Social, group or collective psychology

Bipolar spectrum disorders are characterized by severe mood dysregulation, rage, irritability, and depression, along with low self-esteem and interpersonal struggles.

This concise student edition of The Cambridge Handbook of the Psychology of Prejudice includes new pedagogical features and instructor resources.

Teenagers and older children on the autistic spectrum are, like the rest of us, surrounded by complex social codes and rules that govern everyday interaction.

Which behaviour patterns are detrimental to health?

This collection of essays focuses on the interface between delusions and self-deception.

Following upon the first two volumes in this series, which dealt with a broad spectrum of topics in the environment and behavior field, ranging from theoretical to applied, and including disciplinary, interdisciplinary, and professionally oriented approaches, we have chosen to devote sub- sequent volumes to more specifically defined topics.

Making an Impact on Policing and Crime: Psychological Research, Policy and Practice applies a range of case studies and examples of psychological research by international, leading researchers to tackle real-world issues within the field of crime and policing.

Written in a conversational style that transforms complex ideas into accessible ones, this international best-seller provides an interdisciplinary review of the theories and research in crosscultural psychology.

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.

Political belief systems are, at heart, psychological theories of motivation, personality, mental health, education, and social interaction.

Filled with stories of successful social change leadership in diverse contexts, this book demonstrates that the best change agents love the people involved most of all.

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

Angst und Aggressionen entstehen in Gesellschaften, in denen ungerechte Verhältnisse herrschen.

An Introduction to Cyberpsychology provides a comprehensive introduction to this rapidly growing discipline.

Why do some young adults substantially change their patterns of smoking, drinking, or illicit drug use after graduating from high school?

Originally published in 1989.

Drawing on the author's unusual background as a seminarian turned scientist and business executive, Boys of the Cloth presents a unique analysis of the sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church.

This book investigates the production of public space in contemporary urban contexts as conditioned by the suffusion of urban life with digital technologies.

Delivers strategic, evidence-based measures for recognizing and treating abnormal behaviors in children in the content of primary care practiceWritten for practicing pediatric and family nurse practitioners, and PNP and FNP students, this pediatric primary care text expands on the crucial role of the healthcare provider to assess, identify, and intercept potential behavioral health problems.

What are the origins of greatness?

Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences.

Psychologists have long been interested in the problems of children, but in the last 20 years this interest has increased dramatically.

Common sense, by definition, is familiar to us all.

Are scientific 'facts' about body image enough to define conceptions of normality?

Early Socialisation looks at sociability and attachment and how they relate to emotional and cognitive development.

Bias in the Workplace and Society looks at the causes and management of the biases that underpin all behavior inclusive of discrimination, prejudice, and stereotyping that can occur in the workplace and in everyday contexts.

Through the examination of anti-psychiatric theory and literary texts, this timely and thought-provoking volume explores the possibilities of liberating our habitual patterns of perception and consciousness beyond the confines of a capitalist era.

Everyday social life is deeply tied to the ways in which people talk, interact, and engage in joint activities with each other.

One of the key scientific challenges is the puzzle of human cooperation.

This book focuses on safer sex discussion and practice in close, personal relationships, emphasizing research on individuals in personal relationship types that are experiencing a rise in HIV infection and AIDS.

Based on over a decade of research, this book connects dream studies to cognitive anthropology, to perspectives in the humanities on mimesis, ambiguity, and metaphor, to current dream research in psychology, and to recent work in economic and political relations.

This book discusses ethnography from the three points of view of Emerging Methodologies, Practice and Advocacy, and Social Justice and Transformation, with an over arching emphasis on researchers' and participants' worldviews.

This book provides comprehensive, authoritative surveys covering the modeling, automatic detection, analysis, and synthesis of nonverbal social signals.

What shapes political behavior more: the situations in which individuals find themselves, or the internal psychological makeup---beliefs, values, and so on---of those individuals?

Originally published in 1969, Intelligence and Cultural Environment looks at the concept of intelligence and the factors influencing the mental development of children, including health and nutrition, as well as child-rearing practices.

The rise of digital health technologies is, for some, a panacea to many of the medical and public health challenges we face today.

This manifesto is motivated by the daunting psychosocial issues that were so strikingly revealed by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Architecture and Social Behavior (1977) is a groundbreaking study that presents the findings from a five year programme of research concerned with evaluating the impact of architectural design on behavior.

It was once assumed that the bedrock concepts of psychology held true for all the world's peoples.

This is the first book to explain why people misunderstand economics.

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

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

This cutting-edge guide spotlights some of the most exciting emerging discoveries, trends, and research areas in LGBT psychology, both in science and therapy.

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.

There is a huge collection of literature relating to death, grief and bereavement, but one aspect that has received relatively little attention is that of death management practices (by which we mean the various ways of managing the circumstances of the death, ritually acknowledging it and sensitively handling the disposal of the body and so on).

This book aims to explore the supercomplexity of interaction and to suggest ways of teaching about this supercomplexity in various settings, including intercultural communication and language-learning.

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.

The Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology and Religion offers a comprehensive and compelling review of research in religious beliefs and practices from an evolutionary perspective on human psychology.