The Penguin Dictionary of Psychology has become a byword for demystifying the language of this complex subject. Now fully updated for its fourth edition, this wide-ranging and accessible dictionary is invaluable for both students and professionals, and an indispensable guide to all areas of psychology and psychiatry.

-Covers related fields such as neuroscience and social psychology

-Describes how terms are employed, their wider connotations and past usage

-Looks in detail at such key concepts as addiction and instinct

About the Author

Arthur S. Reber was born in 1940 in Philadelphia. He took his BA degree at the University of Pennsylvania in 1961 and his PhD at Brown University in 1967. He is Broeklundian Professor of Psychology, Emeritus at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He has also taught at the University of British Columbia, Canada, was a Fulbright Professor at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, and a Visiting Scholar at the University of North Wales in Bangor, UK. His published work is primarily in cognitive psychology, the psychology of language, developmental psychology, and such diverse areas as philosophical psychology and critiques of parapsychology. He is the author of Implicit Learning and Tacit Knowledge (Oxford University Press) and co-editor with D. Scarborough of Toward a Psychology of Reading (LEA Press).

Emily Reber (Roberts) was born in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1969. She did her BA in Behavioural Science at the University of Chicago and her Ph.D. in Social Psychology at Princeton University. Most of her early research focused on interpersonal dynamics and social interaction. After several years working on design and analysis of program assessment at Graduate Center of the City University of New York and The Koop Institute in the Medical School of Dartmouth College, she took an appointment at the Winston Preparatory School in New York City, where she helps to develop educational programs for children with a variety of learning disabilities.

Rhianon Allen was born in Dinbych, in the north of Wales in 1950. She completed her BA at the University of British Columbia and her PhD at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is a Professor Emerita at Long Island University in New York, where she began work in 1985 after several years at the New York State Psychiatric Institute and the faculty of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University. She's also held visiting scholar appointments the University of Innsbruck, Austria, and the University of North Wales in Bangor, UK. She is currently a visiting scholar at the University of British Columbia, Canada. Although best known for her work on implicit learning, her research interests also include cultural factors in the development of values and attitudes.