Social Psychology category: 7378 books
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Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2004
Over the past two decades, a new picture of the cognitive unconscious has emerged from a variety of disciplines that are broadly part of cognitive science. According to this picture, unconscious processes seem to be capable of doing many things that were thought to require intention, deliberation,...
Grounding Sociality
Neurons, Mind, and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2011
This volume concerns the longstanding intellectual puzzle of how individuals overcome their biological, neural, and mental finitude to achieve sociality. It explores how humans take each other into account, coordinate their actions, and are able to share their inner states and to communicate.
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
This new edition of one of the most popular and highly regarded texts on behavioral and social science in medicine has been fully revised and updated. It is structured to reflect the latest Institute of Medicine recommendations on the teaching of behavioral and social sciences in medicine. Its 25...
Group Creativity
Innovation through Collaboration
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2003
Creativity often leads to the development of original ideas that are useful or influential, and maintaining creativity is crucial for the continued development of organizations in particular and society in general. Most research and writing has focused on individual creativity. Yet, in recent years...
Applied Psychology Readings
Selected Papers from Singapore Conference on Applied Psychology, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
This book features the best papers presented at the Singapore Conference on Applied Psychology in 2016. Chapters include research conducted by experts in the field of applied psychology from the Asia-Pacific region, and cover areas such as community and environmental psychology, psychotherapy and...
Expanding the Boundaries of Health and Social Science
Case Studies in Interdisciplinary Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
It is now widely recognized that research on human health requires more than a focus on human biology and disease entities. Lifestyles, attitudes, stress, education, income--all are now understood to contribute to the spread of disease, the effectiveness of curative therapies, and the prevention of...
Consumer-Run Mental Health
Framework for Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2011
Consumer-run organizations and other types of mental health self-help are becoming increasingly popular in the public mental health system. These initiatives now outnumber traditional mental health organizations in the US (Goldstrom et al., 2006). This growth is due in large part to their low cost,...
Social
Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
We are profoundly social creatures--more than we know.
In Social, renowned psychologist Matthew Lieberman explores groundbreaking research in social neuroscience revealing that our need to connect with other people is even more fundamental, more basic, than our need for food or shelter. Because...
by DK
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
The Psychology Book clearly and simply explains more than one hundred groundbreaking ideas of the great scientists and thinkers who contributed to the development of psychological thought.
Using easy-to-follow graphics and artworks, succinct quotations, and thoroughly accessible text, The Psychology...
Social Entrepreneurship
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2011
Social Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice is about the creative ways in which social entrepreneurs solve pressing and insurmountable social problems. Theories of social change are presented to help demystify the 'magic' of making an immense, yet durable and irreversible, social impact. Utilizing...
by Adrian Furnham
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
The New Psychology of Money is an accessible and engrossing analysis of our psychological relationship to money in all its forms.
Comprehensive and insightful, Adrian Furnham explores the role that money plays in a range of contexts, from the family to the high street, and asks whether the...
by Paul Webley, Carole Burgoyne, Stephen Lea
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
From childhood through to adulthood, retirement and finally death, The Economic Psychology of Everyday Life uniquely explores the economic problems all individuals have to solve across the course of their lives.
Webley, Burgoyne, Lea and Young begin by introducing the concept of economic behaviour...
Peace Psychology in the Balkans
Dealing with a Violent Past while Building Peace
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
The volume covers the development of peace psychology in the Balkans. The Balkans is a region marked by post-communist and post-conflict transitional turmoil, and this book provides a comprehensive introduction to research in peace psychology in this part of the world, written by scholars primarily...
The Group Effect
Social Cohesion and Health Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2009
Sociologists and anthropologists have had a long interest in studying the ways in which cultures shaped different patterns of health, disease, and mortality. Social scientists have documented low rates of chronic disease and disability in non-Western societies and have suggested that social stability,...