Personality

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 book discusses how we can cross-fertilize relationship between roots and routes with and beyond the logic of closure, monological assertions and violence. The book draws upon multiple philosophical, historical, religious and spiritual traditions of...

Subjectivity, the Unconscious and Consumerism is a unique and imaginative psycho-sociological exploration of how postmodern, contemporary consumerism invades and colonises human subjectivity. Investigating especially consumerism's unconscious aspects...

The concept of Flow was first explained by Csikszentmihalyi (1975), described as an "optimal experience," he noted that artists were entirely caught up in their projects, working feverishly to finish them and then lose all interest in their...

This book brings together the world's leading perfectionism researchers and theorists to present their latest findings and ideas on how and why perfectionism may confer risks or benefits for health and well-being, as well as the contexts which may shape...

This book proposes a novel and rigorous explanation of consciousness. It argues that the study of an aspect of our self-consciousness known as the 'feeling of embodiment' teaches us that there are two distinct phenomena to be targeted by an explanation...

This book combines autoethnographic reflections, poetry, and photography with the aim to bridge the gap between creative practice and scholarly research. Drawing on an innovative combination of different forms of knowledge, creative writing and street...

This book explores the gamer's dilemma, which lies at the heart of theorising about the morality of certain video game content. The dilemma is as follows: given that gaming content involves virtual characters within a virtual environment, the moral...

This book offers a practical approach to fostering self-efficacy and improving understanding of others’ behavior. The authors introduce the ID37 instrument as a psychological model and assessment procedure for analyzing personalities and motivations,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951385378Author Steven SchusterFormat HardbackPage Count 164Imprint VdzPublisher VdzWeight(grams) 304g

"Individuals who live in groups hold common beliefs which define their reality, not only as persons, but also as group members. This reality becomes especially important when group members become aware that they share beliefs and are convinced that...

While the historical development of symbolic power has benefitted humanity enormously, there is an insidious and seldom recognised price that goes beyond environmental degradation and cultural disintegration. With insights from both social and natural...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781489920966Author John EdwardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 346Imprint Springer-Verlag New York Inc.Publisher Springer-Verlag New York Inc.Weight(grams) 563g

This book is a novel and original collection of essays on Italians and food. Food culture is central both to the way Italians perceive their national identity and to the consolidation of Italianicity in global context. More broadly, being so heavily...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782322202676Author Yoann MeritzaFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Books on DemandPublisher Books on DemandWeight(grams) 299g

Research on small groups played an important role in the early formulation of social psychology. By the 1970s, however, the field had lost the interest of most social psychologists. Theory and Research on Small Groups reintegrates that work back into the...

This book reveals the workings of the bourgeois passion for submission in a variety of contemporary contexts. By (re)introducing the concept 'bourgeois' as an analytical term and describing this contemporary subject as a psychic economy rather than just...

Researchers with the Self-concept Enhancement and Learning Facilitation Research (SELF) Centre, U. of Western Sydney, introduce theoretical issues and research on the relationship of positive/self-handicapping self-concept to success/ failure in academic...

Differential psychology, or the psychology of individual differences as it is better known, is perhaps the single most important basic psychological science that underlies professional practice in psychology. The recent age of behaviorism all but ignored...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788026887621Author Alfred AdlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint E-ArtnowPublisher E-ArtnowWeight(grams) 340g

From questions surrounding motives to the concept of crimes of passion, the intersection of emotional states and legal practice has long interested professionals as well as the public-recent cases involving extensive pretrial publicity, highly charged...

This book examines the notion of identity through a multitude of interdisciplinary approaches. It collects current thinking from international scholars spanning philosophy, history, science, cultural studies, media, translation, performance, and...

This book is written around the central message that collectivist societies produce security, but destroy trust. In collectivist societies, people are connected through networks of strong personal ties where the behavior of all agents is constantly...

This book proposes a conceptual-empirical framework for exploring forms of continuity and change along psychosocial pathways in South African universities. It illustrates how the psychosocial pathways are grounded in the symbolic narratives and...

Integrating psychological and philosophical research on virtue and moral development, this book presents a real-world program for virtue science. Offering empirically testable hypotheses, the chapters deliver theoretical and methodological guidance that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789358725605Author Syed HyderabadiFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Taemeer PublicationsPublisher Taemeer Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788197187988Author Prasenjeet KumarFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Prasen Publishers LlpPublisher Prasen Publishers LlpWeight(grams) 154g

This book provides a detailed examination of argumentative interactions in families with young children during mealtimes. It explores both the restrictions and the opportunities family mealtimes present and the types of issues addressed through...

Several years ago, two of my colleagues and I had the opportunity to interview Fritz Heider-perhaps the most influential theorist in the field of social psychology (Harvey, Ickes, & Kidd, 1976). During our interview, Heider affirmed a belief that had...

Overview of current trends in the psychology of motivation and volition, covering basic research as well as developmen- tal and applied aspects. Intention and volition are consi- dered in chapters on behavior dynamics, self-regulation, and control over...

Domestic violence in adolescent romantic relationships is an increasingly important and only recently acknowledged social issue. This book provides conceptual frameworks for the design and evaluation of interventions with a focus on developing evidence...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789350578452Author Vinay Mohan SharmaFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint V & S PublishersPublisher V & S Publishers

The importance of justice cannot be overstated. As one author has put it, "A better understanding of how justice concerns develop and function in people's lives should enable us to plan more effectively for institutional and other social change to...

This volume examines the psychological factors, environments, and social factors contributing to identification with extremist identities and ideologies. Incorporating recent findings on interpersonal relationships, emotions, and social identity, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887496900Author John LokFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Notion Press, Inc.Publisher Notion Press, Inc.Weight(grams) 195g

This book proposes a novel and rigorous explanation of consciousness. It argues that the study of an aspect of our self-consciousness known as the 'feeling of embodiment' teaches us that there are two distinct phenomena to be targeted by an explanation...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916325289Author Jason BrowneFormat HardbackPage Count 110Imprint Jason BrownePublisher Jason BrowneWeight(grams) 249g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798348400187Author Avery NightingaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Quantumquill PressPublisher Quantumquill PressWeight(grams) 64g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666409499Author Lisa CooneyFormat HardbackPage Count 152Imprint Portal PublishingPublisher Portal PublishingWeight(grams) 277g

This book shows how the three-term contingency paradigm created by B.F. Skinner can be applied to describe and explain cultural practices phenomena produced by complex relations between behavior and environment. It updates the academic debate on the best...