Cover: Psychology in Everyday Life (High School), 7th Edition by David G. Myers; C. Nathan DeWall; June Gruber

Psychology in Everyday Life (High School)

Seventh Edition ©2026 David G. Myers; C. Nathan DeWall; June Gruber

Psychology in Everyday Life (7th Edition) lives up to its title--helping students apply psychology’s concepts to their own life in meaningful ways.  No matter their background or goals, students will find practical ways to improve their life and increase their sense of belonging. B...
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Cover: Psychology in Everyday Life (High School), 7th Edition by David G. Myers; C. Nathan DeWall; June Gruber

Use Psychology in Everyday Life to succeed in this class, and in life!

Psychology in Everyday Life (7th Edition) lives up to its title--helping students apply psychology’s concepts to their own life in meaningful ways.  No matter their background or goals, students will find practical ways to improve their life and increase their sense of belonging. Best-selling authors David Myers, Nathan DeWall, and June Gruber offer a concise yet comprehensive introduction to psychology, designed to engage all students—regardless of background or preparedness. Informed by the latest research and the growing emphasis on student well-being, this edition integrates new content that supports a stronger sense of belonging and wellness. With just over 400 pages, it remains an accessible resource, paired with over 80 interactive tools, created by the authors, in Achieve—such as self-assessments, research activities, and belonging-focused exercises—that tightly connect course content to real student success. Achieve offers students ways to gamify and personalize their learning through powerful adaptive quizzing and to learn about themselves through the Assess Your Strengths self-assessment activities. 

Features

Psychology in Everyday Life has a robust set of self-testing features in the text. In addition, the Myers author team has created the key digital features for this title in Achieve: How Would You Know? research activities, Assess Your Strengths self-assessment activities, and How to Increase Your Sense of Belonging, and Why It Matters (NEW activity for this edition). Nathan DeWall and June Gruber have also created NEW Lecture Slides for this edition, including recommendations for best Achieve resources to use/assign and engaging discussion topics.

New to This Edition

New in the text:
  • Text content supports students’ belongingness and well-being throughout the chapters, for example with coverage of social life balance, forming and maintaining relationships, social development, the importance of prioritizing relationships, and the challenges in dealing with feelings of social exclusion. New text sections offer guidance on emotion regulation (Chapter 10), rebutting misinformation (Chapter 1), and micro-friendships (Chapter 9).
  • Throughout the text, students will find opportunities to improve their well-being by using evidence-based principles to boost their relationships, academic success, stress-management, and so much more. Self-applications are built into the narrative throughout the text.
  • More support for teaching that psychology is a science, and that critical thinking matters.
  • The text content has been updated with hundreds of new research citations dated 2020–2024, and dozens of compelling new photos, cartoons, and other illustrations chosen to reflect our readers, current events, and recent discoveries in psychology. 
  • Our improved Student Preface, Skills for Student Success — How to Apply Psychology to Live Your Best Life, helps students begin to develop what they will need to succeed in this and other classes, and includes sections on Thinking Critically and Scientifically, Self-Control and Self-Improvement, Time Management and Study Tips, Social Life, and Finding Meaning and Pursuing Goals.
New in Achieve:
  • New activity from David Myers: “How to Increase Your Sense of Belonging, and Why It Matters”
  • New Skills for Success activities
  • Two new Assess Your Strengths activities from June Gruber: “How Healthy is Your Emotional Ecosystem?” And “How Much Awe Do You Experience, and How Might You Increase It?” 
  • New research activity from Nathan DeWall: “How Would You Know If Reducing Social Media Use Improves Mental Health?” New Lecture Slides created by Nathan DeWall and June Gruber include tips for which Achieve features to use, and new contributed discussion questions that focus on building students’ sense of belonging.
Ch.4 Anonymous Reviewer 4: “I continue to really enjoy the authors' ability to fully engage the reader by offering immediately relatable situations to highlight the concepts and terms being discussed throughout the chapter…. Difficult/nuanced topics are explained thoroughly and adequately without unnecessarily 'getting in the weeds'.”

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Table of Contents

Teacher Preface
Student Preface: Skills for Student Success — How to Apply Psychology to Live Your Best Life

Chapter 1 Psychology’s Roots, Critical Thinking, and Self-Improvement Tools 
Chapter 2 The Biology of Behavior and Consciousness
Chapter 3 Developing Through the Life Span
Chapter 4 Sex, Gender, and Sexuality
Chapter 5 Sensation and Perception
Chapter 6 Learning
Chapter 7 Memory
Chapter 8 Thinking, Language, and Intelligence
Chapter 9 Motivation and Emotion
Chapter 10 Stress, Health, and Human Flourishing
Chapter 11 Social Psychology
Chapter 12 Personality
Chapter 13 Psychological Disorders
Chapter 14 Therapy
Appendix A Statistical Reasoning in Everyday Life
Appendix B Psychology at Work
Appendix C The Story of Psychology: A Timeline
Appendix D Career Fields in Psychology
Appendix E Complete Chapter Reviews
Appendix F Answers to the Retrieve and Remember and Chapter Test Questions

Glossary
Glosario
References
Name Index 
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David G. Myers

David Myers received his B.A. in chemistry from Whitworth University, and his psychology Ph.D. from the University of Iowa. He has spent his career at Hope College, Michigan, where he has taught dozens of introductory psychology sections. Hope College students have invited him to be their commencement speaker and voted him “outstanding professor.” His research and writings have been recognized by the Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Prize, an Honored Scientist award from the Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences, an Award for Distinguished Service on Behalf of Social-Personality Psychology, a Presidential Citation from APA Division 2, election as an American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow, and three honorary doctorates.

