Social Psychology category: 7378 books
by Richard Gross, Rob McIlveen
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
In everyday life we depend upon, interact with, influence are influenced by many people in situations that range from brief single encounters to the special relationships we form with family and close friends. Social interactions such as these are just a part of what make up social psychology, the...
Social Psychology and the Unconscious
The Automaticity of Higher Mental Processes
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Evidence is mounting that we are not as in control of our judgments and behavior as we think we are. Unconscious or ‘automatic’ forms of psychological and behavioral processes are those of which we tend to be unaware, that occur without our intention or consent, yet influence us on a daily basis...
Psychology After Lacan
Connecting the clinic and research
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Ian Parker has been a leading light in the fields of critical and discursive psychology for over 25 years. The Psychology After Critique series brings together for the first time his most important papers. Each volume in the series has been prepared by Ian Parker and presents a newly written introduction...
Understanding Social Psychology Across Cultures
Engaging with Others in a Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Understanding Social Psychology Across Cultures Second Edition starts by asking why social psychology needs a cross-cultural perspective. It then examines cultural differences and their origins, before addressing traditional social psychological themes cross-culturally, for example group processes,...
Alternatives to Cognition
A New Look at Explaining Human Social Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
In this provocative book, Christina Lee takes a consciously critical approach to the apparently unchallenged principle that conscious thought is the cause of all human behavior. Without becoming polemical or destructive, she reconsiders a wide range of issues in mainstream American and European social...
The Sociocultural Turn in Psychology
The Contextual Emergence of Mind and Self
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
The sociocultural turn in psychology treats psychological subjects, such as the mind and the self, as processes that are constituted, or "made up," within specific social and cultural practices. In other words, though one's distinct psychology is anchored by an embodied, biological existence,...
Social Identifications
A Social Psychology of Intergroup Relations and Group Processes
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2006
The authors of Social Identifications set out to make accessible to students of social psychology the social identity approach developed by Henri Tajfel, John Turner, and their colleagues in Bristol during the 1970s and 1980s. Michael Hogg and Dominic Abrams give a comprehensive and readable account...
Language As Social Action
Social Psychology and Language Use
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
This interdisciplinary synthesis of the social psychological aspects of language use provides an integrative and timely review of language as social action. The book successfully weaves together research from philosophy, linguistics, sociolinguistics, anthropology, social and cognitive psychology,...
Contextualizing Human Memory
An interdisciplinary approach to understanding how individuals and groups remember the past
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
This edited collection provides an inter- and intra-disciplinary discussion of the critical role context plays in how and when individuals and groups remember the past. International contributors integrate key research from a range of disciplines, including social and cognitive psychology, discursive...
Gender and Social Hierarchies
Perspectives from social psychology
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Gender and Social Hierarchies offers a fresh and coherent picture of applied research from within social psychology on the intricate relationship between gender and social status. It comprises a collection of innovative approaches which seek to understand the pervasiveness of status asymmetry between...
The Social Psychology of Intractable Conflicts
Celebrating the Legacy of Daniel Bar-Tal, Volume I
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
This volume works explores a transferable theory of a specific social-psychological infrastructure, based on the work of Dr. Daniel Bar-Tal, that develops from cultures immersed in intractable conflicts. The book's approach to this issue is different from approaches that are predominant in social...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2009
Advances in Experimental Social Psychology continues to be one of the most sought after and most often cited series in this field. Containing contributions of major empirical and theoretical interest, this series represents the best and the brightest in new research, theory, and practice in social...
How to Rethink Psychology
New metaphors for understanding people and their behavior
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Based on the author’s forty years of experience in psychology, philosophy, and the social sciences, How to Rethink Psychology argues that to understand people we need to know more about their contexts than the dominant modes of thinking and research presently allow. Drawing upon insights from sources...
Self, Attitudes, and Emotion Work
Western Social Psychology and Eastern Zen Buddhism Confront Each Other
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
This book is about how Western social psychology interfaces with an Eastern Zen Buddhist perspective. It is neither a purely Zen Buddhist critique of the former, nor is it merely a social psychological interpretation of Zen. Rather, it is an attempt to create common ground between each through the...