Personality category: 1900 books
by
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
This book covers topics not commonly associated with creativity that offer us insight into creative action as a social, material, and cultural process. A wide range of specialists within the humanities and social sciences will find this interesting, as well as practitioners who are looking for novel ways of thinking about and doing creative work.
Explaining Suicide
Patterns, Motivations, and What Notes Reveal
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2017
The rate of suicides is at its highest level in nearly 30 years. Suicide notes have long been thought to be valuable resources for understanding suicide motivation, but up to now the small sample sizes available have made an in-depth analysis difficult. Explaining Suicide: Patterns, Motivations, and...
by Lewis R. Aiken
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
Human Development in Adulthood is a comprehensive, multidisciplinary overview of adult development in a number of areas both personal and societal, from mental and physical health, to economic and social conditions. Variables including race, gender, economic status, and political and religious affiliation...
by
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
with contributions by numerous experts
Dreaming Culture
Meanings, Models, and Power in U.S. American Dreams
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
Dreams seem the most private territory of experience. Yet Dreaming Culture argues they are a space in which we practice, consider, question, and adapt cultural models of the self, gender, sexuality, relationships, and agency. Through an innovative "dream ethnography" from college students...
by Aaron C. T. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2016
Belief change lies at the heart of all human aspirations. From career progression, weight loss, spiritual commitment, and ideological passion, to love, grief, war, identity, and sport, beliefs guide our lives and to a great extent, determine our success, satisfaction and happiness. Cognitive Mechanisms...
by Mohamadi Quadri
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Is it offense to travel without a ticket in public transportation system? Did you ever travelled without ticket? If not, let us read and explore the adventure of an innocent boy.
Theory Driving Research:
New Wave Perspectives On SelfProcesses And Human Development
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Theory Driving Research: New wave perspectives on selfprocesses and human development provides a unique insight into selfprocesses from varied theoretical perspectives. The chapters in this volume develop avantgarde theoretical ideas to drive future, cuttingedge, empirical research and together, in...
SelfProcesses, Learning and Enabling Human Potential
Dynamic New Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
This volume deals with a wealth of issues related to self, from the overarching theoretical perspective of Bandura and his careful and thorough analysis of the agentic self, highlighting the complexities of our multiple selves acting in an integrated, holistic, and dynamic fashion, to the engaging and...
Dialogic Formations
Investigations into the Origins and Development of the Dialogical Self
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
This volume understands itself as an invitation to follow a fundamental shift in perspective, away from the selfcontained ‘I’ of Western conventions, and towards a relational self, where development and change are contingent on otherness. In the framework of ‘Dialogical Self Theory’ (Hermans...
Hidden Treasure
How to Break Free of Five Patterns that Hide Your True Self
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
• In 2014, there was a 15% increase in sales over 2013 of self-help books • 83% of the US public consider themselves spiritual. There has been an 18% increase in the past several years of those who identify themselves as spiritual but not religious. • In a Google search, there are 5,810,000...
Metacognition
Process, Function and Use
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The object of this volume is to promote the interaction, and indeed construct a synergistic reciprocity between the functional perspective on metacognition and the analytical perspective. The authors examine the role of metacognition in activities as varied as classroom learning, piloting airplanes,...
Character
New Directions from Philosophy, Psychology, and Theology
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2015
This collection contains some of the best new work being done on the subject of character from the perspectives of philosophy, theology, and psychology. From creating a virtual reality simulation of the Milgram shock experiments to understanding the virtue of modesty in Muslim societies to defending...