Personality category: 1900 books
by Dr Trevor Butt
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2003
Understanding People provides an overview and critique of current psychological assumptions about people and what differentiates them, and replaces them with a set of ideas taken from social constructionism. It begins with an examination of contemporary theories, then explores the critique of the...
Hard to Love
Understanding and Overcoming Male Borderline Personality Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
First book to address this under-recognized problem.
Treatment techniques are tailored to the male psyche.
Author is a respected, many-times published clinical psychologist.
Writing is reader-friendly, yet authoritative.
Grabs readers’ attention with anecdotes and case histories.
The Self-Conscious Emotions
Theory and Research
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013
Timely and authoritative, this volume reviews the breadth of current knowledge on the self-conscious emotions and their role in psychological and social functioning. Leading investigators approach the subject from multiple levels of analysis, ranging from basic brain mechanisms to complex social processes....
You can be likable
Develop A Magnetic Personality, #2
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2015
How To Be Likable?If “your heart is in the right place,” it will be fairly easy for you to learn these techniques of living. You can learn to be friendly. You can learn to be kind. You can become more tactful. You can become more thoughtful. You can develop a sense of humor. And you can be...
Belonging Here: A Guide for the Spiritually Sensitive Person
A Guide for the Spiritually Sensitive Person
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Profound empathy. Clear insight. A gift for healing. These are just some of the talents of the spiritually sensitive personyet these apparent blessings can often become a source of loneliness, self-doubt, and limitation. Belonging Here is a lifesaving book that shows how our spiritual gifts become...
by Santosh Jha
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2017
I am a woman, but it is always ‘I’, which shall decide for me ‘How I Am A Woman’ and not the populist generic identities. Womanhood is a blessing but what ‘I’ accept ‘womanhood’ and ‘empowerment’ as, is definitively a conscious-judicious enterprise of ‘power’ I acquire through...
by Trevor Butt
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Understanding People provides an overview and critique of current psychological assumptions about people and what differentiates them, and replaces them with a set of ideas taken from social constructionism. It begins with an examination of contemporary theories, then explores the critique of the...
Narcissism and the Self
Dynamics of Self-Preservation in Social Interaction, Personality Structure, Subjective Experience, and Psychopathology
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
The book examines how coevolved intraspecific aggression and appeasement gestures can give rise to complex social, cultural, and psychopathological phenomena. It argues that the individual's need regulate narcissistic supplies and maintain feelings of safety is the overriding determinant of human conduct and thought in mental health and illness.
Nos préférences sous influences
Les mécanismes psychologiques qui guident nos choix
Language: French
Release Date: December 4, 2015
Quels sont les mécanismes psychologiques à l’origine de nos choix ?Le fait de toucher un objet rend-il celui-ci plus désirable ? Un prénom peut-il influencer le choix d’un lieu de vie ou d’une profession ? Une personne est-elle dépréciée après avoir été aperçue aux côtés d’une personne...
The Experience of Meaning in Life
Classical Perspectives, Emerging Themes, and Controversies
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2013
This book offers an in-depth exploration of the burgeoning field of meaning in life in the psychological sciences, covering conceptual and methodological issues, core psychological mechanisms, environmental, cognitive and personality variables and more.
The Creative Self
Effect of Beliefs, Self-Efficacy, Mindset, and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
The Creative Self reviews and summarizes key theories, studies, and new ideas about the role and significance self-beliefs play in one’s creativity. It untangles the interrelated constructs of creative self-efficacy, creative metacognition, creative identity, and creative self-concept. It explores...
Humor
The Psychology of Living Buoyantly
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In his earlier work the author has studied stress and the personality characteristics that protect us from its effects on health and well-being. In this new book he places humor firmly within the literatures of coping processes, the moderation of stressful experiences, and health by showing how humor...
Tricky Intuitions
How our unconscious can help us and lead us astray
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2008
Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2007 in the subject Psychology - Personality Psychology, grade: 1,3, International University in Germany Bruchsal (Faculty of Science and Liberal Arts), 11 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: In the following paper I will show the...
Then A Miracle Occurs
Focusing on Behavior in Social Psychological Theory and Research
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2009
Focusing attention on a multiplicity of issues surrounding the study of behavior is timely and important. Some scholars believe that, across various sub-disciplines of the field, social psychology actually has contributed a great deal to our understanding of behavior and its antecedents. From this...