This volume defends an integrated account of the psychological mechanisms underlying
“mindreading,” the commonplace capacity to understand the mind. The authors maintain that …

A questionnaire with 70 closed and 11 open questions was administered to 230
mathematics students enrolled in Grades 10 through 12, the majority of whom were enrolled …

This book is a comprehensive development and defense of one of the guiding assumptions
of evolutionary psychology: that the human mind is composed of a large number of semi …

A threshold concept can be considered as akin to a portal, opening up a new and previously
inaccessible way of thinking about something. It represents a transformed way of …

Abstract Objects move, collide, flow, bend, heat up, cool down, stretch, compress, and boil.
These and other things that cause changes in objects over time are intuitively characterized …

Some topics seem systematically extremely difficult for students, and conventional methods
of teaching usually fail. Topics like this are found at all age levels, including, in physics; …

The metaphor of children and lay adults as intuitive scientists has gained wide acceptance.
Although useful in one sense, pertaining to scientific understanding, in another, pertaining to …

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 …

This article offers a plausible domain-general explanation for why some concepts of
processes are resistant to instructional remediation although other, apparently similar …

Recently, there have been a number of advances in technology, including in mobile devices,
globalization of companies, display technologies and healthcare, all of which require …