Social Psychology category: 7378 books
Cultural Processes
A Social Psychological Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2010
With the rapid growth of knowledge concerning ethnic and national group differences in human behaviors in the last two decades, researchers are increasingly curious as to why, how, and when such differences surface. The field is ready to leapfrog from a descriptive science of group differences to...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
One of the key scientific challenges is the puzzle of human cooperation. Why do people cooperate? Why do people help strangers, even sometimes at a major cost to themselves? Why do people want to punish others who violate norms and undermine collective interests? Reward and punishment is a classic...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Human activity overuses the resources of the planet at a rate that will severely compromise the ability of future generations to meet their needs. Changes toward sustainability need to begin within the next few years or environmental deterioration will become irreversible. Thus the need to develop...
Understanding Behavior in the Context of Time
Theory, Research, and Application
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2006
Understanding Behavior in the Context of Time reviews the research on temporal orientation and brings together the disparate social behaviors influenced by time perspective. Organized into four sections, each chapter includes theory, research, applications, and directions for future research. Some...
Crossing Boundaries
Intercontextual Dynamics Between Family And School
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
This book brings in the focus on the borders between different contexts that need to be crossed, in the process of education. Despite the considerable efforts of various groups of researchers all over the World, it does not seem that traditional educational psychology has succeeded in illuminating...
21 Days of Effective Communication: Everyday Habits and Exercises to Improve Your Communication Skills and Social Intelligence
Positive Psychology Coaching Series, #17
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
Discover how unlocking the hidden secrets to successful communication can create powerful, changes across all areas of your life.
As we travel on our journey through life, many of us pick up poor communication habits, but could these habits be holding you back from enjoying all the health,...
Changing Relations
Achieving Intimacy in a Time of Social Transition
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2008
In a fast-changing world, what impact does social change have on our everyday relationships? How do modernisation processes influence our broader values, and how might these then affect our desires to marry, have a family and develop our social networks? And how do sudden events in a society - invasions,...
Perspectives on Behavioral Self-Regulation
Advances in Social Cognition, Volume XII
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The feedback model of self-regulation developed by the authors of the lead article in this volume has been one of the most successful theoretical formulations of regulatory processes to date. The range of phenomena to which this framework potentially applies is evident from its ability to incorporate...
Handbook of International Feminisms
Perspectives on Psychology, Women, Culture, and Rights
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2011
The goal of Handbook of International Perspectives on Feminism is to present the histories, status, and contours of feminist research and practice in their respective regional and/or national contexts. The editors have invited researchers who are doing this work to present their perspectives on women,...
Social Values and Moral Intuitions
The World-Views of "Millennial" Young Adults
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Millennials have been stereotyped as both "entitled slackers" and "the next greatest generation." This study uses depth interviews to offer a scholarly and balanced account of young adults’ values and world-views. It investigates their views on a wide range of issues, including...
Intergroup Relations
The Role of Motivation and Emotion (A Festschrift for Amélie Mummendey)
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2009
This volume gives a survey of the most recent developments and trends in intergroup research. Diverging from classical approaches that looked at diverse needs and motives (positive distinctiveness, belongingness, etc), the present book focuses not only on the question what motivates intergroup...
Female-Perpetrated Sex Abuse
Knowledge, Power, and the Cultural Conditions of Victimhood
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Female-Perpetrated Sex Abuse is a groundbreaking study into gender, sexuality and victimhood. It examines the cultural conditions of possibility for FSA victimhood as a means to advance contemporary critical understandings of the role of gender and sexuality as instruments of modern power. As the...
Installation Theory
The Societal Construction and Regulation of Behaviour
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Installation Theory: The Societal Construction and Regulation of Behaviour provides researchers and practitioners with a simple and powerful framework to analyse and change behaviour. Informed by a wide range of empirical evidence, it includes an accessible synthesis of former theories (ecological...
Social Influence
Direct and Indirect Processes
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Social influence processes play a key role in human behavior. Arguably our extraordinary evolutionary success has much to do with our subtle and highly developed ability to interact with and influence each other. In this volume, leading international researchers review and integrate contemporary theory...