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Thirteenth Edition| ©2021New Edition Available David G. Myers; C. Nathan DeWall
From its beginnings to this remarkably fresh and current new edition, Myers and DeWall's Psychology has found extraordinarily effective ways to involve students with the remarkable research underlying our understanding of human behavior. But while the content and learning support evolves...
From its beginnings to this remarkably fresh and current new edition, Myers and DeWall's Psychology has found extraordinarily effective ways to involve students with the remarkable research underlying our understanding of human behavior. But while the content and learning support evolves edition after edition, the text itself continues to be shaped by basic goals David Myers established at the outset, including to connect students to high-impact research, to focus on developing critical thinking skills, and to present a multicultural perspective on psychology, so students can see themselves in the context of a wider world.
This new edition offers 2100 research citations dated 2015-2020, making these the most up-to-date introductory psychology course resources available. With so many exciting new findings, and every chapter updated with current new examples and ideas, students will see the importance and value of psychological research, and how psychology can help them make sense of the world around them.
The abundant, high quality teaching and learning resources in Achieve and in Achieve Read & Practice, carefully matched to the text content, help students succeed, while making life easier and more enjoyable for instructors.
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From its beginnings to this remarkably fresh and current new edition, Myers and DeWall's Psychology has found extraordinarily effective ways to involve students with the remarkable research underlying our understanding of human behavior. But while the content and learning support evolves edition after edition, the text itself continues to be shaped by basic goals David Myers established at the outset, including to connect students to high-impact research, to focus on developing critical thinking skills, and to present a multicultural perspective on psychology, so students can see themselves in the context of a wider world.
This new edition offers 2100 research citations dated 2015-2020, making these the most up-to-date introductory psychology course resources available. With so many exciting new findings, and every chapter updated with current new examples and ideas, students will see the importance and value of psychological research, and how psychology can help them make sense of the world around them.
The abundant, high quality teaching and learning resources in Achieve and in Achieve Read & Practice, carefully matched to the text content, help students succeed, while making life easier and more enjoyable for instructors.
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How Would You Know?
These online activities engage students in the scientific process, showing how psychological research begins with a question—and how key decision points can alter the meaning and value of a psychological study.
Assess Your Strengths
For each of these activities, the authors start by offering a personalized video introduction, then ask students to assess themselves on the strength. After showing students their results, the authors offer tips for nurturing that strength in students’ own lives. Finally, students take a quiz to help solidify their learning.
"Thinking Critically About…" Infographic Activities
Like the infographics in the book itself, the online interactive versions have all been revised and updated for the new edition, plus there are two entirely new pieces: "Sexual Aggression" and "How to Be Persuasive."
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Trusted author team
Psychology offers the quality of writing and resources that instructors and students can rely on. This quality extends to the student media and instructor resources which are author-driven and integrated with the textbook. Both David Myers and Nathan DeWall bring their teaching and research experience into every page of the text and also into the activities in Achieve.
A focus on teaching critical thinking.
Throughout the text, the authors help students think critically. By examining sources and evidence, students can apply psychology’s concepts to their own lives and to their studies—using evidence-based principles to boost their relationships, academic success, stress-management, and so much more. "To teach critical thinking" has been the first of the "Eight Guiding Principles" that have guided the authors’ work on this text since the first edition.
New to This Edition
2100 citations, dated 2015-2020.
This edition presents the field of psychology in its current state, including each sub-discipline’s latest research insights The authors want students to walk away with the most accurate, current understandings of psychology to apply in their own lives and work. The end-of-book References section (fully updated for the APA’s new 7th Edition Publication Manual) highlights these recent citations in blue.
Heavily revised coverage of gender identity and sexual orientation.
The authors have worked to be appropriately inclusive and fully up-to-date in their presentation of gender and sexual identity, representing the abundance of current research in this area, but also encompassing the lived experiences of many people, which may not yet be well represented in the literature.
Coordination with APA’s 2020 Introductory Psychology Initiative (IPI).
Psychology, 13th Edition, and its resources are a perfect match for those interested in following these new guidelines, with full text coverage of required content and abundant student and classroom activities and assessment opportunities.
“Thinking Critically About…” Infographic Activities.
All of these infographics in the text have been revised and updated for the new edition, with two entirely new pieces on “Sexual Aggression” and “How to Be Persuasive." They are also now accompanied by new corresponding activities in Achieve.
Ask Yourself Questions.
New “Ask Yourself” questions appear periodically throughout each chapter to help students apply what they are learning to their own lives. This helps make the material more meaningful, and memorable.
New Student Preface, “How to Use Psychology to Live Your Best Life.”
This student preface includes a discussion of “Thinking Critically and Scientifically.”
“The Story of Psychology: A Timeline”.
