Social, group or collective psychology

Racism's external forms, from racial assault to petty discrimination, are readily recognized.

Ken Sheldon's comprehensive new book addresses two questions: how can individuals best integrate the different facets of themselves to achieve "e;optimal human being"e;, and how can researchers best integrate the different levels of analysis within the human sciences to understand "e;optimal human being"e; in general?

This book creates a scope for achieving mental wellbeing apart from the currently dominant mental health practices, critiqued for their damaging effects on individuals and families.

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.

Killer Data examines the phenomenon of serial murder using data collected from international sources to review offender patterning with a focus on contemporary cases.

This volume provides a collection of critical new perspectives on social capital theory by examining how social values, power relationships, and social identity interact with social capital.

This book brings to life the major theories of crime and deviance by presenting detailed profiles that help readers differentiate each theory and its major propositions by better understanding how, when, and by whom the theory was formed.

First published in 1982.

Grounded in psychology research but with a practical focus on organizational behavior issues, Group Dynamics for Teams helps readers understand and participate in teams more effectively in day-to-day work.

Instead of considering society as a social environment, Society in the Self begins from the assumption that society works in the deepest regions of self and identity, as expressed in phenomena like self-sabotage, self-radicalization, self-cure, self-government, self-nationalization, and self-internationalization.

This book takes a sociocultural, developmental and dialogical perspective to explore the constructive and interconnected nature of remembering and imagining.

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.

This new book explores the historical development of mediation (conflict resolution) from a cultural and existential perspective, and considers the cultural challenges involved for a mediator.

Wendy Hollway explores a subject that is largely absent from the topical literature on care.

This handbook examines the new and rapidly growing field of the positive humanities--an area of academic research at the intersection of positive psychology and the arts and humanities.

Putting forward a new approach to the study of corrections, this book draws together public health and corrections and explores the importance of this nexus.

In The Network Society, Darin Barney provides a compelling examination of the social, political and economic implications of network technologies and their application across a wide range of practices and institutions.

Psychological Perspectives on Walking provides a comprehensive overview of the benefits of walking and shows how we can encourage people to walk more based on psychological principles.

Originally published in 1978, Subjective Meaning and Culture presents a framework and a method for the comparative study of the perceptions, attitudes, and cultural frames of reference shared by groups of people.

How can we understand the relationship between employer and employee?

This Element asks if the arts can help us imagine a better future society and economy, without deep social gulfs or ecological harm.

Human behavior often violates the predictions of rational choice theory.

This volume examines diverse jury systems in nations around the world.

In our increasingly complex, globalized world, people often carry conflicting psychosocial identities.

This book develops a psychoanalytic theory of political correctness and the pristine self, which is defined as a self touched by nothing but love.

Attempted suicide began to increase inexorably in western societies following World War II.

Questions about identity are perennially intriguing, and vexing, to scholars and non-scholars alike.

Bringing together trust research, rhetoric, ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, this book formulates an analytical program for conceptualizing and defining trustworthiness as an empirical research object in social interaction.

This is an original book, covering all the past areas of research anyone would need to know about festivals and 'event-based culture'.

We are entering a new era of leisure.

Today more than ever, our understanding of ourselves, others and the world around us is described in psychological terms.

The Science of Diversity uses a multidisciplinary approach to excavate the theories, principles, and paradigms that illuminate our understanding of the issues surrounding human diversity, social equality, and justice.

This evidence-rich collection takes on the broad diversity of traumatic stress, in both its causes and outcomes, as well as the wide variety of resources available for recovery.

Since the legalisation of off-course cash betting in 1960, and the rise of varying forms of gambling, the British have come to be known as a nation of gamblers.

A richly absorbing book.

The present work introduces innovative research on Symbolic Action Theory, blending theoretical insights with practical applications in psychology.

Discusses how the memory of traumatic events, such as genocide and torture, is inscribed within human bodies.

Forensic science has become increasingly important within contemporary criminal justice, from criminal investigation through to courtroom deliberations, and an increasing number of agencies and individuals are having to engage with its contribution to contemporary justice.

Psychopathy: The Basics is an accessible text that provides a compact introduction to the major findings and debates concerning this complex personality disorder.

Combining the conceptual tools of interactionist and social constructionist positions, this book presents an in-depth investigation of emotions in digital interactions.

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Emotion offers a variety of critical theoretical and methodological perspectives that interrogate the ways in which ideas about and experiences of emotion are shaped by linguistic encounters, and vice versa.

Blending the latest academic research with case studies of famous figures, this highly insightful book presents 'doubt' as a central concept for psychology.

Is there a linkage between "e;smart power"e; and Hillary Clinton's leadership style?

As Singapore continues to grow as a nation, the happiness and wellbeing of Singaporeans and what matters to them also change.

This treatment guide allows clinicians to effectively integrate dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) as a psychological treatment with men who have committed sexually motivated offenses.

This edited book presents a comprehensive guide to the research, challenges and differing perspectives within mental health for sexual minority populations in the UK.

The aim of this book is to discuss the notions of self-concept, self-esteem, and related terms from an educational and psychological perspective.