With support from National Science Foundation grants, Myers’ scientific articles have appeared in three dozen scientific periodicals, including Science, American Scientist, Psychological Science, and American Psychologist. In addition to his scholarly and textbook writing, he digests psychological science for the general public. His writings have appeared in four dozen magazines, from Today’s Education to Scientific American. He also has authored six general audience books, including, in 2022, How Do We Know Ourselves? Curiosities and Marvels of the Human Mind. And he blogs about psychology and life at TalkPsych.com.

David Myers has chaired his city’s Human Relations Commission, helped found a thriving assistance center for low-income families, and spoken to hundreds of college, community, and professional groups worldwide. Drawing on his experience of hearing loss, which now includes a cochlear implant, he also has written articles and a book (A Quiet World) about hearing loss, and he is advocating a transformation in U.S. assistive listening technology (see HearingLoop.org). For his leadership, he has received awards from the American Academy of Audiology, the hearing industry, and the Hearing Loss Association of America.

David and Carol Myers met and married while undergraduates, and have raised sons Peter and Andrew, and a daughter, Laura. They have one grandchild, Allie.

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C. Nathan DeWall

Nathan DeWall is professor of psychology at the University of Kentucky. He received his
bachelor’s degree from St. Olaf College, a master’s degree in social science from the
University of Chicago, and a master’s degree and Ph.D. in social psychology from Florida
State University. DeWall received the College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Teaching Award, which recognizes excellence in undergraduate and graduate teaching. The Association for Psychological Science identified DeWall as a “Rising Star” early in his career for “making significant contributions to the field of psychological science.” He has been included in the top 1 percent of all cited scientists in psychology and psychiatry on the Institute for Scientific Information list, according to the Web of Science. He is currently serving on the National Science Foundation Social Psychology Program panel. 

DeWall conducts research on close relationships, self-control, aggression, the 
psychology of religion, and intellectual humility. With funding from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the John Templeton Foundation, he has published 225 scientific articles and chapters. DeWall’s research awards include the SAGE Young Scholars Award from the Foundation for Personality and Social Psychology, the Young Investigator Award from the International Society for Research on Aggression, and the Early Career Award from the International Society for Self and Identity. His research has been covered by numerous media and entertainment outlets, including Good Morning America, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Harvard Business Review, USA Today, National Public Radio, The Guardian, the BBC, and a Netflix documentary. He has lectured nationally and internationally, including in Hong Kong, China, the Netherlands, England, Greece, Hungary, Sweden, Australia, and France.

Nathan is happily married to Alice DeWall and is the proud father of Beverly “Bevy” 
and Ellis. He also enjoys taking care of the family dog, Stubbs. As an ultramarathon runner, he completed numerous races, including the Badwater 135 in 2017 (dubbed “the World’s toughest foot race”). In his spare time now, he enjoys hiking, attending live concerts, setting up and maintaining aquariums, watching sports, and playing guitar and singing.

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June Gruber

June Gruber is an associate professor of psychology and neuroscience at the University of Colorado Boulder, where she directs the Positive Emotion and Psychopathology Laboratory and studies the links between positive emotions and mental health, including the “dark side” of happiness. Gruber was previously an assistant professor of psychology at Yale University. She received her B.A. in psychology and her M.A. and Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of California, Berkeley. Gruber has published over 140 articles and chapters, co-authored Psychology, Fourteenth Edition (with David Myers and Nathan DeWall), and edited two psychology books — The Oxford Handbook of Positive Emotion and Psychopathology and Positive Emotion: Integrating the Light Sides and Dark Sides (with Judith Moskowitz). Her research has received several honors, including the Association for Psychological Science’s Rising Star Award, the Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions, the Society for Research in Psychopathology’s Early Career Award, the NARSAD Young Investigator Award, and Yale University’s Arthur Greer Memorial Prize for Outstanding Junior Faculty. Gruber has served as an Associate Editor and Interim Editor-in-Chief for Perspectives on Psychological Science and is currently an Associate Editor at Emotion.

Gruber’s passion for teaching psychology and training future generations of scholars extends beyond the classroom. She has created freely available interview series and courses for the general public, including a Coursera #TalkMentalIllness course, an Experts in Emotion Interview Series at Yale University, and an online course in Human Emotion. Gruber has cowritten a column for young scientists in ScienceCareers.org (from the journal Science) and is currently writing for Teaching Current Directions in Psychological Science (along with Myers and DeWall). Her teaching efforts have received several awards, including the President’s Teaching Scholars Award, the Boulder Faculty Assembly Excellence in Teaching and Pedagogy Award, the UROP Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award, and the Cogswell Award for Inspirational Instruction at the University of Colorado Boulder. Gruber is deeply invested in supporting and elevating the careers of underrepresented women in the sciences, and leads workshops, publishes papers, and gives talks to raise awareness about gender disparities in the field and to chart a proactive path forward.


Gruber enjoys spending quiet days in the Colorado mountains with her two sons, 
Ansel and Silvan, and her husband, Raul, whom she met as an undergraduate psychology major. She also enjoys taking hikes with her dogs Buddy and Eddy, making art projects with her children, traveling, and basking in the nostalgia of 1980s music.

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