All academics need to write, but many struggle to finish their dissertations, articles, books, or grant proposals. Writing is hard work and can be difficult to wedge into a frenetic academic schedule. How can we write it all while still having a life?

In this second edition of his popular guidebook, Paul Silvia offers fresh advice to help you overcome barriers to writing and use your time more productively. After addressing some common excuses and bad habits, he provides practical strategies to motivate students, professors, researchers, and other academics to become better and more prolific writers. Silvia draws from his own experience in psychology to explain how to write, submit, and revise academic work, from journal articles to books, all without sacrificing evenings, weekends, and vacations. The tips and strategies in this second edition have been updated to apply to academic writing in most disciplines. Also new to this edition is a chapter on writing grant and fellowship proposals.

A step-by-step guide to researching what people do in their everyday lives.

This practical, beginner-friendly book teaches readers how to do daily life research, which is the study of what people do in their ordinary environments in their everyday lives.

The basic approach is to collect data intensively over time, at least once a day for many days, in people's natural environments rather than in research labs. Common methods include daily diaries, experience sampling, and ecological momentary assessment. Collectively, these methods trade off the control and precision of the lab for the texture, depth, and realism of the real world.

The book walks readers through the entire process of the research project, including first selecting a design and developing survey items, then collecting and cleaning data, and finally analyzing and disseminating the findings.

With example studies pulled from all areas of psychology, the book will provide students with the conceptual foundation and practical knowledge needed to examine psychological processes up close in ways that experimental and survey methods can't.

This book will help undergraduate psychology students gain a competitive advantage for life after college, whether their plans include graduate school or work.

Professional research experience remains the most important avenue for fostering and demonstrating the skills that employers and grad schools want--skills like writing, public speaking, and statistical reasoning. Thus, the authors emphasize ways to get involved in scholarly research.

Updated and expanded, the second edition of What Psychology Majors Could (and Should) Be Doing includes tips for writing CVs and personal statements, empirically validated strategies for succeeding in classes, and guidance to help students think about their options after college. This consummate guide will help students get the most out of your psychology degree!

Dieser humorvoll geschriebene und einfach zu lesende Wegweiser dient Ihnen zur Vorbereitung und zur praktischen Weichenstellung für die Zeit im und nach dem Bachelorstudium der Psychologie. Unabhängig davon, ob Sie einen frühzeitigen Berufseinstieg oder eine akademische Laufbahn anstreben: Die Vorbereitung dafür beginnt bereits in den ersten Semestern.

Ein entscheidender Schwerpunkt im Studium der Psychologie ist die Forschung. Die Forschungserfahrung wird nicht nur als wichtige Grundlage für eine wissenschaftliche, sondern auch für eine berufliche Karriere angesehen.

Dieses Werk macht Lust darauf, Forschungserfahrung als eine gro artige Gelegenheit zu sehen, um fachliche Kompetenzen auf- und auszubauen. Diese erforderlichen, praxisnahen Qualifikationen werden Ihnen helfen, in der Arbeitswelt erfolgreich zu sein.

So erfahren Psychologie-Studierende, wie sie gezielte und effektive Vorbereitungen für eine erfolgreiche Karriere treffen können.

Psychologists have always been interested in interest, and so modern research on interest can be found in nearly every area of the field: Researchers studying emotions, cognition, development, education, aesthetics, personality, motivation, and vocations have developed intriguing ideas about what interest is and how it works. Exploring the Psychology of Interest presents an integrated picture of how interest has been studied in all the wide-ranging areas of psychology. Using modern theories of cognition and emotion as an integrative framework, Paul Silvia examines the nature of interest, what makes things interesting, the role of interest in personality, and the development of peoples idiosyncratic interests, hobbies, and avocations. His examination reveals deep similarities between seemingly different fields of psychology and illustrates the profound importance of interest, curiosity, and intrinsic motivation for understanding why people do what they do. The most comprehensive work of its kind, Exploring the Psychology of Interest will be a valuable resource for student and professional researchers in cognitive, social, and developmental psychology.