By Adrian Furnham,Michael Argyle

ISBN-10: 0080326943

ISBN-13: 9780080326948

ISBN-10: 1861560249

ISBN-13: 9781861560247

Lay theories - the casual, commonsense causes humans provide for specific social behaviours - are usually very varied from formal 'scientific' motives of what truly occurs. whereas they've been studied some time past, this can be the 1st try to assessment, intimately, the character of those ideals. extra in particular, it's the first learn to think about such primary questions because the constitution, aetiology, balance and outcome of lay theories a couple of diversity of themes. every one bankruptcy covers a distinct region, corresponding to psychology, psychiatry, drugs, economics, information, legislation and education.

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