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PSYCHOLOGY THE SCIENCE OF BEHAVIOUR - EUROPEAN ADAPTION by Neil R Carlson, G Neil Martin, William Buskist
Publication date: Unknown
Donated by: G Neil Martin
Biography of Neil R Carlson, G Neil Martin, William Buskist: Dr G. Neil Martin is Reader in Psychology at Middlesex University, UK, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He was educated in Wales, Scotland and England, graduating with a first-class Master of Arts degree in psychology from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, where he also won the annual Henry Prize for outstanding undergraduate achievement in psychology. He completed his PhD on the psychophysiology of human olfactory perception at the University of Warwick, England.
He is the author of Human Neuropsychology, the first European textbook in the field now in its second edition (Pearson Education, 2006), Essential Biological Psychology (Hodder Arnold, 2003), Psychology-A Study Guide, with Nicky Brunswick (Pearson Education, 2005), and Psychology- International edition, with Neil Carlson and colleagues from the US and Canada (Allyn & Bacon, 2006). With Nicky Brunswick, he wrote the first European on-line course in introductory psychology (Pearson Education, 2001, 2003), now in its third edition. Psychology (3rd edition) is the first introductory psychology text to be available via iPod download. He is currently writing two new books on psychology and the sense of smell.
He is the author of over 150 articles on psychology and acts as consultant to industry, business and the media on the psychology of olfaction and humour. He was Associate Editor of The Psychologist for six years and is currently an editorial board member of the Journal of Health, Social and Environmental Issues and the Annals of Improbable Research the satirical journal which awards the annual IgNobel prizes for science that should never be repeated for which he is also a columnist. For a short while, he was reviewer and books editor of Deadpan- the UK's first (and, currently, last) magazine dedicated to comedy.
He also works as a freelance journalist; his first article for a major national newspaper was entitled OMore than 20 things you needed to know about the nose.
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