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Pioneers of Human Behaviour: John Bowlby A Gateway to His Life, Theories, and Legacy Few psychologists have changed the way we think about human relationships as profoundly as John Bowlby. His attachment theory transformed childcare, reshaped social policy, and bridged the gap between psychoanalysis and modern developmental science. By uncovering the deep biological need for secure bonds, Bowlby revealed that love is not a luxury—it is a survival requirement. This concise yet powerful volume distils Bowlby’s life, work, and enduring influence into clear, engaging chapters. From his ...

Pioneers of Human Behaviour: Carol Gilligan A Gateway to Her Life, Theories, and Legacy Explore the life and groundbreaking work of Carol Gilligan, one of psychology’s most influential thinkers and a pioneering voice in feminist psychology. This concise, accessible volume offers a rich journey into Gilligan’s revolutionary ideas about ethics, voice, and the human experience—challenging established narratives and reshaping how we understand gender, morality, and identity. From her formative years and academic breakthroughs to the development of her seminal theories on moral development...

Pioneers of Human Behaviour: George A. Miller A Gateway to His Life, Theories, and Legacy George A. Miller transformed psychology by revealing the hidden architecture of the mind. With his famous paper on “The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two”, he showed that memory has clear limits, reshaping research on attention, learning, and information processing. From there, he co-founded psycholinguistics, helped launch the cognitive revolution, and built bridges to fields as diverse as linguistics, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence. This concise yet powerful volume distils ...

Pioneers of Human Behaviour: James McKeen Cattell A Gateway to His Life, Theories, and Legacy James McKeen Cattell helped transform psychology from a speculative branch of philosophy into a data-driven science. As the first to introduce the term “mental tests” and a tireless advocate for measurement, he built the scaffolding that allowed psychology to stand alongside the natural sciences. His career was brilliant, controversial, and deeply influential—shaping not just laboratories, but universities, journals, and the very infrastructure of modern science. This concise yet powerful ...

Pioneers of Human Behaviour: Claude Steele A Gateway to His Life, Theories, and Legacy Claude Steele changed how the world understands achievement. With elegant experiments and human stories, he revealed how the fear of confirming stereotypes can quietly depress performance — and how small, wise interventions can restore confidence, belonging, and potential. Few ideas have travelled so swiftly from the lab to classrooms, workplaces, and policy rooms. This concise yet powerful volume distils Steele’s life and work into clear, engaging chapters — from early influences and landmark ...

Pioneers of Human Behaviour: Stanley Schachter A Gateway to His Life, Theories, and Legacy What makes a pounding heart become fear in one moment and love in another? Stanley Schachter’s answer reshaped modern psychology. His bold experiments revealed that emotions are not automatic—they are interpretations, forged by the labels we give to arousal and the cues we take from others. This concise yet powerful volume distils Schachter’s life and ideas into clear, engaging chapters. From his early years in Queens and wartime service to his landmark studies on emotion, affiliation, and ...

Pioneers of Human Behaviour: Elizabeth Loftus A Gateway to Her Life, Theories, and Legacy By Josh Graham Elizabeth Loftus changed the way we understand memory—forever. Her groundbreaking research revealed just how fragile and malleable our recollections can be, challenging the justice system, reshaping therapy, and sparking fierce debates about truth, trauma, and the human mind. In this concise yet rich portrait, Pioneers of Human Behaviour: Elizabeth Loftus takes you inside the story of a fearless scientist who refused to turn away from uncomfortable truths. From her early academic ...

Pioneers of Human Behaviour: Ivan Pavlov A Gateway to His Life, Theories, and Legacy Ivan Pavlov is one of psychology’s most recognisable names — yet his true story goes far beyond dogs, bells, and salivation. A Nobel Prize–winning physiologist turned pioneer of behavioural science, Pavlov transformed our understanding of how learning and environment shape behaviour. His theory of classical conditioning would influence not just psychology, but education, advertising, therapy, and politics for generations. This concise yet powerful volume distils Pavlov’s life and work into clear, ...

Pioneers of Human Behaviour: Frederic C. Bartlett A Gateway to His Life, Theories, and Legacy What if memory wasn’t a camera that simply recorded the past, but a living act of imagination that rebuilt it each time we recalled it? Frederic Bartlett asked that question — and in doing so, reshaped psychology forever. This concise yet powerful volume traces Bartlett’s journey from a sickly boy in rural Gloucestershire to Cambridge’s first professor of experimental psychology, capturing his radical insight that remembering is not reproduction but reconstruction. Alongside his landmark ...

Pioneers of Human Behaviour: David Buss. A Gateway to His Life, Theories, and Legacy. What do we really want in a partner — and why? Why does jealousy burn so fiercely? And how much of love is shaped not by romance, but by evolution itself? David Buss, one of the most influential evolutionary psychologists of our time, has spent decades answering these questions. His research into human mating strategies, sexual attraction, and conflict between the sexes has reshaped how scientists, therapists, and the public understand relationships. Drawing from cross-cultural studies, he has uncovered ...

