Educational Series: Best Free Psychology Books

Psychology as a Social Science

By R. Biswas-Diener & E. Diener (654 pages)

This textbook provides a standard introduction to psychology course content with a specific emphasis on social aspects of psychology. This includes expanded content related to social cognition, aggression, attraction and similar topics. This book can be modified: feel free to add or remove modules to better suit your specific needs.

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Research Methods in Psychology

By Dr Charles Stangor (698 pages)

The overarching goal of this textbook is to present the basics of psychological research methods — focusing on the concepts and skills that are most widely shared within the discipline — emphasizing both their centrality to our field and their contribution to our understanding of human behavior.

The book will include several features that will help accomplish this overarching goal.

Principles of Social Psychology – 1st International Edition

By Dr Charles Stangor, Dr. Rajiv Jhangiani, Dr. Hammond Tarry (648 pages)

Helping students organize their thinking about social psychology at a conceptual level.

Principles of Social Psychology-1st International Edition was adapted by Rajiv Jhangiani and Hammond Tarry from Charles Stagnor’s textbook Principles of Social Psychology.

Psychology as a Biological Science

By R. Biswas-Diener & E. Diener (698 pages)

This textbook provides standard introduction to psychology course content with a specific emphasis on biological aspects of psychology. This includes more content related to neuroscience methods, the brain and the nervous system. This book can be modified: feel free to add or remove modules to better suit your specific needs.

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The Psychology of Emotions, Feelings and Thoughts

By Mark Pettinelli (43 pages)

This book makes the statement that thought, action and feeling can occur in any order, it also puts forth the idea that life is divided into three groups, emotion, thinking, and feeling. These three groups make humans feel in certain ways, thinking, physical stimulus, and emotion all contribute to feeling.

But what is the difference between a thought, an emotion, and a feeling? Is there an overlap between the three? Probably, since any emotion can be broken down into the sensations and real events that caused it, and these events all lead to emotions, feelings and thoughts. So emotions, feelings and thoughts all might have the same source, they are just expressed differently in the mind. Where do your emotions, feelings and thoughts rate on a scale of clarity? Where do they rate on a scale of focus and attention? How does understanding the psychology of ones emotions, feelings and thoughts lead to a long term increased consciousness?

Psychology

By OpenStax (759 pages)

Psychology is designed to meet scope and sequence requirements for the single-semester introduction to psychology course. The book offers a comprehensive treatment of core concepts, grounded in both classic studies and current and emerging research. The text also includes coverage of the DSM-5 in examinations of psychological disorders. Psychology incorporates discussions that reflect the diversity within the discipline, as well as the diversity of cultures and communities across the globe.

Discover Psychology 2.0 – A Brief Introductory Text

By R. Biswas-Diener & E. Diener (Eds), Noba Textbook Series (661 pages)

Discover Psychology 2.0 presents core concepts common to introductory courses. The 15 units cover the traditional areas of intro-to-psychology; ranging from biological aspects of psychology to psychological disorders to social psychology.

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