Social Psychology category: 7378 books

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Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013

The disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991 left 25 million Russians living outside the Russian Federation. This important new book explores their social identity, examining the mutually held perceptions, fears and resulting nationalism of both the ethnic Russians living outside the Russian Federation...
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Communicating Affection

Interpersonal Behavior and Social Context

by Kory Floyd
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2006

Few behavioral processes are more central to the development and maintenance of intimate relationships than the communication of affection. Indeed, affectionate expressions often initiate and accelerate relational development. By contrast, their absence in established relationships frequently coincides...
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Always Separate, Always Connected

Independence and Interdependence in Cultural Contexts of Development

by Catherine Raeff
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2006

In recent years, there has been a proliferation of theoretical and empirical scholarship on how issues of human separateness, or independence, and issues of human connectedness, or interdependence, are played out in diverse cultural contexts. Despite agreement on the value of understanding culture...
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Women and Aging

An International, Intersectional Power Perspective

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Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014

These are paradoxical times to be an older woman. As individual older women take the stage as role models in the arts and the public sphere, female elders as a group are marginalized as dependent, declining and unimportant. Women and Aging surveys the evolving sociopolitical landscape in an...
Cover of Identity Theory
by Peter J. Burke, Jan E. Stets
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2009

The concept of identity has become widespread within the social and behavioral sciences in recent years, cutting across disciplines from psychiatry and psychology to political science and sociology. All individuals claim particular identities given their roles in society, groups they belong to, and...
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Universalism without Uniformity

Explorations in Mind and Culture

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Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017

One of the major questions of cultural psychology is how to take diversity seriously while acknowledging our shared humanity. This collection, edited by Julia L. Cassaniti and Usha Menon, brings together leading scholars in the field to reconsider that question and explore the complex mechanisms that...
Cover of Regulating Emotions: Five perspectives
by Lea Kliem
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2012

Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject Psychology - Social Psychology, grade: 1.33, Jacobs University Bremen gGmbH, course: Emotion and Motivation, language: English, abstract: Looking at emotion regulation from five different perspectives, this paper provides an overview of the broad field...
Cover of The Construction of Social Judgments
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Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013

Researchers have been addressing social judgment from a cognitive perspective for more than 15 years. Within recent years, however, it has become increasingly clear that many of the models and assumptions initially adopted are in need of revision. The chapters in this volume point out where the original...
Cover of Exploring the Dynamics of Human Development
by Catherine Raeff
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2016

Researchers and students in developmental psychology have pointed out that the numerous findings from research about human development seem disconnected and that it is difficult to fit fragmented bits of information together. Studies of separate domains of functioning (e.g., cognition, emotion, language,...
Cover of Power in Close Relationships
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Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019

Power is an inherent feature of social interactions, yet it is hard to define and therefore understand. This book is the first to organize current interdisciplinary theorizing and research about power from leading academics in areas such as social psychology, communications, family studies, and public...
Cover of Youth-Community Partnerships for Adolescent Alcohol Prevention
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Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016

This forward-thinking reference spotlights an expansive and inclusive community model for youth alcohol prevention as opposed to traditional individual and school-based group approaches. Focusing on a long-term intervention in a Southwestern border town, it documents the development of critical consciousness...
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Handbook of International Negotiation

Interpersonal, Intercultural, and Diplomatic Perspectives

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Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014

This book reinforces the foundation of a new field of studies and research in the intersection between social sciences and specifically between political science, international relations, diplomacy, psychotherapy, and social-cognitive psychology. It seeks to promote a coherent and comprehensive approach...
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Biopsychosocial Perspectives on Arab Americans

Culture, Development, and Health

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Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013

This book introduces an interdisciplinary lens by bringing together vital research on culture, psychosocial development, and key aspects of health and disease to address a wide range of salient concerns. Its scholarship mirrors the diversity of the Arab American population, exploring ethnic concepts...
Cover of Toward the Integration of Theory, Methods, Research, and Utilization
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013

This fourth volume in the Advances in Environment, Behavior, and Design series continues the intent of earlier volumes by exploring new directions in the multidisciplinary environment-behavior (EB or EBS) field. The series is organized around a framework of theory, methods, research, and utilization...
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