This book proposes a radical change in communication strategies about environmental problems, advocating for more active and emotionally engaging methods that drive people to action.
Using a lens of mindfulness, this book explores how digital dependencies can displace attention and undermine attentional control, leading to experiences of stress and mindless involvement with digital technology.
This is the first volume providing a research platform to showcase research in the field of positive psychology and well-being science in African contexts.
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).
Anxiety is perhaps the defining psychological malady of our age, whereas creativity is seen as an almost unassailable good, its importance heralded and promoted in a range of disciplines and domains.
This book integrates the findings of group research emphasizing "e;Madness of the Crowd"e; versus collective intelligence that highlights "e;Wisdom of the Crowd.
Dieses Buch betrachtet Veränderung aus verschiedenen Perspektiven und unterstützt in seinen Erläuterungen Menschen, die im beratenden sowie pädagogischen Kontext arbeiten.
Die psychosozialen Studien im Vereinigten Königreich sind ein vielfältiger Arbeitsbereich, der sich durch Innovation in Theorie und empirischer Forschung auszeichnet.
This book explores the significant deliverables of psychology to society in five sections: identity and relationship, psychology for gainful employment, psychology customized to the community, culturally embedded psychology and alternatives for maximizing psychology.
Dieses Buch beantwortet die sozialpsychologische Frage, wie politische Akteure und Akteurinnen die Mehrheit der Deutschen für partikulare Machtinteressen eingenommen haben.
This volume continues the tradition now established since 2006, of compiling excellent research into the practice and application of community indicators in a single source volume.
This book attempts to look into the genesis of security culture as a concept which emerged with the recognition of the role of the human factor in the context of security.
This topical book examines and tests the complexities of unintended consequences of social media that often impact brands and companies from both an economic and a reputational lens.
This book explores how identities, public spheres and collective memories are being transformed in cross-border areas, contributing to the broad sociological context of Europeanization.
This book provides a chronology of the 68th Nebraska Symposium on Motivation, which is focused on contemporary research knowledge about sexual violence and alcohol use.
Your go-to guide for your parenting questions, from the author of the breakthrough No-Cry series"e;Perfect Parenting will give you the tools you need to feel confident as you raise your children.
This second edition volume expands on the previous edition with new information on the latest developments in the field, and the most up-to-date representative methodological information on molecular neuroanatomical and functional techniques that are currently used to study neurotransmitter receptors and ion channels in the brain.
This volume develops a theoretical framework for the modelling of meaning-making and cultural processes as crucial to the scientific study of contemporary complex societies.
The chapters collected in this volume represent the "e;state-of-the-art"e; of research on the development of intentional action and intentional understanding--topics that are at the intersection of current research on imitation, early understanding of mental states, goal-directed behavior in nonhuman animals, executive function, language acquisition, and narrative understanding, to name just a few of the relevant foci.
