Social Psychology category: 7378 books
Psychology and Culture
Thinking, Feeling and Behaving in a Global Context
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2010
With increasing globalization, countries face social, linguistic, religious and other cultural changes that can lead to misunderstandings in a variety of settings. These changes can have broader implications across the world, leading to changing dynamics in identity, gender, relationships, family,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2009
Sex Differences and Similarities in Communication offers a thorough exploration of sex differences in how men and women communicate, set within the context of sex similarities, offering a balanced examination of the topic. The contents of this distinctive volume frame the conversation regarding the...
by Pamela Balls Organista, Gerardo Marin, Kevin M. Chun
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2018
Appropriate for both undergraduate and graduate courses, Multicultural Psychology, second
edition, provides a comprehensive introduction to the field. This research-based and highly
applied text aims to increase students’ sensitivity, awareness, and knowledge of ethnicity,
race, and culture and...
Minds Make Societies
How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
A watershed book that masterfully integrates insights from evolutionary biology, genetics, psychology, economics, and more to explore the development and workings of human societies
“There is no good reason why human societies should not be described and explained with the same precision...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
This new volume is the first to bring together social and organizational psychologists to explore social identity theory in organizational contexts. The chapters are wide ranging - they deal with basic social identity theory, organizational diversity, leadership, employee turnover, mergers and acquisitions,...
by Charles Abraham, Mark Conner, Fiona Jones
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
The new edition of Health Psychology is the perfect introduction to this rapidly developing field. Throughout the book, the psychological processes that shape health-related behaviours, and affect core functions such as the immune and cardiovascular systems, are clearly explained. These relationships...
Positive Psychology
Established and Emerging Issues
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
This volume is a comprehensive review of theoretical and empirical contributions to positive psychology. It provides a scientific understanding of how human strengths help people psychologically and physically, showing how stressful circumstances do not inexorably lead to negative prognoses. It examines...
Terror, Love and Brainwashing
Attachment in Cults and Totalitarian Systems
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Written by a cult survivor and renowned expert on cults and totalitarianism, Terror, Love and Brainwashing draws on the author’s 25 years of study and research to explain how almost anyone, given the right set of circumstances, can be radically manipulated to engage in otherwise incomprehensible...
by R. Keith Sawyer, Vera John-Steiner, Seana Moran
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2003
What is creativity, and where does it come from? Creativity and Development explores the fascinating connections and tensions between creativity research and developmental psychology, two fields that have largely progressed independently of each other-until now. In this book, scholars influential...
The Anatomy of Adolescence (Psychology Revivals)
Young people's social attitudes in Britain
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Originally published in 1989, this is a unique reference source to the social attitudes of British adolescents of the time. The authors, both experienced researchers, draw on a sample of over 2,000 adolescents from all over the British Isles, including Northern Ireland and the north of Scotland as...
Social Identity at Work
Developing Theory for Organizational Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Social identity research is very much on the ascendancy, particularly in the field of organizational psychology. Reflecting this fact, this volume contains chapters from researchers at the cutting edge of these developments.
Tweeting to Power
The Social Media Revolution in American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
Online social media are changing the face of politics in the United States. Beginning with a strong theoretical foundation grounded in political, communications and psychology literature, Tweeting to Power examines the effect of online social media on how people come to learn, understand and engage...
Divided We Stand
The Strategy and Psychology of Ireland's Dissident Terrorists
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2013
Terrorism has returned to the streets of Northern Ireland. In the years after the 1998 Real IRA bombing of Omagh, which killed 29 people, violent dissident Republican groups have re-emerged as a major security threat to a region that has been denied peace, stability, and prosperity for too long. Those...
Engaging Violence
Trauma, memory and representation
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
This volume opens up new ground in the field of social representations research by focusing on contexts involving mass violence, rather than on relatively stable societies. Representations of violence are not only symbolic, but in the first place affective and bodily, especially when it comes to traumatic...