Social, group or collective psychology

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How can a narrative perspective help us advance our understanding of the fundamental problems of human psychology and better appreciate persons in diverse social and cultural contexts?

For two decades, a significant number of scholars have subscribed to a common definition of social capital (resources embedded in social networks), employed a standard measurement (the position generator methodology), and conducted original research.

Decolonizing Global Mental Health is a book that maps a strange irony.

Disability and Impairment introduces professionals working with families to the everyday issues faced by disabled people of all ages in family life.

In Anti-Oppressive Counseling and Psychotherapy, Jason D.

Elliot Aronson is among the 100 most influential psychologists of the 20th Century.

In this timely and essential book that offers a fresh take on the qualms of modern day life, Professor Alan Lightman investigates the creativity born from allowing our minds to freely roam, without attempting to accomplish anything and without any assigned tasks.

Democratic therapeutic communities have been set up all over the world, but until now there has not been a manual that sets out the underlying theories, and describes successful practice.

In The Grammar of Society, first published in 2006, Cristina Bicchieri examines social norms, including fairness, cooperation, and reciprocity.

Each day, we make judgments about the personality characteristics of those around us, and we routinely rely on them to guide our behavior in interpersonal interactions and relationships.

First published in 1989, Mind and the Body Politic is a collection of Elisabeth Young-Bruehl's twelve essays and lectures on political theory, psychoanalysis, feminism, and the theory of biography.

Philipp Roidinger erarbeitet in einer kognitionstheoretischen Auseinandersetzung mit dem musikalischen Improvisieren fundamentale Aspekte der prozessualen Echtzeitgestaltung (der Erzeugung) sowie der Expertise (der Erzeugungskompetenz).

Do our expectancies about ourselves and about others have any effect on our actual experiences?

Resistance and Persuasion is the first book to analyze the nature of resistance and demonstrate how it can be reduced, overcome, or used to promote persuasion.

Where do new ideas come from?

This handbook provides an in-depth analysis of the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on older people across different countries, focusing on important issues affecting ageing societies.

This superb introduction to the field of organizational psychology and organizational behaviour builds on the foundation of the highly successful first edition to provide up-to-date explanations of all the key topics in a clear, coherent and accessible style.

Offering a unique set of case studies that invites readers to question and reimagine the concept of community engagement, this collected work provides an overview and analysis of numerous, creative participatory research methods designed to improve well-being at both the individual and societal level.

This timely collection of chapters written by international experts bridges the gap between peace psychology and restorative justice.

Interpersonal relationships are the core of our societal system and have been since before the dawn of civilization.

The Lived Experiences of Claiming Wrongful Conviction in Prison focuses on the lived experience of maintaining innocence in the prison environment and highlights the struggles and pain that such a claim can cause.

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

This extremely readable and addictive parable has become a breakout word-of-mouth hit for its uncanny ability to renew your understanding of life, connections and perspective with fresh vigour.

This book provides in-depth analysis of the historical, philosophical, anthropological, political and neurobiological reinforcements of fear and the role of fear-on-fear interactions in the construction and maintenance of systems.

This richly detailed reference offers a strengths-based survey of Latinx immigrant experience in the United States.

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Personality Psychology: The Basics provides a jargon-free and accessible overview of the discipline, focusing on why not all individuals think, feel, speak, or act the same way in the same situation.

This innovative book proposes an entirely new approach to social research, presenting practical ways to discover people's life contexts in order to understand why they do what they do, which is essential for any forms of research that need to understand people.

This volume brings together classic key concepts and innovative theoretical ideas in the psychology of judgment and decision-making in social contexts.

The Escape of the Mind is part of a current movement in psychology and philosophy of mind that calls into question what is perhaps our most basic, most cherished, and universally accepted belief--that our minds are inside of our bodies.

Adopted Women and Biological Fathers offers a critical and deconstructive challenge to the dominant notions of adoptive identity.

From Language to Communication focuses on the structure of texts and on the social and psychological aspects of language.

IExplaining Creativity/I is an accessible introduction to the latest scientific research on creativity.

This book takes an insider perspective of the psychological issues of creating policy.

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.

This book explores male health psychology in relation to chronic health conditions.

This book joins together disclosure, privacy, and secrecy to pursue a greater understanding of how people are both public and private in their interactions.

Expanding on the work in the volume Multiplayer, this new book explores several other areas related to social gaming in detail.

A brand's meaning-how it resonates in the public heart and mind-is a company's most valuable competitive advantage.

This volume honors the work of Arie W.

This book examines the concept of social psychology in today's context.

Women's Lives integrates the most current research and social issues to explore the psychological diversity of girls and women varying in age, ethnicity, social class, nationality, immigrant experience, sexual orientation, gender identity, ableness and body size and shape.

This book describes the path of women entrepreneurs who manage sustainable enterprises and delves into the issues that women entrepreneurs encounter along with the steps they are taking to overcome these obstacles.

Social Neuroscience provides an updated and critically important survey of contemporary social neuroscience research.

The Handbook of Social Status Correlates summarizes findings from nearly 4000 studies on traits associated with variations in socioeconomic status.

Since the early 1970s, social psychology has been in crisis.

In our individualized society we are all artists of life whether we know it or not, will it or not and like it or not, by decree of society if not by our own choice.