This timeline is now illustrated and has been revised to include the many diverse contributions to psychology’s history.
New research and research design-oriented iClicker questions.
We have new iClicker questions for each chapter that help engage students on research topics, such as designing an effective study, considering the component parts of key research that’s presented in the text, and weighing the implications of research results.
“The best parts are exciting students about the many aspects and fields of psychology.”
—Elaine O’Reilly, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
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Table of Contents
Instructor PrefaceStudent Preface: Student Success—How to Apply Psychology to Live Your Best Life
Prologue The Story of Psychology
1. Thinking Critically With Psychological Science
2. The Biology of Mind
3. Consciousness and the Two-Track Mind
4. Nature, Nurture, and Human Diversity
5. Developing Through the Life Span
6. Sensation and Perception
7. Learning
8. Memory
9. Thinking and Language
10. Intelligence
11. What Drives Us: Hunger, Sex, Friendship, and Achievement
12. Emotions, Stress, and Health
13. Social Psychology
14. Personality
15. Psychological Disorders
16. Therapy
Appendix A. The Story of Psychology: A Timeline, by Charles Brewer
Appendix B. Career Fields in Psychology, by Jennifer Zwolinski
Appendix C. Psychology at Work
Appendix D. Complete Reviews
Appendix E. Answers to Retrieval Practice and Master the Material Questions
Authors

David G. Myers
David Myers received his B.A. in chemistry from Whitworth University, and his psychology Ph.D. from the University of Iowa. He has spent his career at Hope College, Michigan, where he has taught dozens of introductory psychology sections. Hope College students have invited him to be their commencement speaker and voted him “outstanding professor.” His research and writings have been recognized by the Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Prize, an Honored Scientist award from the Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences, an Award for Distinguished Service on Behalf of Social-Personality Psychology, a Presidential Citation from APA Division 2, election as an American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow, and three honorary doctorates.
With support from National Science Foundation grants, Myers’ scientific articles have appeared in three dozen scientific periodicals, including Science, American Scientist, Psychological Science, and American Psychologist. In addition to his scholarly and textbook writing, he digests psychological science for the general public. His writings have appeared in four dozen magazines, from Today’s Education to Scientific American. He also has authored six general audience books, including, in 2022, How Do We Know Ourselves? Curiosities and Marvels of the Human Mind. And he blogs about psychology and life at TalkPsych.com.
David Myers has chaired his city’s Human Relations Commission, helped found a thriving assistance center for low-income families, and spoken to hundreds of college, community, and professional groups worldwide. Drawing on his experience of hearing loss, which now includes a cochlear implant, he also has written articles and a book (A Quiet World) about hearing loss, and he is advocating a transformation in U.S. assistive listening technology (see HearingLoop.org). For his leadership, he has received awards from the American Academy of Audiology, the hearing industry, and the Hearing Loss Association of America.
David and Carol Myers met and married while undergraduates, and have raised sons Peter and Andrew, and a daughter, Laura. They have one grandchild, Allie.

C. Nathan DeWall
Nathan DeWall is professor of psychology at the University of Kentucky. He received his bachelor’s degree from St. Olaf College, a master’s degree in social science from the University of Chicago, and a master’s degree and Ph.D. in social psychology from Florida State University. DeWall received the College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Teaching Award, which recognizes excellence in undergraduate and graduate teaching. The Association for Psychological Science identified DeWall as a “Rising Star” early in his career for “making significant contributions to the field of psychological science.” He has been included in the top 1 percent of all cited scientists in psychology and psychiatry on the Institute for Scientific Information list, according to the Web of Science. DeWall conducts research on close relationships, self-control, aggression, the psychology of religion, and intellectual humility. With funding from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the John Templeton Foundation, he has published 225 scientific articles and chapters. DeWall’s research awards include the SAGE Young Scholars Award from the Foundation for Personality and Social Psychology, the Young Investigator Award from the International Society for Research on Aggression, and the Early Career Award from the International Society for Self and Identity. His research has been covered by numerous media and entertainment outlets, including Good Morning America, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Harvard Business Review, USA Today, National Public Radio, The Guardian, the BBC, and Netflix. He has lectured nationally and internationally, including in Hong Kong, China, the Netherlands, England, Greece, Hungary, Sweden, Australia, and France.
Nathan is happily married to Alice DeWall and is the proud father of Beverly “Bevy” and Ellis. He also enjoys taking care of the family dog, “Artie.” As an ultramarathon runner, he completed numerous races, including the Badwater 135 in 2017 (dubbed “the World’s toughest foot race”). In his spare time now, he enjoys hiking, attending live concerts, setting up and maintaining aquariums, watching sports, and playing guitar and singing in local rock bands.
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