Personality category: 1900 books
by TJ Seitz
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
Non-fiction piece on the power that some women have over men
by Santosh Jha
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2017
It took Buddha a minute to arrive at this consciousness of ‘I’, which changed all cognitive acceptances of realism. Same with all greats of humanity. Enlightenment and arriving never takes more than a fleeting few seconds. As ‘I’ unravels its mechanism and process of being, nothing remains...
Positive Leisure Science
From Subjective Experience to Social Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
This book extends positive psychology by embedding leisure into the positive science field, following a new paradigm and aggregating various domains and fields. Positive science can be applied to the field of leisure and, in turn, leisure can serve as an arena to study some of the most important optimal...
The Struggles of Identity, Education, and Agency in the Lives of Undocumented Students
The Burden of Hyperdocumentation
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
This book weaves together two distinct and powerfully related sources of knowledge: the author’s journey and transition from a once undocumented immigrant from Guatemala to a hyperdocumented academic, and five years of on-going national research on the identity, education, and agency of undocumented...
Cultivating Creativity in Methodology and Research
In Praise of Detours
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
This book presents a variety of narratives on key elements of academic work, from data analysis, writing practices and engagement with the field. The authors discuss how elements of academic work and life – usually edited out of traditional research papers – can elicit important analytical insight....
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Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
The publication of this anthology culminates what began as a Visiting Distinguished Scholars Lecture Series sponsored by the School of Jus tice Studies. When Dr. John M. Johnson was awarded the Arizona State University Graduate College's Distinguished Research Award for 1986- 1987, the School faculty...
Alchemy for the Mind
Create your Confident Core
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2014
In Alchemy for the Mind: Create Your Confident Core, Rhian Sherrington, life coach and behaviour change specialist, draws upon neuroscience, positive psychology and theories of behaviour change to offer a concise and informative way to create and nurture a ‘confident core’ to enable you to succeed and flourish in your life.
Moral Psychology
A Multidisciplinary Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2017
This fascinating and timely volume explores current thinking on vital topics in moral psychology, spanning the diverse disciplines that contribute to the field. Academics from cognitive science, evolutionary biology, anthropology, philosophy, and political science address ongoing and emerging questions...
by Howard B. Kaplan
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
This book is about human behavior and, more particularly, about a class of human behaviors-those behaviors by people that have themselves as the object of their behaviors. These self-referent behaviors are social in nature in the sense that in large measure, they are the outcomes of pervasive social...
People Are Hostile Beneath the Thin Veneer of Civilization
Why People Are so Often Selfish, Deceptive, Manipulative, Unethical, Destructive, Violent, Sadistic, and Sinful
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2015
Hostility is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in people and a powerful obstacle to a civilized society. The historic and ongoing frequency of horrific crimes, wars, terrorism, and deplorable individual acts on a grand scale often make it feel like society is not prevailing very well...
Phenomenology of Suicide
Unlocking the Suicidal Mind
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
This book will help the reader to understand the suicidal mind from a phenomenological point of view, shedding light on the feelings of suicidal individuals and also those of clinicians. In accordance with the importance that the phenomenological approach attaches to subjectivity and sense of self...
Cognitive Consistency
A Fundamental Principle in Social Cognition
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2012
This volume provides an overview of recent research on the nature, causes, and consequences of cognitive consistency. In 21 chapters, leading scholars address the pivotal role of consistency principles at various levels of social information processing, ranging from micro-level to macro-level processes....
An Ethnography of Stress
The Social Determinants of Health in Aboriginal Australia
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
Health inequality is a global issue. This book examines the problem through an in-depth look at a remote Australian Aboriginal community characterized by a degree of premature morbidity and mortality similar to that in other disadvantaged populations. Its synthesis of cognitive anthropology with frameworks...
Spiritual Rhythms for the Enneagram
A Handbook for Harmony and Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
The Enneagram opens a remarkable window into the truth about us, enabling us to see how image, wounds, lies, triggers, and default responses shape us every bit as much as our faith. But simply diagnosing our number doesn't do justice to who we are. Nor does it necessarily change us or our relationships....