Personality

This is a refreshing and thought provoking book, presenting the views of female and male counselling clients about their experience of therapy after domestic violence. It brings together the existing literature and client views to present a new...

How are emotions related to values? This book argues against a perceptual theory of emotions, which sees emotions as perception-like states that help us gain evaluative knowledge, and argues for a caring-based theory of emotions, which sees emotions as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782384761876Author Yusuf Ratu AgungFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Atlantis PressPublisher Atlantis PressWeight(grams) 358g

This book employs discursive psychology to examine how far-right discourse on issues related to multiculturalism is received, interpreted, adapted and contested in political rhetoric and informal talk. It brings together the latest research from...

This book uses Viktor Frankl's Existential Psychology (logotherapy) to explore the ways some professors use unusually personal scholarship to discover meaning in personal adversity. A psychiatrist imprisoned for three years in Nazi concentration camps,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951595111Author Tina MadisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Create Your RealityPublisher Create Your RealityWeight(grams) 272g

This book applies a dramaturgical perspective to familiar psychological topics including fear, greed, shame, guilt, rejection, well-being and terrorism. In presenting vivid illustrations of how our understanding of psychological problems can be enriched...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733052504Author John W VorisFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Authentic SystemsPublisher Authentic SystemsWeight(grams) 249g

This book provides fresh insight into the creative practice developed by Paul McCartney over his extended career as a songwriter, record producer and performing musician. It frames its examination of McCartney's work through the lens of the systems model...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788379810789Author Jaroslaw JankowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Logos MediaPublisher Logos MediaWeight(grams) 86g

This book examines the emergence of psychologised discourses of the self in education and considers their effects on children and young people, on relationships both in and out of school and on educational practices. It undertakes a Foucauldian genealogy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647430238Author Peter HollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Pkcs Media, Inc.Publisher Pkcs Media, Inc.Weight(grams) 213g

What is intelligence? What makes humans homo sapiens - the intelligent species? "Inventing Intelligence" is a bold deconstruction of the history of intelligence, bringing a cultural studies approach to this fascinating subject for the first...

Happiness, rather than being a private and subjective experience, is shaped, interpreted and articulated via culturally specific ways of thinking, being and acting. This highly original and timely book offers an empirical exploration of the ways in which...

Research from the neurosciences and behavioural sciences highlights the importance of individual differences to explain human behaviour. Individual differences in core psychological constructs, such as intelligence or personality, account for meaningful...

In this book the broad, interdisciplinary theory of Triune Ethics Meta-theory is explored to demonstrate how it explains the different patterns of morality seen in the world today. It describes how human morality develops dynamically from experience in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781894422598Author Susan GearyFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Career/Lifeskills Resources Inc.Publisher Career/Lifeskills Resources Inc.Weight(grams)...

Investors, customers and employees increasingly expect organizations to take responsibility for the social impact of their activities. This book applies theory and research on moral psychology and social identity, to offer a new perspective on...

With the major goal of building an inclusive international community that promotes peace-related research and action, this volume reflects on local, national and global peace engagement and works towards transdisciplinary understandings of the role of...

The background for the international research conference "Health Hazards and Challenges in the New Working Life" was the emerging questions concerning the health and social effects of the rapid changes in the labour market leading to increasing...

Beginning with the assumption that a justice motive exists, the author posits that belief in a just world influences the behavior of most people most of the time. This is true for all people of all ages and in all areas of life, for those struggling...

Changing Habits of Mind presents a theory of personality that integrates homeostatic dynamics of the brain with self-processes, emotionality, cultural adaptation, and personal reality. Informed by the author's brain-based, relational psychotherapeutic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781634101516Author Peter Alan OlssonFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Strategic Book PublishingPublisher Strategic Book PublishingWeight(grams) 168g

Major Theoretical Questions Theories about subjective well-being have grown over the past several decades, but have been re ned only slowly as adequate data have been compiled to test them. We can characterize the theories describing happiness along...

Social psychology has made great advancements in understanding how our romantic relationships function and to some extent, dissolve. However, the social and behavioral sciences in much of western scholarship often focus exclusively on the more positive...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788379810697Author Jaroslaw JankowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Logos MediaPublisher Logos MediaWeight(grams) 86g

This timely and thought-provoking collection explores the ways in which psychological science interacts with and addresses gender across varied subdisciplines in the field, from a feminist viewpoint. A particular aim of this volume is to move the...

It was just over 12 years ago that we first sat down together to talk about psychological traps. In the relative calm of late afternoons, feet draped casually over the seedy furnishings of the Tufts psychology department, we entertained each other with...

Motivation, Altruism, Personality and Social Psychology takes up the debate around altruism and the acceptance in society that self-interest is a healthy guiding principle in life, and argues that helping behaviour can lead to self-fulfilment and...

Despite the dire forecasts of others who had themselves edited books, we proceeded with the project of an edited volume on the American prison, although with more than a little trepidation. We had heard the horror stories of authors turning in their...

The volume covers the development of peace psychology in the Balkans. The Balkans is a region marked by post-communist and post-conflict transitional turmoil, and this book provides a comprehensive introduction to research in peace psychology in this...

This work examines the impoverished image of life presupposed by the legacy of transcendent and representational thinking that continues to frame the limits of curricular thought. Analyzing the ways in which modern institutions colonize desire and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781989765227Author Chris S JenningsFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Green Elephant PublicationsPublisher Green Elephant PublicationsWeight(grams) 218g

Building on our prior ISA-based Palgrave pivot, the aims of the book are twofold. One, to showcase a newly developed App as a tool in the use of Identity Structure Analysis (ISA) for researchers interested in identity. Second, the book will focus on the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596050662Author Abraham MyersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 449g

This concise volume presents for the first time a coherent and detailed account of why we experience feelings of being present in the physical world and in computer-mediated environments, why we often don't, and why it matters - for design,...

This volume explores the various ways in which trust is thought about and studied in contemporary society. In doing so, it aims to advance both theoretical and methodological perspectives on trust. Trust is an important topic in this series because it...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798987232200Author Elan BenamiFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Hearthstone Counseling IncPublisher Hearthstone Counseling IncWeight(grams) 213g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798880909308Author Helen KellerFormat PaperbackPage Count 30Imprint Start ClassicsPublisher Start Classics

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798227880130Author Center For PsychologyFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Center for PsychologyPublisher Center for PsychologyWeight(grams) 327g