Provides an overview of leading scholars'' approaches to understanding the nature of intelligence, its measurement, its investigation, and its development.
Philosophers defend theories of what well-being is but ignore what psychologists have learned about it, while psychologists learn about well-being but lack a theory of what it is.
The terms mental health, maturity, personality integration, self-actualization have been used by psychologists to represent the realm of the ideal or optimal personality.
Die renommierte Autorin und Oxytocinforscherin, Kerstin Uvnäs Moberg, betrachtet in diesem Buch Nähe und Beziehung aus einem höchst spannenden physiologischen Blickwinkel.
First published in 1953, The Psychology of Personality proposes to give an account of the current knowledge about personality at the time; to describe the ideas used by psychologists in this field, the techniques available, the results obtained, and some of their applications.
The Science of Character makes a bold new claim for the power of the literary by showing how Victorian novelists used fiction to theorize how character forms.
First published in 1953, The Psychology of Personality proposes to give an account of the current knowledge about personality at the time; to describe the ideas used by psychologists in this field, the techniques available, the results obtained, and some of their applications.
Written by two therapists with extensive business experience, Mastering the Financial Dimension of Your Psychotherapy Practice addresses the clinical and financial challenges of establishing and maintaining a successful private practice.
First published in 1989, On Psychological Language and the Physiomorphic Basis of Human Nature was written to provide a new and controversial analysis of the nature of psychological language.
This book focuses on the current, chaotic world stage, which is characterized by new forms of global violence and new types of actors, such as terrorist networks.
Signs of Identity presents an interdisciplinary introduction to collective identity, using insights from social psychology, anthropology, sociology and the humanities.
Die beiden epochemachenden Essays Aldous Huxleys berichten von Entdeckugsreisen zu den »Antipoden unseres Bewusstseins«, in Regionen des Seins, die nur im Zustand der Entrückung zu erreichen sind, In den »Pforten der Wahrnehmung« schildert Huxley seine Experimente mit Meskalin, die zu einer außerordentlichen visuellen Wahrnehmungsfähigkeit führten, zum Erlebins des »Wunders der reinen Existenz«.
Employing both large-scale surveys and in-depth interviews, the authors document the mental health effects on workers caused by the closure of four General Motor plants.
Der Band bietet für Studierende des Bachelor-Studiengangs Psychologie eine aktuelle und gut verständliche Einführung in die Theorien der Persönlichkeit.
Despite the central place that the study of attitudes has long held in social psycho- logical research, the last decade or so has been relatively quiet as far as the de- velopment of attitude theory has been concerned.
Character traits may be used as defenses, or, 'coping mechanisms' that may be developed by individuals in an exaggerated fashion in order to conceal psychological conflicts.
Roland Wern untersucht in seiner empirischen Studie die Ausprägung Interkultureller Sensibilität und verschiedener Persönlichkeitsmerkmale von Auszubildenden mit und ohne Auslandsaufenthalt während der Ausbildung.
This book propagates a new way of thinking about managing our resources by integrating the perspectives of complex systems theory and social psychology.
Serial killers like Seattle's Ted Bundy, Maryland's Beltway Sniper, Atlanta's Wayne Williams, or England's Peter Sutcliffe usually outsmart the task forces on their trail for long periods of time.
This is the first major volume dedicated to the processes by which people exaggerate their virtues, deemphasize their shortcomings, or protect themselves against threatening feedback.
Spätestens seit die Welle der Motivationstrainer Mitte der neunziger Jahre über Deutschland hereinbrach, ist der Begriff Positives Denken allgemein bekannt.