Social Psychology category: 7378 books
Being Human
Psychological Perspectives on Human Nature
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2019
While there may be no one single characteristic that differentiates humans as a species, it is the combination of differences from other species that makes us unique. The new edition of Being Human examines the psychology of being human through exploring different psychological traditions alongside...
by Jamie Ward
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Social neuroscience is a rapidly growing field which explains, using neural mechanisms, our ability to recognize, understand, and interact with others. Concepts such as trust, revenge, empathy, prejudice, and love are now being explored and unravelled by neuroscientists. This engaging and cutting-edge...
Social Skills of Children and Adolescents
Conceptualization, Assessment, Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
This scholarly yet highly readable and practical text systematically covers the importance, development, assessment, and treatment of social skills of children and adolescents. Combining scientific rigor with a highly approachable and readable style of writing to create a practical and unique book,...
The Challenges of Cultural Psychology
Historical Legacies and Future Responsibilities
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2018
This book considers cultural psychology from historical, theoretical, and epistemological perspectives, building an understanding of cultural psychology as a human science and moving beyond the nature-culture dichotomy. The unique collection of chapters seeks to advance the field of cultural psychology...
Gender, Sex, and Sexualities
Psychological Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
For decades, the field of gender, sex, and sexualities has been a focal point of increasing interest. This inquiry has been ignited by successive waves of dramatic social change, chief among them: the re-emergence of feminist movements in the U.S. and Europe in the late 1960s; the sustained (and increasingly...
Language in Action
Psychological Models of Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Face-to-face conversation between two or more people is a universal form, and perhaps the basic form, of social interaction. It is the primary site of social interaction in all cultures and the place where social and cultural meaning takes shape. Face-to-face conversation between children and parents...
Knowledge Structures in Close Relationships
A Social Psychological Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Thirty-three of the top scholars in this fast moving domain present a picture of work at the cusp in social psychology -- work that deals with cognition and affect in close relationships. The present volume contains a wealth of research findings and influential theoretical accounts that spring as...
The Social Leap
The New Evolutionary Science of Who We Are, Where We Come From, and What Makes Us Happy
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
In the compelling popular science tradition of Sapiens and Guns, Germs, and Steel, a groundbreaking and eye-opening exploration that applies evolutionary science to provide a new perspective on human psychology, revealing how major challenges from our past have shaped some of the most fundamental...
Social Psychological Perspectives on Stigma
Advances in Theory and Research
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
The year 2013 marks the 50th anniversary of the publication Erving Goffman's landmark work, Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity. Through this edited volume, we commemorate the continuing contribution of Goffman's work on stigma to social psychology. As Goffman originally used the term,...
by Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Is religion to blame for deadly conflicts? Should religious behaviour be credited more often for acts of charity and altruism? In what ways are religious and ‘spiritual’ ideas, practices and identities surviving and changing as religion loses its political power in those parts of the world which...
A Social Psychology of Schooling
The Expectancy Process
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
If a theory of education is to be helpful to the practising teacher, it must take the social context of learning into account. Originally published in 1982, Colin Rogers does just this, exploring the implications of two decades’ detailed research in to the social psychology of teaching and learning....
by Johanna Turner
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
Originally published in 1977, Psychology for the Classroom is offered as an aid to people who are learning themselves and helping other people to learn: that is, to parents, students and particularly to teachers. The activity of teaching, to be successful, requires the teacher to understand the behaviour...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2014
This volume provides the first authoritative explication of metatheoretical principles in the construction and evaluation of social-psychological theories. Leading international authorities review the conceptual foundations of the field’s most influential approaches, scrutinizing the range and limits...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Cultural Psychology of Recursivity illustrates how recursivity, often neglected in the social sciences, can be an important concept for illuminating meaningmaking processes. Recusrivity is a fascinating though abstract concept with a wide array of often incompatible definitions. Rooted in mathematics...