Personality category: 1900 books
Epistemic Paternalism
A Defence
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Any attempt to help us reason in more accurate ways faces a problem: While we acknowledge that others stand to benefit from intellectual advice, each and every one of us tends to consider ourselves an exception, on account of overconfidence. The solution? Accept a form of epistemic paternalism.
Critical Kinship Studies
An Introduction to the Field
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
This book draws together research on posthumanism and studies of kinship to elaborate an account of western human kinship practices. Studies of kinship have increasingly sought to critique the normative assumptions that often underpin how caring relationships between humans are understood. The categorisation...
À qui ferais-je de la peine si j'étais moi-même?
Comment renoncer à nos autosaboteurs
Language: French
Release Date: September 7, 2010
Dans cet ouvrage dense, nourri de nombreux exemples dans lesquels chacun pourra se reconnaître, Jacques Salomé nous interpelle au plus vif de nous-mêmes. Il nous rappelle combien nous sommes d’une créativité extraordinaire, d’une habileté incroyable et d’une ténacité exemplaire pour...
La Paura
Se la conosci la superi
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 17, 2014
In generale, oggi, l’uomo occidentale immagina il futuro come peggiore rispetto al passato e, in questo atteggiamento annichilito, egli tende a chiudersi, limitando così ogni ulteriore possibilità evolutiva.
La paura mentale blocca ogni agire deprivando l’individuo della...
Complexity in Classroom Foreign Language Learning Motivation
A Practitioner Perspective from Japan
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
This book explores how complex systems theory can contribute to the understanding of classroom language learner motivation through an extended examination of one particular, situated research project. Working from the lived experience of the participants, the study describes how action research methods...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
Conversation analysts have begun to challenge long-cherished assumptions about the relationship between gender and language, asking new questions about the interactional study of gender and providing fresh insights into the ways it may be studied empirically. Drawing on a lively set of audio- and...
Pedophilia
Biosocial Dimensions
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The Reason for this Volume If we were to judge the seriousness of a psychosocial problem by the attention that the popular media give to it, we would have to conclude that the modem world is in the midst of an epidemic of pedophilic child sexual abuse. One can scarcely go more than a few weeks in...
by Oliva M. Espín
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
This book brings a psychological perspective to the often overlooked and understudied topic of women's experiences of migration, covering topics such as memory, place, language, race, social class, work, violence, motherhood, and intergenerational impact of migration.
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Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
This handbook is the first to bring together the latest theory and research on critical approaches to social psychological challenges. Edited by a leading authority in the field, this volume further establishes critical social psychology as a discipline of study, distinct from mainstream social psychology....
Reconstructing Identity
A Transdisciplinary Approach
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
This book examines the notion of identity through a multitude of interdisciplinary approaches. It collects current thinking from international scholars spanning philosophy, history, science, cultural studies, media, translation, performance, and marketing, each with an outlook informed by their own...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2008
Debra A. Hope The Nebraska Symposium on Motivation is steeped in history and tradition. Over the years the series editors have striven to maintain the highest standards of a- demic excellence and to highlight some of the most important trends in psychology. Perusing the chapter titles in the first...
Resolving the Gamer’s Dilemma
Examining the Moral and Psychological Differences between Virtual Murder and Virtual Paedophilia
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
This book explores the gamer’s dilemma, which lies at the heart of theorising about the morality of certain video game content. The dilemma is as follows: given that gaming content involves virtual characters within a virtual environment, the moral permission of virtual murder would also appear...
Redefining Families
Implications for Children’s Development
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Families are undergoing dramatic changes in our society. Our tradi tional views are being challenged by new family arrangements. These new family arrangements are forcing redefinitions of what consti tutes a family and raising significant issues regarding the potential developmental consequences...
Fathering Behaviors
The Dynamics of the Man-Child Bond
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Like the lines of a secret map made dimly apparent by the chemical potion brushed on a piece of paper from a child's detective kit, the outlines of what may be a substantial behavioral biology of human life seem to be coming clear. From genetic science at its most molecular to demography with its...