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http://smartpopbooks.com/allbooks/previews/PsychologyofSimpsons.pdf Relates different psychological principles that are present in various Simpsons episodes.

History of Psychology

Research Methods

Submitted by Dr. Rick Froman to the Society for Teaching of Psychology Discussion list

For Statistics and Probability, "The Chain of Chance". There is hardly a book by Lem that doesn't have something interesting and humorous to say about the scientific enterprise and the meaning of human nature. I'm sure a lot depends on your sense of humor but my favorites are Memoirs found in a Bathtub (due to my brief time working for the Defense Logistics Agency as a summer hire) and the Futurological Congress.

Freakonomics, by Steven Leavitt

Biological Psychology

Sensation and Perception

States of Consciousness

Learning

Memory

Intelligence and Cognition

Don't Believe Everything You Think by Thomas Kida 2007 Blink: the power of thinking without thinking, by Malcolm Gladwell

Life Span Development

Submitted by Steven M. Davis, Ph.D. Society for Teaching of Psychology Discussion list

Gold, R.S. (1981). Point of Departure: 19 Stories of Youth and Discovery. New York: Dell Publishing. Assigned Stories (chosen because they best illustrate developmental principles) 1. Split Cherry Tree 2. The White Circle 3. A&P 4. A Company of Laughing Faces 5. The Eclipse 6. Seventeen 7. Sucker 8. Snowfall in Childhood

Submitted by Laird R. O. Edman, Ph.D. to the Society for Teaching of Psychology Discussion list

I would recommend "Ender's Game" and/or its sequel, "Speaker for the Dead" by Orson Scott Card--absolutely wonderful books. Ender's Game is about young children being trained as soldiers--full of insight into family relationships, group processes, violence and love, and manipulation. Speaker for the Dead is even deeper, and digs into all kinds of human motivations and relationships. (These two novels are the first and only to date to win, for their author, back to back Hugo and Nebula awards--the highest awards given for sci fi). Ender's Game has the advantage of being currently "in the works" as a movie directed by Wolfgang Peterson (director of Das Boot; Airforce One; Troy). It is "hot" for young people right now.

Personality

Gender and Sexuality

Motivation and Emotion

Abnormal Psychology

The following list was submitted by Lisa Damour, Ph.D. ldamour@jcu.edu Please see her great resource site http://www.teachpsychoanalysis.com

A Little Depressed But Nothing to Worry About. Goethals, G. & Klos, D. (1986). In Experiencing Youth. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 121-129. Defining Abnormality

A Counterblast in the War on Freud: The Shrink is In. Lear, J. (1995, December 25). The New Republic, 18 – 25. Explaining Abnormality

Therapy

Submitted by Celia Reeves Society for Teaching of Psychology Discussion list

Gateway by Frederik Pohl - Traditional Freudian psychoanalysis by computer.

'Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy By Irvin Yalom In 10 tales of personal transformation related by the psychotherapist author, each patient makes some headway in overcoming compulsions, depression, hypertension or whatever--yet each also comes face fo face with larger problems such as the inevitability of death or the existential need to give one's life meaning. taken from Amazon.com review

Social Psychology

The Man who Shocked the World: The Life and Legacy of Stanley Milgram by Dr. Thomas Blass. Published by Basic Books, 2004.

When Prophecy Fails -- A social and psychological study of a modern group that predicted the destruction of the world. is a book Written by Leon Festinger, Henry Riecken, and Stanley Schachter. Copyright 1956 by the University of Minnesota, published by Harper Torchbooks, Harper and Row. It is out of print but you can get it for a reasonable price on Amazon.