Psychology category: 48213 books
by Philip Watkins, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Does happiness matter? What are happy people like? Can people enhance their sense of well-being? One of the most important movements in psychology during the past two decades, positive psychology is a discipline that seeks to understand the factors that contribute the most to a well lived and fulfilling...
Social Psychology
Core Concepts and Emerging Trends
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2015
Employing a lively and accessible writing style, author Daniel W. Barrett integrates up-to-date coverage of social psychology’s core theories, concepts, and research with a discussion of emerging developments in the field—including social neuroscience and the social psychology of happiness, religion,...
Progress in Self Psychology, V. 4
Learning from Kohut
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
The fourth volume in the Progress in Self Psychology series continues to explore the theoretical yield and clinical implications of the wok of the late Heinz Kohut. Learning from Kohut features sections on "supervision with Kohut" and on the integration of self psychology with classical...
by Alan Carr
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2003
This book presents a clear and in-depth account of abnormal psychology. It focuses on both clinical descriptions, using illustrative case studies at the beginning of each section, and on the implications of the major theoretical perspectives and relevant empirical evidence for clinical treatment....
Psychology and Gender Dysphoria
Feminist and Transgender Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
Psychiatry and psychology have a long and highly debated history in relation to gender. In particular, they have attracted criticism for policing the boundaries of ‘normal’ gender expression through gender identity diagnoses, such as transvestism, transsexualism, gender identity disorder and gender...
Moral Psychology
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Moral psychology is the systematic inquiry into how morality works, when it does work, and breaks down when it doesn't work.
In this comprehensive new textbook, Mark Alfano outlines the five central concepts in the study of moral psychology: agency, patiency, sociality, temporality, and reflexivity....
The New Psychology of Language
Cognitive and Functional Approaches to Language Structure, Volume II
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
From the point of view of psychology and cognitive science, much of modern linguistics is too formal and mathematical to be of much use. The New Psychology of Language volumes broke new ground by introducing functional and cognitive approaches to language structure in terms already familiar to psychologists,...
A Handbook of Work and Organizational Psychology
Volume 3: Personnel Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
Personnel Psychology (or Human Resource Management) examines individual differences and their consequences for the organization. Attention is paid to choice processes, abilities and capabilities, needs and need fulfilment, commitment, selection methods, career development, appraisal and training....
Psychology, Discourse And Social Practice
From Regulation To Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2005
What damage does psychology do to people's lives, and what can we do about it? How do we recognise and support resistance? Written by expert practitioners-researchers, this co-authored book explores how psychology legislates on normality and then uses its "expert" knowledge to turn social...
by John F. Dovidio, Jane Allyn Piliavin, David A. Schroeder
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Written by four leading researchers in the study of prosocial behavior, this book introduces a new perspective on prosocial behavior for the 21st century. Building on the bystander intervention work that has defined this area since the 1960s, The Social Psychology of Prosocial Behavior examines prosocial...
The Psychology of Influence
Theory, research and practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Whether it’s our choice of a new car or what we think about our neighbours, our opinions and attitudes are a way of negotiating the world around us. The Psychology of Influence explores how these preferences and behaviours are influenced and affected by the messages we receive in daily life. From...
Journeys in Social Psychology
Looking Back to Inspire the Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
This volume consists of personal narrative accounts of the career journeys of some of the world's most eminent social psychologists. Each contributing psychologist is an esteemed scholar, an excellent writer, and has a story to tell. Together, the contributions cover a time range from Morton...
by Kurt Lewin
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
This antiquarian text contains a comprehensive treatise on topological psychology, being a detailed exposition of its principles written by Kurt Lewin. Written in clear, plain language and full of information fundamental to understanding this branch of psychology, this text will be of considerable...
Sport Psychology
Performance Enhancement, Performance Inhibition, Individuals, and Teams
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
Sport Psychology, 2nd Edition provides a synthesis of the major topics in sport psychology with an applied focus and an emphasis on achieving optimal performance.
After exploring the history of sport psychology, human motivation, and the role of exercise, there are three main sections to the...