Social Psychology category: 7378 books
Resistance in Everyday Life
Constructing Cultural Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
This book is about resistance in everyday life, illustrated through empirical contexts from different parts of the world. Resistance is a widespread phenomenon in biological, social and psychological domains of human cultural development. Yet, it is not well articulated in the academic literature...
Mating Intelligence Unleashed
The Role of the Mind in Sex, Dating, and Love
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
Psychologists often paint a picture of human mating as visceral, instinctual. But that's not the whole story. In courtship and display, sexual competition and rivalry, we are also guided by what Glenn Geher and Scott Barry Kaufman call Mating Intelligence--a range of mental abilities that have evolved...
Media Violence and its Effect on Aggression
Assessing the Scientific Evidence
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2002
The scientific evidence does not support the notion that TV and film violence cause aggression in children or in anyone else. So argues Jonathan Freedman, based on his findings that far fewer than half of the scientific studies have found a causal connection between exposure to media violence and...
Cognitive Motivation
From Curiosity to Identity, Purpose and Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
Motivation and cognition were treated as separate concepts throughout most of twentieth-century psychology. However, in recent years researchers have begun viewing the two as inextricably intertwined: not only does what we want affect how we think, but how we think affects what we want. In this innovative...
Close Romantic Relationships
Maintenance and Enhancement
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2001
With contributions from the leading experts on relationships, this book covers important issues, such as love as self-expansion, equity in maintaining close relationships, commitment, social support, self-verification, and minding the relationship. The end result is a comprehensive account of the...
Debating Emerging Adulthood
Stage or Process?
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2011
The transition from adolescence to adulthood has undergone significant changes in recent decades. Unlike a half century ago, when young people in industrialized countries moved from adolescence into young adulthood in relatively short order at around age 20, now the decade from the late teens to the...
by Leo J. Battenhausen, MA, MSW
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
In 2016, suicide and depression are at an epidemic high in the United States. The World Health Organization predicts that by 2020 depression will be the most diagnosed medical problem in the world second to heart disease. Little, if anything, is being done to battle this disaster by our government...
The Psychopolitics of Food
Culinary rites of passage in the neoliberal age
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
The Psychopolitics of Food probes into the contemporary ‘foodscape’, examining culinary practices and food habits and in particular the ways in which they conflate with neoliberal political economy. It suggests that generic alimentary and culinary practices constitute technologies of the self...
From Prejudice to Intergroup Emotions
Differentiated Reactions to Social Groups
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
The theories or programs of research described in the chapters of this book move beyond the traditional evaluation model of prejudice, drawing on a broad range of theoretical ancestry to develop models of why, when, and how differentiated reactions to groups arise, and what their consequences might...
Cultural Psychology of Coping with Disasters
The Case of an Earthquake in Java, Indonesia
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
This book offers a broad theoretical foundation by relating and contrasting relevant international literature with the outcomes of a particular research project. It provides a critical reevaluation of the complex phenomena of coping with disasters on a general level by applying this integrative theory...
Attribution
An Introduction to Theories, Research and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Attribution concerns the scientific study of naive theories and common-sense explanations. This text provides a thorough and up-to-date introduction to the field, combining comprehensive coverage of the fundamental theoretical ideas and most significant research with an overview of more recent developments.
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Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2015
The new edition of Sport and Exercise Psychology asks four fundamental questions that get to the heart of this flourishing discipline:
What inner states influence what people think, feel, and behave?
How can people manage or self-regulate their own inner states?
How can sport and exercise...
Attraction and Hostility
An Experimental Analysis of Interpersonal and Self Evaluation
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Attraction and hostility find expression in almost every variety of human relationship, and have consequently provided a central theme for social psychology since its beginnings. Yet attempts to conceptualize the diverse phenomena embraced in these terms have produced theories of such wide generality...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
The Psychology of Politicians explores a topic which fuels public and media debate yet is under-researched and has potentially far-reaching consequences for the success of our political systems. Focusing on research with democratically elected representatives from the UK, Poland and Italy, and on...