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The Psychology of Radical Social Change

From Rage to Revolution

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Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018

Since 2011 the world has experienced an explosion of popular uprisings that began in the Middle East and quickly spread to other regions. What are the different social-psychological conditions for these events to emerge, what different trajectories do they take, and how are they are represented to...
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The sources and aim of human progress

A study in social psychology and social pathology

by Boris Sidis
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2018

Famous pioneer in many fields of psychology and psychiatry, Boris Sidis is known to have applied his knowledge of psychology by fathering the child prodigy William James Sidis, who at age 11 became the youngest person to enroll at Harvard University. Two decades after publishing his theory of the...
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Political Psychology

New Explorations

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Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016

In recent decades, research in political psychology has illuminated the psychological processes underlying important political action, both by ordinary citizens and by political leaders. As the world has become increasingly engaged in thinking about politics, this volume reflects exciting new work...
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Collective Memory of Political Events

Social Psychological Perspectives

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Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013

Research in collective memory is a relatively new area capturing the interest of scholars in social psychology, memory, sociology, and anthropology. The core idea is that collective attitudes and behaviors are created and shared through common experiences and communication among a cohort of people....
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Visual Methods in Psychology

Using and Interpreting Images in Qualitative Research

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Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012

This comprehensive volume provides an unprecedented illustration of the potential for visual methods in psychology. Each chapter explores the set of theoretical, methodological, as well as ethical and analytical issues that shape the ways in which visual qualitative research is conducted in psychology....
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The Misinformation Age

How False Beliefs Spread

by Cailin O'Connor, James Owen Weatherall
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019

The social dynamics of “alternative facts”: why what you believe depends on who you know Why should we care about having true beliefs? And why do demonstrably false beliefs persist and spread despite consequences for the people who hold them? Philosophers of science Cailin O'Connor and...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012

This volume brings together classic key concepts and innovative theoretical ideas in the psychology of judgment and decision-making in social contexts. The chapters of the first section address the basic psychological processes underlying judgment and decision-making. The guiding question is "What...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015

While consumer research is founded on traditional quantitative approaches, the insight produced through qualitative research methods within consumer settings has not gone unnoticed. The culturally situated consumer, who is in intimate dialogue with their physical, virtual and social surroundings,...
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by Malcolm R. Parks
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017

The effort to understand personal relationships has traditionally focused on the individual characteristics of participants. Personal Relationships and Personal Networks takes this analysis a step further, focusing on research linking participants' feelings and actions within a given personal relationship...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013

Language is the essence of interpersonal behavior and social relationships, and it is social cognitive processes that determine how we produce and understand language. However, there has been surprisingly little interest in the past linking social cognition and communication. This book presents the...
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Imagining Collective Futures

Perspectives from Social, Cultural and Political Psychology

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Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018

It is a commonly held assumption among cultural, social, and political psychologists that imagining the future of societies we live in has the potential to change how we think and act in the world. However little research has been devoted to whether this effect exists in collective imaginations, of...
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by Christoph Rosenthal
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015

Essay from the year 2013 in the subject Psychology - Social Psychology, grade: Distinction, London School of Economics, language: English, abstract: On February 26, 2012 neighbourhood watch volunteer G. Zimmerman from Sanford, FL fatally shot unarmed Trayvon Martin, a 17-year old black teenager. The...
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Techniques of Social Influence

The psychology of gaining compliance

by Dariusz Dolinski
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2015

Every day we are asked to fulfil others’ requests, and we make regular requests of others too, seeking compliance with our desires, commands and suggestions. This accessible text provides a uniquely in-depth overview of the different social influence techniques people use in order to improve the...
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Majority and Minority Influence

Societal Meaning and Cognitive Elaboration

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Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017

Majority and minority influence research examines how groups influence the attitudes, thoughts and behaviours of individuals, groups and society as a whole. This volume collects recent work by an international group of scholars, representing a variety of different theoretical approaches to majority...
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