomist by profession, she observed her own mind completely deteriorate to the point that she could not walk, talk, read, write, or recall any of her life, all within the space of four brief hours. As the damaged left side of her brain--the rational, grounded, detail- and time-oriented side--swung in and out of function, Taylor alternated between two distinct and opposite realties: the euphoric nirvana of the intuitive and kinesthetic right brain, in which she felt a sense of complete well-being and peace; and the logical, sequential left brain, which recognized Jill was having a stroke, and enabled her to seek help before she was lost completely.
In My Stroke of Insight , Taylor shares her unique perspective on the brain and its capacity for recovery, and the sense of omniscient understanding she gained from this unusual and inspiring voyage out of the abyss of a wounded brain. It would take eight years for Taylor to heal completely. Because of her knowledge of how the brain works, her respect for the cells composing her human form, and most of all an amazing mother, Taylor completely repaired her mind and recalibrated her understanding of the world according to the insights gained from her right brain that morning of December 10th.
Today Taylor is convinced that the stroke was the best thing that could have happened to her. It has taught her that the feeling of nirvana is never more than a mere thought away. By stepping to the right of our left brains , we can all uncover the feelings of well-being and peace that are so often sidelined by our own brain chatter. A fascinating journey into the mechanics of the human mind, My Stroke of Insight is both a valuable recovery guide for anyone touched by a brain injury, and an emotionally stirring testimony that deep internal peace truly is accessible to anyone, at any time. Questions for Jill Bolte Taylor Amazon.com: Your first reaction when you realized what was happening to your body was one you would expect: "Oh my gosh, I'm having a stroke!" Your second, though, was a little more surprising: "Wow, this is so cool!" What could be cool about a stroke? Taylor: I grew up to study the brain because I have a brother who is only 18 months older than I am. He was very different in the way he perceived experiences and then chose to behave. As a result, I became fascinated with the human brain and how it creates our perception of reality. He was eventually diagnosed with the brain disorder schizophrenia, and I dedicated my career to the postmortem investigation of the human brain in an attempt to understand, at a biological level, what are the differences between my brain and my brothers brain. On the morning of the stroke, I realized that my brain was no longer functioning like a "normal" brain and this insight into my brother's reality excited me. I was fascinated to intimately understand what it might be like on the inside for someone who would not be diagnosed as normal. Through the eyes of a curious scientist, this was an absolutely rare and fascinating experience for me to witness the breakdown of my own mind. Amazon.com: What did you learn about the brain from your stroke and your recovery that your scientific training hadn't prepared you for? Taylor: My scientific training did not teach me anything about the human spirit and the value of compassion. I had been trained as a scientist, not as a clinician. I can only hope that we are teaching our future physicians about compassion in medicine, and I know that some medical schools, including the Indiana University School of Medicine, have created a curriculum with this intention. My training as a scientist, however, did provide me with a roadmap to how the body and brain work. And although I lost my left cognitive mind that thinks in language, I retained my right hemisphere that thinks in pictures. As a result, although I could not communicate with the external world, I had an intuitive understanding about what I needed to do in order to create an environment in which the cells in my brain could be happy and healthy enough that they could regain their function. In addition, because of my training, I had an innate trust in the ability of my brain to be able to recover itself and my mother and I respected the organ by listening to it. For example, when I was tired, I allowed my brain to sleep, and when I was fresh and capable of focusing my attention, we gave me age-appropriate toys and tools with which to work. Amazon.com: Your stroke affected functions in your left brain, leaving you to what you call the "la-la land" of your right hemisphere. What was it like to live in your right brain, and then to rebuild your left? Taylor: When the cells in my left brain became nonfunctional because they were swimming in a pool of blood, they lost their ability to inhibit the cells in my right hemisphere. In my right brain, I shifted into the consciousness of the present moment. I was in the right here, right now awareness, with no memories of my past and no perception of the future. The beauty of La-la land (my right hemisphere experience of the present moment) was that everything was an explosion of magnificent stimulation and I dwelled in a space of euphoria. This is great way to exist if you don't have to communicate with the external world or care whether or not you have the capacity to learn. I found that in order for me to be able to learn anything, however, I had to take information from the last moment and apply it to the present moment. When my left hemisphere was completely nonfunctional early on, it was impossible for me to learn, which was okay with me, but I am sure it was frustrating for those around me. A simple example of this was trying to put on my shoes and socks. I eventually became physically capable of putting my shoes and socks on, but I had no ability to understand why I would have to put my socks on before my shoes. To me they were simply independent actions that were not related and I did not have the cognitive ability to figure out the appropriate sequencing of the events. Over time, I regained the ability to weave moments back together to create an expanse of time, and with this ability came the ability to learn methodically again. Life in La-la land will always be just a thought away, but I am truly grateful for the ability to think with linearity once again. Amazon.com: What can we learn about our brains and ourselves from your experience, even if we haven't lived through the kind of brain trauma you have? Taylor: I learned that I have much more say about what goes on between my ears than I was ever taught and I believe that this is true for all of us. I used to understand that I had the ability to stop thinking about one thing by consciously choosing to preoccupy my mind with thinking about something else. But I had no idea that it only took 90 seconds for me to have an emotional circuit triggered, flush a physiological response through my body and then flush completely out of me. We can all learn that we can take full responsibility for what thoughts we are thinking and what emotional circuitry we are feeling. Knowing this and acting on this can lead us into feeling a wonderful sense of well-being and peacefulness. Amazon.com: You are the "Singin' Scientist" for Harvard's Brain Bank (just as you were before your stroke). Could you tell us about the Brain Bank (in song or not)? Taylor: There is a long-term shortage of brain tissue donated for research into the severe mental illnesses. Most people dont realize that when you sign the back of your license as an organ donor, the brain is not included. If you would like to donate your brain for research, you must contact a brain bank directly. There is also a shortage of "normal control" tissue for research. The bottom line reality is that if there were more tissue available for research, then more scientists would be dedicating their careers to the study of the severe mental illnesses and we would have more answers about what is going on with these disorders. The numbers of mentally ill individuals in our society are staggering. The most serious and disabling conditions affect about 6 percent--or one in 17--adults and 9-13 percent of children in the United States. Half of all lifetime conditions of mental illness start by age 14 years, and three-fourths by age 24 years. For more information about brain donation to the Harvard brain bank, please call 1-800-BRAINBANK or visit them at: www.brainbank.mclean.org If you would like to hear me sing the brain bank jingle, please visit www.drjilltaylor.com!

