Social Psychology category: 7378 books
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Several recent analyses have focused on how social and cultural factors shape development, but less well understood are the individual constructive processes involved in this interplay. This volume showcases varied theoretical and empirical approaches to how individual, social and cultural factors shape development, and suggests new directions for future scholarship.
The Psychology of Strategy
Exploring Rationality in the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
How do strategists decide what they wish to achieve through war, and how they might accomplish it? And why does their understanding of violence regularly turn out to be wrong? In seeking answers to these questions Kenneth Payne draws on the study of psychology to examine strategic behaviour during...
Analysing Identity
Cross-Cultural, Societal and Clinical Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2005
People's identities are addressed and brought into being by interaction with others. Identity processes encompass biographical experiences, historical eras and cultural norms in which the self's autonomy varies according to the flux of power relationships with others.
Identity Structure Analysis...
Cyberbullying in Schools, Workplaces, and Romantic Relationships
The Many Lenses and Perspectives of Electronic Mistreatment
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2019
This volume brings together research on cyberbullying across contexts, age groups, and cultures to gain a fuller perspective of the prevalence and impact of electronic mistreatment on individual, group, and organizational outcomes. This is the first book to integrate research on cyberbullying across...
by Harmut B. Mokros
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Scholarly interest in issues of self-identity has exploded across disciplines within the humanities and social sciences in recent years. Common to these concerns are the assumptions that self-identity is not an a priori, not given or fixed, but created in the process of communication. This also assumes...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
This edited volume provides an up-to-date review of current research on ostracism, social exclusion, and rejection. The book shows why exclusion and rejection occur, how they affect the excluded individuals, and the consequences they might have for individuals and organizations.
Ostracism,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
What makes for strong and enduring relationships? It is a question of increasing scientific and popular interest as it has become clear that relationships can make life happier, healthier, and longer. In this collection, the reader will find an overview of state-of-the-art research on this question...
by Ismael Quintanilla
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 29, 2013
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 29, 2013
El principal cometido de la psicología social del trabajo es el estudio y la investigación de las conductas de los seres humanos en el trabajo y los procesos psicológicos que las influyen y determinan. No se circunscribe al análisis de esta actividad humana sin más consideraciones, sino que,...
Framed by Gender
How Gender Inequality Persists in the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
In an advanced society like the U.S., where an array of processes work against gender inequality, how does this inequality persist? Integrating research from sociology, social cognition and psychology, and organizational behavior, Framed by Gender identifies the general processes through which gender...
The Broken Ladder
How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
A timely examination by a leading scientist of the physical, psychological, and moral effects of inequality.
Today’s inequality is on a scale that none of us has seen in our lifetimes, yet this disparity between rich and poor has ramifications that extend far beyond mere financial means....
The Institutional Logics Perspective
A New Approach to Culture, Structure, and Process
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
How do institutions influence and shape cognition and action in individuals and organizations, and how are they in turn shaped by them? Various social science disciplines have offered a range of theories and perspectives to provide answers to this question. Within organization studies in recent years,...
Amazing Decisions
The Illustrated Guide to Improving Business Deals and Family Meals
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2019
Dan Ariely, the New York Times bestselling author of Predictably Irrational, and illustrator Matt R. Trower present a playful graphic novel guide to better decision-making, based on the author’s groundbreaking research in behavioral economics, neuroscience, and psychology.
The internationally...
The Age of Overwhelm
Strategies for the Long Haul
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
Whether we are overwhelmed by work or school; our families or communities; caretaking for others or ourselves; or engagement in social justice, environmental advocacy, or civil service, just a few subtle shifts can help sustain us. Laura van Dernoot Lipsky, bestselling author of Trauma...
Waltzing
A Manual for Dancing and Living
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
In the 85 chapters of this guidebook, you will find many ideas about waltzing, dancing, and living. Dance descriptions and tips to improve your dancing are accompanied by down-to-earth ways to find greater fulfillment in your dancing and in your life. 25 different kinds of waltz are completely...