Pioneers of Human Behaviour: Richard Lazarus A Gateway to His Life, Theories, and Legacy What does it mean to cope with life’s pressures? Few psychologists explored this question as profoundly as Richard S. Lazarus, the pioneer who transformed our understanding of stress and emotion. His groundbreaking work showed that resilience is not about avoiding adversity but about how we appraise and respond to it. This concise yet powerful volume traces Lazarus’s life from his Brooklyn upbringing and wartime service to his distinguished career at UC Berkeley. Along the way, it introduces his ...

Pioneers of Human Behaviour: Phillip Zimbardo A Gateway to His Life, Theories, and Legacy Few psychologists have stirred such debate as Phillip Zimbardo. To some, he is the bold thinker who exposed the hidden power of authority and circumstance. To others, he is a cautionary tale of ethics and excess. From the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment to his later work on time perspective and heroism, Zimbardo’s career illuminates both the fragility and the resilience of human nature. This concise yet powerful volume distils his life, theories, and legacy into clear, engaging chapters. You’ll...

Pioneers of Human Behaviour: Carol Dweck A Gateway to Her Life, Theories, and Legacy What if your potential wasn’t fixed? What if intelligence, skill, and even personality could change—not just a little, but profoundly—through effort, learning, and perseverance? Carol Dweck’s groundbreaking research on “mindsets” transformed how the world understands learning, achievement, and human growth. She revealed that a “fixed mindset” assumes talent and intelligence are innate, while a “growth mindset” recognises that skills can be developed through dedication, strategy, and ...

Pioneers of Human Behaviour: Carl Rogers A Gateway to His Life, Theories, and Legacy By Josh Graham “The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.” — Carl Rogers What if healing didn’t require fixing? What if presence, empathy, and genuine acceptance could transform a life? In this powerful, accessible guide, Josh Graham introduces readers to the quiet revolutionary who reshaped modern psychotherapy and human understanding—Carl Rogers. As the father of Client-Centred Therapy and a founding figure of humanistic psychology, Rogers challenged the ...

Pioneers of Human Behaviour: Lawrence Kohlberg A Gateway to His Life, Theories, and Legacy Lawrence Kohlberg changed how we understand right and wrong. By mapping how moral reasoning evolves from obedience and self-interest to universal principles of justice, he offered a clear, compelling lens on why people make the choices they do—and how societies can grow more just. This concise yet powerful volume distils Kohlberg’s life, six-stage theory, and legacy into clear, engaging chapters. From formative experiences after the Second World War to classroom experiments in “just community”...

Pioneers of Human Behaviour: Bessel van der Kolk A Gateway to His Life, Theories, and Legacy By Josh Graham “Trauma is not just an event—it’s an imprint on the mind, brain, and body.” Dr. Bessel van der Kolk transformed the world’s understanding of trauma. From war-torn childhoods to neuroimaging labs, from therapy offices to yoga mats, his groundbreaking work redefined what it means to heal. In this accessible and deeply human volume, Pioneers of Human Behaviour: Bessel van der Kolk traces the journey of the Dutch-born psychiatrist who helped the world see that trauma lives not ...

Pioneers of Human Behaviour: Kurt Koffka A Gateway to His Life, Theories, and Legacy Kurt Koffka helped shift psychology from fragments to forms. At a time when behaviourism reduced the mind to stimulus and response, Koffka insisted that experience is patterned, structured, and meaningful — that the whole is other than the sum of its parts. This concise yet powerful volume distils Koffka’s life and ideas into clear, engaging chapters — from his early fascination with rhythm and language, through the birth of Gestalt psychology, to the principles that now underpin design, education, ...

The Normal State Returning to Presence in a World Addicted to Ego by Josh Graham What if your natural state isn’t something you have to achieve—but simply uncover? In a world that glorifies hustle, identity, and performance, The Normal State invites you back to something deeper: the quiet you forgot. Through poetic insight, trauma-aware language, and grounded clarity, this book dismantles the myth of the separate self—and reveals what’s always been underneath. You won’t find techniques, promises, or spiritual jargon. You’ll find something simpler. Cleaner. Already here. Whether ...

Pioneers of Human Behaviour: Elisabeth Kübler-Ross A Gateway to Her Life, Theories, and Legacy Few thinkers changed the way we face death as profoundly as Elisabeth Kübler-Ross. At a time when hospitals hid dying patients behind curtains and silence, she pulled up a chair and asked the bravest question in medicine: “What is it like to be dying?” From those bedside conversations came a new language for loss — not as a failure, but as a deeply human passage that deserves honesty, dignity, and love. This concise yet powerful volume distils Kübler-Ross’s life and work into clear, ...

Pioneers of Human Behaviour: Hermann Ebbinghaus A Gateway to His Life, Theories, and Legacy Before Hermann Ebbinghaus, memory was the domain of philosophers and poets — described in metaphors, not measured in numbers. In the late 19th century, this quiet German scholar stepped into the unknown and transformed memory into a science. Armed with nothing but determination, a stopwatch, and thousands of nonsense syllables, he mapped the hidden patterns of remembering and forgetting. This concise yet powerful volume distils Ebbinghaus’s life’s work into clear, engaging chapters. From his ...