「音樂是聽覺的提拉米蘇」，《另類閱聽》作者蔡振家教授在本書藉由此一巧妙比喻，
說明音樂如何觸動腦中層層交疊、各有作用，卻又彼此配合、協調運作的神經網路。
音樂為何能夠影響情緒，讓我們的身體蠢蠢欲動？音樂活動在人類演化與文明發展中，占有什麼一席之地？這些謎題令許多人一直感到好奇。拜科技進步之賜，科學家如今可以觀測人腦在處理音樂訊息時的活化型態；另一方面，音樂活動的跨物種比較，也隨著生物學家對於靈長類、鯨豚、鳥類……的研究，受到前所未有的重視。本書結合神經科學與演化生物學的觀點，探討音樂認知心理學裡面的主要議題，包括：聽覺系統、音感、音樂的意義與形式、演奏與運動系統、情緒與醫療、跨物種比較，讓我們對於音樂與聽覺有更深層的理解與認識。

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A fascinating history--. Literate and authoritative--.Marvelously exciting. -- The New York Times Book Review
Jonathan Weiner, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for The Beak of the Finch , brings his brilliant reporting skills to the story of Seymour Benzer, the Brooklyn-born maverick scientist whose study of genetics and experiments with fruit fly genes has helped revolutionize or knowledge of the connections between DNA and behavior both animal and human.
How much of our fate is decided before we are born? Which of our characteristics is inscribed in our DNA? Weiner brings us into Benzer's Fly Rooms at the California Institute of Technology, where Benzer, and his asssociates are in the process of finding answers, often astonishing ones, to these questions. Part biography, part thrilling scientific detective story, Time, Love, Memory forcefully demonstrates how Benzer's studies are changing our world view--and even our lives.

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has become the most popular method for imaging brain function. Handbook of Functional MRI Data Analysis provides a comprehensive and practical introduction to the methods used for fMRI data analysis. Using minimal jargon, this book explains the concepts behind processing fMRI data, focusing on the techniques that are most commonly used in the field. This book provides background about the methods employed by common data analysis packages including FSL, SPM and AFNI. Some of the newest cutting-edge techniques, including pattern classification analysis, connectivity modeling and resting state network analysis, are also discussed. Readers of this book, whether newcomers to the field or experienced researchers, will obtain a deep and effective knowledge of how to employ fMRI analysis to ask scientific questions and become more sophisticated users of fMRI analysis software.