Social Psychology category: 7378 books
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Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
Learn what trends and factors are influencing families globally
How are families the same or different around the world? Families in a Global Context puts the similarities and differences into perspective, presenting an in-depth comparative analysis of family life in 17 countries around the...
Political Mind Games
How the 1% Manipulate Our Understanding of What's Happening, What's Right, and What's Possible
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2018
In Political Mind Games, psychologist Roy Eidelson presents a unique and illuminating framework for understanding and combating the manipulative ploys of the 1%. He explains exactly how the rich and powerful mislead the American people—about what’s happening, what’s right, and what’s possible—by...
by Peter S. Hovmand
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2013
Community Based System Dynamics introduces researchers and practitioners to the design and application of participatory systems modeling with diverse communities. The book bridges community- based participatory research methods and rigorous computational modeling approaches to understanding communities...
by Paul C. Rosenblatt, Elizabeth Wieling
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2013
In the extensive literature on couples and intimacy, little has been written about knowing and not knowing as people experience and understand them. Based on intensive interviews with thirty-seven adults, this book shows that knowing and not knowing are central to couple relationships. They are entangled...
Understanding Hate Crimes
Acts, Motives, Offenders, Victims, and Justice
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Hate crimes and lesser acts of bigotry and intolerance are seen to be constants in today’s world. Since 1990, the federal government has published annual reports on hate crime incidents in the United States. While the reported numbers are disturbing, even more devastating is the impact of these...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
In culturally diverse societies, one of the biggest questions on our minds is 'how shall we all live together?' Mutual Intercultural Relations offers an answer to this fundamental and topical issue. By exploring intercultural relationships between dominant/national and non-dominant/ethnic populations...
Discapacit-andros
La vergonzosa decadencia del varón contemporáneo
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 15, 2017
“Discapacit-andros” es una obra polémica, crítica y provocativa ya desde su mismo título. En ella encontraremos un profundo cuestionamiento a la figura del varón contemporáneo, sobre todo en lo que respecta a su relación con el otro sexo.
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The Paradox of Diversity
Why does Interethnic Contact in Voluntary Organizations not lead to Generalized Trust?
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
This book is about ethnic diversity in voluntary organizations and seeks to explain whether intergroup contact contributes to the development of generalized trust. It relies on a novel multilevel design and data from Amsterdam in which 40 voluntary organizations and 463 participants have been sampled....
Communication Under the Microscope
The Theory and Practice of Microanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Social interaction in recent years has become the focus of systematic scientific research in a wide variety of academic disciplines. In Communication under the Microscope, Peter Bull shows how communication has become an object of study in its own right, which can be dissected in the finest detail...
by Peter Philippson
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
We are in a world that is increasingly complex. Most of us inhabit two worlds that seem very different, the immediate experiential world and a virtual cyber-world of e-mail, text, social media. Gestalt Therapy emphasises ‘contact’ and ‘awareness’, and the question arises how much we can talk...
Perfectly Prep
Gender Extremes at a New England Prep School
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2008
Although New England boarding schools have been educating America's elite for four generations, they, along with their privileged students, rarely have been the subject of study. Living in a senior boys' dorm at a co-ed school, Sarah Chase was able to witness the inner workings of student culture...
社群假象：不掉進與他人比較的絕望陷阱
Unfiltered: How to be as Happy as You Look on Social Media
Language: Chinese
Release Date: August 7, 2019
從現在起，就別管他人今天在網路上貼了什麼！
切記，社群媒體上看到的那些耀眼照片，
並非是親朋好友或崇拜偶像的真實人生。
不論我們得到多少個讚，或是有多少追蹤與訂閱數，都不代表這些人真的在意你。
根本沒有必要每5分鐘就滑一下手機，你的人生不該由別人來定義。
你的喜怒愛樂、成就或窘境……都是你自己的真實經驗，應當以此為榮！
社群媒體儼然已成為21世紀人類用來逃避日常生活的出口，當我們登入社群媒體，就能跟他人產生有意義的連結。像是找到失聯許久的兒時好友、疏於往來的親戚，甚至能找到工作、尋得真愛，就連已經分手的前男友或高中時的暗戀對象……也都能找到，人際網路連結強大無比。但是，為什麼我們會變得不快樂、患得患失，甚至焦躁不安、失眠頭痛？
廣受歡迎的TED演講者Jessica...
Schadenfreude
Understanding Pleasure at the Misfortune of Others
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2014
When someone suffers a mishap, a setback or a downfall, we sometimes find ourselves experiencing schadenfreude - an emotion defined as deriving pleasure from another's misfortune. Schadenfreude is a common experience and an emotion which is seemingly inherent to social being. This book offers a comprehensive...
Patologias do social
Arqueologias do sofrimento psíquico
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: April 5, 2018
Neste livro, que resume e abarca quase dez anos de pesquisas do Laboratório de Teoria Social, Filosofia e Psicanálise da Universidade de São Paulo, propomos uma arqueologia e uma genealogia dos principais quadros consolidados pela história recente da psicopatologia. Partimos da desconstrução...