This updated and exciting reader includes 25 articles that have been carefully selected for the undergraduate audience, and taken from the very accessible Current Directions in Psychological Science journal. These timely, cutting-edge articles allow instructors to bring their students real-world perspective-–from a reliable source–-about today’s most current and pressing issues in abnormal psychology.
Professor Sheldon received his Ph.D. in social-personality psychology from the University of California at Davis. He is now a professor at the University of Missouri who studies goals, motivation, and well-being. He is very active in the “positive psychology” movement, and interested in the question of what produces “optimal human being.”