Social Psychology category: 7378 books
by Geoffrey Beattie, Laura McGuire
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
What explains our attitudes towards the environment? Why do so many climate change initiatives fail? How can we do more to prevent humans damaging the environment?
The Psychology of Climate Change explores the evidence for our changing environment, and suggests that there are significant cognitive...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2016
This volume describes the development and application of the Mmogo-method® as a projective visual data-gathering method, applied in different contexts and with different groups of people. "Mmogo" means togetherness in Setswana, one of the 11 official languages of South Africa. The Mmogo-method®...
Children and Separation
Socio-Genealogical Connectedness Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2014
Childhood separation and loss have become virtually a way of life for a large number of children throughout the world. Children separated from their genetic parent(s) and consequently their genealogical, social and cultural roots due to processes such as adoption, parental divorce/separation, donor...
The Cambridge Handbook of the Psychology of Prejudice
Concise Student Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
The Cambridge Handbook of the Psychology of Prejudice: Concise Student Edition aims to answer the questions: why is prejudice so persistent? How does it affect people exposed to it? And what can we do about it? With cutting-edge research from top scholars in the field, the chapters present an overview...
Psychology and Capitalism
The Manipulation of Mind
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
Psychology and Capitalism is a critical and accessible account of the ideological and material role of psychology in supporting capitalist enterprise and holding individuals entirely responsible for their fate through the promotion of individualism.
by Tomás Fernández García, Laura Ponce de León Romero
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Con el contenido de esta obra se ofrece a los profesionales y profesores vinculados con la acción social (trabajadores sociales, psicólogos, educadores, sociólogos, animadores socioculturales...) los conocimientos necesarios para favorecer el éxito de su actividad, garantizando la calidad de sus...
The Lost Boys
inside Muzafer Sherif’s Robbers Cave experiment
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2018
The fascinating true story of one of the most controversial psychological experiments of the modern era
Competition. Prejudice. Discrimination. Conflict.
In 1954, a group of boys attended a remote summer camp in Oklahoma. There they were split into two groups, and encouraged to bully,...
Sway
The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2008
A fascinating journey into the hidden psychological influences that derail our decision-making, Sway will change the way you think about the way you think.
Why is it so difficult to sell a plummeting stock or end a doomed relationship? Why do we listen to advice just because it came from someone...
Farsighted
How We Make the Decisions That Matter the Most
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
The hardest choices are also the most consequential. So why do we know so little about how to get them right?
Big, life-altering decisions matter so much more than the decisions we make every day, and they're also the most difficult: where to live, whom to marry, what to believe, whether to...
Sexual Fluidity
Understanding Women's Love and Desire
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
This unsettling and original book offers a radical new understanding of the context-dependent nature of female sexuality. Lisa Diamond argues that for some women, love and desire are not rigidly heterosexual or homosexual but fluid, changing as women move through the stages of life, various social groups, and, most important, different love relationships.
The Better Angels of Our Nature
Why Violence Has Declined
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
**“If I could give each of you a graduation present, it would be this—the most inspiring book I've ever read."
—Bill Gates (May, 2017)
Selected by The New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of the Year**
The author of Enlightenment Now and The New York Times bestseller...
Kidding Ourselves
The Hidden Power of Self-Deception
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of Why We Make Mistakes, an illuminating exploration of human beings’ astonishing ability to deceive themselves.
To one degree or another, we all misjudge reality. Our perception—of ourselves and the world around us—is much more malleable...
by Erich Fromm
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
A New York Times bestseller about overcoming the profound ills of modern society by a legendary social psychologist, the author of Escape from Freedom.
One of Fromm’s main interests was to analyze social systems and their impact on the mental health of the individual. In this study, he reaches...
The Psychology of the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Understanding Lisbeth Salander and Stieg Larssons Millennium Trilogy
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
Lisbeth Salander, heroine of Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and its sequels, is one of the most compelling, complex characters of our time. Is she an avenging angel? A dangerous outlaw? What makes Salander tick, and why is our response to her-and to Larsson’s Millennium trilogy-so...