Social Psychology category: 7378 books
by Albert Mehrabian
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Even though our society subtly discourages the verbal expression of emotions, most of us, in ostensibly conforming to our roles, nevertheless manage to express likes, dislikes, status differences, personalities, as well as weaknesses in nonverbal ways. Using vocal expressions; gestures, postures,...
Parapsychology
The Science of Unusual Experience
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
Containing contributions from leading paranormal researchers, this edition of Parapsychology continues to challenge and provoke readers with some of psychology’s most puzzling phenomena. Whether believers or sceptics, the book provides readers with the opportunity to further their understanding...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2019
Advances in Motivation Science, Volume Six, the latest release in Elsevier's serial on the topic of motivation science, presents articles on a variety of topics, including Motivation, Emotion, Cognition, and Communication: Definitions and Notes toward a Grand Theory, Motivation in the Service of Allostasis:...
by Jan-Willem van Prooijen
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Punishment of offenders is one of the most universal features of human behavior. Across time and cultures it has been common for people to punish offenders, and one can easily find examples of punishment among ancient hunter-gatherers, in holy scriptures, in popular culture, and in contemporary courts...
The Objectification Spectrum
Understanding and Transcending Our Diminishment and Dehumanization of Others
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
What lies at the heart of humanity's capacity for evil? Any tenable answer to this age-old question must include an explanation of our penchant for objectifying and dehumanizing our fellow human beings. The Objectification Spectrum: Understanding and Transcending Our Diminishment and Dehumanization...
Adoption by Lesbians and Gay Men
A New Dimension in Family Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2011
The practice of adoption has changed dramatically over the past half century, with profound implications for children and families. Perhaps the most remarkable and controversial transformation during this time has been the growing willingness of adoption professionals to place children with sexual-minority...
by Clark McPhail
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Crowd behavior is one of the most colorful but least understood forms of human social behavior. This volume is a major contribution to the field of collective behavior, with implications for social movement analysis.McPhail's critical assessment of the major theories of crowd behavior establishes...
Law and the Unconscious
A Psychoanalytic Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
How do we bring the law into line with people’s psychological experience?
How can psychoanalysis help us understand irrational actions and bad choices? Our legal system relies on the idea that people act reasonably and of their own free will, yet some still commit crimes with a high likelihood...
Emergent Identities
New Sexualities, Genders and Relationships in a Digital Era
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2018
Examining the emergence of new sexual and gender identities in the context of an ever-changing digital landscape, Emergent Identities considers how traditional, binary understandings of sexuality and gender are being challenged and overridden by a taxonomy of non-binary, fluid classifications and...
Furthering Talk
Advances in the Discursive Therapies
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This significant volume brings together noted clinicians to offer practical ways of using narrative and other discursive methods of therapy. The innovative ideas presented build upon the social constructionist thinking that has influenced the field for the past decade. It covers topics such as addressing...
Advances in Environmental Psychology
Volume 3: Energy Conservation, Psychological Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
First published in 1982. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Max Weber
A Comprehensive Bibliography
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
The most profound and enduring social theorist of sociology's classical period, Max Weber speaks as cogently to concerns of the new century as he did to those of the past. In Max Weber and the New Century, Alan Sica demonstrated Weber's preeminent position and lasting vitality within social theory...
Reading Our Lives
The Poetics of Growing Old
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2008
Against the background of Socrates' insight that the unexamined life is not worth living, Reading Our Lives: The Poetics of Growing Old investigates the often overlooked inside dimensions of aging. Despite popular portrayals of mid- and later life as entailing inevitable decline, this book looks at...
Collective Remembering
Memory in the World and in the Mind
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
This interdisciplinary study explores collective memory as it is presented by official producers (such as textbooks and media) and reflected by consumers (group members). Focusing on a case study of Russians and Russian immigrants to the USA and their memories of seminal events in the twentieth-century...