Crash Course: Psychology

Psychologists spend their working lives analyzing individuals’ mental processes and responses. Their subject is a science, but their practice is governed by ethics and morality. We may all see ourselves as incidental psychologists, confident of our ability to judge character or read body language, only to be confounded by seemingly unpredictable actions. Psychology: A Crash Course covers the most important theories, from psychoanalysis to gender identity, and Milgram’s obedience experiments...