Drawing together a team of international scholars, The SAGE Encyclopedia of Theory in Psychology examines the contemporary landscape of all the key theories and theorists, presenting them in the context needed to understand their strengths and weaknesses.

Table of Contents

• Volume 1
• Reader's Guide
• About the Editor
• Contributors
• Introduction
• Entries
• A
• Achievement Motivation
• Addiction
• Adolescent Development, Theories of
• Adulthood
• Aggression and Violence
• Altruism
• Altruism and Sociality
• Ancient and Medieval Sources of Therapy
• Ancient and Premodern Theories of Personality
• Animal Consciousness
• Anxiety Disorders
• Applied Behavior Analysis
• Artificial Intelligence
• Attention
• Attitude Formation and Change
• Attraction
• Auditory Perception
• Auditory System
• B
• Bandura, Albert
• Behavior Therapies
• Behavioral Development
• Behavioral Economics
• Behavioral Health
• Behavioral Perspectives on Psychopathology
• Behavioral Theories of Personality
• Behaviorism
• Big Five Model and Lexical Trait Theory
• Binet's Tests
• Biological Constraints on Learning
• Brain and Consciousness
• Brain and Intelligence
• Brain and Nervous System: Macroarchitecture
• Brain and Nervous System: Microarchitecture
• C
• Cancer. See Psychosocial Factors and Cancer
• Childhood
• Chronic Illness, Psychological Aspects of
• Classical Conditioning
• Close Relationships
• Cognition and Language
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapies
• Cognitive Development
• Cognitive Evolution
• Cognitive Illusions
• Cognitive Neuroscience
• Cognitive Therapies
• Communication and Language
• Concepts and Language
• Consciousness, Categories of
• Consciousness, Disorders of
• Consciousness, Functions of
• Consciousness, Origins of
• Consciousness and the Unconscious
• Consumer Psychology
• Contemporary Trends in Psychotherapy
• Cooperation
• Coping Strategies
• Creativity
• Cross-Cultural Methods of Research
• Cultural Evolution
• Cultural Psychology
• Culture, Origins of
• Culture and Cognition
• Culture and Development
• Culture and Personality
• Culture and Psychopathology
• Culture and Social Relations
• Culture and the Dialogical Self
• D
• Darwin, Charles
• Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
• Dissociative Disorders
• Dreams
• Drive and Motivation in the Brain
• E
• Eating and Drinking
• Ekman's Theory of Basic Emotions
• Embodied Cognition
• Embodied Grounding
• Emotion, Detection of
• Emotion, Evolution of
• Emotion, Expression of
• Emotion, Theories of
• Emotion and Culture
• Emotion and Motivation
• Emotion and Scientific Reasoning
• Emotional Disorders
• Emotional Intelligence
• Emotions, Universality of
• Employee Motivation
• Employee Satisfaction
• Epigenetics
• Epistemology and Sensation
• Erikson's Theory of Psychosocial Development
• Ethics of Therapy
• Event Perception
• Evidence-Based Therapy
• Evolutionary Psychological Perspectives on Human Nature, Critical Evaluation of
• Evolutionary Psychology
• Exceptional Memory and Expertise
• Existential Theories of Personality
• Extended Mind
• F
• Factor Analysis and Personality Theory
• Failure of Memory
• Feminist Approaches to Psychology and Gender
• Flynn Effect
• Freud's Psychosexual Stage Theory of Personality
• Frontal Lobe Functions
• G
• Gender, Evolutionary Perspectives on
• Gender and Cognition
• Gender and Culture
• Gender and Emotion
• Gender and Language
• Gender and Sex
• Gender and Violence
• Gender Development
• Gender Identity
• Gender Roles
• Gender Stereotypes
• General Aggression Model
• Gestalt Psychology
• Grammar, Psychology of
• Grief and Bereavement
• Group Processes
• Group Selection
• Gustatory System
• H
• Habits
• Hamilton, W. D.
