Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness Project and Better Than Before distills her key insights into simple truths for living with greater satisfaction, clarity and happiness.

What can critical social psychology teach us about our sense of identity?

The idea for this volume took root during a recent annual convention of the American Psychological Association.

Measuring and Modeling Persons and Situations presents major innovations and contributions on the topic, promoting deeper integration, cross-pollination of ideas across diverse academic disciplines, and the facilitation of the development of practical applications such as matching people to jobs, understanding decision making, and predicting how a group of individuals will interact with one another.

Exploring the first purpose-built prison community of its kind, the HMP Dovegate Therapeutic Community, this book provides the most comprehensive coverage of this research to date, following the progress of individual prisoners' through therapy and highlighting the key essentials for prisoners to address their motivations and criminal behaviour.

This volume illustrates the diversity in assessment philosophy, theoretical orientation, and research methodology that is characteristic in the field of personality assessment.

Why do elderly choose to move away from their children so as to not receive their support?

The self-knower has become a hero within many contemporary cultures.

*WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION* *THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE TIMES, NEW YORK TIMES, GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, AND PROSPECT* If I had to name a single book that makes sense of these last few dark years, it would be this one New York Times A deeply compelling read urgent and necessary Evening StandardNaomi Klein, author of era-defining bestsellers, The Shock Doctrine, This Changes Everything and No Logo, is back with her most compulsive and personal book yet: a revelatory journey into the mirror world of our polarised ageWhen Naomi Klein discovered that a woman who shared her first name, but had radically different, harmful views, was getting chronically mistaken for her, it seemed too ridiculous to take seriously.

Early emotional development, emotional regulation, and the links between emotion and social or cognitive functioning in atypically developing children have not received much attention.

Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad offers illuminating new perspectives on contemporary phenomenological theories of body and subjectivity, based on studies of classical Indian texts that deal with bodily subjectivity.

Das Lehrbuch liefert eine ausführliche und klar strukturierte Einführung in die Persönlichkeitspsychologie.

The condition known as 'adolescence' is largely an artefact of advance industrial societies.

Originally published in 1986, this book is a result of the first International Conference on Personal Relationships held in 1982.

This book reflects on the various ways in which intelligence can manifest itself in the wide range of diverse contexts in which people live.

What holds together the various fields that are supposed to consititute the general intellectual discipline that people now call cognitive science?

Das bewährte Buch gibt einen Überblick über Diagnostik, Problembereiche, Neurobiologie, Therapiekonzepte sowie Inhalt, Planung und Aufbau von Skills-Gruppen und erklärt die typischen Muster von Instabilität, Spannungszuständen, Impulsdurchbrüchen, Schemata, Dissoziation, Somatisierung und Selbstverletzung.

This book explores humanising practice within higher education (HE).

Emotions are central to our practices and understanding of public life.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

This informative and entertaining book, peppered with personal anecdotes and rich in case studies, adopts a unique approach to studying the causes of crime.

This book presents the results of the most complete and updated assessment of cognitive resources of students in Latin America: the Study of Latin American Intelligence (SLATINT).

This book discusses outcomes of a study by the National Institute of Mental Health, Czech Republic, examining moral integrity in the post-communist Czech-speaking environment.

Our human psyches possess astonishing resources that wait within us, but we might not even know they exist until we discover how to access them and cultivate their powers, their untapped potentials and depths.

Questions relating to personal identity are of central importance within counselling, which is often seen as an essentially (and perhaps excessively) 'me-focussed' activity.

Just days after publishing his first book on the theory of foolishness, Stephen Greenspan learned that he had been hoodwinked by Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme, or more accurately the Madoff "e;feeder"e; fund he invested in.

The right to "e;pursue happiness"e; is one of the dominant themes of western culture, and understanding the causes of happiness is one of the primary goals of the positive psychology movement.

In this interdisciplinary collection leading experts and scholars from criminology, psychology, law and history provide a compelling analysis of practices and beliefs that lead to violence against women, men and children in the name 'honour'.

Digital gaming is today a significant economic phenomenon as well as being an intrinsic part of a convergent media culture in postmodern societies.

Drawing on work in social psychology, narrative ethics, and feminist philosophy, the author presents a new account which answers the standard objections while also giving practical guidance to individuals who take their group-related responsibilities seriously.

'This is the kind of book I wish I had access to as a young mum' Nadiya Hussain___________What does it mean to be a parent in a space where you are the minority?

A new general theory of cognitive motivation, combining affective and cognitive principles, is applied to a range of purposive behaviour.

Job's Illness: Loss, Grief and Integration explores the Book of Job and examines the psychiatric interpretation of Job's illness.

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

This volume deals with a key concept concerning the future: change.

This work combines interdisciplinary knowledge and experience from research fields of psychology, linguistics, audio-processing, machine learning, and computer science.

In the first volume of this new series, Sarah E.

This book reflects on the various ways in which intelligence can manifest itself in the wide range of diverse contexts in which people live.

Timely and authoritative, this unique handbook explores the breadth of current knowledge on temperament, from foundational theory and research to clinical applications.

In the grand tradition of Freud, this work endeavors to describe the nature of human nature.

From July 16 through July 21, 1984 a group of American and West German scholars met in Marburg, West Germany to discuss their com- mon work on the topic of justice in social relations.

Stefanie Puckett untersucht, ob die Prognose von Führungserfolg über eine 360°-Beurteilung durch die Einbeziehung von Persönlichkeitseigenschaften der Führungskraft verbessert werden kann.

Horrified by the Holocaust, social psychologist Stanley Milgram wondered if he could recreate the Holocaust in the laboratory setting.

The theory of information integration provides a unified, general approach to the three disciplines of cognitive, social, and developmental psychology.

This book summarizes theoretical and empirical work that was performed in a large-scale, cross-university research project on the relationship between attitudes and behavior.

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.