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Bibliography/Recommended Readings for IB Psychology

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Recommended core texts

  • Advanced Psychology through Diagrams (an Oxford Revision Guide); Grahame Hill, 0 19 917168 8
  • Angles on Applied Psychology, Julia Russell, Matt Jarvis, Craig Roberts, Diana Dwyer, and Dave Putwain, 0 7487 7259 6
  • Cross Cultural Perspectives in Introductory Psychology; William Price and Richley Crapo, 0 534 35570 6
  • Forty Studies that Changed Psychology; Roger R. Hock, 0 13 114729 3
  • Introducing Psychological Research; Philip Banyard and Andrew Grayson, 0 8147 1276 2
  • Key Studies in Psychology; Richard Gross, 0 340 85785 4
  • Psychology: The Science of Mind and Behaviour; Richard Gross, 0 340 79061 X

Internal Assessment

  • Practicals for Psychology; Cara Flanagan, 0 415 15774 9
  • Research Methods and Statistics in Psychology; Hugh Coolican, 0 340 71998 2
  • Research Methods in Psychology for High School Students; Jennie Brooks Jamison, 0 595 40451 0

The Paper I Perspectives

  • Approaches to Psychology; William E Glassman, 0 335 21348 0
  • Cognitive Psychology: A Student's Handbook; Michael Eysenck, 0 86377 551 9
  • Themes, Issues, and Debates in Psychology; Richard Gross, 0 340 85784 6

Dysfunctional Psychology

  • Abnormal Psychology with Cases; Gerald C Davison, John M Neale, and Ann Kring, 0 471 47958 8
  • Case Studies in Abnormal Psychology; Oltmans, Neale and Davis, 0 471 25216 6
  • Understanding Abnormal Behaviour; David Sue, Derald Sue, and Stanley Sue, 0 395 78826 9

Psychodynamic Perspective

  • A Short Introduction to Psychoanalysis, Jane Milton, Caroline Polmear, and Julia Fabricius, 0 7619 7187 4
  • Sigmund Freud Case Studies; 0 14 013799 8
  • What Freud Really Said; David Stafford Clark, 0 8052 1080 6

Social Psychology

  • The Individual and Society: A Cultural Integration; Fathali M Moghaddam, 0 7167 5222 0
  • Influence: Science and Practice; Robert B Cialdini, 0 321 01147 3
  • Obedience to Authority; Stanley Milgram, 0 06 131983 X
  • Prejudice and Racism; James Jones, 0 07 033117 0
  • Principles of Social Psychology; Nicky Hayes, 0 86377 259 5
  • The Roots of Evil; Ervin Staub, 0 521 42214 0
  • Social Psychology; Eliot R Smith and Diane M Mackie, 0 86377 587 X
  • Social Psychology Across Cultures: Analysis and Perspective, Peter B Smith and Michael Harris Bond, 0 205 15326 7
  • Understanding Genocide: The Social Psychology of the Holocaust, Leonard Newman and Ralph Erber [eds]. 0 19 513362 5

General Reading/IB Review

  • Applied Psychology, Hugh Coolican inter alia; 0 340 63092 2
  • Culture and Psychology, David Matsumoto and Linda Juang, 0 534 53591 7
  • Essential Health Psychology; Mark Forshaw, 0 340 75971 2
  • Love at Goon Park: Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection; Deborah Blum, 0 425 19405 1
  • Political Psychology, John T Jost and Jim Sidanius [eds]., 1 84169 070 8