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50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology uses popular myths as a vehicle for helping students and laypersons to distinguish science from pseudoscience. Uses common myths as a vehicle for exploring how to distinguish factual from fictional claims in popular psychology Explores topics that readers will relate to, but often misunderstand, such as “opposites attract,”  “people use only 10% of their brains,” and handwriting reveals your personality Provides a “mythbusting kit” for evaluating folk psychology claims in everyday life Teaches essential critical thinking skills through detailed discussions of each myth Includes over 200 additional psychological myths for readers to… More >>
50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology: Shattering Widespread Misconceptions about Human Behavior

Crowds move markets and at major market turning points, the crowds are almost always wrong. When crowd sentiment is overwhelmingly positive or overwhelmingly negative – it’s a signal that the trend is exhausted and the market is ready to move powerfully in the opposite direction. Sentiment has long been a tool used by equity, futures, and options traders.

In Sentiment in the Forex Market, FXCM analyst Jaime Saettele applies sentiment analysis to the currency market, using both traditional and new sentiment indicators, including: Commitment of Traders reports; time cycles; pivot points; oscillators; and Fibonacci time and price ratios. He also explains how to interpret news coverage of the mark… More >>
Sentiment in the Forex Market: Indicators and Strategies To Profit from Crowd Behavior and Market Extremes

This second edition of the best-selling textbook on Work Motivation in Organizational Behavior provides an update of the critical analysis of the scientific literature on this topic, and provides a highly integrated treatment of leading theories, including their historical roots and progression over the years. A heavy emphasis is placed on the notion that behavior in the workplace is determined by a mix of factors, many of which are not treated in texts on work moti… More >>
Work Motivation in Organizational Behavior, 2nd ed.

List of Tables and Figures; Preface; Part I. Scientific Introduction; 1. Science and Its Theory; 2. The Conduct of Research and the Development of Knowledge; Part II. Theories of Motivation; 3. From Social Psychology and Personality Theory: Kurt Lewin; 4. Achievement Motivation Theory: David McClelland; 5…. More >>
Organizational Behavior I: Essential Theories of Motivation and Leadership