Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality

Provides an overview of leading scholars'' approaches to understanding the nature of intelligence, its measurement, its investigation, and its development.

The topic of personal identity has prompted some of the liveliest and most interesting debates in recent philosophy.

Psychiatric Expert Testimony: Emerging Applications is for practitioners who need to be at the cutting edge of admissibility in court.

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.

Epistemic vices are character traits, attitudes or thinking styles that prevent us from gaining, keeping or sharing knowledge.

This book approaches the field of socioemotional learning from the perspective of self-determination theory (SDT).

This edited collection reviews and integrates current theories and perspectives on autobiographical memory.

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.

This major study develops a new account of modernity and its relation to the self.

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.

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Advances in Experimental Social Psychology continues to be one of the most sought after and most often cited series in this field.

How does an industrial community cope when they are told that closure is inevitable?

This contributed volume is a real "e;who is who"e; in Latin American psychology.

Dieses Buch bietet eine verständliche Einführung in das systemische Denken und Arbeiten auf der Grundlage der neueren Systemtheorie.

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.

School absenteeism is a pervasive and difficult problem faced by mental health and school-based professionals.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the evolutionary origins of same-sex attraction, evaluating multiple existing evolutionary theories.

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.

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This handbook provides a detailed overview of the emotional, physical, and social implications of anger, aggression, and violence.

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.

This book explores the social psychological aspects of trans women's experiences of living with HIV in the UK.

Bullies, bad bosses, human traffickers, and mean girls all manipulate their victims without lifting a finger.

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«.

This book invokes the radical potentialities of 'untidiness' to envision alternative arrangements of social life and hospitality.

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.

Autoethnography is a method of research that involves describing and analyzing personal experiences in order to understand cultural experiences.

Oxford Handbooks offer authoritative and up-to-date reviews of original research in a particular subject area.

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.

What kind of animals are human beings?

This book propagates a new way of thinking about managing our resources by integrating the perspectives of complex systems theory and social psychology.

A fundamental assumption underlying the formation of our most important relationships is that they will persist indefinitely into the future.

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 a companion volume to Coping: The Psychology of What Works, which is also edited by Snyder.

Many of the diseases which afflict people in an affluent society like the United States seem to be related to food consumption (e.

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.

Agent-based modelling on a computer appears to have a special role to play in the development of social science.