Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality

While advice abounds from a variety of sources before parents embark on their parenting journeys, the only parent preparation we actually receive comes from our family and peer stories.

Several years ago Coleman (1981) reported that in 1979 one of the many in- ternational cosmetics companies had an annual sales figure of $2.

During the 1980s, those of us who were involved in forensic psychiatry have seen an increase in the interest in our subspecialty.

This volume is sponsored by Division 9 of the American Psychological Association: The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues.

In the post-Civil Rights era, there is a temptation to assume that racism is no longer the pressing social concern in the United States that it once was.

This book is a comprehensive compilation and discussion of research findings on female aggression from anthropology, social psychology, animal research, case studies, and representations in literature.

This user-friendly manual provides a cross-cultural psychological assessment battery, including projective methods.

This volume looks at human aging from a positive perspective, examining how older adults can exploit psychological strengths to enhance life satisfaction.

An updated edition of a much-acclaimed textbook providing a critical introduction to personality for psychology students.

This book proposes a philosophy of care in a global age.

Epistemic vices are character traits, attitudes or thinking styles that prevent us from gaining, keeping or sharing knowledge.

This book presents an overview of the work of the most important Psychology researchers in Brazil, contributing to the internationalization of the discipline and fostering cross-cultural approaches in the field.

This book is the result of a collaboration between a human editor and an artificial intelligence algorithm to create a machine-generated literature overview of research articles analyzing the mediating role of social media on the psychological wellbeing of youth.

This volume provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date compendium of theory and research in the field of human intelligence.

First published in 1985.

This volume brings together the world's leading experts on disgust to fully explore this understudied behavior.

Die Sicherheit von Kindern im Zusammenhang mit dem Schutz vor Übergriffen und Gewalt ist ein Grundbedürfnis unserer Gesellschaft.

Evolution, Politics and Charisma: Why do Populists Win?

This book provides an overview of theoretical thinking about the communicative scope of emotional expressions as well as an overview of the state of the art research in emotional psychology.

Reversal Theory is a new general theory of motivation, emotion, personality, psychopathology and stress which challenges previous ideas in these fields and sets up an unusually broad and integrative conceptual framework of its own.

This book provides a multifaceted analysis of how the human face drives many of our most important social behaviors.

Based on empirical observations, this innovative book explores self-consciousness, how it originates and how it shapes our lives.

The papers presented in this volume, written by active and well- known researchers, discuss experimental research that has validated the importance of infancy in individual development over the age continuum.

Should you care less about your distant future?

This book examines the contribution of mass-produced original painting to the psychology of art, psychological aesthetics, and art criticism.

What is Elijah to do?

Could it be that humans are actually made up of digital code?

Your garden could be even better for you.

This book explores whether the ideology of communism was doomed to failure due to psychological rather than structural flaws.

This book provides a chronology of the 68th Nebraska Symposium on Motivation, which is focused on contemporary research knowledge about sexual violence and alcohol use.

Advances in Child Development and Behavior is intended to ease the task faced by researchers, instructors, and students who are confronted by the vast amount of research and theoretical discussion in child development and behavior.

The background for the international research conference "e;Health Hazards and Challenges in the New Working Life"e; was the emerging questions concerning the health and social effects of the rapid changes in the labour market leading to increasing long-term unemployment, temporary employment and irregular employment contracts.

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

10 principles for leading your family to True Resilience, from the bestselling author of Spartan Up and the CEO/founder of SpartanJoe De Sena has spent his life running toward challenge and discomfort.

The world is a different place today.

Quickly acquire the knowledge and skills you need to confidently administer, score, and interpret the MBTI In order to use the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) appropriately and effectively, professionals need an authoritative source of advice and guidance on how to administer, score, and interpret this test.

This volume provides an in-depth discussion on the central question - how can people express and survive dissent and disagreement in confined habitats in space?

Early in this century, most empirically oriented psychologists believed that all motivation was based in the physiology of a set of non-nervous- system tissue needs.

Viele Menschen stolpern in zwischenmenschlichen Situationen immer wieder über die gleichen Schwierigkeiten, sie zeigen dann einen für sie typischen Verhaltens- und Kommunikationsstil.

Wie ein Reh auf einem Rockkonzert .

The second edition of this handbook explores the social, cognitive, motivational, interpersonal, clinical, and applied aspects of personal uncertainty.

This book explores the use of technology to detect, predict and understand social cues, in order to analyze and prevent conflict.

The study of the relationship between the person and the situation has had a long history in psychology.

An updated edition of a much-acclaimed textbook providing a critical introduction to personality for psychology students.

Vendu depuis plus de 30 ans, Comprendre les types de personnalité résume les conclusions de l'étude à laquelle l'auteur, Isabel Briggs Myers, a consacré toute sa vie: l'identification et la classification des types de personnalité.

The World Health Organization's concept of health as "e;the condition of psychophysical and social well-being"e; must be translated into opera- tional terms.

Research on anxiety and motivation has witnessed substantial progress in recent years in developing innovative perspectives and applying advanced psychometric tools.