Social Psychology category: 7378 books
Group Psychology and The Analysis of The Ego
Illustrated & Psychology Glossary & Index Added Inside
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
In Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego, (1922), Sigmund Freud based his preliminary description of group psychology on Le Bon's work, but went on to develop his own, original theory, related to what he had begun to elaborate in Totem and Taboo. Theodor Adorno reprised Freud's essay in 1951...
The Scope of Social Psychology
Theory and Applications (A Festschrift for Wolfgang Stroebe)
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2007
Social psychology attempts to understand, explain, predict and, when needed, change people's thoughts, feelings and behaviours. For a relatively young discipline it has already made great strides toward this awe-inspiring goal. Pioneers such as Lewin, Asch, Kelley and Festinger began groundwork in...
Bridging Social Psychology
Benefits of Transdisciplinary Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2006
Bridging Social Psychology illuminates the unique contribution the field of social psychology can bring to understanding major scientific and societal problems. The book focuses on illustrating the benefits and costs of bridging social psychology with other fields of psychology, including cognitive,...
The Crisis in Modern Social Psychology (Psychology Revivals)
and how to end it
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
In the late 1960s a ‘crisis’ erupted in social psychology, with many social psychologists highly critical of the ‘old paradigm’, laboratory-experimental approach. Originally published in 1989, The Crisis in Modern Social Psychology was the first book to provide a clear account of the complex...
by Dr Keith Tuffin
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2004
`This is a thoughtful, honest and accessible text which I would certainly recommend to students. The chapter ordering is excellent and should take the student through a logical progression from the more established to the more contemporary approaches in social psychology' - Ian Hodges, Westminster...
by Alexa Hepburn
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2002
'this book provides an excellent introduction to contemporary Critical Social Psychology, which anyone exploring the field would do well to read.'
- Psychology in Society
'a very accessible introduction... lively and engaging.... Discussion questions are uncharacteristicaly thought-provoking,...
Advances in Social Cognition, Volume I
A Dual Process Model of Impression Formation
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
This volume presents different perspectives on a dual model of impression formation -- a theory about how people form impressions about other people by combining information about a person with prior knowledge found in long-term memory. This information is of real importance to graduate students and...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
The second edition of The Oxford Handbook of Personality and Social Psychology beautifully captures the history, current status, and future prospects of personality and social psychology. Building on the successes and strengths of the first edition, this second edition of the Handbook combines the...
Psychology After Deconstruction
Erasure and social reconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 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...
Social Psychology and Theories of Consumer Culture
A Political Economy Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Social Psychology and Theories of Consumer Culture: A Political Economy Perspective presents a critical analysis of the leading positions in social psychology from the perspective of classical and contemporary theories of consumer culture. The analysis seeks to expand social psychological theory by...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Why do we think about and interact with other people in the particular ways that we do? Might these thoughts and actions be contemporary products of our long-ago evolutionary past? If so, how might this be, and what are the implications? Research generated by an evolutionary approach to social psychology...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
For the first time in the history of social psychology, we have a handbook on the history of social psychology. In it, leading luminaries in the field present their take on how research in their own domains has unfolded, on the scientists whose impact shaped the research agendas in the different areas...
Cultural Psychology
A Perspective on Psychological Functioning and Social Reform
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2006
Carl Ratner's new book deepens our understanding of psychology by emphasizing the role that cultural factors, such as social institutions, artifacts, and cultural concepts play in psychological functioning. The author demonstrates the impact of culture on stimulating and structuring emotion, personality,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
Since the early 1970s, social psychology has been in crisis. At the time Reconstructing Social Psychology (Armistead) provided a critical review of theories and assumptions in the discipline. Originally published in 1990, this title not only updates that review but illustrates the ways in which assumptions...