Social Psychology category: 7378 books
The Middle East
A Cultural Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2005
For over a decade the Middle East has monopolized news headlines in the West. Journalists and commentators regularly speculate that the region's turmoil may stem from the psychological momentum of its cultural traditions or of a "tribal" or "fatalistic" mentality. Yet few studies of the region's cultural...
Sexual Selection Under Parental Choice
The Evolution of Human Mating Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Parents often disagree with their children over their choice of partner. Although the reasons may vary the outcome is very often one of conflict – a conflict peculiar to the human species. For the first time in one volume, Sexual Selection under Parental Choice employs an evolutionary perspective...
Psychology of Gender Through the Lens of Culture
Theories and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
This unique collection brings a rarely-seen indigenous and global perspective to the study of gender and psychology. Within these chapters, researchers who live and work in the countries and cultures they study examine gender-based norms, values, expression, and relations across diverse Western and...
by Lˆ-Xuƒn Hy, Jane Loevinger, Le Xuan Hy
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
The topic of ego development developed when psychoanalysis did not fulfill all the initial hopes during its early period of prominence. Clinicians--psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and counselors--realized that they needed to know more than their patients' or clients' psychopathology...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2004
Gratitude, like other positive emotions, has inspired many theological and philosophical writings, but it has inspired very little vigorous, empirical research. In an effort to remedy this oversight, this volume brings together prominent scientists from various disciplines to examine what has become...
The Crowd & The Psychology of Revolution
Two Classics on Understanding the Mob Mentality and Its Motivations
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
This edition brings to you Le Bon's two most celebrated works, "The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind" and "The Psychology of Revolution", which made a breakthrough in what is now known as crowd psychology. Le Bon theorised about a new entity, "psychological crowd",...
Personhood and Social Robotics
A psychological consideration
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
An exponentially growing industry, human robot interaction (HRI) research has drawn predominantly upon psychologists’ descriptions of mechanisms of face-to-face dyadic interactions. This book considers how social robotics is beginning unwittingly to confront an impasse that has been a perennial...
Beyond Prejudice
Extending the Social Psychology of Conflict, Inequality and Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012
The concept of prejudice has profoundly influenced how we have investigated, explained and tried to change intergroup relations of discrimination and inequality. But what has this concept contributed to our knowledge of relations between groups and what has it obscured or misrepresented? How has it...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
Addressing an issue of central concern in social life, this authoritative book examines how having or lacking power influences the way individuals and groups think, feel, and act. Leading international experts comprehensively review classic and contemporary research with an eye toward bridging gaps...
The Psychology of Religion, Fifth Edition
An Empirical Approach
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2018
Keeping up with the rapidly growing research base, the leading graduate-level psychology of religion text is now in a fully updated fifth edition. It takes a balanced, empirically driven approach to understanding the role of religion in individual functioning and social behavior. Integrating research...
Restoring Civil Societies
The Psychology of Intervention and Engagement Following Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2012
Breakdowns in civil societies can be catalyzed by factors ranging from war and genocide to natural disaster, disease and economic downturns. Restoring Civil Societies examines social processes related to civic engagement in the wake of these societal ruptures. The authors show how crises in civil...
Stigma and Group Inequality
Social Psychological Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2006
This book provides a snapshot of the latest theoretical and empirical work on social psychological approaches to stigma and group inequality. It focuses on the perspective of the stigmatized groups and discusses the effects of the stigma on the individual, the interacting partners, the groups to which...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Metacognition refers to thinking about our own thinking. It has assumed a prominent role in social judgment because our thoughts about our thoughts can magnify, attenuate, or even reverse the impact of primary cognition. Metacognitive thoughts can also produce changes in thought, feeling, and behavior,...
by Donald C. Pennington
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Social Cognition looks at the way in which humans interpret, analyse and remember information about the social world. Topics covered include: attribution, social schemas and social representations, prejudice and discrimination. Suitable for the AQA-A A2 and AQA-B AS level examintation, mnd students...