Social and Behavioral Sciences

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General Psychology: An Introduction
(NOBA, 2017) Kearns, Tori; Deborah, Lee
The NOBA Project is a growing collection of expert-authored, open-licensed modules in psychology, funded by the Diener Education Fund. From these open modules, Tori Kearns and Deborah Lee created an arranged open textbook for her introductory psychology class. This textbook was created under a Round One ALG Textbook Transformation Grant.
A Short Handbook for writing essays in the Humanities and Social Sciences
(Minnesota Libraries Publishing Project, 2019) Allosso, Dan; Allosso, Salvatore F.
A retired master teacher of English and Comparative Literature teams up with his son, a History professor, on a new version of the writing manual he wrote and used for decades at the University of California, Davis.
Introduction to Community Psychology
(2020) Jason, Leonard A.; Glantsman, Olya; O'Brien, Jack F.; Ramian, Kaitlyn N.
This textbook will show you how to comprehensively analyze, investigate, and address escalating problems of economic inequality, violence, substance abuse, homelessness, poverty, and racism. It will provide you with perspectives and tools to partner with community members and organizations to promote a fair and equitable allocation of resources and opportunities. Chapters are being published on a rolling basis until full publication in time for the June 2019 SCRA Biennial Conference.
A Quick Guide to Quantitative Research in the Social Sciences
(University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 2020) Davies, Christine
This resource is intended as an easy-to-use guide for anyone who needs some quick and simple advice on quantitative aspects of research in social sciences, covering subjects such as education, sociology, business, nursing. If you area qualitative researcher who needs to venture into the world of numbers, or a student instructed to undertake a quantitative research project despite a hatred for maths, then this booklet should be a real help.
Library Research Skills for Psychology Students
(University of Alberta, 2021) Kara, Blizzard
This tutorial is designed for undergraduate psychology students at the University of Alberta's Augustana Campus. It includes chapters on choosing a research topic and research question, identifying key concepts, searching for information, using the database PsycINFO, and citing sources in APA style.
Introduction to Statistics in the Psychological Sciences
(University of Missouri - St. Louis, 2021) Cote, Linda R.; Gordon, Rupa; Randell, Chrislyn E.; Schmitt, Judy; Guerra, Rudy
Introduction to Statistics in the Psychological Sciences provides an accessible introduction to the fundamentals of statistics, and hypothesis testing as need for psychology students. The textbook introduces the fundamentals of statistics, an introduction to hypothesis testing, and t Tests. Related samples, independent samples, analysis of variance, correlations, linear regressions and chi-squares are all covered along with expanded appendices with z, t, F correlation, and a Chi-Square table. The text includes key terms and exercises with answers to odd-numbered exercises. Psychology students often find statistics courses to be different from their other psychology classes. There are some distinct differences, especially involving study strategies for class success. The first difference is learning a new vocabulary—it is similar to learning a new language. Knowing the meaning of certain words will help as you are reading the material and working through the problems. Secondly, practice is critical for success; reading over the material is not enough. Statistics is a subject learned by doing, so make sure you work through any homework questions, chapter questions, and practice problems available. Statistical knowledge gives you a set of skills employable in graduate school and the workplace. Data science is a burgeoning field, and there is practical significance in learning this material. The statistics presented in this book are some of the most common ones used in research articles, and we hope by the end of this OER you’ll feel comfortable reading (and not skipping!) the results section of an article. This work is broken into 14 chapters, covering the fundamentals of statistics, and hypothesis testing.
Abnormal Psychology
(2021) Cummings, Jorden A.
This text has been created from a combination of original content and materials compiled and adapted from existing open educational resources.
PSYC 2200: Elementary Statistics for the Behavioral and Social Sciences
(LibreTexts, 2021) Oja, Michelle
This text is disseminated via the Open Education Resource (OER) LibreTexts Project (https://LibreTexts.org) and like the thousands of other texts available within this powerful platform, it is freely available for reading, printing, and "consuming." The LibreTexts mission is to bring together students, faculty, and scholars in a collaborative effort to provide and accessible, and comprehensive platform that empowers our community to develop, curate, adapt, and adopt openly licensed resources and technologies; through these efforts we can reduce the financial burden born from traditional educational resource costs, ensuring education is more accessible for students and communities worldwide. Most, but not all, pages in the library have licenses that may allow individuals to make changes, save, and print this book. Carefully consult the applicable license(s) before pursuing such effects. Instructors can adopt existing LibreTexts texts or Remix them to quickly build course-specific resources to meet the needs of their students. Unlike traditional textbooks, LibreTexts’ web based origins allow powerful integration of advanced features and new technologies to support learning.
