Social, group or collective psychology

Do video games cause violent, aggressive behavior?

The Handbook of Computational Social Science is a comprehensive reference source for scholars across multiple disciplines.

In this expanded and thoroughly updated second edition, Michael A.

The new edition of Beauty and Misogyny revisits and updates Sheila Jeffreys' uncompromising critique of Western beauty practice and the industries and ideologies behind it.

First published in 1980.

In an earlier era, the communication field was dominated by the study of mediated and unmediated message effects during which considerable research focused on the attitudinal and action consequences of exposure to messages.

Children with a history of significant neglect and/or physical, sexual, and/or emotional abuse are at higher risk for developing long-term emotional, behavioral, and mental health concerns, which have implications past childhood and into adulthood.

Desire, Self, Mind, and the Psychotherapies unifies psychological science with contemporary relational psychoanalysis, arguing that the disciplines can be integrated if the concept of repression is understood as motivated forgetting, creative aspects of unconscious processes are taken into account in cognitive science, and a "e;new experiences"e; model of change is acknowledged by psychoanalysts.

Why do we think that we can understand animal voices - such as the aggressive barking of a pet dog, and the longing meows of the family cat?

Incorporating the latest research and clinical work in family dynamics, this book examines multiple angles of integrating sibling issues, which underlie issues at the core of many clinical difficulties presented by adult clients, in therapy to improve adulthood emotional and psychological well-being.

This ambitious volume integrates findings from various disciplines in a comprehensive description of the modern research on love and provides a systematic review of love experience and expression from cross-cultural perspective.

In The Genocide Contagion, Israel W.

We live in a psychological age.

Integrating recent research and existing knowledge on food marketing and its effects on the eating behaviour of children, adolescents, and adults, this timely collection explores how food promotion techniques can be used to promote healthier foods.

Diversifying the academic faculty remains an elusive goal marked by slow and uneven progress.

Resistance and Persuasion is the first book to analyze the nature of resistance and demonstrate how it can be reduced, overcome, or used to promote persuasion.

The book provides - for the first time in the German-speaking world - a comprehensive scientific contribution to the reappraisal of sexualized violence in a psychotherapy institute.

In Volume 3, Eliot R.

This volume of collected papers, with the accompanying essays by the editors, is the definitive source book for the work of this important experimental psychologist.

Seafarer & Community (1973) examines life on shipboard and how the communities which rely on the sea for their livelihood exist.

Is advertising a factor that contributes to rising costs and prices?

Unique study re-evaluating the role of emotions in social interaction.

This book critically examines the development of mindfulness, tracing its development from Buddhist meditation to its variety of popular applications today, including the treatment of mental disorders, wellbeing and improvement of performance.

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

This book re-examines the common view that a high level of individual creativity often correlates with a heightened risk of mental illness.

Offering a direct sightline into communication theory, Explaining Communication provides in-depth discussions of communication theories by some of the foremost scholars working in communication today.

Frontiers in Developmental and Life-Course Criminology advances the field of developmental and life-course criminology (DLC) by highlighting some recent methodological innovations, and exploring the ways in which DLC criminologists are helping to bridge the gap between science and service by their engagement with policymakers and government and non-government agencies.

When conflict, competing identities, and segregation collide; Identity, Segregation and Peace-building in Northern Ireland explores the implications for peace-building in Northern Ireland, and across the globe.

Volume 15 features Melford Spiro's "e;Culture and Human Nature"e; and "e;The internalization of Burmese Gender Identity"e; along with an interview of Spiro by B.

This book explores the relationship between knowledge and context through a novel analysis of processes of representation.

For a practical, hands-on approach to learning forensic psychology, Experiments in Anti-Social Behaviour: Ten Studies for Students presents a collection of unique projects for students that illustrate the many ways research into anti-social behaviour can be conducted whilst also highlighting social psychological aspects of criminality.

Organizations thrive or struggle as a result of interactions among team members.

Martijn van Zomeren develops ''selvations theory'', and proposes that human motivation is based around changes in social relationships.

The Mismeasure of the Self is dedicated to vices that blight many lives.

The potential for conflict exists in every interaction.

This book is about the ocean and about the future.

Dieses Buch erzählt die Lebensgeschichte von Anka, einer Frau, die durch viele Krisen und Schmerzen hindurch nie aufgegeben hat, sondern - im Gegenteil - an all diesen Brüchen in ihrem Leben gewachsen ist.

This book brings together Indigenous and allied experts addressing mental health among Indigenous peoples across the traditional territories commonly known as the Americas (e.

Violence is a complex subject that is rooted in a multitude of disciplines, including not only criminology but also psychology, sociology, biology, and other social science disciplines.

The world often falls short of how we'd like it to be, and our ability to make even just a little difference can seem limited.

What does it really mean to say that boys will be boys, men are from Mars, or that contemporary men are in crisis?

This book examines the institutionalization of self-help in the United States using organizational and social movement theories.

This important book provides a much-needed exploration and examination of "e;honor"e; abuse, violence, and killings from a psychological perspective.

This text reviews the mass of information concerning the ways in which individuals and groups differ from each other.

Human Performance provides the student and researcher with a comprehensive and accessible review of performance, in the real world and essential cognitive science theory.

At the Forefront of Political Psychology pays tribute to John L.

This book presents a new paradigm for distinguishing psychotic and mystical religious experiences.

Clear and accessible in style, this book offers a comprehensive introduction to criminal justice and forensic mental health and the ways in which they intersect.

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.