Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality

Using five personal narratives and in contrast to both the traditional and multicultural narratives, this book suggest cross-cultural transformation has been at the core of America since the first moments of contact.

What drives people to crave fame and celebrity?

Psychology has long been enamored of the dark side of human existence, rarely exploring a more positive view of the mind.

This book analyzes research on education, identity and community, exploring the ways in which learning can be characterized across ''whole-life'' experiences.

Depression is amorphous.

This book explores how and why humans are motivated to act in the ways that they do.

Where did we come from?

This wide-ranging collection demonstrates the continuing impact of evolutionary thinking on social psychology research.

Sexual Offending and Mental Health draws together theoretical, clinical and mental health issues for the range of professionals working in the community and in-patient settings with sex offenders and those who have behaved in sexually inappropriate ways.

Psychology of Romantic Relationships delves into the myriad factors that contribute to successful relationships.

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.

If we are going to promote creativity as an ideal to strive toward, shouldn't we make sure we also instil ethical anticipation so our creative contributions produce a better world rather than chaos and waste?

Is behavior motivated?

The Veil in Kuwait explores the complex reasons behind why women veil and how they are perceived by those that do not veil.

Integrating the perspectives of a number of disciplines, this work examines social referencing in infants within the broader contexts of cognition, social relations, and human society as a whole.

This book demonstrates how applying behavioural science to commercial problems can effectively help businesses to understand and achieve the best outcomes for their customers.

Over the past four decades - and most especially in recent years as issues of identity continue to play out across the public stage - identity theory has developed into one of the most fascinating and active research programs within the spheres of sociological social psychology.

Across the lifespan we may experience moments of sublime intimacy, suffocating closeness, comfortable solitude, and intolerable distance or closeness.

Originally published in 1926, a complement to the author's Outline of Psychology, this book surveys the field of neurotic and mental disorders in so far as they are not due to gross organic lesions.

This book examines how the five-factor model of personality (also known as the Big Five)-extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability/neuroticism, and openness to experience-influence individuals' ability to understand and engage in four areas of civic life.

This book analyses the clinical interaction between depression and personality dysfunction to help clinicians better understand and treat patients with complex depression.

Basic needs fulfilment is fundamental to becoming human and reaching one's potential.

Leadership is most needed in times of change, uncertainty and crisis.

Several years ago, two of my colleagues and I had the opportunity to interview Fritz Heider-perhaps the most influential theorist in the field of social psychology (Harvey, Ickes, & Kidd, 1976).

Pollyannas take heart, pessimists take note: Recent studies on achievement and well-being show that optimistic behavior contributes to better physical health, greater resilience in the face of lifes twists and turns, and more satisfying relationships.

Ira Lipman Marvin Wolfgang was the greatest criminologist in the United States of America in the last half of the 20th century, if not the entire century.

A great deal is known about how infants form attachments, and how these processes carry over into adolescence.

"e;Not a quick how-to, this is for the parent, clinician, or caregiver seeking in-depth information and guidance.

Working-through Collective Wounds discusses how collectives mourn and create symbols.

This book examines the ways in which the need to belong manifests itself in the post 9/11 world, from a cross-disciplinary perspective.

This historical interdisciplinary book contextualises the Rorschach ink blot test and embeds it within feminist action and queer liberation.

This edited volume outlines the latest meta-theoretical and theoretical contexts of self-research.

This interdisciplinary book explores both the connections and the tensions between sociological, psychological, and biological theories of exhaustion.

Narcissism and Its Discontents challenges the received wisdom that narcissism is only destructive of good social relations.

This unique volume brings together state-of-the-art research showing the value of emotions that many believe to be undesirable.

Hochsensible Menschen schwelgen gerne in ihrer Sehnsucht.

The book, deliberately written in generally understandable language for all interested readers, paints a unique, transdisciplinary overall picture of resilience as a national and international social factor of our time.

Vor dem Hintergrund der unternehmerischen Bedeutung von Top Executives untersucht Shiva Meyer in einer empirischen Studie, welche Motive Top Executives charakterisieren und diese Zielgruppe in ihrer Karriere antreiben.

This book describes clearly how legislation can be used to advance the rights and entitlements of people with mental health problems.

This book returns critical theory to its roots in both psychology and the social sciences.

In this groundbreaking volume, Vezzali and Stathi present their research program within the larger contact literature, examining classic theories and current empirical findings, to show how they can be used to reduce prejudice and negative attitudes.

Der Autor geht von der Tatsache aus, dass das Konzept der Person in der gegenwärtigen Diskussion weder begrifflich geklärt und gegen die "Persönlichkeit" abgegrenzt noch in seinen Konsequenzen für jegliches Lernen, Belehren und Erziehen ernstgenommen wird.

Navigating Ethical Dilemmas in Creative Arts Therapies uses a case-based approach to provide practical guidance for practitioners on the skillful application of ethical decision-making in art therapy.