This groundbreaking analysis moves our knowledge of pain and its effects from the biomedical model to one accounting for its complex psychosocial dimensions.
This book explores the remarkable sociocultural convergence in multiplayer online games and other virtual worlds, through the unification of computer science, social science, and the humanities.
That painting is at least in part an expression of the painter's personality is obvious from the differences between very impulsive and very controlled painters - between the paintings of a Picasso, for example, and a Piet Mondriaan.
Dieses Praxishandbuch ist ein Nachschlagewerk zum Thema Mitarbeiterführung und richtet sich an alle, die sich für die konkrete Umsetzung von Führungswissen in der Praxis interessieren.
Kreative Selbstverwirklichung dient in unserer Gesellschaft dem Zweck, eigene Ziele, Sehnsüchte, Bedürfnisse und Wünsche im Leben zu verwirklichen, sodass sich das Individuum möglichst um-fassend entfalten kann.
This volume is based on extensive research findings and the author's observation that successful managers are people who understand the dynamics of group interaction and can use that understanding effectively to motivate members of their group to achieve important goals.
Sensory needs are being recognised as a vital part of learning, development and engagement within the classroom and are being used more often to make education both accessible and fun.
Recent years have witnessed the ascendance of a new way to conceptualize and investigate the nature of dynamism at different levels of psychological reality.
This book examines identity theory's centrality within social psychology and its foundations within structural symbolic interaction, highlighting its links not only to other prominent sociological subfields, but also to other theoretical perspectives within and beyond sociology.
Modern men the world over are becoming increasingly fascinated with their image, spending more of their disposable income on beautification products and services.
Temperament is the first monograph in 40 years to present theories and basic findings in the field of temperament from a broad international and interdisciplinary perspective.
'Essential Personality' provides a clear, accessible and systematic introduction to the major theoretical approaches for the understanding of human personality.
This volume Psychology of Peace Promotion builds on previous volumes of peace psychology, extending its contributions by drawing from peace research and practices from five continents - Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and South America.
Complete coverage of the widely used 16PF measure of personality Essentials of 16PF Assessment is a valuable guide to administering, scoring, and interpreting this popular measure of normal personality.
Dies ist eine rasante bebilderte Reise durch die „Klassiker“ der Psychologie: Begegnen Sie berühmten Psychologen und Philosophen, erleben Sie bahnbrechende Experimente und Theorien der Psychologiegeschichte und entdecken Sie verblüffende Eigenarten des menschlichen Denkens, Fühlens und Handelns.
Understanding the interplay between memory and emotion is crucial for the work of researchers in many arenas--clinicians, psychologists interested in eyewitness testimony, psychobiologists, to name just a few.
This book argues that while pain is an irreducible neuro-physiological phenomenon, how pain is experienced is powerfully inflected by language and culture.