Social Psychology category: 7378 books
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Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Coping with Lack of Control in a Social World offers an integrated view of cutting-edge research on the effects of control deprivation on social cognition. The book integrates multi-method research demonstrating how various types of control deprivation, related not only to experimental settings but...
Social Empathy
The Art of Understanding Others
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
Our ability to understand others and help others understand us is essential to our individual and collective well-being. Yet there are many barriers that keep us from walking in the shoes of others: fear, skepticism, and power structures that separate us from those outside our narrow groups. To progress...
Cross-Cultural Psychology
Contemporary Themes and Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
Explains and explores the important areas of psychology through a cultural perspective
This book addresses key areas of psychology, placing them in cultural perspective via a comprehensive overview of current work integrating culture across the major subfields of psychological science. Chapters...
Psychology of Fear, Crime and the Media
International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
The media continue to have a significant persuasive influence on the public perception of crime, even when the information presented is not reflective of the crime rate or actual crime itself. There have been numerous theoretical studies on fear of crime in the media, but few have considered this...
The Feeling, Thinking Citizen
Essays in Honor of Milton Lodge
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
This book is an appreciation of the long and illustrious career of Milton Lodge. Having begun his academic life as a Kremlinologist in the 1960s, Milton Lodge radically shifted gears to become one of the most influential scholars of the past half century working at the intersection of psychology and...
Case Studies in Social Psychology
Critical Thinking and Application
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
In Case Studies in Social Psychology: Critical Thinking and Application, Thomas Heinzen and Wind Goodfriend use brief, entertaining case stories to illustrate the historical context and evolution of major theories within the field of social psychology. By employing a unique mix of contemporary research...
Show me your playlist and I tell you who you are
An investigation of the social psychological foundation of musical playlists
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
Bachelor Thesis from the year 2010 in the subject Psychology - Social Psychology, grade: 1,0, Uppsala University, language: English, abstract: In the age of social networking and music streaming, playlists are a common tool for organizing, sharing or exchanging music in the digital realm. Most research,...
Moral Development and Reality
Beyond the Theories of Kohlberg, Hoffman, and Haidt
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2019
Moral Development and Reality explores the nature of moral development, human behavior, and social interconnections. The exploration elucidates the full range of moral development, from superficial perception to a deeper understanding and feeling through social perspective-taking. By comparing, contrasting,...
by Glenn Geher, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
ìAt long last, a readable, accessible, user friendly introduction to evolutionary psychology written by a rising star in the field. This book, filled with a broad array of fascinating topics, is bound to further whet the appetite of a growing number of students who have been inspired by this provocative,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
This volume focuses on social perception, the processing of information about people. This issue has always been central to social psychology, but this book brings together literatures that in large part have been separated by the nature of the social target that is involved. Historically, research...
Engendering Psychology
Women and Gender Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Engendering Psychology's treatment of issues is based solidly on scientific evidence and presented in a balanced manner. The text combines a developmental and topical approach. Denmark, Rabinowitz, and Sechzer explore the concept of gender as a social construction across the lines of race, ethnicity,...
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Queer Psychology
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
This exciting and engaging textbook introduces students to the psychology of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer lives and experiences. It covers a broad range of topics including diversity, prejudice, health, relationships, parenting and lifespan experiences from youth to old age. The book includes...
A Conceptual History of Psychology
Exploring the Tangled Web
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
In the new edition of this original and penetrating book, John D. Greenwood provides an in-depth analysis of the subtle conceptual continuities and discontinuities that inform the history of psychology from the speculations of the Ancient Greeks to contemporary cognitive psychology. He also demonstrates...
The Wisest One in the Room
How You Can Benefit from Social Psychology's Most Powerful Insights
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Renowned psychologists describe the five most useful insights from social psychology that will help make you “wise”: wise about why we behave the way we do, and wise about how to use that knowledge to understand others and change ourselves for the better.
When faced with a challenge, we...