Psychology: emotions

This book reviews the evolutionary forces behind sex differences in fear responses and, crucially, delves into the mechanisms through which sexual selection might have driven sex differences in connection with fear.

An expansive look at how culture shapes our emotions-and how we can benefit, as individuals and a society, from less anger and more shameThe world today is full of anger.

Your End of Life Matters is offered at a time when people are starting to talk more about end-of-life matters.

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"e;Recommended for readers interested in gaining tools to improve their behavior and the tendency to want control of everything and everyone.

The ability to regulate and control our behaviors is a key accomplishment of the human species, yet the psychological mechanisms involved in self-regulation remain incompletely understood.

In his seminal work, Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman suggests that the common view of human intelligence is far too narrow and that emotions play a much greater role in thought, decision-making and individual success than is commonly acknowledged.

This book is about savoring life-the capacity to attend to the joys, pleasures, and other positive feelings that we experience in our lives.

#1 New York Times BestsellerAn enlightening, laugh-aloud read.

Addresses the mental health challenges of graduate school and how students can succeed and thrive.

The affective connotations of environmental stimuli are evaluated spontaneously and with minimal cognitive processing.

This book applies a dramaturgical perspective to familiar psychological topics including fear, greed, shame, guilt, rejection, well-being and terrorism.

First published in 1988.

People who suffer from addictive disorders present an incredible challenge to therapists.

This Element examines the link between belief in the benefits of empathy and concerns with negative evaluation.

Das Buch ist ein praxisorientierter Leitfaden für die Behandlung von Persönlichkeitsstörungen.

This volume, originally published in 1979, sponsored by the Psychonomic Society (the North American association of research psychologists), commemorates the centennial of experimental psychology as a separate discipline - dated from the opening of Wilhelm Wundt's laboratory at Leipzig in 1879.

In the 1980s our understanding of how advertising affects consumer behavior was undergoing a dramatic transformation.

This book explores how the human mind works through the lens of psychological disorders, challenging many existing theoretical constructs, especially in the fields of psychology, psychiatry and philosophy of mind.

This book explores how dementia acts as an existential threat, both to people diagnosed with the condition, and to their carers.

Kritische Lebensereignisse gehören zum Erfahrungshorizont fast aller Menschen.

Decades of research on affect and emotion have brought out the paramount importance of affective processes for human lives.

Since the release of the very successful first edition in 2001, the field of emotional intelligence has grown in sophistication and importance.

This text, a collaboration between a clinical psychologist and a cognitive psychologist, offers a cognitive account of depression.

There can be little doubt that opera and emotion are inextricably linked.

This international collection discusses how the individualised, reflexive, late modern era has changed the way we experience and act on our emotions.

Written by four leading researchers in the study of prosocial behavior, this book introduces a new perspective on prosocial behavior for the 21st century.

Entheogenese bedeutet die wachsende Erkenntnis, dass wir Menschenwesen und die Welt um uns viel mehr sind als nur materielle Organismen.

Although modern psychology rejected the concept of the ''soul'', it has thrived over the past 150 years, in surprising areas.

First published in English in 1968, Joseph Nuttin contributes the first chapter, on Motivation.

Die vergessene Dimension in der Behandlung traumatisierter Menschen- Ein innovativer Ansatz in der Psychotraumatologie- Praxisbuch mit Fallgeschichten gelungener VorgehensweisenDie noch junge Wissenschaft und Praxis der Behandlung traumatisierter Menschen hat in den letzten Jahrzehnten große Fortschritte erzielt und eine Vielzahl an Interventionen, Methoden und Techniken hervorgebracht.

Vor allem Menschen, denen die Worte für ihre Gefühle fehlen, sprechen in Bildern zu sich selbst und zu anderen.

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Emerging research on the subject of happiness-in psychology, economics, and public policy-reawakens and breathes new life into long-standing philosophical questions about happiness (e.

Entgegen gängiger Vorurteile ist Psychotherapie im Alter nachweislich wirksam.

This book addresses how coping with the pandemic has been shaped by the interplay between cognition and emotion.

This book examines the relationship between empathy and neoliberalism as it unfolded in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis and through the turbulent 2010s.

Capitalism has made rationality into a pervasive feature of human action and yet, far from heralding a loss of emotionality, capitalist culture has been accompanied with an unprecedented intensification of emotional life.

Traumatisierte Menschen fühlen sich in viel stärkerem Maße als andere als »multiple« Persönlichkeiten.

Rund die Hälfte aller Partnerschaften geht heute wieder auseinander.

This book explores the trajectories of social suffering, exclusion, and victimisation of homeless persons with mental illness in India.

Featuring children's voices describing the trauma and suffering they feel when their parents leave, Abandoned explores psychological theories of mothers' and fathers' roles in children's lives and offers practical advice to those who care for children traumatized by parental abandonment.

A new take on our bio-cultural evolution explores how the "e;inner theatre"e; of the brain and its "e;animal-human stages"e; are reflected in and shaped by the mirror of cinema.

If you're a man, get ready to unleash the hero inside, and if you're a woman, get ready to understand men like never before.