Social Psychology category: 7378 books
Self-Esteem Issues and Answers
A Sourcebook of Current Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Research and theory on self-esteem have flourished in recent years. This resurgence has produced multiple perpectives on fundamental issues surrounding the nature of self-esteem and its role in psychological functioning and interpersonal processes.
Self-Esteem Issues and Answers brings together...
Hooking Up: The Psychology of Sex and Dating
The Psychology of Sex and Dating
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Part of Greenwood's The Psychology of Everyday Life series, this book gives readers a single-stop resource for learning about the intersections of psychology, human attraction, sexuality, cultural norms, and sexual behavior. Written in a compelling and straightforward style, readers will enjoy learning...
by Florian Coulmas
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
Identity has become one of the most widely used terms today, appearing in many different contexts. Anything and everything has an identity, and identity crises have become almost equally pervasive. Yet 'identity' is extremely versatile, meaning different things to different people and in different...
by Abhijit Naskar
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2016
A thousand years ago, India was a land of scientific and philosophical brilliance.
Over time, science and philosophy started to fade away, and superstition took over people’s minds.
Today, India is supposedly a land of diversity, corruption, superstitions, misogyny, fake patriotism, sexual...
Génération Internet
Comment les écrans rendent nos ados immatures et déprimés
Language: French
Release Date: September 19, 2018
La génération Internet, autrement appelée génération iGen, est arrivée.
La génération Internet, autrement appelée génération iGen, est arrivée.
Nés à partir de 1995, ces jeunes ont grandi avec un téléphone portable au creux de la main, avaient un compte Instagram avant d’entrer...
Community-Based Interventions
Philosophy and Action
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
For decades, community-centered social services have been promoted as an admirable ideal. Yet the concept of decentralized services delivered where people live has proved to be an elusive ideal as well, with the promise of empowerment often giving way to disinterest and apathy.
Community-Based...
Explanation and Experiment in Social Psychological Science
Realism and the Social Constitution of Action
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book is about explanation and experiment in a science of human action. It aims to provide a philosophy of social psychological science that both embodies sound principles of scientific reasoning and is sensitive to the social psychological dimensions of human action. The guiding principle of...
Social Influence
The Ontario Symposium, Volume 5
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
First published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Relative Deprivation and Social Comparison
The Ontario Symposium, Volume 4
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
First published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Role of Trust in Conflict Resolution
The Israeli-Palestinian Case and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
Built on the premise that trust is one of the most important factors in intergroup relations, conflict management and resolution at large, this volume explores trust and its mechanisms and operations especially in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Significantly, this volume focuses not only on the...
Sensitive Objects
Affect and Material Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2016
Some objects seem especially personal and important to us – be it a quickly packed suitcase, an inherited vase, or a photograph. In Sensitive Objects the authors discuss when, how, and why particular objects appear as 'sensitive'. They do so by analyzing the objects' affective charging in the context...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2017
The aim of this volume is to provide an overview of research from different psychological domains with regards to intergroup helping, arguing for intergroup helping as a research area in and of itself. Historically, research on intergroup relations has largely overlooked helping between groups—which,...
Prejudice
Its Social Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2011
This new edition of Prejudice provides a comprehensive treatment of the subject, introducing the major theoretical ideas as well as providing a critical analysis of recent developments.
Takes a social psychological perspective, analysing individual behavior as part of a pattern of intergroup...
by Michal McCall
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
What is the social organization of love, friendship, rivalry, marriage, admiration, collegiality, parenthood, acquaintance, and clientage? How are these types of relationships similar and how do they differ? Few sociological works exist on relationships between friends, business partners, customers...