Mark Vernon offers penetrating insights on the idea of friendship, using philosophy and modern culture to ask about friendship and sex, work, politics and spirituality.
This book will interest anyone seeking a comprehensive understanding of the psychological relationship between individual psychological dynamics, social structure and the unconscious collective paradigms.
"e;Personality"e; is an intimidatingly complex area of human behaviour, where empirically valid generalizations are not easily established or formulated, and where investigators at the time of publication were themselves a long way from the development of a commonly shared language and conceptual system.
In this ground-breaking book, Aristotelian and evolutionary understandings of human social nature are brought together to provide an integrative, psychological account of human ethics.
The definitive guide to developing and managing a successful career in the information profession: Information Professionals and Knowledge Managers deal with significant challenges in building successful careers for a number of reasons associated with common misperceptions of their expertise and roles.
Originally published in 1981, this volume presents the domain of personality as a fuzzy set that includes features previously identified with cognitive and social psychology.
The goal of Identity, Formation, Agency, and Culture is to lay the basis of a theory with which to better understand the difficulties and complexities of identity formation.
Today, any regular newspaper reader is likely to be exposed to reports on manifold forms of (physical, emotional, sexual) child abuse on the one hand, and abnormal behavior, misconduct or offences of children and minors on the other hand.
This book demonstrates how applying behavioural science to commercial problems can effectively help businesses to understand and achieve the best outcomes for their customers.
The concept of altruism, or disinterested concern for another's welfare, has been discussed by everyone from theologians to psychologists to biologists.
Demystifying Meaningful Coincidences (Synchronicities): The Evolving Self, the Personal Unconscious, and the Creative Process offers an original theory of the nature of meaningful coincidences (synchronicities) and their practical use from a naturalistic (nonsupernatural and non-Jungian) perspective.
Erich Fromm and the Quest for Solidarity argues that Fromm's humanistic ethics provides a framework for the analysis of alienation in affluent societies and his exploration of the social forces capable of challenging that alienation.
Das vorliegende Essential gibt einen Überblick über die sozial-emotionale Kompetenzentwicklung und stellt dabei insbesondere die Entwicklung der Fähigkeit zur visuellen, konzeptuellen und emotionalen Perspektivenübernahme, die Entwicklung der Möglichkeiten zur Emotionsregulation und des Emotionsverständnisses in den Fokus.
In diesem essential erläutert Peter Michael Bak, wie ein Kommunikationskonzept für ein Produkt, eine Marke, eine Dienstleistung oder eine Veranstaltung geplant sowie entwickelt wird und dabei die wesentlichen Erfolgskriterien berücksichtigt werden.
Imagine who you might become if you could make peace with the whole of who you are, rather than over-identifying with the "e;best"e; of your type or rejecting the "e;worst"e; of its expressions.
Im Alltag haben viele Menschen fast ausschließlich über Medieninhalte Kontakt zu Angehörigen verschiedener anderer gesellschaftlicher Gruppen (Outgroups).
Die Autoren erläutern, wie moderne Gesellschaften die Arbeitstätigkeit einerseits zum Lebensmittelpunkt der Menschen und andererseits zum Kostenfaktor der Wirtschaft machen, und thematisieren die soziale Frage, die aus dieser Spannung erwächst.
Dieser Band vermittelt Basiswissen über den Ablauf menschlicher Kommunikation mit ihren Besonderheiten und Phänomenen sowie daraus abgeleitete Anwendungsgebiete.
Angelika Amend vermittelt, dass die drei Komponenten „Körper – Seele – Geist“ nicht von einander zu trennen sind, sondern dass eine gesunde Balance wichtig ist, um bis ins hohe Alter gesund, vital und zufrieden zu leben: Letztlich ist Gesundheit ein Geschenk, zu dem aber jeder wesentliche Beiträge leisten kann.