Social Psychology category: 7378 books
Terrorism, Trauma and Psychology
A multilevel victim perspective of the Bali bombings
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
This book provides a comprehensive insight into the multilayered effects experienced by directly affected victims and their indirectly affected family members following terrorist incidents and other world disasters. Chapters draw primarily on interviews with fifty victims of the Bali bombings, but...
by Philip Manning
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Although Freud’s impact on social science – and indeed 20th century social thought – has been extraordinary, his impact on American sociology has been left relatively unexplored. This ground-breaking book aims to fill this knowledge gap. By examining the work of pioneers such as G.H.Mead, Cooley,...
by Alex Dennis, Rob Philburn, Greg Smith
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Social interaction lies at the heart of our everyday experience. We make our way down the street and avoid crashing into others, take our place in the supermarket queue, take care in the way we talk about others in conversation, acknowledge the social status of people we meet, and enjoy leisurely...
Relational Remembering
Rethinking the Memory Wars
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2003
Tracing the impact of the 'memory wars' on science and culture, Relational Remembering offers a vigorous philosophical challenge to the contemporary skepticism about memory that is their legacy. Campbell's work provides a close conceptual analysis of the strategies used to challenge women's memories,...
by Havelock Ellis
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
The origin of these Studies dates from many years back. As a youth I was faced, as others are, by the problem of sex. Living partly in an Australian city where the ways of life were plainly seen, partly in the solitude of the bush, I was free both to contemplate and to meditate many things. A resolve...
Knowing Victims
Feminism, agency and victim politics in neoliberal times
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
Knowing Victims explores the theme of victimhood in contemporary feminism and politics. It focuses on popular and scholarly constructions of feminism as ‘victim feminism’ – an ideology of passive victimhood that denies women’s agency – and provides the first comprehensive analysis of the...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
Measures of Personality and Social Psychological Constructs assists researchers and practitioners by identifying and reviewing the best scales/measures for a variety of constructs. Each chapter discusses test validity, reliability, and utility. Authors have focused on the most often used and cited...
Human Autonomy in Cross-Cultural Context
Perspectives on the Psychology of Agency, Freedom, and Well-Being
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2010
This volume presents the reader with a stimulating tapestry of essays exploring the nature of personal autonomy, self-determination, and agency, and their role in human optimal functioning at multiple levels of analysis from personal to societal and cross-cultural. The starting point for these explorations...
Sex Differences in Social Behavior
A Social-role interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
In presenting an innovative theory of sex differences in the social context, this volume applies social-role theory and meta-analytic techniques to research in aggression, social influence, helping, nonverbal, and group behavior. Eagly's findings show that gender stereotypic behavior results from...
by Jan-Willem van Prooijen
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
Who believes in conspiracy theories, and why are some people more susceptible to them than others?
What are the consequences of such beliefs?
Has a conspiracy theory ever turned out to be true?
The Psychology of Conspiracy Theories debunks the myth that conspiracy theories are...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
This unique volume speaks to the question of whether social psychological theories and principles are universal. It offers a truly panoramic picture of how scientific social psychology can address timely social issues.
Psychology of self-insight - Motivated reasoning and self-deception
When liar and belied are one person - Or why we often see things through rose-colored glasses
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject Psychology - Social Psychology, grade: 1,0, University of Cologne, course: Wirtschafts- und Sozialpsychologie, language: English, abstract: Those who are interested in soccer certainly know it: the Wembley goal from 1966 and the debate about whether...
Bullying, Rejection, & Peer Victimization
A Social Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2009
Both children and adults who experience chronic peer victimization are at considerable risk for a host of adverse psychological consequences, including depression, aggression, even suicidal ideation. Bullying, Rejection, and Peer Victimization is the only book that addresses bullying across the developmental...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
Widely regarded as the definitive reference, this volume comprehensively examines the psychological processes associated with religion and spirituality. Leading scholars from multiple psychological subdisciplines present developmental, cognitive, social psychological, cultural, and clinical perspectives...