Social Psychology category: 7378 books
The Psychology of Gender
Fourth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015
This book provides the nature of gender and the development of gender roles. It focuses on women's and men's communication and interaction styles, and provides an overview of sex differences in health and theories as to their origins .
Headspace
The Psychology of City Living
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
More and more of us are choosing to live in the man-made environment of the city. The mismatch between this artificial world and our nature-starved souls can contribute to the stresses of city living in a way that is barely noticed – but is crucially important.
What does the science of architectural...
Representing Development
The social construction of models of change
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Representing Development presents the different social representations that have formed the idea of development in Western thinking over the past three centuries. Offering an acute perspective on the current state of developmental science and providing constructive insights into future pathways, the...
Your Precious Life
How to Live it Well
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
We all want a life worth living. The search for ‘the good life’ has been a driving force for humanity throughout history. But what exactly is a ‘good life’? For too long psychologists have concerned themselves solely with helping the mentally unwell – those who suffer from depression, anxiety...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Human beings are adapted for group living. Groups have a wide range of adaptive functions for individuals, including both material benefits of mutual aid and collective action, and subjective psychological benefits of affiliation and social identity. Recent development of cultural psychology, however,...
Cross-Cultural Psychology
Contemporary Themes and Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
This book situates the essential areas of psychology within a cultural perspective, exploring the relationship of culture to psychological phenomena, from introduction and research foundations to clinical and social principles and applications.
• Includes contributions from an experienced, international...
Attitudes, Behavior, and Social Context
The Role of Norms and Group Membership
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1999
The reasons why people do not always act in accord with their attitudes has been the focus of much social psychological research, as have the factors that account for why people change their attitudes and are persuaded by such influences as the media. There is strong support for the view that attitude-behavior...
CrossCultural Psychology
Why Culture Matters
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
CrossCultural Psychology: Why Culture Matters addresses both established and very recent research in cultural and comparative crosscultural psychology. The book is written by Professor Krum Krumov of Sofia University in Bulgaria and Professor Knud S. Larsen from Oregon State University. The authors...
Well-Being and Cultures
Perspectives from Positive Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
This anthology focuses on empirical studies comparing cultures in relation to central positive psychological topics. The book starts out with an introductory chapter that brings together the main ideas and findings within an integrative perspective, based on a broad theoretical framework encompassing...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
Since the release of the very successful first edition in 2001, the field of emotional intelligence has grown in sophistication and importance. Many new and talented researchers have come into the field and techniques in EI measurement have dramatically increased so that we now know much more about...
Psychology of the Great War
The First World War and Its Origins
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
The outbreak of World War I saw the collapse of socialist notions of class solidarity and reaffirmed the enduring strength of nationalism. The workers of the world did not unite, but turned on one another and slaughtered their fellows in what was then the bloodiest war in history. There have been...
Warring with Words
Narrative and Metaphor in Politics
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Scholars in many of the disciplines surrounding politics explicitly utilize either a narrative perspective or a metaphor perspective (though rarely the two in combination) to analyze issues -- theoretical and practical, domestic and international -- in the broad field of politics. Among the topics...
The Dark Side of Relationship Pursuit
From Attraction to Obsession and Stalking
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Awards and Praise for the first edition:
Recipient of the 2006 International Association for Relationship Research (IARR) Book Award
"This text, as it presently stands, is THE go-to text for stalking researchers. That is my opinion and the opinion of multiple fellow scholars I know...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
This book explores the concept of “socially-responsible psychology in a global age” and how it might be used to organize, integrate and bring enhanced focus a field that has the potential to contribute to solutions to the world’s most pressing problems. In this volume, the editors explore the...