Social Psychology category: 7378 books
Naughty Boys
Anti-Social Behaviour, ADHD and the Role of Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2005
Boys in the West are being labelled as having psychiatric disorders, behaviour problems and special educational needs, and are receiving psychiatric drugs in ever-greater numbers. In this book, Dr Timimi argues that this crisis reflects a fundamental ambivalence that Western culture has toward children...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
The Handbook of Intergroup Communication brings together research, theory and application on traditional as well as innovative intergroup situations, exploring the communication aspect of these groups.
The volume is organized into four domains – cross-disciplinary approaches to intergroup...
Understanding Human Nature
The Psychology of Personality
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Long-regarded as the handbook of Individual Psychology, Understanding Human Nature provides an engaging introduction to Adler’s key concepts including: inferiority and superiority complexes; life style; memories and dreams; love, marriage and children; and sexuality and sexual problems. Adler’s...
The Hidden Agenda of the Political Mind
How Self-Interest Shapes Our Opinions and Why We Won't Admit It
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2014
When it comes to politics, we often perceive our own beliefs as fair and socially beneficial, while seeing opposing views as merely self-serving. But in fact most political views are governed by self-interest, even if we usually don't realize it. Challenging our fiercely held notions about what motivates...
Applying Anthropology to Gender-Based Violence
Global Responses, Local Practices
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Applying Anthropology to Gender-Based Violence: Global Responses, Local Practices addresses the gaps in theory, methods, and practices that are currently used to engage the problem of gender-based violence. This book complements the work carried out in the legal, social work, and medical fields by...
by Christiane Sanderson
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2015
Counselling Skills for Working with Shame helps professionals to understand and identify shame and to build shame resilience in both the client and themselves.
Shame is ubiquitous in counselling where there is an increased vulnerability and risk of exposure to shame. While many clients experience...
Psychological Perspectives on the Self, Volume 4
the Self in Social Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
The primary aim of this volume is to present the most recent advances in the psychological study of the self with a special emphasis on the factors that contribute to self-concept and self-esteem. This volume offers the following features:
* state-of-the-art testimonies of important new research...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
This book examines how people cannot escape being tainted, whether actively engaged or not, by violence in its countless manifestations. The essays encompass a wide range of theoretical resources, methodological approaches and geo-political areas. They describe how images and fragments of traumatic...
Culture as Embodiment
The Social Tuning of Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
Culture as Embodiment utilizes recent insights in psychology, cognitive, and affective science to reveal the cultural patterning of behavior in group-related practices.
Applies the best of the behavioural sciences to contemporary issues of behavioural cross-fertilization in global exchange
Presents...
The Psychology of Prayer
A Scientific Approach
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
Reviewing the growing body of scientific research on prayer, this book describes what is known about the behavioral, cognitive, emotional, developmental, and health aspects of this important religious activity. The highly regarded authors provide a balanced perspective on what prayer means to the...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
In the Handbook of Culture and Memory, Brady Wagoner and his team of international contributors explore how memory is deeply entwined with social relationships, stories in film and literature, group history, ritual practices, material artifacts, and a host of other cultural devices. Culture is seen...
Cognition and Communication
Judgmental Biases, Research Methods, and the Logic of Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Psychological research into human cognition and judgment reveals a wide range of biases and shortcomings. Whether we form impressions of other people, recall episodes from memory, report our attitudes in an opinion poll, or make important decisions, we often get it wrong. The errors made are not trivial...
The Political Psychology of Globalization
Muslims in the West
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2011
In an increasingly globalized world, there are new economic, strategic, cultural, and political forces at work. The Political Psychology of Globalization: Muslims in the West explores how these shifts and shocks have influenced the way in which Muslim minorities in western countries form their identities...
Handbook of Competence and Motivation, Second Edition
Theory and Application
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
Now completely revised (over 90% new), this handbook established the concept of competence as an organizing framework for the field of achievement motivation. With an increased focus on connecting theory to application, the second edition incorporates diverse perspectives on why and how individuals...