Social Psychology category: 7378 books
Rethinking Creativity
Contributions from social and cultural psychology
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Despite more than half a century of psychological research on creativity we are still far from a clear understanding of the creative process, its antecedents and consequences and, most of all, the ways in which we can effectively support creativity. This is primarily due to a narrow focus on creative...
Nerds
How Dorks, Dweebs, Techies, and Trekkies Can Save America and Why They Might Be Our Last Hope
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2011
A lively, thought-provoking book that zeros in on the timely issue of how anti-intellectualism is bad for our children and even worse for America.
Why are our children so terrified to be called "nerds"? And what is the cost of this rising tide of anti-intellectualism to both our children and...
Social Anxiety Cure for the Anxious Mind
Anxiety and Phobias, #1
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
Living with social anxiety is not easy. However, the key to overcoming any mental disorder is first and foremost the effort to understand our own fears.Author Michael Johnson offers a clear, step by step guide to overcoming your social anxiety, proving that it is a changeable, rather than a permanent...
Social Neuroscience
Key Readings
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Neuroscientists and cognitive scientists have collaborated for more than a decade with the common goal of understanding how the mind works. These collaborations have helped unravel puzzles of the mind including aspects of perception, imagery, attention and memory. Many aspects of the mind, however,...
Cultural Psychology and Its Future
Complementarity in a New Key
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Cultural Psychology is a radical new look in psychology that studies how persons and socialcultural worlds mutually constitute one another. With the increase of globalization and multicultural exchanges, cultural psychology becomes the psychological science for the 21st century. Encounters with others...
Longing for Home
Forced Displacement and Postures of Hospitality
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
What is it about the concept of “home” that makes its loss so profound and devastating, and how should the trauma of exile and alienation be approached theologically? M. Jan Holton examines the psychological, social, and theological impact of forced displacement on communities in the Congo and South...
The Domesticated Brain
A Pelican Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
What makes us social animals?
Why do we behave the way we do?
How does the brain influence our behaviour?
The brain may have initially evolved to cope with a threatening world of beasts, limited food and adverse weather, but we now use it to navigate an equally unpredictable social landscape....
Lives And Relationships
Culture in Transitions Between Social Roles
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
This book brings to cultural psychology the focus on phenomenology of everyday life. Whether it is in the context of education, work, or exploration of life environments, the chapters in this book converge on the need to give attention to complex realities of everyday living. Thus, a description of preschool...
Cultural Variation in Conflict Resolution
Alternatives To Violence
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
This volume's central purpose is to provide a clearly written, scholarly exploration of cultural variation regarding conflict resolution and in so doing, highlight certain alternatives to violence. It presents an interdisciplinary examination of how conflicts are perceived and handled in a variety...
Social Neuroscience
Brain, Mind, and Society
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Human beings evolved in the company of others. Mutually reinforcing connections between brains, minds, and societies have profound implications for physical and emotional health. Social Neuroscience offers a comprehensive new framework for studying human brain development and human behavior in their social context.
Semantics and Psychology of Spirituality
A Cross-Cultural Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
This book examines what people mean when they say they are “spiritual”. It looks at the semantics of “spirituality”, the visibility of reasons for “spiritual” preference in biographies, in psychological dispositions, in cultural differences between Germany and the US, and in gender differences....
by Manuel Wirth
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2017
Master's Thesis from the year 2016 in the subject Psychology - Social Psychology, grade: 2,0, University of Münster, language: English, abstract: Shteynberg's social tuning effect (2010) shows that synchronously experiencing something with relationally close others, leads to better memory for the...
Content and Process Specificity in the Effects of Prior Experiences
Advances in Social Cognition, Volume III
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
In Volume 3, Eliot R. Smith of Purdue University proposes that social cognition theorists have placed excessive emphasis on the role of schemata, prototypes, and various other types of abstractions. This has affected both the methodologies they use and the type of theories they construct. What has...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
This volume examines diverse jury systems in nations around the world. These systems are marked by unique features having critical implications for jury selection, composition, functioning, processes, and ultimately, trial outcomes. These unique features are examined by applying relevant social psychological...