Social, group or collective psychology

The traditional structures of business and the workplace have changed drastically in recent years.

This book provides an overview of the challenges and opportunities for creating positive systemic change through research for development projects, providing four real-world examples.

Nursing is an essential component of children's palliative care and palliative care is an essential aspect of nursing.

Developmental and clinical researchers have only just discovered the phenomenon of adolescent romance as a topic of serious scientific inquiry.

The study of attention in the laboratory has been crucial to understanding the mechanisms that support several different facets of attentional processing: Our ability to both divide attention among multiple tasks and stimuli, and selectively focus it on task-relevant information, while ignoring distracting task-irrelevant information, as well as how top-down and bottom-up factors influence the way that attention is directed within and across modalities.

This book is about how we present our selves in everyday talk and interaction.

Cannabis Criminology explores the prohibition, decriminalization, and liberalization of cannabis policy through the lens of criminological and sociological theory, essential concepts, and cannabis research.

This book offers Jungian perspectives on social constructions of gender difference and explores how these feed into adult ways of relating within male-female relationships.

From pioneering attachment researchers, this book takes an expansive look at the nature and functions of security dynamics in personal and social relationships.

A study of the classical aggregation problems that arise in social choice theory, voting theory, and group decision-making under uncertainty.

Originally published in 1977, this volume was intended to provide a relatively elementary and clear overview of some of the more important approaches to social psychology at the time.

Mental, Emotional and Behavioural Needs of the General Population Following COVID-19 in India: Findings from Qualitative and Quantitative Studies explores the psychological challenges arising from COVID-19 that impacted the Indian general population.

This book examines the controversial global phenomenon of skin bleaching.

Behind the mask of objective science lie the dynamics of what happens to scientists who go to live and work in another culture.

Research on intentional forgetting has been conducted in various forms and under various names for at least 30 years, but until now no effort has been made to present these different perspectives in one place.

This book accessibly explores the phenomenon of internalized homonegativity among same gender loving Black men who love other men, providing practical tools to help therapists identify the underlying motivations for their clients' feelings.

Psychology of the Image outlines a theoretical framework bringing together the semiotic concepts developed by Charles Peirce, the sociological insights of Ervin Goffman and the psychoanalytic ideas of Jacques Lacan.

This Handbook analyzes cutting-edge consumer psychology research through individual, interpersonal, and societal lenses and considers future directions for the field.

In Sexual Aggression Against Children: Pedophiles' and Abusers' Development, Dynamics, Treatability, and the Law, Drs.

The study of bilingualism and all of its aspects - from theory and models to social approaches and their practical applications - forms the cornerstone of the 2nd edition of this work.

This fully revised and expanded edition considers the meaning of 'vulnerability' - a key concept in early intervention - and the relationship between vulnerability and the individual, communities and society.

This book celebrates two triumphs in modern psychology: the successful development and application of a solid measure of general intelligence; and the personal courage and skills of the man who made this possible - Arthur R.

Board games have long fascinated as mirrors of intelligence, skill, cunning, and wisdom.

Drawing from current research in psychology, the social sciences, and spirituality, this book presents a comprehensive investigation into the heart of gratitude as it arises within lived experience and its role in nurturing relationships.

From newspapers to social networking sites, the mass media play a huge role in shaping the way we see ourselves and others.

With relevance across public, private and not-for-profit sectors, and combining perspectives from both the business and psychology worlds, this book is a cross-disciplinary look at how destructive leaders can impact organisations and their workers, and how best to recognise and deal with them.

Originally published in 1927, An Introduction to Social Psychology represents an attempt at a more synthetic type of treatment of the field than had previously been given.

Compares the nature of childhood in four representative societies differing in their subsistence activities.

In this book, senior scholars and a new generation of analysts present different applications of recent advances linking beliefs and decision-making, in the area of foreign policy analysis with strategic interactions in world politics.

The book ';Social Needs of Girl and Psychosocial Problems' covers the topic Sexual Abuse, Marriage, Trafficking, Social Security System, Violence, Social Needs, Diet and Nutrition, Inequality, Self Help Groups and Prisoners.

How Groups Encourage Misbehavior explores the psychological and social processes by which groups develop a tolerance for and even encourage misbehavior.

Written for those interested in the topic of "e;shared knowledge"e; in organizations, this edited volume brings together a variety of themes and perspectives that emerge when multidisciplinary scholars examine this important subject.

Questions about who we are, who we can be, and who is like and unlike us underpin a vast range of contemporary social issues.

In recent years, much stimulating research has emerged on children's theories of mind, construed as the understanding of others' intentions, beliefs, and desires.

Trust is a crucial facet of social functioning that feeds into our relationships with individuals, groups, and organizations.

Lovescapes introduces the reader to the various meanings and manifestations of love and its many cognates such as compassion, caring, altruism, empathy, and forgiveness.

Drawing on examples from art, media, fashion, history and memoir, cultural critic Rosemarie Garland-Thomson tackles a basic human interaction which has remained curiously unexplored, the human stare.

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

This book is a psychoanalytic observation of five children's existential encounters in their ordinary life at the nursery.

Paarbeziehungen, Freundschaften und soziale Beziehungen in der Arbeitswelt sind nur einige Bereiche, zu denen die neuere psychologische Forschung wichtige Theorien und Ergebnisse anzubieten hat.

Warum Entschuldigungen eine Kunst sind Entschuldigungen sind mehr wert als jede Wiedergutmachung.

Social Psychology and Theories of Consumer Culture: A Political Economy Perspective presents a critical analysis of the leading positions in social psychology from the perspective of classical and contemporary theories of consumer culture.

This book is about reactions to interpersonal conflict such as avoiding, negotiating, and fighting.

"Entscheiden ist Handeln trotz Zweifel und Angst.

Originally published in 1979, the world's leading researchers contributed chapters describing their work on the orienting reflex in humans.

Offering a holistic take on an emerging field, this edited collection examines how heroism manifests, is appropriated, and is constructed in a broad range of settings and from a variety of disciplines and perspectives.