This book provides a definitive guide to the value of reflective thinking in the modern world, showing how today's most fundamental problems are, to an important degree, based on citizens' thinking styles.
We know that positive, fulfilling and satisfying relationships are strong predictors of life satisfaction, psychological health, and physical well-being.
This book examines the ways in which decolonial theory has gained traction and influenced knowledge production, praxis and epistemic justice in various contemporary iterations of community psychology across the globe.
Human beings have long seen themselves as the center of the universe, the apple of God's eye, specially-created creatures who are somehow above and beyond the natural world.
Written for those interested in the topic of "e;shared knowledge"e; in organizations, this edited volume brings together a variety of themes and perspectives that emerge when multidisciplinary scholars examine this important subject.
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.
The goal of this book is to encourage educators and researchers to understand the complexities of adolescent gang members' lives in order to rethink their assumptions about these students in school.
The Social Exclusion of Incarcerated Women with Cognitive Disabilities explores the lived experience of cognitively disabled women incarcerated in Australia.
Musical imagination and creativity are amongst the most abstract and complex aspects of musical behaviour, though, until recently, they have been difficult to subject to empirical enquiry.
In this groundbreaking work, Robert Sternberg opens the book of love and shows you how to discover your own story--and how to read your relationships in a whole new light.
This book views responses to the Covid 19 virus through the lens of indigenous thinking which sheds light on some of the failures in dealing with the pandemic.
Freud's religious unbeliefs are too easily dismissed as the standard scientific rationalism of the twentieth-century intellectual, yet he scorned the high-minded humanism of his contemporaries.
Managing Workplace Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion bridges the gap between social science theory and research and the practical concerns of those working in diversity, equity, and inclusion by presenting an applied psychological perspective.
This book is about a new and different way of approaching and studying the history of the built environment and the use of historical precedents in design.
The outgrowth of a University of Chicago conference on the psychological and biological bases of behavior, this unique collection of papers integrates the biological consideration of emotion with current psychological approaches.
Dem Eltern-Burnout wirksam vorbeugen- Das erste Buch, dass das Phänomen »Schreibaby« aus Sicht eines Kinderarztes und eines Psychotherapeuten beschreibt- Der transdisziplinäre Ansatz als Schlüssel zur erfolgreichen Therapie- Ein besonders niedrigschwelliges Beratungsangebot für hilfesuchende ElternImmer wieder kommt es zu Überforderungen in der frühen Entwicklung eines Kindes.
This compact book is constructed using psychological theory and research to empower university faculty to facilitate student engagement and address student resistance to diversity and social justice education more effectively.
This book integrates the findings of group research emphasizing "e;Madness of the Crowd"e; versus collective intelligence that highlights "e;Wisdom of the Crowd.
This book discusses the significance of social geography, a multidimensional sub-discipline of georgraphy encompassing social health, social security and social ethos.
The book provides an overview of socially responsible consumption and marketing, as well as a collection of teaching cases that discuss and emphasize how 21st-century organizations, both for-profit and non-profit, are addressing socially responsible consumers and meeting their changing needs while remaining profitable.
Proposing an aggregative conception of vulnerability, this book provides a new framework for understanding individual experience of, and resilience to, vulnerability and promotes the need to find remedies for exposure to involuntary dependence, the unsecured future and the painful past.
In einer Welt, in der Mode und Schönheit allgegenwärtig sind, stellt sich die Frage: Wie tiefgreifend beeinflussen diese Ideale unser Verständnis von Gleichberechtigung?
This book reports the first attempt in the child development literature to examine the structure of early personality based on parents' free-descriptions of their children.
As lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex identities increasingly secure legal recognition across the globe, these formal equality gains are contradicted by the continued presence of violence.
This collection contains some of the best new work being done on the subject of character from the perspectives of philosophy, theology, and psychology.
Understanding Everyday Incivility delves into the day-to-day annoying behaviors that color our interactions with other people, such as the use of crude language in public, family members who claim that they're "e;just teasing"e; and we're "e;too sensitive,"e; coworkers who constantly interrupt us, and inflammatory remarks posted on social media sites.
Originally published in 1999 Social Theory and Psychoanalysis in Transition is a benchmark critique of Freudian theory in which a dialogue between the Frankfurt School, the Lacanian tradition and post-Lacanian developments in critical and feminist theory is developed.