Social Psychology category: 7378 books
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Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2015
This breakthrough volume brings together cultural neuroscience and intercultural relations in an expansive presentation. Its selected topics in reasoning, memory, and other key cognitive areas bridge the neuroscience behind culture-related phenomena with the complex social processes involved in seeing...
Queering Families
The Postmodern Partnerships of Cisgender Women and Transgender Men
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Ozzie and Harriet, move over. A new couple is moving into the neighborhood. In the postmodern era, advances in medical technologies allow some individuals categorized female at birth to live in accordance with their gender identities, as men. While a growing body of literature on transgender men's...
The Marvel of Martyrdom
The Power of Self-Sacrifice in a Selfish World
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2018
The Marvel of Martyrdom is about how self-sacrifice can change lives and how martyrs can change the world. The book starts large -- with famous and influential martyrs such as Jesus and Gandhi -- and ends small -- with ordinary people whose own experiences of self-sacrifice give martyrdom its political...
by David Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2018
Why is play so important in child development? Are children in today’s society suffering from a lack of time for free play, with the emerging dominance of screen play? Can play therapy help to uncover, rescue and rehabilitate children living in abusive environments, or even in war-torn countries?...
The Mathematics of Sex
How Biology and Society Conspire to Limit Talented Women and Girls
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2009
Nearly half of all physicians and biologists are females, as are the majority of new psychologists, veterinarians, and dentists, suggesting that women have achieved equality with men in the workforce. But the ranks of professionals in math-intensive careers remain lopsidedly male; up to 93% of tenure-track...
War, Community, and Social Change
Collective Experiences in the Former Yugoslavia
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
Collective experiences in the former Yugoslavia documents and analyses how social representations and practices are shaped by collective violence in a context of ethnic discourse. What are the effects of violence and what are the effects of collectively experienced victimisation on societal norms,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
The Dark Side of Close Relationships II is a completely new and up-to-date version of the original volume published in 1998, featuring new topics and authors. The volume showcases cutting-edge work on important topics by prominent scholars in multiple disciplines. It sheds light on the paradoxical,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
This book brings together the work of scholars and writer-practitioners of psychoanalysis to consider the legacy of two of Sigmund Freud's most important metapsychological papers: 'On Narcissism: An Introduction' (1914) and 'Mourning and Melancholia' (1917 [1915]). These twin papers, conceived in...
Fomenting Political Violence
Fantasy, Language, Media, Action
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2018
This book offers a psychosocial perspective on political violence, employing a strong current of psychoanalytic thinking. In the course of its chapters an international roster of researchers and scholars offers a richly complex and insightful view of diverse forms of political violence and its build-ups....
The Psychology of Adaptation To Absurdity
Tactics of Make-believe
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
The major goal of this book is to explore and integrate all that is scientifically known about the utility of magical plans and strategies for coping with life's inevitable absurdities. Make-believe has great adaptive value and helps the average individual to function better in cultures saturated...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Few resources exist for individuals who wish to subscribe to a practical, applied learning approach to higher education administration. To that end, the book's vignettes: 1) reflect the diversity of issues, roles, contexts and situations postsecondary leaders face-yet are uncommonly addressed in learning...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
Language development, and the challenges it can present for individuals who are deaf or hard-of-hearing, have long been a focus of research, theory, and practice in D/deaf studies and deaf education. Over the past 150 years, but most especially near the end of the 20th and beginning of the 21st century,...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Attachment has long been a key area of social development. Work on attachment processes has involved a variety of species as well as humans in diverse cultures and at various points in the life cycle. This volume presents research devoted to the meaning and implications of the attachment concept,...
Mortal Rituals
What the Story of the Andes Survivors Tells Us About Human Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
On December 21, 1972, sixteen young survivors of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 were rescued after spending ten weeks stranded at the crash site of their plane, high in the remote Andes Mountains. The incident made international headlines and spawned several best-selling books, fueled partly by the...