Personality

In this volume, nine renowned experts delineate their theoretical or methodological approach of Aikido in potentiating constructive handling of social conflicts. The authors depict the contribution of the Japanese self-defensive art Aikido to the theory...

Proceedings of a NATO ASI held in Rhodes, Greece, May 12-21, 1996Book InformationISBN 9781475746501Author Adrian RaineFormat PaperbackPage Count 359Imprint Springer-Verlag New York Inc.Publisher Springer-Verlag New York Inc.Weight(grams) 706g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915449849Author Chris BallFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Chanthology LimitedPublisher Chanthology LimitedWeight(grams) 200g

In response to misconceptions and sub-optimal assessment of situational interaction in the criminological literature, this volume is a comprehensive resource for researchers of person-environment interaction in human behavioural outcomes, with a focus on...

When Posthumanism displaces the traditional human subject, what does psychoanalysis add to contemporary conversations about subject/object relations, systems, perspectives, and values? This book discusses whether Posthumanism itself is a cultural...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666409505Author Lisa CooneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Portal PublishingPublisher Portal PublishingWeight(grams) 172g

Contextualizing Humanitarian work in history, justice, methods and professional ethics, this book articulates process skills for transformational partnerships between diverse organizations, motivating education, organisational learning and selecting the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951385576Author Zoe McKeyFormat HardbackPage Count 152Imprint VdzPublisher VdzWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 13mm

This book is an up-to-date compendium of knowledge on the secret language of close relationships, namely nonverbal routes of communication. In close relationships, as everyone learns sooner or later, the usefulness of words can be somewhat limited,...

This book presents the results of the most complete and updated assessment of cognitive resources of students in Latin America: the Study of Latin American Intelligence (SLATINT). During four years, top researchers of the region used a standardized set...

This edited volume provides a critical history of psychoanalysis in Brazil. Written mainly by Brazilian historians and practitioners of psychoanalysis, the chapters start from some shared questions: how did the psychoanalysis that arrived in Brazil...

This work explores the function of both divisive and uniting symbols in various conflict settings around the world. It takes a fairly broad perspective on what constitutes a symbol, to include objects such as flags, signs, language, and monuments, all...

Putting subjectivity back in psychology and in social sciences is the aim of this volume. Subjectivity is a core psychological dimension but frequently forgotten. Without a full understanding of the uniqueness of each human life our understanding of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798330279388Author Scarlett NoraFormat HardbackPage Count 30Imprint Rwg PublishingPublisher Rwg PublishingWeight(grams) 218g

This book illustrates the foundations of status research from the perspective of recruiting. The ever-increasing competitive pressure on both sides of the market has led to the growing significance of prestige in employment as an efficient yardstick of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951030957Author James W WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint SD Publishing LLCPublisher SD Publishing LLCWeight(grams) 54g

The Reason for this Volume If we were to judge the seriousness of a psychosocial problem by the attention that the popular media give to it, we would have to conclude that the modem world is in the midst of an epidemic of pedophilic child sexual abuse...

Based upon Ajit Maan's groundbreaking theory of Internarrative Identity, this collection focuses upon redefining self, slave narrative, the black Caribbean diaspora, and cyberspace to explore the interconnection between identity and life experience as...

This book is about Italian American women, food, identity, and our stories at the table. This mother-daughter research team explores how Italian American working-class women from Syracuse, New York use food as a symbol and vehicle which carries multiple...

This book illuminates the importance of threat on the representation of everyday life, from an interdisciplinary perspective. Divided into three parts, the book sets out by addressing the conceptual aspects of threat and by opening views on phenomena and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781736918401Author Chuck DegroatFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Falls City PressPublisher Falls City PressWeight(grams) 133g

This book takes the reader from basic questions like “What is health?” and “What is a psychiatric disorder?”, into the midst of people’s present mental health and enhancement choices. More and more people receive psychiatric diagnoses and the use of...

This is the book of a conference held at Leuven, Belgium from June 5-9 1979 under the same title. The conference was sponsored by the Scientific Affairs Division of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, Brussels. We would like to thank Dr. Bayraktar of...

​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...

This book summarizes theoretical and empirical work that was performed in a large-scale, cross-university research project on the relationship between attitudes and behavior. The entire program has been funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft...

This book explores collective consciousness and how it is applied to the pursuit of gender justice in international law. It discusses how the collective mode of behaviour and identity can lead to unconscious role-playing based on the social norms,...

This book sheds new light on the life and the influence of one of the most significant critical thinkers in psychology of the last century, Theodore R. Sarbin (1911-2005). In the first section authors provide a comprehensive account of Sarbin's life and...

Several years ago Coleman (1981) reported that in 1979 one of the many in ternational cosmetics companies had an annual sales figure of $2. 38 billion, nearly 1. 25 million sales representatives, and over 700 products, the majority of these being for the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788186775639Author David SchwartzFormat PaperbackPage Count 356Imprint Manjul Publishing House Pvt LtdPublisher Manjul Publishing House Pvt Ltd

This book focusses on the theory and application of 'time perspective theory'. Time perspective can be an important factor in determining psychological well-being and the way we see our world and others around us. The unique contemporary nature of this...

This ambitious volume integrates findings from various disciplines in a comprehensive description of the modern research on love and provides a systematic review of love experience and expression from cross-cultural perspective. It explores numerous...

Three particular themes are basic to this study. First, that the human race and its environment are involved in a slowly progressive process of revelation and understanding of its inherent features. And that we are all participating in this ongoing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788379810932Author Jaroslaw JankowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Logos MediaPublisher Logos MediaWeight(grams) 86g

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. that are predictive of optimal functioning and well?being. Such a...

This book is about police and police reform and about a movement called "problem-oriented policing," which is sweeping the country. The problem-oriented approach has been labeled "a philosophical revolution" and "the cutting edge...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951429546Author James W WilliamsFormat HardbackPage Count 44Imprint Alakai Publishing LLCPublisher Alakai Publishing LLCWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm)...

People often see nonhuman agents as human-like. Through the processes of anthropomorphism and humanization, people attribute human characteristics, including personalities, free will, and agency to pets, cars, gods, nature, and the like. Similarly,...

This book not only seeks to theoretically analyze the concept, chief characteristics and framework of "social mentality", but also explores the influence of social mentality on such elements of social functioning as individuals, groups,...

This book tells us from a professional perspective how to deal with stress response in the family, effectively address family problems in the epidemic, and handle the infectious emotions. This book is a profound explanation of the new stress, conflicts,...