What is Book Psychology?
Book Psychology is the scientific study of behavior of individuals and their mental processes involved in use (buying and reading) books.
The mean topic of research on book psychology are:
- buying behaviors
- reading behaviors
- cognitive processes of reading
- emotional consequences of reading
- psychophisiological consequences of reading
- social image of books
- reading education
- reading promotion
- patological behaviors
(books cleptomania; compulsive buying; books phobia; bibliophagia; etc.)
- bibliotherapy
(psychological therapy toward reading)