Social Psychology category: 7378 books
Biographical Ruptures and Their Repair
Cultural Transitions in Development
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Biographical ruptures and their repairs: Cultural transitions in development represents the efforts of bridging theoretical, methodological, and practice oriented issues revolving around the notion of biographical ruptures and their repairs. The aim is to bring novel understandings from cultural psychological...
Pride in the Projects
Teens Building Identities in Urban Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2008
Teens in America’s inner cities grow up and construct identities amidst a landscape of relationships and violence, support and discrimination, games and gangs. In such contexts, local environments such as after-school programs may help youth to mediate between social stereotypes and daily experience,...
The Content, Structure, and Operation of Thought Systems
Advances in Social Cognition, Volume Iv
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
If anyone deserves the title "father of social cognition," it is William J. McGuire who, along with his wife and colleague Claire V. McGuire, has written the target article for this volume. The culmination of many years of work, the article discusses their highly developed theory of human...
by Donald Pennington
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
'Essential Personality' provides a clear, accessible and systematic introduction to the major theoretical approaches for the understanding of human personality. This introductory book assumes no prior knowledge of this core area in psychology and is written for students studying personality for the...
by Bernard Weiner
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Weiner introduces -- and offers his own motivation for producing - - this most impressive work with the following:
There are two distinct approaches to the study of motivation. One stratagem is a product of academic, experimental procedures, while the second is an outgrowth of clinical, non-experimental...
Phenomenology and the Social Context of Psychiatry
Social Relations, Psychopathology, and Husserl's Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Exploring phenomenological philosophy as it relates to psychiatry and the social world, this book establishes a common language between psychiatrists, anti-psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers.
Phenomenology and the Social Context of Psychiatry is an inter-disciplinary work by phenomenological...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
The contributors to this collection focus on the cognitive processes that take place during the initial acquisition of information about others (on-line processes) rather than later when memory processes begin playing a dominant role (memory-based processes). Utilizing the methods and concepts of...
by Klaus Fiedler, Eva Walther
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
Traditional social hypotheses have a built-in tendency to verify themselves and so involuntarily resist attempts at stereotype change or correction. This is the insight demonstrated and discussed as the start point for an alternative approach to the problem of stereotyping and hypothesis testing....
Body Image
Understanding Body Dissatisfaction in Men, Women and Children
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
Body Image provides a comprehensive summary of research on body image in men, women, and children drawing together research findings from the fields of psychology, sociology, clothing, and gender studies.
This third edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to reflect the significant...
Attitude Strength
Antecedents and Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Social psychologists have long recognized the possibility that attitudes might differ from one another in terms of their strength, but only recently had the profound implications of this view been explored. Yet because investigators in the area were pursuing interesting but independent programs of...
Damaged Life
The Crisis of the Modern Psyche
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
What are the psychological problems caused by modernization? How can we minimize its negative effects?
Modernization has brought many material benefits to us, yet we are constantly told how unhappy we are: crime, divorce, suicide, depression and anxiety are rampant. How can this contradiction...
Encouraging Sustainable Behavior
Psychology and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Increasingly it is being recognized that consumer behavior may be a key trigger in the march toward sustainable development. Several lines of psychological theory and approaches have been developed relatively independently, each of which may provide major implications and action points on how consumers...
Putting A New Spin on Groups
The Science of Chaos
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2005
Putting a New Spin on Groups: The Science of Chaos, Second Edition continues to challenge orthodoxy and static ideas about small group dynamics. A primary goal is to offer an alternative model of group development that addresses three factors:
*The model integrates old ideas from previous models of...
by Victor Karandashev
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2016
This volume presents a conceptual, historical, anthropological, and sociological review of how culture affects our experience and expression of romantic love. What is romantic love and how is it different from and similar to other kinds of love? How is romantic love related to sex and marriage in...