Personality category: 1900 books
Remaking Transitional Justice in the United States
The Rhetorical Authorization of the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Remaking Transitional Justice in the United States: The Rhetoric of the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission explores rhetorical attempts to authorize the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission—a grassroots, U.S.-based truth commission created in 2004 toredress past injustices...
Finding Meaning in Dreams
A Quantitative Approach
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Distinguished psychologist G. William Domhoff brings together-for the first time-all the necessary tools needed to perform quantitative studies of dream content using the rigorous system developed by Calvin S. Hall and Robert van de Castle. The book contains a comprehensive review of the literature, detailed coding rules, normative findings, and statistical tables.
The American Prison
Issues in Research and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
Despite the dire forecasts of others who had themselves edited books, we proceeded with the project of an edited volume on the American prison, although with more than a little trepidation. We had heard the horror stories of authors turning in their chapters months or years late or never at all, of...
The Discursive Social Psychology of Evidence
Symbolic Construction of Reality
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Having spent more than thirty years in the laboratory studying human behavior under preformatted, controlled conditions, I found myself dissatisfied with my work. It is not that my work produced no new findings on human conduct, or that working almost exclusively with college students gave me little...
Emotion and the Law
Psychological Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2009
From questions surrounding motives to the concept of crimes of passion, the intersection of emotional states and legal practice has long interested professionals as well as the public—recent cases involving extensive pretrial publicity, highly charged evidence, and instances of jury nullification...
Phobic and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders
Theory, Research, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In the last decade, the literature of phobic and obsessive-compulsive disorders has increased enormously. In view of this explosive growth it becomes increasingly difficult for the practitioner to keep abreast of important developments that have led to significant changes in treat ment procedures....
Voluntary Employee Withdrawal and Inattendance
A Current Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Regardless of the job market situation, there is always a certain level of voluntary employee withdrawal - lateness, absence, avoidance of work, undue socializing - that affects the well being of the organization. This volume explores the various manifestations of employee withdrawal, how they may...
by Fletcher A. Blanchard, Faye J. Crosby
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Racism and sexism remain prevalent in societies today. Based on this proven premise, the authors of Affirmative Action in Perspective maintain that a policy of equal opportunity as practiced in America is not a feasible, realistic solution to the "legacy of racial and sexual discrimination"....
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Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
This volume brings together cutting-edge research from emerging and senior scholars alike representing a variety of disciplines that bears on human preferences for fairness, equity and justice. Despite predictions derived from evolutionary and economic theories that individuals will behave in the...
Psychologie der Werte
Von Achtsamkeit bis Zivilcourage – Basiswissen aus Psychologie und Philosophie
Language: German
Release Date: November 24, 2015
Dieser Sammelband lädt ein, sich mit den Grundwerten unserer Gesellschaft neu auseinanderzusetzen: Was bedeuten eigentlich Empathie, Respekt, Vertrauen u.a. Werte im Kern? Was wissen psychologische Forschung, Philosophie oder Theologie darüber? Welche Bedeutung haben diese Werte für jeden Einzelnen...
Chefsache Intuition
Besser managen, beurteilen und entscheiden durch intuitive Kompetenz
Language: German
Release Date: February 19, 2018
Das Buch aus der Chefsache-Reihe stellt die Intuition als wichtiges Erfolgskriterium für Entscheidungen und Zieldefinitionen in Unternehmen in den Blickpunkt. Intuition ist die Fähigkeit, komplexe Sachverhalte umfassend zu durchdringen, kritische Faktoren zu erkennen und gedankliche Grenzen zu überwinden....
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Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Globalization has shifted perspectives on individualism and identity as cultural exchange occurs more rapidly in an age of heightened connectivity. As technology connects those around the world, it too helps to provoke a shift in the autonomy of individuals. The Handbook of Research on Individualism...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Cookie White Stephan and Walter G. Stephan This is a book about the two social psychologies-psychological social psychology and sociological social psychology--written by social psychologists from both disciplines. It focuses on the benefits and costs of interchange between psychological social psychology...
by T. Revenson, K. Griva, A. Luszczynska
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
How does caregiving affect health and well-being and what resources help caregivers? This book provides a synthesis of psychological research on caregiver stress and brings attention to the personal, social and structural factors that affect caregivers' well-being and as well as recent behavioral interventions to enhance health.