Oxford Dictionary of Psychology (2nd edition)

RR 2006/300 Oxford Dictionary of Psychology (2nd edition) Andrew M. Colman Oxford University Press Oxford 2006 ISBN 0 19 280632 1 (hbck); ISBN 0 19 861035 1 (pbck) xiv + 861 pp. £25/$45 (hbck); £10.99/$19.95 (pbck)

Keywords Dictionaries, Psychology

Review DOI 10.1108/09504120610687083

One of the most extraordinary growth industries of the last ten years or so has been the expansion in the publishing of dictionaries of psychology. To some extent this is matched simply by the expansion in the number of psychology students - psychology has been the largest growth area in academia over the past decade, way ahead of the more widely trumpeted or derided media studies in most new universities. Even taking this into account however, the growth in the number of dictionaries has been quite exceptional. I do not know if you have ever tried typing "dictionary of psychology" into BookFind - the results are quite un-nerving. There are so many titles, from the American Psychological Association (forthcoming at the time of...