Social, group or collective psychology

This volume presents a systematic examination of the impact of social structures on individual behaviors and on their development in adulthood and old age.

This extensively revised and updated edition offers a comprehensive account of the latest research and practice issues relating to perfectionism in sport, dance, and exercise.

In the face of a world in crisis, Digitalization and Learning as a Worlding Practice: Why Dialogue Matters examines the significance of digital technologies in human learning.

Forensic Interventions for Therapy and Rehabilitation: Case Studies and Analysis provides an up-to-date overview of the latest therapeutic ideas being used for forensic service users and prisoners in both custodial and community settings.

Research on self-control in both philosophy and psychology is thriving.

This book draws on research in psychology and behavioral economics to show how striving to live up to our identity claims profoundly affects our daily lives.

Published in the year 1981, Aspects of the Development of Comptenece is a valuable contribution to the field of Developmental Psychology.

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.

Andreas Hegenbart entwickelt in seinem Werk erstmals beispielhaft ein Facettenstrukturmodell eines Raums für kommunale Dienstleistung, das auf dem Affordanzkonzept aufbaut.

What does it mean to live in a consumer society and how does this impact on our behaviour?

Originally published in 1962, this was the first comprehensive study of a group of families often referred to as 'problem families'.

An edited volume examining the importance of health and education in early childhood development and policy.

Within the past decade, there has been an intensified concern about pervasive and serious harmdoing that has drawn the attention of researchers.

An essential guide to professional communicationProfessional communication has become more complex than ever as, with the rise of remote working and the increasing prominence of social media, we frequently find ourselves muted when we can't find the opportunities to speak up or our ideas aren't getting the credit they deserve.

Why are adolescent girls prone to depression, eating disorders, addictions and suicide attempts than ever before?

This book examines mobile media use among children and youths within an Asian context.

Drawing on work from scholars in both psychology and translation studies, this collection offers new perspectives on what Holmes (1972) called 'translation psychology'.

Doctor-turned-pastor Scott Vaudrey shows readers how to have stronger, more meaningful relationships by mastering the balance between building bridges and setting boundaries.

Originally published in 1972, this title provides an analysis of social interactions in educational contexts and opens up the field of the social psychology of education as an area in its own right at the very heart of the process of education.

First published in 1982.

Why did Michael Jordan quit basketball and take up baseball?

This multidisciplinary overview of research into emotional mimicry and empathy explores when, how and why emotional mimicry occurs.

What impact can video games have on us as players?

Originally published in 1963, this book was one of the first to explore group process and working with groups.

Unemployment and the economic crisis are the brutal facts of life in the everyday world around us.

This book explains how people can be radically manipulated by extreme groups and leaders to engage in incomprehensible and often dangerous acts through psychologically isolating situations of extreme social influence.

This book combines autoethnographic reflections, poetry, and photography with the aim to bridge the gap between creative practice and scholarly research.

This book is about education, ideology, power and identity investment and concerns an influential East Asian expatriate community.

How our collective intelligence has helped us to evolve and prosperHumans are a puzzling species.

This book examines human psychology and behavior through the lens of modern evolutionary psychology.

Originally published in 1974, Ritual in Industrial Society is based on several years' research including interviews and observations into the importance of ritual in industrial society within modern Britain.

Tense Past provides a much needed appraisal and contextualization of the upsurge of interest in questions of memory and trauma evident in multiple personality and post-traumatic stress disorders, child abuse, and commemoration of the Holocaust.

Music therapy is growing internationally to be one of the leading evidence-based psychosocial allied health professions, meeting needs right across the lifespan.

A tribute to Robert S.

Yvonne Albrecht zeigt in ihrem Buch auf, dass es sinnvoll ist, die generellen Funktionen von Emotionen innerhalb gegenwärtiger Migrationsprozesse in den Blick zu nehmen.

Unfälle und Mord, Umweltkatastrophen und Terroranschläge - Tod und Sterben gehören zum Alltag im deutschen Fernsehprogramm.

A compelling examination of how societal and cultural factors can influence psychological responses to war.

This volume offers a crucial examination of right-wing extremism, supported by detailed empirical analyses of right-wing militants' experiences within and outside their organizations.

This third volume in Advances in Environment, Behavior, and Design fol- lows the conceptual framework adopted in the previous two volumes (see the Preface to Volume 1, 1987).

Violent video game, gaming addiction, and other game effects are made clear by understanding human learning mechanisms and processes.

The increasing globalization of society is causing shifts in social, linguistic, religious, and other cultural differences, which may increase the potential for misunderstandings in communication, the workplace, health care, and education.

A Critical Reflexive Approach to Sex Research is a methodologically focused book that offers rich insights into the, often secret, subjectivities of men who pay for sex in South Africa.

The Political Psychology of Women in U.

Winner of a 2022 Foreword INDIES Award Gold MedalHow do we overcome polarization in American society?

This timely volume examines the conflict between human individual life and larger forces that are not controllable.

First published in 1930, the object of Love in the Machine Age was to popularize a modern and scientific view of behavior, and thereby help people to live happy and successful lives.

The Disappearance of the Social in American Social Psychology is a critical conceptual history of American social psychology.

Moral Development and Reality explores the nature of moral development, human behavior, and social interconnections.

In this volume scholars from a variety of disciplines address a range of phenomena related to the general question of when people behave in an altruistic fashion.

Joining insights from social science and philosophy, this book offers a nuanced view on the discourse of evil, which has been on the rise in the West in recent years.