Psychology

The book provides a new look at the everyday relationship between psychological processes and extraordinary aspects of ordinary phenomena.

This book is long awaited within the contemporarily creative field of cultural psychologies.

What sparks a psychologist's interest in a certain phenomenon?

There is no one method for doing culturally alert counseling.

Our corporate dominated world is resisting the best efforts of the "e;under 30s"e; to shape it into the information age.

The fourth book in the UN book series Behavioral Science in the Global Arena is entitled Children Around the World: The Future of Our Earth continues the focus on issues of major international importance.

Methods of Psychological Intervention provides a rich collection of chapters that provide an invaluable resource to scholars, researchers and practitioners in psychology.

This book presents procedures and research techniques that are based on critical perspectives of Psychology and Education.

This book provides novel insights and knowledge for both psychology students as well as professionals seeking to integrate technology into their clinical or educational practices.

One of the most important books in the history of psychometrics has been virtually unavailable to scholars and students for decades.

This book presents a novel perspective on psychology's methodology-moving it from quantification as a given imperative to science-philosophical look at phenomena-data relationship.

The concept of intimacy puts forth important challenges to contemporary cultural psychology.

This book provides a global overview of pioneers in international psychology with contributions from distinguished authors from representative nations around the world.

The book is divided into three relatively coherent sections that focus on understanding the emergence of (un)ethical decisions and behaviors in our work and social lives by adopting a psychological framework.

The desire of this volume is to approach sports and the athletic sphere through Cultural Psychology.

This volume understands itself as an invitation to follow a fundamental shift in perspective, away from the self-contained 'I' of Western conventions, and towards a relational self, where development and change are contingent on otherness.

The goal of the book is to provide readers with the tools necessary for assessing the psychometric qualities of educational and psychological measures as well as surveys and questionnaires.

The goal of this book is to locate the birth pangs of psychology-the study of the psyche-in in the Renaissance unity of art and science.

This book brings pragmatic theory and praxis into dialogue with contemporary psychodynamic ideas, practitioners, and clinical issues.

The book will be designed primarily for graduate students (or advanced undergraduates) who are learning psychometrics, as well as professionals in the field who need a reference for use in their practice.

Theory Driving Research: New wave perspectives on self-processes and human development provides a unique insight into self-processes from varied theoretical perspectives.

Child development 'laboratory schools are dedicated to research-based instruction and furthering innovation in education.

This book brings to cultural psychology the focus on phenomenology of everyday life.

As divisions grow across political, economic, and social lines, it often feels as though the only belief shared by many is that "e;the other side is too far gone.

The result of a deep research work sustained for more than two decades, this book studies the construction of social knowledge from a constructivist perspective inherited from Piagetian thought.

This book presents an integrative perspective on home or Heimat showing that it is much more than the place we were born or where we live.

The volume represents the continuing of a the Yearbook of Idiographic Science project, born in 2009 and developed through an annual series of volumes collecting contributes aimed at developing the integration of idiographic and nomothetic approaches in psychology and more in general social science.

The present volume deals with the experience of ambivalence in family relations - a well-known phenomenon that has inspired more and more research and theorizing in the last years but that is however sometimes difficult to capture.

How are behavioral scientists increasingly involved to advise global decision-makers in the United Nations and elsewhere?

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Decision Making in Behavioral Strategy contains contributions by leading scholars in the field of behavioral strategy research.

This book Beyond the Mind: Cultural Dynamics of the Psyche is unusual in the content and it the format.

Of all the topics ever studied, surely one of the most compelling is human learning itself.

The interventions have ranged between benevolent exchanges to powerful influences as well as military domination.

This book forms a basis and a starting point for a closer dialogue between musicologists, anthropologists and psychologists to achieve a better understanding of the cultural psychology of musical experience.

Other to Other (O2O): Expanding successful engagement outside your comfort zone is written from an operational perspective.

This books arises from the observation that mainstream psychology, especially work and organisational psychology (WOP), suffers from critical limitations in its attempts to deal with the complexities of work as a cultural phenomenon.

What do we really mean when we make embarrassing mistakes in conversation?

Making of the Future is the first English-language coverage of the new methodological perspective in cultural psychology-TEA (Trajectory Equifinality Approach) that was established in 2004 as a collaboration of Japanese and American cultural psychologists.

Venturing out of the laboratory into the wild of natural settings, it becomes untenable to locate memory strictly in the head.

Research on the Self relates to various phenomena including self-esteem, self-concept, self-verification, self-awareness, identity, self-efficacy, passion, self-determination, goals etc.

Cultural psychology explores the mutual constitution of persons-minds and socialcultural worlds.

Research on help seeking has primarily focused on classrooms interactions that consist primarily of students asking teachers and peers for help.

The birth of the social sciences and specifically of sociology begets some open questions, among which the debate on altruism and the concept of social solidarity.

The general theme of this book is to present innovative psychometric modeling and methods.

Biographical ruptures and their repairs: Cultural transitions in development represents the efforts of bridging theoretical, methodological, and practice oriented issues revolving around the notion of biographical ruptures and their repairs.

Dieses Buch untersucht die scheinbar grundlegende Herausforderung in der Neurowissenschaft von heute: zu verstehen, wie die vom menschlichen Gehirn erzeugte Erfahrung mit der physischen Welt, in der wir leben, in Beziehung steht.