The concept of Flow was first explained by Csikszentmihalyi (1975), described as an "e;optimal experience,"e; he noted that artists were entirely caught up in their projects, working feverishly to finish them and then lose all interest in their work after completion.
This book explores the concept of certainty, a term which is widely used in everyday language to designate a psychological experience or feeling but is rarely considered controversial or politically charged.
Die vorliegende Untersuchung wurde im Sommersemester 1989 von der Philo sophischen Fakultät der Ludwig - Maximilians - Universität München als Dis sertation angenommen.
Addressing their shared passion for literature, art, and music, this book documents how Samuel Beckett and David Bowie produce extraordinarily empathetic creative outputs that reflect the experience and the effect of alienation.
Drawing on state-of-the-art personality and developmental research, this book presents a new and broadly integrative theory of how people come to be who they are over the life course.
Personality and performance are intricately linked, and personality has proven to have a direct influence on an individual's leadership ability and style, team performance, and overall organizational effectiveness.
Happiness is fundamental to how we live our lives, but the meaning of happiness remains as contentious as it did when it was first debated thousands of years ago.
This book discusses the psychological traits associated with drug consumption through the statistical analysis of a new database with information on 1885 respondents and use of 18 drugs.
This Brief looks at the illustrative case of the Hindu-Muslim conflict in India, with the aim of understanding the dynamics of lived secularism as it exists in traditional multi-faith societies such as India.
In this volume, the first synthesis of work on cognitive interference, leading researchers, theorists, and clinicians from around the world confront a number of important questions about intrusive thoughts and suggest a challenging agenda for the future.
The second volume in the Advances in Personality Psychology series, this book presents an authoritative collection of works by leading experts in the field.
Discursive Psychology is the first collection to systematically and critically appraise the influence and development of its foundational studies, exploring central concepts in social psychology such as attitudes, gender, cognition, memory, prejudice, and ideology.
Désirée Labusch bietet eine vollständige Zusammenfassung der bisher bestehenden Untersuchungen über Frauen, die einen Partner wählen, der zum Zeitpunkt des Kennenlernens inhaftiert ist.
Memory, Consciousness, and Temporality presents the argument that current memory theories are undermined by two false assumptions: the `memory trace paradox' and `the fallacy of the homunculus'.
This book introduces a novel approach for examining language and communication in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) - discourse and conversation analysis.
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.
Dans cet ouvrage révolutionnaire de Carol Ritberger, vous verrez que la personnalité joue un rôle prépondérant dans votre perception et votre définition de l’amour et qu’il y a tellement de manières d’exprimer ses sentiments qu’on finit par se demander si le couple peut vraiment exister.
Originally published in 1987, the purpose of this title was to develop a conceptual framework for understanding individual humans as complex, functional entities.
This book developed from a symposium in which participants examined childhood socialization from a number of perspectives and with several disciplinary lenses.
Sticky Creativity: Post-It(R) Note Cognition, Computers, and Design presents the interesting history of sticky notes and how they have become the most commonly used design material in brainstorming, business model generation, and design thinking.
Weiner introduces -- and offers his own motivation for producing - - this most impressive work with the following: There are two distinct approaches to the study of motivation.
In his defining work on emotional intelligence, bestselling author Daniel Goleman found that it is twice as important as other competencies in determining outstanding leadership.
Recent findings from an American Psychological Association task force suggest that one in four therapists will experience patient suicide, and that one in eight will feel threatened by patient violence during their career.
This volume identifies research relevant to communal functions of social comparisons and organizes this research within a coherent conceptual framework.
