Social, group or collective psychology

Extreme intelligence is strongly correlated with the highest of human achievement, but also, paradoxically, with higher relationship conflict, career difficulty, mental illness, and high-IQ crime.

Human beings have a unique ability to create elaborate predispositions and evaluations based on their social experiences.

In the World Library of Psychologists series, international experts present career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces - extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, and their major practical theoretical contributions.

'Representation in Mind' is the first book in the new series 'Perspectives on Cognitive Science' and includes well known contributors in the areas of philosophy of mind, psychology and cognitive science.

The Aesthetics of Self-Harm presents a new approach to understanding parasuicidal behaviour, based upon an examination of online communities that promote performances of self-harm in the pursuit of an idealised beauty.

Aggression and violence directed towards staff in the caring services is a growing problem, and one that is receiving increasing attention.

This book argues that misinformation poses a multifaceted threat to knowledge, while arguing that some forms of content moderation risk exacerbating these threats.

Homeopathy is over 200 years old and is still experiencing an uninterrupted influx of new practitioners and patients.

This book provides a definitive account of koro, a topic of long-standing interest in the field of cultural psychiatry in which the patient displays a fear of the genitals shrinking and retracting.

This book examines the extraordinary changes that technology brings and how these affect all of us and our families-at home, at school, and at our work places-with profound consequences for society.

Most social scientific work on intimate relationships has assumed a monogamous structure, or has considered anything other than monogamy only in the context of 'infidelity'.

Over one billion people use the Internet globally.

This volume documents how sexual practices and fictions infiltrate and are influenced by a person's feelings about the self and the body.

This book explores the influence of Freudian psychoanalysis on Norbert Elias' theory of the civilizing process - an influence acknowledged by Elias himself - conducting a dialogue with a view to analyzing points of contact and distance between them.

This fourth edition provides the most comprehensive guide to the field of coaching, exploring a range of coaching theories and approaches, genres and settings and professional issues.

This volume presents a rare occasion where scholars from Europe, North Africa and North America share their research programs and findings revolving around an important theme: integration.

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

Most of us laugh at something funny multiple times during a typical day.

This volume, based on an interdisciplinary conference of psychologists, sociologists, philosophers, and social scientists, explores a topic of vital importance today-moral education.

This book is an important contribution to narrative research and highlights how narratives can produce social change.

This book advances the understanding and modelling of sensemaking and cultural processes as being crucial to the scientific study of contemporary complex societies.

Advertising, materialism and consumption are central aspects of contemporary Western culture.

This edited textbook brings together broad and cutting-edge coverage of the core areas in media psychology for undergraduate, introductory-level students.

Drawing on original research on the effectiveness of a therapeutic community (TC) in reducing recidivism among juvenile male offenders, Correctional Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Communities: Reducing Recidivism Through Behavior Change provides a comprehensive review of the current state of drug treatment for the offending population, especially the link between juvenile offending and substance abuse.

Leadership and Coherence investigates how leaders justify their decisions, and how they bring about coherence amongst followers.

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.

Based on an extensive national research project with global relevance, this pioneering volume draws on unique data on bullying in youth sports training collected from both athletes and coaches using a variety of methodological approaches.

This book charts a clear and accessible path through some of the key debates in contemporary psychology.

This book brings together psychoanalysis, clinical and theoretical, with history in a study of remembering as reparation: not compensation, but recognition of the actuality of perpetration and the remorseful urge to rejuvenate whatever represents this damage.

With applications throughout the social sciences, culture and psychology is a rapidly growing field that has experienced a surge in publications over the last decade.

Religion and Mental Health: Research and Clinical Applications summarizes research on how religion may help people better cope or exacerbate their stress, covering its relationship to depression, anxiety, suicide, substance abuse, well-being, happiness, life satisfaction, optimism, generosity, gratitude and meaning and purpose in life.

This book provides an answer to the readers about scientific perspective on learning.

Now a Wall Street Journal bestseller.

Deftly blending social and business history with economic analysis, Employing Bureaucracy shows how the American workplace shifted from a market-oriented system to a bureaucratic one over the course of the 20th century.

The study of group communication has never been more critical, as recent national and international events point to the fragility of group life.

This book examines the cultural beliefs and practices of Black folks in relation to psychological strength.

In this volume, top experts in the field of delinquency discuss the implications of the findings of the Pittsburgh Youth Study for current conceptualizations of antisocial behavior.

Evolutionary Psychology and Digital Games: Digital Hunter-Gatherers is the first edited volume that systematically applies evolutionary psychology to the study of the use and effects of digital games.

Caring is all around us and is manifested in diverse settings such as parenting, friendships, volunteering, altruism, mentoring, teaching, pet adoption, and gardening.

This volume is comprised of contributions to the 67th Nebraska Symposium on Motivation, which brought together various research disciplines such as psychology, education, health sciences, natural resources, environmental studies to investigate the ways in which nature influences cognition, health, human behavior, and well-being.

A tribute to Robert S.

How do leaders influence the people around them?

Born with the destiny of becoming a Mayan sacred midwife, Chona Prez has carried on centuries-old traditional Indigenous American birth and healing practices over her 85 years.

This handbook brings together the latest thinking on the scientific study of closeness and intimacy from some of the most active and widely recognized relationship scholars in social and clinical psychology, communication studies, and related disciplines.

Foreword by Monica Lewinsky and as seen on Dr.

Serendipity and creativity are both broad, widely disputed, and yet consistently popular concepts which are relevant to understanding the positive aspects of our daily lives and even human progress in the arts and sciences.