Social Psychology category: 7378 books
The Psychology of Serial Killer Investigations
The Grisly Business Unit
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2003
Serial killers like Seattle's Ted Bundy, Maryland's Beltway Sniper, Atlanta's Wayne Williams, or England's Peter Sutcliffe usually outsmart the task forces on their trail for long periods of time. Keppel and Birnes take readers inside the operations of serial killer task forces to learn why. What...
by Martin Chemers
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
A definition of leadership that would be widely accepted by the majority of theorists and researchers might say that "leadership is a process of social influence in which one person is able to enlist the aid and support of others in the accomplishment of a common task."
The major...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
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Talking to Strangers
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Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2019
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by Bernhardt Liebermann
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
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The Cyber Effect
An Expert in Cyberpsychology Explains How Technology Is Shaping Our Children, Our Behavior, and Our Values--and What We Can Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
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Political Straight Talk
A Prescription for Healing Our Broken System of Government
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
In writing the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, our Founding Fathers established a democratic republic with a solid political basis. What they wrote was the political map that future representatives would need to follow to conduct the people's business in an efficient and effective...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
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Work and Organizational Psychology
An Introduction with Attitude
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2004
In this unique text, Christine Doyle provides the student with a cutting-edge introduction to the field of work and organizational psychology. The main focus is on recent changes that have occurred in the world of work, incorporating their causes, consequences, proposed solutions to the associated...
Blogs and Tweets, Texting and Friending
Social Media and Online Professionalism in Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
Blogs and Tweets, Texting and Friending: Social Media and Online Professionalism in Health Care summarizes the most common mistakes - and their legal and ethical ramifications -made in social media by busy health care professionals. It gives best practices for using social media while maintaining...
by Eddie Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
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by Richard Schacht
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
First published in 1970, original blurb:
‘Alienation’ is the catchword of our time. It has been applied to everything from the new politics to the anti-heroes of today’s films. But what does it mean to say that someone is alienated? Is alienation a state of mind, or a relationship? If...
Suspicious Minds
Why We Believe Conspiracy Theories
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
'A first class book' Sunday Times
We're all conspiracy theorists. Some of us just hide it better than others.
Conspiracy theorists do not wear tin-foil hats (for the most part). They are not just a few kooks lurking on the paranoid fringes of society with bizarre ideas about shape-shifting...