The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Evolutionary Psychology ambitiously brings together an eclectic and provocative body of work from some of the brightest minds in comparative psychology and evolutionary psychology, highlighting the strengths and insights of each field.
India is greying rapidly and with the decline of the strong bonds of the joint family system and the well knit familial relations the aged of to-day and the future will have to make a large number of adjustments and changes in life styles to survive into a happy old age.
This is the first work to condense the large literature on explanatory style -- one's tendency to offer similar sorts of explanations for different events.
Representing Development presents the different social representations that have formed the idea of development in Western thinking over the past three centuries.
In this classic edition of her groundbreaking text Knowledge in Context, Sandra Jovchelovitch revisits her influential work on the societal and cultural processes that shape the development of representational processes in humans.
Choice Recommended ReadPsychological research into human intelligence and abilities presents us with a number of difficult questions: Are human abilities explained by a single core intelligence or by multiple intelligences?
The Handbook contains psychometric tools developed and adapted in India in four areas, namely, Personality, Education, Organisational Behaviour and Social Phenomena.
In einer Zeit, in der der Fachkräftemangel zu den größten Herausforderungen für Unternehmen weltweit gehört, bietet dieses Buch einen wegweisenden Ansatz zur Lösung dieses Problems: die Mitarbeiterbeteiligung.
This unusual book was written to provide a glimpse into the inner "e;Rorschach"e; world of individuals -- psychology students in training -- representing the basic Rorschach subtypes.
Parents who care for children with special needs, particularly those whose children have multiple disabilities or intellectual delays, are pioneers in home health care and caregiving, yet their experience and expertise are rarely recognized.
This innovative text is the first to examine the contemporary psychological experience of African Americans through the lens of a positive, strengths-based model.
Computational Social Psychology showcases a new approach to social psychology that enables theorists and researchers to specify social psychological processes in terms of formal rules that can be implemented and tested using the power of high speed computing technology and sophisticated software.
The Criminal Crowd and Other Writings on Mass Society is the first collection in English of writings by Italian jurist, sociologist, and cultural and literary critic Scipio Sighele (1868-1913).
From Birth to Five Years: Practical Developmental Examination is a step-by-step 'how to' guide to the developmental examination of pre-school children.
This volume presents a conceptual, historical, anthropological, and sociological review of how culture affects our experience and expression of romantic love.
Social Goals in the Classroom is the first volume to comprehensively examine the variety of students' non-academic goals and motivations within the classroom.
The impact of public narratives has been so broad (including effects on beliefs and behavior but extending beyond to emotion and personality), that the stakeholders in the process have been located across disciplines, institutions, governments, and, indeed, across epochs.
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.
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.
Interweaving rich theory on dialogism, power, and resistance together with situated scenarios addressing the production of psychological knowledge, this book explores decoloniality as it interfaces with strategic fields in psychology.
The prospect that the psychiatric profession has hurt rather than helped many of its patients is incredibly disheartening; however, wrong diagnoses and improper treatment are all too common errors within the field.
Psychology of Emotion reviews both theory and methods in emotion science, exploring findings about the brain; the function, expression, and regulation of emotion; similarities and differences due to gender and culture; the relationship between emotion and cognition; and emotion processes in groups.
This Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of media domestication - the process of appropriating new media and technology - and delves into the theoretical, conceptual and social implications of the field's advancement.
