Social Psychology category: 7378 books
Stereotype Activation and Inhibition
Advances in Social Cognition, Volume XI
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
The use of social sterotypes as a basis for judgments and behavioral decisions has been a major focus of social psychological theory and research since the field began. Although motivational and cognitive influences on stereotyping have been considered, these two general types of influence have rarely...
Decolonizing Global Mental Health
The psychiatrization of the majority world
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
Decolonizing Global Mental Health is a book that maps a strange irony. The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Movement for Global Mental Health are calling to ‘scale up’ access to psychological and psychiatric treatments globally, particularly within the global South. Simultaneously, in the...
Toward a New Psychology of Gender
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Drawn from a brilliant array of voices primarily from psychology, but also from other social sciences and humanities, this unique reader of creative and intellectually provocative essays investigates the social construction of gender. For the past several decades, those involved with the study of...
Discourse Dynamics (Psychology Revivals)
Critical Analysis for Social and Individual Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
What are discourses? Are discourses ‘real’, and what is real outside language?
In this book, originally published in 1992, Ian Parker provides one of the clearest and most systematic introductions to discourse research and the essential theoretical debates in the area. At the time it was...
Thinking about Feeling
Contemporary Philosophers on Emotions
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2004
Philosophers since Aristotle have explored emotion, and the study of emotion has always been essential to the love of wisdom. In recent years Anglo-American philosophers have rediscovered and placed new emphasis on this very old discipline. The view that emotions are ripe for philosophical analysis...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2011
Motivational science is one of the fastest-growing areas of research in social psychology, incorporating multiple perspectives from social-personality research. This volume provides students and researchers with a comprehensive overview of major topics in social motivation. All contributors are renowned...
Understanding the Self and Others
Explorations in intersubjectivity and interobjectivity
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
How do we, as human beings, come to understand ourselves and others around us? This question could not be more timely or pertinent to the issues facing humankind today. At the heart of many of our world’s most troubling political and social problems lies a divergence, and sometimes a sharp contradiction,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
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Critical psychology has developed over time from different standpoints, and in different cultural contexts, embracing a variety of perspectives. This cutting-edge and comprehensive handbook values and reflects this diversity of approaches to critical psychology today,...
by William McDougall
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
From the Preface: ‘In these few lectures delivered in the University of London (May 1935) I have returned to the always interesting, but generally quite futile, task of criticizing the teachings of Professor Sigmund Freud and his school. On the present occasion my criticisms are made with ruthless...
Understanding Peace and Conflict Through Social Identity Theory
Contemporary Global Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
This volume brings together perspectives on social identity and peace psychology to explore the role that categorization plays in both conflict and peace-building. To do so, it draws leading scholars from across the world in a comprehensive exploration of social identity theory and its application...
The Science of the Couple
The Ontario Symposium Volume 12
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Although love and relationships have been focal points for poets and philosophers for thousands of years, these topics had not traditionally been the focus of empirical research. As a result, very little was known about how couples maintained happiness and satisfaction in their relationships, or how...
Hasidic Psychology
Making Space for Others
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Interest in the impact of ethical systems and social or religious ideologies on socio-behavioral patterns is a longstanding theme in social science research. While interest may have begun with Max Weber and his thesis of the relationship between the Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism, it...
Death by Design
Capital Punishment As a Social Psychological System
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2005
How can otherwise normal, moral persons - as citizens, voters, and jurors - participate in a process that is designed to take the life of another? In DEATH BY DESIGN, research psychologist Craig Haney argues that capital punishment, and particularly the sequence of events that lead to death sentencing...
Social Life and Social Knowledge
Toward a Process Account of Development
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2008
In this new volume, leading researchers provide state-of-the-art perspectives on how social interaction influences the development of knowledge. The book integrates approaches from a variety of disciplines including developmental psychology, psychopathology, philosophy, anthropology, sociology, evolutionary biology, and primatology. It reviews the