• Health Psychology
• Heightened Consciousness
• Hermeneutics and Developmental Psychology
• Heuristics for Memory and Decision Making
• Historical Roots of Theories of Psychopathology
• Homeostasis
• Human Agency
• Human Factors in Organizations
• Human Information Processing
• Human Nature
• Humanistic Theories of Personality
• Humanistic Theories of Psychopathology
• Hypnosis
• I
• Individuality Versus Collectivity
• Intellectual Disability
• Intelligence, Environmental Influences on
• Intelligence, Evolution of
• Intelligence, Heritability of
• Intelligence and Individualism
• Intelligence and Schooling
• Intelligence Testing
• Intelligence Testing and Ethnicity
• Intergroup Behavior
• International Classification of Diseases
• Intrinsic Versus Extrinsic Motivation
• J
• Job Analysis
• K
• Kinesthetic System
• Knowledge
• Kohlberg, Lawrence
• L
• Language, Evolution of
• Language, Interaction, and Culture
• Language and Development
• Language Development
• Language Disorders
• Law and Psychology
• Law of Effect
• Leadership
• Long-Term Memory: Processes
• Long-Term Memory: Structures
• Volume 2
• M
• Mating Strategy Evolution and Development
• Measurement of Intelligence
• Measuring Treatment Outcome
• Medical Therapies
• Medicalization of Psychopathology
• Meditation and Relaxation
• Memory as Reconstructive
• Metatheoretical Issues in Personality Psychology
• Mixed Methods
• Mixed-Method Philosophies
• Mood Disorders
• Moral Development
• Morality and Moral Emotions
• Motivation and Cognition
• Motivation and Culture
• Motivation and Personality
• Motor Development
• Multiple Intelligences
• Music Perception
• N
• Natural Selection
• Nature Versus Nurture
• Needs
• Neurodevelopmental Disorders
• Neuroendocrine System
• Neuroethics
• Neuropsychology
• Neuroscience as One-Sided Dualism
• Neurotransmitters and Neuromodulators
• Nonvisual Memory
• O
• Objectivity in Diagnosis
• Occipital Lobe Functions
• Olfactory System
• Operant Conditioning
• Organizational Climate and Culture
• P
• Pain
• Parent-Offspring Relations
• Parietal Lobe Functions
• Passion
• Pavlov's Legacy
• Perception and Art
• Perception and Cognition
• Perception and Culture
• Perception and Epistemology
• Perception and Language
• Perception and Motivation
• Perceptual Contrast
• Perceptual Development
• Perceptual Disorders
• Perceptual Illusions
• Performance Management
• Personality, Heritability of
• Personality, Measurement of
• Personality Development
• Personality Disorders
• Personality Testing
• Personality Traits Versus Situations
• Personality Types Versus Personality Traits
• Personnel Development
• Personnel Evaluation
• Personnel Selection
• Phenomenological, Existential, and Hermeneutical Therapies
• Phonology
• Piaget's and the Neo-Piagetian Theories of Cognitive Development
• Pinker on Language
• Placebo Effect
• Play
• Positive Psychology and Human Frailty
• Prenatal Development
• Problem Solving
• Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Theories of Personality
• Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Theories of Psychopathology
• Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Therapies
• Psycholinguistics
• Psychological Wellness and Well-Being
• Psychoneuroimmunology
• Psychopathology and Stress
• Psychophysics
• Psychosocial Factors and Cancer
• Psychotherapy and Individualism
• Punishment
• Q
• Qualitative Research
• Quantitative Research
• R
• Reading Process, Models of
• Reasoning and Decision Making
• Reinforcement
• Relational Theory
• Rescorla-Wagner Model
• Research Design
• Research Methods in Health Psychology
• Research Methods in Neuroscience
• S
• Schizophrenia
• Self
• Self-Control
• Self-Determination
• Self-Esteem
• Semantics, Psychology of
• Sensory Disorders
• Sensory Transduction
• Sex
• Sex Reassignment
• Sexual Selection
• Short-Term and Working Memory
• Signal Detection Theory
• Single-Subject Research Designs
• Skinner's Legacy
• Sleep Disorders
• Sleep Stages and States
• Sleep: Functions
• Social Cognition
• Social Construction
• Social Emotions
• Social Factors in Health
• Social Influence
• Social Motives
• Social Neuroscience
• Social Psychology: Is It Truly Social?
• Social Role Theory
• Spirituality
• Statistics in Psychology
• Stigma
• Stimulus Control
• Stress and Gender
• Stress and Resilience to Life Challenge
• Stress Syndromes
• Stressors and Stress
• Syntax, Psychology of
• Systems and Organizations
• T
• Temporal Lobe Functions
• Terror Management Theory
• Time Perspective Theory
• Training and Personnel Development
• Triarchic Intelligence
• U
• Unconscious Motivation
• V
• Values
• Verbal Behavior
• Vestibular System
• Visual Perception
• Visual System
• W
• Watson, J. B.
• Workforce Psychology
• Working Memory, Improvement of
• Appendix A: A Propaedeutic Chronology
• Appendix B: Resource Guide to Scholarly Journals and Professional Associations
• Appendix C: Bibliography