Social Psychology category: 7378 books
Discrimination at Work
The Psychological and Organizational Bases
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
This volume brings together top scholars in industrial and organizational psychology with social psychologists to explore the research and theory relating to various areas of workplace discrimination.
Many of the contributors to this book participated in a conference on workplace discrimination...
The Psychology of Imagination
History, Theory and New Research Horizons
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
This book offers a new approach to imagination which brings its emotional, social, cultural, contextual and existential characteristics to the fore. Fantasy and imagination are understood as the human capacity to distance oneself from the here?and?now situation in order to return to it with new possibilities....
by Bronislaw Malinowski
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
This vintage text contains Bronislaw Malinowski's seminal treatise, "The Father in Primitive Psychology". It is an analysis of the relationship of society and psychology in tribal communities, and explores ideas of sex and procreation, kinship, myth, social organisation, and more. This fascinating...
Making of The Future
The Trajectory Equifinality Approach in Cultural Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Making of the Future is the first English?language coverage of the new methodological perspective in cultural psychology—TEA (Trajectory Equifinality Approach) that was established in 2004 as a collaboration of Japanese and American cultural psychologists. In the decade that follows it has become a...
Social Encounters
Contributions to Social Interaction
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Social Encounters is an approach to social psychology that is not what one might expect to find in textbooks on this subject. As a companion to Social Interaction advocated by Michael Argyle and his associates, it has been used by a rapidly growing number of researchers in social psychology, and related...
People and Societies
Rom Harré and Designing the Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2010
Rom Harré has pushed the boundaries of our thinking about people and societies and has challenged the orthodox philosophy of science and social psychology. His countless books and articles have inspired generations of scholars in philosophy, psychology, linguistics, cognitive science and social theory....
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Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2011
Human beings have a unique ability to create elaborate predispositions and evaluations based on their social experiences. The concept of attitudes is central to understanding how experience gives rise to these predispositions, and psychologists have spent the best part of the past 100 years trying...
by James T. Tedeschi
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
The nature of social power, the ability of individuals to affect the behavior and belief of others, is central to any understanding of the dynamics of change in our society. It is therefore surprising that social scientists, and especially social psychologists, have devoted relatively little attention...
Social Understanding and Social Lives
From Toddlerhood through to the Transition to School
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2011
Winner of the British Psychological Society Book Award (Academic Monograph category) 2013!
Over the past thirty years, researchers have documented a remarkable growth in children’s social understanding between toddlerhood and the early school years. However, it is still unclear why some children’s...
Jury Psychology: Social Aspects of Trial Processes
Psychology in the Courtroom, Volume I
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
The first of a two-volume set on the Psychology of the Courtroom, Jury Psychology: Social Aspects of Trial Processes offers a definitive account of the influence of trial procedures on juror decision-making. A wide range of topics are covered including pre-trial publicity and inadmissible evidence,...
by Annie O. Derthick, PhD, E.J.R. David
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2017
Written in an engaging and relatable manner, this book reviews the psychological theories and research on the topic of oppression – its evolution, its various forms, and its consequences. Painful historical examples and modern-day occurrences of oppression including mass incarceration, LGBT and...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
This books describes how and why "distant" social influences, such as socialization practices, interpersonal relationships, and social organization, are often just as important as medical considerations in determining an individual's tendency toward health or illness. The essays describe...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Although the two major research areas of the "Self" and "Social Relationships" have flourished, they have done so largely independently of each other. More and more research, however, has indicated that relationships shape the nature of the self and identity, and that self-views...
Multiple Social Categorization
Processes, Models and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
'Ethnic cleansing', 'institutional racism', and 'social exclusion' are just some of the terms used to describe one of the most pressing social issues facing today’s societies: prejudice and intergroup discrimination. Invariably, these pervasive social problems can be traced back to differences in...