Social Psychology

This book analyses the experiences of prisoners in England & Wales sentenced when relatively young to very long life sentences (with minimum terms of fifteen years or more). Based on a major study, including almost 150 interviews with men and women at...

Approximately two-thirds of all children referred to mental health agencies are labeled conduct-disordered. Typically such children exhibit antisocial behavior -- lying, cheating, stealing, firesetting, fighting, oppositional behavior and noncompliance...

Is love "blind" when it comes to gender? For women, it just might be. This unsettling and original book offers a radical new understanding of the context-dependent nature of female sexuality. Lisa M. Diamond argues that for some women, love and desire...

Stanley Milgram revolutionized our understanding of human nature with his classic research on obedience to authority - but the obedience experiments form just a small part of an extraordinary wealth of ground-breaking research that made him one of the...

In Possessed, Rebecca R. Falkoff asks how hoarding-once a paradigm of economic rationality-came to be defined as a mental illness. Hoarding is unique among the disorders included in the American Psychiatric Association's DSM-5, because its diagnosis...

Based on extensive analysis of real-time, authentic crisis encounters collected in the UK and US, Crisis Talk: Negotiating with Individuals in Crisis sheds light on the relatively hidden world of communication between people in crisis and the...

A Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2015 A Boston Globe Best Book of 2015 A brilliant, disturbing portrait of the dawn of the culture wars, when America started to tear itself apart with doubts, wild allegations, and an unfounded fear for the safety...

'With potent, lyrical language and a profound knowledge of storytelling, Shaw encourages and illuminates the mythic in our own lives. He is a modern-day bard.' Madeline Miller, author of Circe and The Song of Achilles 'Through feral tales and poetic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781525546686Author Clara AtmaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 399gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 15mm

Turn Uncomfortable Conversations into Meaningful Dialogue If you believe that talking about race is impolite, or that "colorblindness" is the preferred approach, you must read this book. Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence debunks the most pervasive...

People have been sharing their life stories with psychologist Allison Keating for the past eighteen years, and the words she hears most often are 'I feel overwhelmed,' followed by 'I thought I'd have it figured out by now.' Adulthood is tough. As we...

The author does a commendable job of taking what is known about groups, the unconscious, and psychodynamics in an academic sense, and grounding it in relevant experiential education examples. This book is appropriate for intermediate and advanced...

A bystander is someone who does not become involved when someone else needs help. This book investigates the meaning of bystanding behaviour in ordinary life as well as in counselling psychology and psychotherapeutic practice, its supervision and...

The field of education is rife with calls to action and for research to improve higher-level thinking and learning outcomes in primary, secondary, and tertiary education. With the No Child Left Behind Act and even more recently the Every Student Succeeds...

Widely regarded as the definitive reference, this volume comprehensively examines the psychological processes associated with religion and spirituality. Leading scholars from multiple psychological subdisciplines present developmental, cognitive, social...

This thoughtfully updated revision of a classic text sheds new light on the potential sociological and biological differences that result in deep, seemingly unbridgeable political divisions.Renowned social scientists and experts in biopolitics, John R...

• This book introduces Patañjali’s Yoga as a system of theory and practice of psychology. • It explains and interprets the concepts and procedures in the language and idiom of the currently prevailing Euro-American approaches to psychology. • It will be...

Families can develop self-destructive routines so predictable that members seem to be following a script each coming in on cue as the plot unfolds. Such scripts can be altered, however, when therapists help clients learn to improvise new patterns of...

Going beyond the how and why of burnout, a former tenured professor combines academic methods and first-person experience to propose new ways for resisting our cultural obsession with work and transforming our vision of human flourishing. Burnout has...

In your profession, do you help or work with people who have been traumatized? Do you listen to stories of abuse, suffering, or trauma from your clients every day? If so, you know it is important to hear and bear witness to trauma survivors' experiences...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307453983Author Janine DriverFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 198gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

In almost every human society some people get more and others get less. Why is inequity the rule in these societies? In The Origins of Unfairness, philosopher Cailin O'Connor firstly considers how groups are divided into social categories, like gender,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679775485Author James GleickFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 289gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

A revolutionary framework for living well in a broken world, from an acclaimed author and psychologist. How can I manage heartbreak? How do I cope with death? How can I learn to tolerate anxiety and have hope? In this helpful, practical, and realistic...

The great saxophonist Charlie Parker once proclaimed "if you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn". This quote has often been used to explain the hedonistic lifestyle of many jazz greats; however, but it also signals the reciprocal and...

***Winner of a 2021 APEX Award for Publication Excellence*** Written by leading social psychologists with expertise in leadership, health and emergency behaviour - who have also played an important role in advising governments on COVID-19 - this...

Verbal fluency is a skill that many sorely lack. This text aims to provide easy solutions, guidelines and vital dos-and-don'ts in the fine art of conversation and communication, whether for the boardroom or the boudoir.Book InformationISBN...

"The classic account of the human tendency to follow orders, no matter who they hurt or what their consequences." - Washington Post Book World In the 1960s, Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram famously carried out a series of...

Use the Science of Behavioral Economics to Understand Why People Buy"The most important business book to come out in years." -Michael F. Schein, author and columnist for Forbes, Inc, and Psychology Today2021 International Book Awards finalist in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593332191Author Vanessa Van EdwardsFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint PortfolioPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 510gDimensions(mm) 235mm *...

People hunting monkeys in the jungle once devised a simple yet effective trap: When the creature found a banana in a large jar with a narrow neck, it would plunge its paw in to retrieve it. But it couldn’t let go. And unless the monkey released the...

Social anthropologist Jean Lave and computer scientist Etienne Wenger's seminal Situated Learning helped change the fields of cognitive science and pedagogy by approaching learning from a novel angle. Traditionally, theories of learning and education had...

Have you ever said goodbye to someone, only to discover that you're both walking in the same direction? Or had your next thought fly out of your brain in the middle of a presentation? Or accidentally liked an old photo on someone's Instagram or Facebook,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781630513498Author James HollisFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Chiron PublicationsPublisher Chiron PublicationsWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 213mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814439296Author Mark GoulstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint AmacomPublisher HarperCollins FocusWeight(grams) 312gDimensions(mm) 227mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781591845324Author Simon SinekFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint PortfolioPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 578gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 157mm * 25mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781958921173Author Ervin LaszloFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Light on Light PressPublisher Light on Light Press

Don't let OCD be the third wheel in your relationships! This practical guide will help you build and nurture the connections you deserve.If you have obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), you may seek constant reassurance from others, lose time to...

Political polarization in America is at an all-time high, and the conflict has moved beyond disagreements about matters of policy. For the first time in more than twenty years, research has shown that members of both parties hold strongly unfavorable...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143117230Author Geoffrey MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 346gDimensions(mm) 213mm *...