Personality

How do people perceive time? This book presents a wealth of contemporary and classical research, including some of the history and philosophy of time perception. Influential internal clock-based models of time perception receive an in-depth but...

As much as Americans believe in the promise of an egalitarian, color-blind society, the reality is far from that ideal. People of color consistently lag behind their white counterparts in key quality-of-life areas. Despite many significant gains,...

The book Psychosocial Perspectives on Peacebuilding offers a template for those dealing with the aftermath of armed conflict to look at peacebuilding through a psychosocial lens. This Volume, and the case studies that are in it, starts from the premise...

Ronald L. Cohen Justice is a central moral standard in social life. It is invoked in judging individual persons and in judging the basic structure of societies. It has been described as akin to a "human hunger or thirst" (Pascal, Pensees, cited in...

Over the past 15 years, I (MB) have taught a graduate-level course in Psychology of Women to students in two different professional psychology programs. Because my students were at the doctoral level and often had some familiarity with the psychology of...

Through proper engagement, identity-based conflict enhances and develops identity as a vehicle to promote creative collaboration between individuals, the groups they constitute and the systems they forge. This handbook describes the specific model that...

Youth Ethnic and National Identity in Bosnia and Herzegovina is an interdisciplinary effort to position and describe the contested nature of state and ethnic identity among youth in Bosnia and Herzegovina by providing empirical, first-hand evidence on...

Using a lens of mindfulness, this book explores how digital dependencies can displace attention and undermine attentional control, leading to experiences of stress and mindless involvement with digital technology. Using qualitative interviews with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781475708868Author Neville P. MorayFormat PaperbackPage Count 500Imprint Springer-Verlag New York Inc.Publisher Springer-Verlag New York Inc.Weight(grams)...

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...

Transitional Justice and Civil Society in the Balkans covers civil society engagements with transitional justice processes in the Balkans. The Balkans are a region marked by the post-communist and post-conflict transitional turmoil through which its...

Drawing on the non-individualistic perspective of social representations theory, this book presents an alternative view of social identity by articulating the inseparable dynamic relationships that exist between content, process and power relations when...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735375878Author TalzoyaFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Voltis PressPublisher Voltis PressWeight(grams) 209g

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952559150Author Tyron BradenFormat HardbackPage Count 110Imprint PrimastaPublisher PrimastaWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 8mm

The purpose of this book is to survey the limited scientific knowledge about how sleep intersects with personality and social behavior. This edited volume establishes a new interdisciplinary field of inquiry about sleep that examines sleep processes in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915449863Author Chris BallFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Chanthology LimitedPublisher Chanthology LimitedWeight(grams) 363g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781581127935Author Tad DunneFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Universal PublishersPublisher Universal PublishersWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 219mm *...

This book is about explanation and experiment in a science of human action. It aims to provide a philosophy of social psychological science that both embodies sound principles of scientific reasoning and is sensitive to the social psychological...

This book highlights the oft neglected moral aspect of "the self," examining the variety of neurological, psychological, and social processes that enter into the development and maintenance of moral orientations.Springer Book ArchivesAbout the...

This volume grew out of a discussion between the editors at the Society for Experimental Social Psychology meeting in Nashville in 1981. For many years the Society has played a leading role in encouraging rigorous and sophisticated research. Yet, our...

With an overview of the existing attachment theory literature and new contributions to the field, this book proposes that social groups seek protection and security as they collectively construct their ideologies and social institutions. In doing so, the...

As much as Americans believe in the promise of an egalitarian, color-blind society, the reality is far from that ideal. People of color consistently lag behind their white counterparts in key quality-of-life areas. Despite many significant gains,...

Since the first edition of The Psychology of Risk there have been enormous macro-economic and socio-political changes globally - the chaos in the world banking system and the financial crisis and recessions that it presaged; the Arab Spring and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781087972015Author Charles CummingsFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Marketing Forte LLCPublisher Marketing Forte LLCWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781068889103Author Joel PrimusFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Joel PrimusPublisher Joel PrimusWeight(grams) 236g

The quest to comprehend the essence of human nature is as old as the capacity for reflective thought. In this provocative book, Dr. Michael Robbins proposes a new approach that draws upon psychoanalysis but is shaped by awareness of the limits that the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781801138628Author Olivia BeckFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Charlie Creative LabPublisher Charlie Creative LabWeight(grams) 154gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569244562Author Dr Robert O. Friedel, MDFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Marlowe & CoPublisher Marlowe & CoWeight(grams) 334gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...

This book offers new insight into how individuals utilize resilience in the face of structural and social injustice.By drawing on qualitative research methods to foreground the voices of Holocaust survivors and Latinx immigrants to the United States,...

Explore what it means to be an Enneatype 6 (Life Strategy: "Own your power.") through in-depth descriptions, writing prompts, guided journal entries, beautiful illustrations, and more. Pronounced ENN-EE-UH-GRAM, stemming from the Greek words...

This 1991 book addresses the question of stability and change in our concepts of ourselves. The self is described as part of an ecological system, seen as a conjunction of other people, environments and objects. These serve as the sources and settings,...

In this book Frank Dumont presents personality psychology with a fresh description of its current status as well as its prospects. Play, sex, cuisine, creativity, altruism, pets, grieving rituals, and other oft-neglected topics broaden the scope of this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780530004778Author Virginia BoneyFormat HardbackPage Count 178Imprint Dissertation Discovery CompanyPublisher Dissertation Discovery CompanyWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780530004761Author Virginia BoneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Dissertation Discovery CompanyPublisher Dissertation Discovery CompanyWeight(grams)...

How do bilinguals experience emotions? Do they perceive and express emotions similarly or differently in their respective languages? Does the first language remain forever the language of the heart? What role do emotions play in second language learning...

This edited volume draws together a wide range of exciting developments in the study of marital interaction. A significant feature of the book is its focus, not only on conflict and negative interactions but also on the processes by which couples...

Recent ideas concerning the development of self and identity have stressed the importance of moving away from an approach which is mainly concerned with outcomes, to one which focuses instead on processes of development and, more specifically, on a...

Traditional views of abilities have viewed them as internal properties of the organism. The views presented in this book, in contrast, view abilities as inhering in the interaction between minds and the contexts in which they are found. Some of the...

Recent ideas concerning the development of self and identity have stressed the importance of moving away from an approach which is mainly concerned with outcomes, to one which focuses instead on processes of development and, more specifically, on a...