How would you like to see your students' performance jump by a letter grade or more? "The Science of Psychology: An Appreciative View, 2e" provides a flexible solution for the intro psych course. King's appreciative perspective - treating psych as an integrated science that places function before dysfunction - with its groundbreaking adaptive diagnostic tool helps students know what they know while guiding them to master what they don't know. Building upon the much-lauded and widely-adopted 1st edition, the 2nd edition of "The Science of Psychology" effectively provides a flexible solution for any Introductory Psychology course. Recognizing that today's students are different from the last generation as is the discipline of psychology, "The Science of Psychology" draws on thousands of hours of research into faculty and student behavior to provide course material students will actively engage with while allowing instructors to maximize the time they spend preparing and teaching the course. How has your course changed in the past 5-10 years? From its adaptive questioning diagnostic tool and personalized study plan that gets students reading and studying more frequently, effectively and efficiently to the readable and lively prose that ensures students leave the course with an accurate and timely understanding of psychology as a science, "The Science of Psychology" is the right choice for today's classes, whether they be traditional face-to-face, hybrid, or entirely online. Regardless of their study habits, preparation, and approach to your course, each of your students will find that "The Science of Psychology" adapts to them individually and provides a road map for success. For your students that complete the assigned reading and study in measured doses, "The Science of Psychology" offers a narrative that presents psychology as a science that addresses function as well as dysfunction and where the various subfields are interconnected. Those students who tend to 'cram' before exams and/or seek the path of least resistance to their desired grade will be given an accurate assessment of how much or little they actually know prior to high stakes testing, and as a result, will spend more time reading and learning the assigned material than otherwise. How would fewer drops, failures, and withdrawals impact your course?

[美] 劳拉•金（Laura A. King）

从语言学到心理学

劳拉•金在美国凯尼恩学院接受本科教育，主修英语专业。在大学三年级的第二个学期她选修了心理学作为第二专业。1986 年，她以优异的成绩和荣誉获得英文学士学位，并以出色的成绩获得心理学学士学位。随后，劳拉在密歇根州立大学和加州大学戴维斯分校攻读研究生课程，并于1991 年获得人格心理学的博士学位。

劳拉最初就职于达拉斯的南卫理公会大学，2001 年转入密苏里大学哥伦比亚分校，现任教授。她除了开设性格发展研讨课、社会心理学和人格心理学研讨课，也教授本科课程，包括心理学导论、人格心理学和社会心理学导论。在密苏里大学，她获得6项教学奖，包括1999 年的持续优异奖；2004 年由于杰出研究和创造性活动她获得大学校长奖。

关注幸福与正常生活的新锐学者

在研究方面，她获得美国国家心理健康研究所的研究基金，主要关注与幸福生活相关的研究主题。她从事过的研究包括目标、生活故事、幸福、安适满意度和人生意义。总之，她的研究反映出她对那些对人们有益的和健康的内容表现出了持续的兴趣。2001 年，她的研究成果获得了积极心理学的坦普顿奖（Templeton Prize）。劳拉的研究（通常是与本科生和研究生的合作）曾发表在《人格与社会心理学》杂志、《人格与社会心理学》期刊、《认知、情绪与人格》杂志以及其他刊物上。一篇关于后悔对成熟的作用的新论文即将在《美国心理学家》杂志上发表。劳拉现在是《人格研究》杂志的主编，同时也是《人格与社会心理学》期刊和《人格与社会心理学》杂志以及众多研究基金会的副主编。

在现实生活中，劳拉擅长厨艺、喜欢听音乐（主要听爵士乐歌手和创作歌手的作品）、种花，还常常和三岁的儿子共享快乐时光。