Social, group or collective psychology

Human Interaction with the Divine, the Sacred, and the Deceased brings together cutting-edge empirical and theoretical contributions from scholars in fields including psychology, theology, ethics, neuroscience, medicine, and philosophy, to examine how and why humans engage in, or even seek spiritual experiences and connection with the immaterial world.

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.

Providing a comprehensive analysis of comparative gender difference in the EU, this book addresses a spectrum of gender issues.

This pragmatic guide describes tested ways to adapt motivational interviewing (MI) to optimize outcomes when practitioner and client come from different cultural backgrounds; in particular, when clients are members of marginalized groups.

The Psychology of Diversity presents a captivating social-psychological study of diversity, the obstacles confronting it, and the benefits it provides.

This special issue addresses the nature, development, and consequences of a variety of lay theories for group perception and behavior.

Psychology and the Conduct of Everyday Life moves psychological theory and research practice out of the laboratory and into the everyday world.

Teaching Teens About Relationships describes how to teach a relationships course for adolescents.

Originally published in 1975, this book is a completely rewritten, revised version of Michael Argyle's standard work, Religious Behaviour, first published in 1958.

This book breathes new life into the study of liminal experiences of transition and transformation, or 'becoming'.

This book draws on findings from psychology, neurology, and genetics, to offer a multi-dimensional analysis of criminal behavior.

A Lifetime of Communication explores the developmental processes that make for uniquely human change and growth.

This book explores Veganism through the holistic journeys and lived experiences of former vegans, with a particular focus on the impact this has on their Selfhood and identity.

Bestselling author Dan Ariely reveals fascinating new insights into motivationshowing that the subject is far more complex than we ever imagined.

Most dating books tell you what NOT to do.

The Understanding Research series focuses on the process of writing up social research.

For the past two decades, creativity and innovation have been viewed by researchers as critical to organizational success and survival.

Today the United States is a country divided along lines of gender, economic inequality, educational level, and political affiliation.

This international and thought-provoking volume addresses both theoretical and conceptual issues of resilience in modern organizations, looking at areas of concern and providing suggestions for future preventative measures.

A longitudinal study of how older people maintain a sense of self and meaning despite the losses associated with ageing.

This cross-disciplinary exploration of MMOs and other complex online worlds melds work from computer science, psychology and social science.

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.

This book reports the first attempt in the child development literature to examine the structure of early personality based on parents' free-descriptions of their children.

This handbook on human psychology, first published in 2007, integrates contributions of sociocultural specialists from 15 countries worldwide.

This book analyses the dual alienations of a coastal group rural men, the Murik of Papua New Guinea.

From emails to social media, from instant messaging to political memes, the way we produce and transmit culture is radically changing.

This ground-breaking book is designed to raise awareness of human rights implications in psychology, and provide knowledge and tools enabling psychologists to put a human rights perspective into practice.

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 is the first edited scholarly collection devoted solely to the epistemology of democracy.

Most works on moral psychology direct our attention to the positive role morality plays for us as individuals, as a society, even as a species.

The Dark Side of Close Relationships II is a completely new and up-to-date version of the original volume published in 1998, featuring new topics and authors.

In this book the approach of the natural sciences is adopted to confront the ontological question of how far mystical experiences can be considered as reports of an objective reality rather than reports of subjective delusions.

Originally published in 1989, this title provided a wide-ranging and up-to-date review of a traditional area of psychology.

In the Handbook of Culture and Memory, Brady Wagoner and his team of international contributors explore how memory is deeply entwined with social relationships, stories in film and literature, group history, ritual practices, material artifacts, and a host of other cultural devices.

Changing Legal and Civic Culture in an Illiberal Democracy is a unique empirical study on recent developments in legal and civic consciousness in Hungary.

A comprehensive overview of the causes, processes and consequences of wrongdoing and misconduct across all levels of an organization.

Some of us may believe that interpersonal communication is a matter of common sense or that skillful communication is an innate ability that you either have or you don't.

In diesem Buch werden wichtige Werke und Ansätze der politikorientierten Emotionenforschung in einen systematischen Zusammenhang gebracht.

While scholars in political science, social psychology, and mass communications have made notable contributions to understanding democratic citizenship, they concentrate on very different dimensions of citizenship.

Explains how human actions, mediated with cultural artefacts within social practices, produce meaningful personal experiences and shape behaviour.

This accessible book identifies twelve mechanisms of political radicalization that can move individuals, groups, and the masses to increased sympathy and support for political violence.

First published in 1985.

Recent years have witnessed a revival of research in the interplay between cognition and emotion.

First published in 1991, this book represents the first wide-ranging review of young people's understanding of the social world and the functioning of society.

Advanced Research Methods for Applied Psychology provides a comprehensive discussion of 21 key topics for the completion of an applied psychology (or similar) research thesis/project.

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

A university education has long been seen as the gateway to upward social mobility for individuals from lower socio-economic backgrounds, and as a way of reproducing social advantage for the better off.