Culture and Psychology: How People Shape and are Shaped by Culture
(2022) Lisa, Worthy; Lavigne, T; Romero, F
Culture is one of the most powerful forces in the world. It shapes how we make sense of our world, how we express ourselves and how we understand and relate to others. In this textbook we introduce cultural universals and culturally specific constructs in psychology. This textbook was created for an undergraduate course that appeals to psychology majors and non-majors because it meets several general education and transfer credit requirements.
A Developmental Systems Guide for Child and Adolescent Behavioral Health Practitioners
(North Broad Press, 2023) Snyder, Sean E.
A Developmental Systems Guide for Child and Adolescent Behavioral Health Practitioners provides clinicians with actionable evidence-based practices for the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of child and adolescent mental and behavioral health. This approach combines developmental psychology and ecological systems in recognition of the fact that children’s developmental challenges, tasks, and capacities intersect with the risks and protective factors of their environment. Chapters feature detailed case studies and conclude with conversations with clinicians in which they share targeted recommendations for patient evaluation, treatment approaches, and family engagement and support.
Introduction to Behavioral Neuroscience
(OpenStax, 2024) Kirby, Elizabeth D.; Glenn, Melissa J.; Sandstrom, Noah J.; Williams, Christina L.
Introduction to Behavioral Neuroscience aligns to the topics and objectives of introductory behavioral neuroscience courses taught in psychology, biology, neuroscience, and similar departments. This offering is intended for undergraduates with no presumed college-level science coursework, and presents the foundational principles of brain-behavior-environment interactions. In Introduction to Behavioral Neuroscience, students will begin to understand how the physiology of the nervous system and the environment dictate our movements, thoughts and feelings. Students will be challenged to think about real neuroscience experiments, appreciate how neuroscience knowledge evolves over time, and consider open questions in the field. They will also be invited to learn about the people behind the science, such as through interview videos and researcher profiles.
Neuroaesthetics: A Methods-Based Introduction
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2024) Balinisteanu, Tudor; Priest, Kerry
This open access neuroaesthetics textbook, the first in the world, is designed for teaching a semester module (14 meetings) to undergraduate/masters students from both the sciences and the humanities. Written in a style that appeals to humanities students without prior science training, and to science students without prior humanities training, the textbook contains 6 Units, material for an introductory class, and summative comments to be discussed in a closing meeting. Each Unit comprises an overview designed as student home reading, a lecture, and a lab. The labs contain detailed step-by-step instructions for running a basic experiment and analysing the collected data, that can be easily implemented in humanities and science departments alike. The textbook introduces students to philosophical considerations of neuroaesthetics topics in context of the history of empirical aesthetics, showcases experimental approaches to the empirical study of dance, the visual arts, and music, and supports hands-on training in experimental research methods.
Encyclopedia of COVID-19
(MDPI, 2025) Bustin, Stephen
This collection from Encyclopedia brings together a diverse set of articles examining the far-reaching effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Covering topics from mental health and environmental changes to medical advancements and societal adaptations, this compendium provides a comprehensive overview of the challenges encountered and the innovations that emerged. Key discussions include the role of mRNA vaccines, the psychological toll of lockdowns, shifts in healthcare delivery, and the pandemic’s impact on various industries. Together, these contributions offer valuable insights into the pandemic’s legacy and the lessons that will shape global preparedness in the future.
Linguistic Practices in Heritage Language Acquisition
(MDPI, 2025) Protassova, Ekaterina; Yelenevskaya, Maria
This reprint aims to explore effective pedagogical approaches facilitating heritage language (HL) acquisition and development. It endeavors to empower HL communities by shedding light on tested strategies of language maintenance and revitalization, and by examining the impact of societies’ language policies on HLs. This can inform and encourage the development of activities that support linguistic diversity. By exploring the role of HLs in shaping cultural and linguistic identities, the reprint provides a deep understanding of how language practices intersect with complex identity formation processes. It also investigates the role of technology in HL use, providing insights into how digital resources can effectively support language learning.
The Phenomenology of Travel and Tourism
(MDPI, 2025) Roberts, Les; Andrews, Hazel
This Special Issue of the Humanities journal is on the theme of “the phenomenology of travel and tourism”. The papers in this volume seek to elicit deeper understandings of the experiential and embodied modalities of travel, and of the practical interdisciplinary orientations through which such understandings may be productively elicited. It is the first collection to bring together contributions from across the humanities and social sciences that explicitly address the phenomenology of travel and tourism as a methodological underpinning of travel and tourism narratives. Inspiration for the Special Issue is drawn from the fields of phenomenological and existential anthropology which are developed alongside broader interdisciplinary engagements with scholarship that examines the practices, performances, feelings and doings of travel and tourism through the lens of phenomenology. The insights offered in the papers that form this Special Issue, grounded as they are in a phenomenological approach to understanding tourism and travel as social and cultural practices, bring questions of embodiment and the sensory entanglements with places and spaces of travel prominently to the fore.
