The Psychologist's Companion: A Guide to Professional Success for Students, Teachers, and Researchers, Edition 6

Robert J. Sternberg · Karin Sternberg

Oct 2016 · Cambridge University Press

About this ebook

The Psychologist's Companion, 6th edition is written for students, young professionals, and even mid-career scholars. It is the most comprehensive guide available to both written and oral communication processes for academic psychologists. It covers the topics necessary for career success, including planning papers, writing papers, presenting data, evaluating one's papers, writing grant proposals, giving talks, finding a book publisher, doing job interviews, and doing media interviews. Because the book is in its sixth edition, it is market tested for success in reaching and engaging its readers. Two special (new) pedagogical features are 'Experience is the best teacher', which draws on the authors' personal experiences to help make the book more personalized and exciting to readers, and 'What's wrong here', which gives readers an opportunity for active learning while they read the book. The authors have written the book in a personable and often humorous style that will keep readers engaged.

About the author

Robert J. Sternberg is Professor of Human Development at Cornell University, New York. Formerly, he was IBM Professor of Psychology and Education at Yale University, Connecticut. He is a former president of the American Psychological Association and Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences. His PhD is from Stanford University, California and he holds 13 honorary doctorates. He is a member of the National Academy of Education and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as well as a fellow of the APA, APS, AAAS, and AERA. Sternberg has written over 1500 books and articles and has been cited in the professional literature roughly 100,000 times.

Karin Sternberg is Research Associate in the Department of Human Development at Cornell University, New York. She has a PhD in psychology from the University of Heidelberg, Germany, and an MBA from the University of Cooperative Education, Karlsruhe, Germany. She has studied at Yale University, Connecticut and did her postdoctoral work in social psychology at the University of Connecticut. Sternberg worked as a research associate at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and School of Public Health. She held a grant from the National Institute of Aging on developing cognitive skills in older individuals. She is the author of Psychology of Love 101.