Social Psychology category: 7378 books
by Hans Eysenck
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
In The Social Consequences of Modern Psychology Eysenck takes the position that social science has real substance, and its findings ought to be applicable to social problems of our times. Although there is little that scientists can do about war and its prevention, or about social unrest and upheaval,...
Optimizing the Self
Social representations of self-help
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
This book provides an analysis of the social representations of leading self-help genres, including neurolinguistic programming, cognitive self-help therapy, mindfulness, self-management, self-esteem, self-leadership and self-control. Exploring the globalised therapeutic culture of today, the book...
Progress in Psychological Science Around the World. Volume 2: Social and Applied Issues
Proceedings of the 28th International Congress of Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2019
Progress in Psychological Science around the World, Volumes 1 and 2, present the main contributions from the 28th International Congress of Psychology, held in Beijing in 2004. These expert contributions include the Nobel laureate address, the Presidential address, and the Keynote and State-of-the-Art...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
This Handbook explores the cognitive, motivational, interpersonal, clinical, and applied aspects of personal uncertainty. It showcases both the diversity and the unity that defines contemporary perspectives on uncertainty in self within social and personality psychology. The contributions to the volume...
Missing the Revolution
Darwinism for Social Scientists
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2005
In The Adapted Mind, Jerome Barkow, along with Leda Cosmides and John Tooby, set out to redefine evolutionary psychology for the social sciences and to create a new agenda for the next generation of social scientists. While biologically oriented psychologists quickly accepted the work, social scientists...
Social Identities
Motivational, Emotional, Cultural Influences
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
The concept of social identity occupies a central position in contemporary social psychology. Social Identities: Motivational, Emotional, Cultural Influences reports recent developments in the analysis of motivational and affective aspects of social identity processes. The book also examines the cross-cultural...
Social Cognition
How Individuals Construct Social Reality
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
Social cognition is a key area of social psychology, which focuses on cognitive processes that are involved when individuals make sense of, and navigate in their social world. For instance, individuals need to understand what they perceive, they learn and recall information from memory, they form...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014
In this unique handbook, experts team up to explain the many innovative ways psychology is being applied to promote social justice. The wide-ranging, three-volume work addresses such significant issues as social justice ideology and critical psychology, war and trauma, poverty and classism, environmental...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Although neural network models have had a dramatic impact on the cognitive and brain sciences, social psychology has remained largely unaffected by this intellectual explosion. The first to apply neural network models to social phenomena, this book includes chapters by nearly all of the individuals...
Progress in Social Psychology
Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
Originally published in 1980, this title was the first of a new monograph series in social psychology. The editor presents a format for showing the progress of social psychology as a viable, exciting and relevant discipline.
The papers contained in this volume represent progress in theory and...
Principles of Social Psychology
Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
Originally published in 1987 this third edition won praise from students and instructors alike for its challenging "no nonsense" approach to the field. Thoroughly updated to reflect current research of the time, the text retains the qualities that had become its hallmarks: a cognitive approach...
Personality, Human Development, and Culture
International Perspectives On Psychological Science (Volume 2)
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2010
These two volumes present the main contributions from the 29th International Congress of Psychology, held in Berlin in 2008, and are written by international leaders in psychology from around the world. The authors present a variety of approaches and perspectives that reflect cutting-edge advances...
Psychology After the Crisis
Scientific paradigms and political debate
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 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, features a newly written introduction...
Significant Differences
Feminism in Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Current western feminism and psychology have a particularly close relationship, with feminism finding an increasingly important voice in psychology. In this clear introductory text, originally published in 1989, Corinne Squire examines what feminism and psychology mean to each other, concentrating...