Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality

The chapters presented here provide the reader with an awareness of the divergent views of what constitutes racism and frameworks for reducing it.

This book provides a state-of-the-art look at the study of consciousness, which is in the midst of a great renaissance.

My Red Shirt and Me The red shirt incident begins with a rather ordinary red shirt.

Macrostructures are higher-level semantic or conceptual structures that organize the 'local' microstructures of discourse, interaction, and their cognitive processing.

This book presents an English translation, by Nicolas and Lamiell, of the entirety of a German-language text authored by William Stern (1871-1938) and published in 1900.

Dieses Buch untersucht gängige Sprichwörter des Volksmunds aus psychologisch-wissenschaftlicher Perspektive: Stimmen die alten Sprichwörter mit den Erkenntnissen der modernen Wissenschaft überein?

A pragmatic social cognitive psychology covers a lot of territory, mostly in personality and social psychology but also in clinical, counseling, and school psychologies.

'In rich and arresting prose, and with radical originality, Dakwar expands initial, pragmatic insights about addiction into a far-reaching examination of authenticity, exploring how we define a happy life, a good life, a valid life.

What kind of animals are human beings?

First published in 1986.

When one begins to examine the existing literature dealing with siblings, one soon becomes aware that many separate domains of sibling research exist and that there is little connection between them; for example, sibling relationships in early childhood, genetic and environmental influences on individual differences between siblings, dysfunctional sibling relation- ships, adult sibling helping relationships, sibling violence and abuse, and so on.

For at least half of the twentieth century, psychology and the other mental health professions all but ignored the significant adaptive pos- sibilities of the human gift of imagery.

Do you want to better understand yourself, maximize your strengths, and improve your relationships?

In recent years there has been a resurgence of interest in problems related to human agency and responsibility by philosophers and researchers in cognate disciplines.

Dieses anwendungsnahe Grundlagenbuch erläutert den Stand von Wissenschaft und Technik zum gesamten Prozess der Personalauswahl: von A wie Anforderungsanalyse bis Z wie Zuverlässigkeit.

This book will make you a perfume insider.

Mit einer Lebenszeitprävalenz von etwa 11 % ist Stalking ein weit verbreitetes Phänomen.

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Jakob Levy Moreno hatte die Vision von einer Gesellschaft, die von den Menschen nach ihren Vorstellungen gemeinsam gestaltet wird.

A personal and professional guide to the latest research on imposterism and psychological flexibility, Imposter No More is the professional's handbook to combatting 'impostor syndrome' and overcoming self-doubt to achieve career success.

This book is the first to bring together researchers in individual differences in personality and temperament to explore whether there is any unity possible between the temperament researchers of infancy and childhood and the major researchers in adult personality.

Investors, customers and employees increasingly expect organizations to take responsibility for the social impact of their activities.

This volume brings together leading scholars in the area of symbolic interactionism to offer a broad discussion of issues including identity, dialogue and legitimacy.

Nadia Hamdi Bek befasst sich mit dem scheinbaren Paradox, dass amoralische Charaktere im Spielfilm auch positiv wirken und Faszination auslösen können.

This antiquarian text contains a comprehensive treatise on topological psychology, being a detailed exposition of its principles written by Kurt Lewin.

In einer Welt, die von Hektik, ständiger Erreichbarkeit und dem Streben nach mehr geprägt ist, bietet die Philosophie des antiken Denkers Epikur einen wohltuenden Gegenentwurf.

'The wisest book I've read for many years .

Why do people enter total institutions - places that confine and control them around the clock - and how does the experience change them?

Over one billion people use the Internet globally.

Bringing together comparative politics, conflict research and social psychology, this book presents a novel theory to explain the consolidation outcomes of post-conflict autonomy arrangements.

This volume documents how sexual practices and fictions infiltrate and are influenced by a person's feelings about the self and the body.

In 1981, Leonard Pearlin and his colleagues published an article that would ra- cally shift the sociological study of mental health from an emphasis on psychiatric disorder to a focus on social structure and its consequences for stress and psyc- logical distress.

This edited textbook brings together broad and cutting-edge coverage of the core areas in media psychology for undergraduate, introductory-level students.

This book makes a highly innovative contribution to overcoming the stigma and discrimination associated with mental illness - still the heaviest burden both for those afflicted and those caring for them.

Beim Thema Persönlichkeitsentwicklung und Selbstmanagement geht es heute nicht mehr darum, etwas grundlegend Neues zu erfinden.

Wahre Männer müssen kämpfen und „ihre“ Frauen beschützen.

This book provides an answer to the readers about scientific perspective on learning.

This book represents one of the cornerstones of the series Studies in Neuroscience, Psychology and Behavioral Economics.

The Handbook of Crime Correlates, Second Edition summarizes more than a century of worldwide research on traits and social conditions associated with criminality and antisocial behavior.

How do we come to be who we are?

Identity is a construct strongly rooted and still predominantly studied in Western (or WEIRD; Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic) contexts (e.

This edited volume brings together the latest research in understanding the nature, origins, and evolution of human sociability, one of the most intriguing aspects of human psychology.

What do we know about identity processes and how does this relate to the world we live in?

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

In recent years-especially the past decade, in sharp contrast to preceding decades-knowledge in the field of emotions has been steadily increasing.

In the World Library of Psychologists series, international experts themselves present career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces - extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, and their major practical theoretical contributions.

This edited textbook brings together broad and cutting-edge coverage of the core areas in media psychology for undergraduate, introductory-level students.

What if you found yourself working for an intelligence agency and suddenly your understanding of other human beings had become a matter of life or death?