Perspectives on Conservation Humanities
(MDPI, 2025) Huggan, Graham
Broadly defined, conservation humanities is an emerging paradigm that exists within the larger multi- and inter-disciplinary field of environmental humanities which aims at using humanities-based methods—textual and discourse analysis, philosophical and historical inquiry, ethnographic fieldwork—to shed light on contemporary conservation issues and problems, paramount among them being today’s alarmingly intensifying levels of biodiversity loss. Defining conservation humanities as a paradigm rather than a field is not just a reflection on the fact that its academic status has yet to be fully established. It also suggests that its main value, at least at this preliminary stage, lies in conceptualizing conservation problems rather than in seeking the kinds of direct evidence that might help to solve them, and indeed it shares environmental humanities’ general suspicion towards top-down, solution-driven approaches that fail to take account of local ecological knowledge or confront conspicuously unequal distributions of wealth. However, the task of conservation humanities is not limited to exploring ongoing conservation issues from a wide range of cross-disciplinary humanities perspectives; it is also to ask questions about the changing meanings and functions of conservation and the humanities themselves. This Special Issue, the first dedicated to its subject, asks what role the humanities can play in addressing historical conservation issues, and what humanities scholars can contribute to contemporary conservation debates.
Vocational Education, Skill Formation, and Social Development
(MDPI, 2025) Pan, Haisheng; Liu, Xinqiao; Wang, Geng; Gao, Wenjuan
Vocational education and training (VET) systems are increasingly recognized not only as pathways to employment but also as critical mechanisms for fostering lifelong learning, personal development, and social cohesion. Research in this field spans diverse topics, including the integration of soft skills into educational programs, the challenges and opportunities of work-place learning, and the inclusive practices that are required for equitable education. While advancements in pedagogy and technology have enhanced the potential of VET, challenges remain in aligning training with dynamic labor market needs, ensuring access and equity, and supporting the holistic development of learners. These issues are especially pertinent in a rapidly changing world in which skills must be adaptable and education systems responsive. This reprint collects a range of interdisciplinary studies that contribute to a deeper understanding of vocational education’s role in social development. The contributions cover innovative curriculum design, teachers’ perceptions of inclusion, institutional and policy-level analyses, and strategies for embedding employability and equity within educational frameworks.
Innovations in Mathematics Education: Evaluation, Research and Practice
(MDPI, 2025) Rakes, Christopher R.; Ronau, Robert N.; Saderholm, Jon
This Special Issue comprises a selection of original research and evaluations relating to mathematics education innovations, including research-to-practice progressions. The Reprint begins with a comparison of technological innovation in mathematics across international education systems, continuing with an exploration of the use of technology for instruction and assessment innovation. To conclude, several instructional innovations for classroom practice and teacher professional development are proposed.
Incremental and Innovative Approaches to Professional Development for Mathematics Teachers
(MDPI, 2025) Otten, Samuel; Candela, Amber G.; Araujo, Zandra De
Professional development researchers and teacher educators have been striving to improve mathematics instruction for decades, but in many places, there has been an inertia of procedurally focused mathematics instruction that has been incredibly resistant to change. Even when specific professional development (PD) efforts have found success in certain contexts or with certain teachers, it has proven difficult to sustain and disseminate these instructional improvements on a broader scale. This Special Issue on PD for mathematics teachers includes contributions reflecting on the limitations of transformational PD (PD that seeks profound changes in mathematics instruction) and studies on innovative and incremental approaches to PD striving to make instructional changes more manageable for teachers in their busy lives and complex educational contexts, and perhaps thus more likely to sustain and spread. Some of the featured research on incremental PD breaks down transformational practices into specific pieces, whereas other studies provide teachers with choices of smaller facets of teaching upon which to focus. Overall, this Special Issue urges the field to consider how incremental approaches to PD for mathematics teachers might address some of the limitations of typical transformational efforts.
Cognitive Load Theory: Emerging Trends and Innovations
(MDPI, 2025) Paas, Fred; Tricot, Andre; Ouwehand, Kim; Lespiau, Florence
This Reprint of the Special Issue, titled "Cognitive Load Theory: Emerging Trends and Innovations" (Education Sciences, April 2025) explores the latest advancements in cognitive load theory (CLT), a pivotal framework for optimizing learning through cognitive psychology and instructional design. Featuring 15 articles from the 15th International Cognitive Load Theory Conference, it examines how CLT adapts to modern challenges like technology-enhanced learning, embodied cognition, and individual learner differences. From mitigating split-attention effects to leveraging mixed reality and nature exposure, this Reprint offers fresh insights for educators, designers, and researchers shaping effective learning environments.

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