Social Psychology category: 7378 books
Shaping Social Identities After Violent Conflict
Youth in the Western Balkans
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2017
This book examines the identities of young adults in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Kosovo, and Macedonia. With research drawn from a large multidisciplinary project exploring a potential for reconciliation in post-conflict societies, the authors discuss the interplay between ethnic, religious and national...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2004
Resistance and Persuasion is the first book to analyze the nature of resistance and demonstrate how it can be reduced, overcome, or used to promote persuasion. By examining resistance, and providing strategies for overcoming it, this new book generates insight into new facets of influence and persuasion....
Back to Life
How to unlock your pathway to recovery (when back pain persists)
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
Back pain is very hard (often impossible) to diagnose and to specify, hence heavy painkillers are thrown at people. But the only way to beat the pain is to understand it. Based on cutting-edge research into back pain and the psychology of pain itself, David Rogers and Grahame Brown have set up the...
Fat Lives
A Feminist Psychological Exploration
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Ever caught somebody – or yourself – checking out the content of a ‘fat’ person’s supermarket trolley? Ever wondered what lies behind this behaviour, or what it might be like to be at the receiving end of this judging gaze?
Within the context of the current ‘obesity debate’, this...
by Michael Argyle
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Non-verbal communication - the eye movements, facial expressions, tone of voice, postures and gestures that we all use more or less consciously and more or less effectively - can enhance or diminish every form of social interaction. Michael Argyle's second edition of Bodily Communication is an invaluable...
What's Wrong With Morality?
A Social-Psychological Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Most works on moral psychology direct our attention to the positive role morality plays for us as individuals, as a society, even as a species. In What's Wrong with Morality?, C. Daniel Batson takes a different approach: he looks at morality as a problem. The problem is not that it is wrong to be...
Cyberpsychology and New Media
A thematic reader
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Cyberpsychology is the study of human interactions with the internet, mobile computing and telephony, games consoles, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and other contemporary electronic technologies. The field has grown substantially over the past few years and this book surveys how researchers...
The Geography of Thought
How Asians and Westerners Think Differently...and
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
A “landmark book” (Robert J. Sternberg, president of the American Psychological Association) by one of the world's preeminent psychologists that proves human behavior is not “hard-wired” but a function of culture.
Everyone knows that while different cultures think about the world differently,...
The Environmental Psychology of Prisons and Jails
Creating Humane Spaces in Secure Settings
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
This book distils thirty years of research on the impacts of jail and prison environments. The research program began with evaluations of new jails that were created by the US Bureau of Prisons, which had a novel design intended to provide a non-traditional and safe environment for pre-trial inmates...
by Neil J. Smelser
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2011
The golden anniversary edition of THEORY OF COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOR from Quid Pro Books is a modern republication of a sociological and social psychology classic. Adding a reflective new Preface by the author and an extensive, analytical Foreword by MIT's Gary Marx, it is an authorized and painstaking...
by Stuart Oskamp, P. Wesley Schultz
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2005
Notable advances resulting from new research findings, measurement approaches, widespread uses of the Internet, and increasingly sophisticated approaches to sampling and polling, have stimulated a new generation of attitude scholars. This extensively revised edition captures this excitement, while...
Soviet Psychology
History, Theory, Content
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Originally published in 1975, this title sets out to show us the differences between Soviet and other ways of thinking about nature, man, and society. The basic factor distinguishing Soviet psychology is that it views phenomena from the perspective of a highly articulated body of theoretical assumptions,...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
This book provides a critical overview of significant developments in research and theory on counterfactual thinking that have emerged in recent years and spotlights exciting new directions for future research in this area. Key issues considered include the relations between counterfactual and casual...
Aggression and Violence
A Social Psychological Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
This book provides a broad and contemporary overview of aggression and violence by some of the most internationally renowned researchers in the field. It begins with an integrative theoretical understanding of aggression and shows how animal models shed light on human aggression and violence.
Individual...