Social Psychology

Psychology and Pop Culture: An Empirical Adventure examines the psychological aspects of pop culture preferences, personality, and behavior from across sixteen research studies. The authors analyze such phenomena as superhero and antihero fandoms,...

Does God exist? This straightforward question has spawned endless debate, ranging fromapologists’ supposed proofs of God’s existence to New Atheist manifestos declaring belief in God a harmful delusion. Losing Our Religion peels back the curtains on this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781793601094Author August John HoffmanFormat HardbackPage Count 194Imprint Lexington BooksPublisher Lexington BooksWeight(grams) 152g

In The Roots of Radicalization: Disrupted Attachment Systems and Displacement, Victor Counted examines the expressions of attachment-related radicalization. Counted argues that radicalization is rooted in experiences of disrupted attachment in religion,...

Imagine and Create a New World offers hope to women who are considering leaving their abusers and invites them to imagine and create a world without violence. In a world where change might seem impossible, Bader presents new ways for responding to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316285254Author Malcolm GladwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 168gDimensions(mm)...

This textbook offers a comprehensive guide to carrying out a research project in social psychology. With helpful suggestions and step-by-step guidance through every stage of the research process, the book challenges the reader throughout to tackle the...

`When considering a volume that has essentially the form of a textbook, particular criteria apply. It is important that it is accurate, up-to-date and covers an appropriate range of material in an accessible and stimulating manner. It is important that...

This comprehensive volume explores the concrete implications of social constructionist theory, and provides a clear overview of how to do social constructionist research and analysis. Leading psychologists and sociologists ground theory with practical...

The Third Edition of this much celebrated textbook continues to focus on the four major and influential perspectives in contemporary social psychology - social cognition, social identity, social representations, and discursive psychology. A foundational...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578205083Author Karen Kellock Ph DFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Champion GuidesPublisher Champion GuidesWeight(grams) 354g

Historically, very few sport and exercise psychologists and professionals from related fields such as disability and rehabilitation have conducted thorough research on individuals with disabilities engaged in sport and exercise. The tide is turning,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538758281Author Maxine Mei-Fung ChungFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Grand Central PublishingPublisher Grand Central PublishingWeight(grams) 272g

Although the world has experienced many epidemics, the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is exactly that--novel. The impacts on society's way of life, education, family, and economy are drastic. As a result, people seek explanations that have answers rooted...

The Psychology of Modern Dating: Websites, Apps, and Relationships is a resource guide outlining the major observations of trends currently applicable to online dating via dating sites and apps. This text outlines the theoretical foundation and...

Identity Orchestration demonstrates the particular importance of identity balance in behavioral health. The contributors to this collection deeply engage with identity and psychological strength by examining race, gender, class, and context through...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783856307301Author Daniel HellFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Daimon VerlagPublisher Daimon VerlagWeight(grams) 622g

This definitive handbook is now in an extensively revised third edition with many all-new chapters and new topics. Leading authorities present cutting-edge knowledge about how and why people try to regulate their emotions, the consequences of different...

Historically, interventions designed to impact the lives of disabled people were predicated upon deficits-based models of disability. This began to change with the introduction of World Health Organization (WHO) frameworks, particularly the International...

Gender-based sexual violence is a widespread public health problem affecting people of all ages and from diverse backgrounds. Although both women and men experience sexual trauma across countries and contexts (e.g., military vs. civilian), prevalence...

Instructors - Electronic inspection copies are available or contact your local sales representative for an inspection copy of the print version. Revisiting the Classic Studies is a series of texts that introduces readers to the studies in psychology...

SAGE Course Companions are an exciting new series offering students an insider's guide into how to make the most of their undergraduate courses and extend their understanding of key concepts covered in their course. Social Psychology provides student...

Electronic Inspection Copy available for instructors here The SAGE Library in Social and Personality Psychology Methods provides students and researchers with an understanding of the methods and techniques essential to conducting cutting-edge research...

Electronic Inspection Copy available here Increasingly used by behavioural and social scientists, implicit measures afford investigating core psychological constructs in ways that bypass people's willingness and ability to report their feelings and...

Electronic Inspection Copy available here The volume begins with a rationale for multilevel modeling (MLM). Different aspects of MLM such as centering and modeling error terms are discussed, and examining hypotheses within the multilevel framework is...

`This is a thoughtful, honest and accessible text which I would certainly recommend to students. The chapter ordering is excellent and should take the student through a logical progression from the more established to the more contemporary approaches in...

The transition from adolescence to adulthood has undergone significant changes in recent decades. Unlike a half century ago, when young people in industrialized countries moved from adolescence into young adulthood in relatively short order at around age...

In this volume, Qi Wang traces the developmental, social, cultural, and historical origins of the autobiographical self - the self that is made of memories of the personal past and of the family and the community. Wang combines rigorous research,...

Party identification may be the single most powerful predictor of voting behavior, yet scholars continue to disagree whether this is good or bad for democracy. Some argue that party identification functions as a highly efficient information shortcut,...

With applications throughout the social sciences, culture and psychology is a rapidly growing field that has experienced a surge in publications over the last decade. From this proliferation of books, chapters, and journal articles, exciting developments...

The figure of the Other is an important though underutilized vehicle for exploring and reconceptualizing classic psychological and philosophical issues, from identity and purpose to human frailty and suffering. Moreover, it can be used to reorient...

The aim of this book is to re-establish custom in economics. Current economic theorizing largely neglects the customary forces that underpin market exchange. Economic sociologists have stressed this repeatedly by referring to the 'embeddedness' of all...

This book combines theoretical and empirical research across various academic disciplines including economics, psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, and political science to describe why individuals adopt political ideologies and how this choice can...

Since the Bali terrorist attacks in 2002, law enforcement agencies have rigorously combatted terrorist networks in Southeast Asia, yet groups motivated by violent extremist interpretations of Islam remain resilient and dangerous. This book shines a light...

An administrator known for her innovative on-the-job thinking becomes the target of anonymous rumors about financial mismanagement of her department. The rumors are proven baseless but her boss decides that she can't work with "that woman" anymore and...

This book builds on two current developments in psychology scholarship and practice. The first centers on broad discontent with the individualist tradition in which the rational agent, or autonomous self, is considered the fundamental atom of social life...

Social psychologist James Waller uncovers the internal and external factors that can lead ordinary people to commit extraordinary acts of evil. Waller offers a sophisticated and comprehensive psychological view of how anyone can potentially participate...

At the start of the Syrian conflict in 2011, thousands of pro-democracy rebel groups spontaneously formed to fight the Assad regime. Years later, the revolution was unrecognizable as rebel opposition forces had merged into three major groups: Jabhat...

This book offers a comprehensive overview and analysis of the Islamic State's use of propaganda. Combining a range of different theoretical perspectives from across the social sciences, and using rigorous methods, the authors trace the origins of the...

Social media users fracture into tribes, but social media ecosystems are globally interconnected technically, socially, culturally, and economically. At the crossroads, Huatong Sun, author of Cross-Cultural Technology Design, presents theory, method, and...