Social Psychology category: 7378 books
by Hans J. Eysenck, Sybil B.G. Eysenck
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Originally published in 1969, this book deals extensively with the description and measurement of personality.
Beginning with a statement of the principles of typological research in psychology, set against the background of general taxonomic principles in biology, the study discusses in detail...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Imagination allows individuals and groups to think beyond the here-and-now, to envisage alternatives, to create parallel worlds, and to mentally travel through time. Imagination is both extremely personal (for example, people imagine unique futures for themselves) and deeply social, as our imagination...
by Jaan Valsiner
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Ornamented Lives is a theoretical synthesis of cultural psychology, aesthetics, and philosophy of meaning construction. It is an extension of the author’s theory of Semiotic Dynamics (Culture in Minds and Societies, 2007) to the field of ornaments. Ornaments are not merely “decorations” but...
Experiments in Personality: Volume 2 (Psychology Revivals)
Psychodiagnostics and psychodynamics
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Originally published in 1960, the two volumes of Experiments in Personality report a number of experiments in psychogenetics, psychopharmacology, psychodiagnostics, psychometrics and psychodynamics, all of which formed part of the programme of research which had been developing from the late 1940s...
by Claudia Chaves
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
Why are voters so easily hoodwinked? Why so many vote against their own interests? What is it about human beings that corrupts even the systems and organizations designed with the best of intentions? Why don’t people or nations learn from experience, or from history? When is truth really relative,...
Life History Evolution and Sociology
The Biological Backstory of Coming Apart: The State of White America 1960-2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
This book supplies the evolutionary and genetic framework that Charles Murray, towards the end of Coming Apart: The State of White America 1960-2010, predicts will one day explain revolutionary change in American society. Murray’s Coming Apart documents 50 years of changed college admissions, government...
Socio-Analytic Dialogue
Incorporating Psychosocial Dynamics into Public Policies
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2014
In this book, Bruno Boccara argues that complex and changing psychosocial issues, in particular those related to the societal unconscious, must be assessed and incorporated in public policy analysis through Socio-Analytic Dialogue, a psychosocial approach aimed at understanding and addressing emotional...
Issues in Peace and Conflict Studies
Selections From CQ Researcher
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
Do nation-states have a "Responsibility to Protect"? Can countries heal after atrocities? Who should clean up after conflicts end? These questions—and many more—are at the heart of peace and conflict studies. This collection aims to promote in-depth discussion, facilitate further research...
Bodies that Birth
Vitalizing Birth Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
Bodies that Birth puts birthing bodies at the centre of questions about contemporary birth politics, power, and agency. Arguing that the fleshy and embodied aspects of birth have been largely silenced in social science scholarship, Rachelle Chadwick uses an array of birth stories, from diverse race-class...
Self-Regulation and Self-Control
Selected works of Roy F. Baumeister
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
In the World Library of Psychologists series, international experts present career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces—extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, and their major practical theoretical contributions.
In this volume, Roy F. Baumeister...
Future of Western Civilization
Progress Report
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2014
Melanie Mortiboys interviews Dr Nicholas Beecroft for this Progress Report on the project exploring the Future of Western Civilization in the light of the interviews so far. The Future of Western Civilization Series 1 Dr Nicholas Beecroft, a Military and Organizational Psychiatrist,...
Reputation
A Network Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2008
This book argues that a network interpretation of reputation advances our understanding of an essential and inescapable feature of social life and integrates many of its' varied facets. Reputation is a dispersed phenomenon that is to be found in the beliefs and assertions of an extensive number of...
The Message Within
The Role of Subjective Experience In Social Cognition And Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Feeling Good
An Evolutionary Perspective on Life Choices
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Every day, people make life choices that, ideally, increase their evolutionary fitness � the chances of survival and successful reproduction � and lead to positive feelings of fulfilment, accomplishment, and happiness. Sometimes, however, individuals experience quite the opposite: feelings of...