Emotions

Grief is a universal human experience, painful and inevitable. In this wise and compassionate book, a psychiatrist who has done extensive work and research with the bereaved shares her broad experience, revealing how people cope with, understand, and...

Envy is a vicious and shameful response to the good fortune of others, one that ruins friendships and plagues societies-or so the common thinking goes, shaped by millennia of religious and cultural condemnation. Envy's bad reputation is not completely...

Psychological Perspectives on Empowerment opens with a discussion aiming to show how open source software communities indeed nurture empowerment in several senses. However, the authors also show that open source software communities pose several...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781536165760Author August van LooijFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 238g

Examines how our understanding of emotion is shaped by the devices we use to measure it   Since the late nineteenth century, psychologists have used technological forms of media to measure and analyze emotion. In The Affect Lab, Grant Bollmer examines...

Children not shown tools to develop emotional intelligence fail emotionally and socially. Basic empathy skills are absent. In adult life, employment and occupational advancement are less likely. Making Sense of Emotion grasps the Yale integrative...

The subject is emotional abuse-the ongoing process whereby one person attempts to destroy the will, needs, desires, or perceptions of another. The object is the well-educated, high-functioning professional woman. Dr. Joan Lachkar examines the origins...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451499790Author Susan CainFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Crown PublicationsPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 306g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781536121292Author Karla M HughesFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 350g

The last twenty years have seen a growth of fascination with the Japanese, and the emergence of Japan as a world economic power has stimulated many works that have attempted to understand Japanese culture. The focus of this book is not on Japanese...

Everyone knows what the 'G-spot' is, of course. It is a woman's most sensitive and vulnerable physical area. Although men do not have a G-spot per se, both men and women have what Joan Lachkar calls a 'V-spot'-a concentration of highly charged...

This collection of essays explores why emotions are important in our conception of a person's character and in our own conception of self. Chapter topics include caring, loyalty, sincerity, shame, guilt, embarrassment and self-deception. The text is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781613245514Author Anna S MoralesFormat HardbackPage Count 249Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 490g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608766208Author Ferenc MargiticsFormat PaperbackPage Count 79Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 110g

In this book, the authors present current research in the study of the psychology of sadness. Topics discussed include the grieving process and living with persons with bipolar affective disorder; depression and pregnancy; children's knowledge of the...

Achievement Motivation: Perspectives, Influences and Outcomes aims to examine the definition and measurement of achievement motivation in sport. A systematic search of the literature was undertaken to identify relevant self-report scales, and each scale...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633211469Author Paola GremigniFormat PaperbackPage Count 299Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 558g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781536100525Author Leehu ZysbergFormat HardbackPage Count 130Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 190g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804676189Author EM EmersonFormat HardbackPage Count 36Imprint Bookvault PublishingPublisher Bookvault PublishingWeight(grams) 289gDimensions(mm) 170mm *...

Emotion Focused Cognitive Therapy argues that it is time for a new focus in psychotherapy based on emotion, and presents an innovative approach to the treatment of clients with emotional disorders. Features an approach based on the latest work in...

This book reveals how the principles of rational living identified by Albert Ellis, one of the world's most influential and popular psychologists, can be used by anyone to achieve lifelong happiness. * Reveals the 11 principles of rational living that...

The main goal of this volume is to present, in an integrated framework, the newest, most contemporary perspectives on emotion regulation. The book includes empirically-grounded work and theories that are central to our understanding of the processes that...

Love is a dominant theme in Western popular culture. It has become central to the meaning of everyday life, propagated through the media and the market. Being in love has become idealised. With the demise of institutional religion in the West, romantic...

This broad and innovative self-development guide shows readers how they can use scientific findings from contemporary positive psychology to enhance their lives. Containing dozens of practical exercises and real-life examples, it helps bring positive...

Generation is both an introduction to and a comparative study of contemporary psychoanalytic clinical theory. It provides the reader with a comprehensive overview of how new ways of thinking about the psychoanalytic process have evolved and are still in...

Empathy is valued across cultures, and has a profound impact on psychotherapy, our children, and our world. Why then are many human relationships not empathetic? This volume describes in detail the neurobiological, psychological, and social elements...

There are common midlife events that account for the special narcissistic vulnerabilities of this period of life, and Eda Goldstein ably reviews these events and the theoretical perspectives commonly brought to bear on them. In When the Bubble Bursts,...

Bridges the gap between the scholarly literature and "pop-psych" books on EI Emotional Intelligence (EI) has become a topic of vast and growing interest worldwide and is concerned with the ways in which we perceive, identify, understand, and...

Exploring the role of empathy in a variety of Pacific societies, this book is at the forefront of the latest anthropological research on empathy. It presents distinct articulations of many assumptions of contemporary philosophical, neurobiological, and...

Human Emotions: A Reader brings together a collection of articles which give an approach to the fast-growing field of empirical and theoretical research on emotions. The volume includes classic writings from Darwin, James and Freud chosen to show their...

Human Emotions: A Reader brings together a collection of articles which give an approach to the fast-growing field of empirical and theoretical research on emotions. The volume includes classic writings from Darwin, James and Freud chosen to show their...

Understanding Human Motivation is a lively presentation of how factors such as biological nature, instinct, past experience, and society determine what we do. Draws on many different domains of human behavior and links together many motivational factors...

The study of emotions has continually attracted the interest of scholars in various disciplines, igniting a lively public debate on the constructive and destructive power of emotions in society as well as within each of us. The contributors to this...

An empirical study of imaginative responses to music.Book InformationISBN 9781138567634Author Vernon LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 594Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 1098g

Posttraumatic Stress in Physical Illness explores the development of posttraumatic stress reactions and other psychological symptoms in people suffering from physical illnesses. It looks at the differentiating factors in patients with illnesses such as...

Emotions play an important role in both sport and games, from the pride and joy of victory, the misery and shame of defeat, and the anger and anxiety felt along the way. This volume brings together experts in the philosophy of sport and games and experts...

The Textbook of Applied Psychoanalysis is a unique and original contribution to the field of psychoanalysis. Emphasizing and underscoring the need for interdisciplinary discourse in understanding the dialectical relationship between mind and culture,...

An accessible guide to the work of American psychologist and affect theorist Silvan Tomkins  The brilliant and complex theories of psychologist Silvan Tomkins (1911–1991) have inspired the turn to affect in the humanities, social sciences, and elsewhere...

Since the earliest days of philosophy, thinkers have debated the meaning of the term happiness and the nature of the good life. But it is only in recent years that the study of happiness - or 'hedonics' - has developed into a formal field of inquiry,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312533892Author Warwick CairnsFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm)...