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Social Identity Processes: Trends in Theory and Research by Dora Capozza 9780761960867
RRP: £49.99£43.75This landmark work offers a tour of the latest developments in Social Identity Theory from the leading scholars in the field. First proposed by Tajfel and Turner in 1979, Social Identity Theory has proved enormously influential in stimulating new theory... -
Social Interaction and Personal Relationships by Dorothy Miell 9780761950363
RRP: £55.00£48.43`The team has achieved an admirable overall coherence in representing the range of ideas, methodologies and modes of analysis that will be found in this area of social life.... it is likely to find a place on the reading lists of many future social... -
Social Interaction and Personal Relationships by Dorothy Miell 9780761950363 [USED COPY]
RRP: £55.00£2.80Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Why Only Humans Weep: Unravelling the Mysteries of Tears by Ad Vingerhoets 9780198570240
£88.44Crying has fascinated mankind for millenia. Since ancient times, we have known that emotional tears are a unique human characteristic. Unsurprisingly, over hundreds of years, scholars from different backgrounds have speculated about the origin and... -
An Atlas of Interpersonal Situations by Harold H. Kelley 9780521011808
RRP: £49.99£43.42The Atlas of Interpersonal Situations provides a systematic theoretical account for understanding the impact of situations on patterns of social interaction. Structured around descriptions of twenty-one of the most common situations that people encounter... -
Strength Through Peace: How Demilitarization Led to Peace and Happiness in Costa Rica, and What the Rest of the World can Learn From a Tiny, Tropical Nation by Judith Eve Lipton 9780199924974
£41.07Costa Rica is the only full-fledged and totally independent country to be entirely demilitarized. Its military was abolished in 1948, with the keys to the armory handed to the Department of Education. Socially, Costa Rica is a success story. Although... -
The Psychology of Serial Killer Investigations: The Grisly Business Unit by Robert D. Keppel 9780124042605
RRP: £49.99£44.82Serial killers like Seattle's Ted Bundy, Maryland's Beltway Sniper, Atlanta's Wayne Williams, or England's Peter Sutcliffe usually outsmart the task forces on their trail for long periods of time. Keppel and Birnes take readers inside the operations of... -
The Positive Side of Negative Emotions by W. Gerrod Parrott
£47.37This unique volume brings together state-of-the-art research showing the value of emotions that many believe to be undesirable. Leading investigators explore the functions and benefits of sadness, anxiety, anger, embarrassment, shame, guilt, jealousy,... -
Psychological Perspectives on Praise by Eddie Brummelman
RRP: £37.99£33.78Praise is perhaps the most widely used technique to influence others. When used appropriately, praise can motivate people, make them feel better, and improve their social relationships. Often, however, praise fails to work as intended and may even cause... -
The Altruism Equation: Seven Scientists Search for the Origins of Goodness by Lee Alan Dugatkin 9780691242132
RRP: £22.00£17.36In a world supposedly governed by ruthless survival of the fittest, why do we see acts of goodness in both animals and humans? This problem plagued Charles Darwin in the 1850s as he developed his theory of evolution through natural selection. Indeed,... -
The Uses of Delusion: Why It's Not Always Rational to Be Rational by Stuart Vyse
RRP: £25.49£21.99A fascinating examination of delusional thinking and how it might benefit health, relationships, and wellbeing. Although reason and rationality are our friends in almost all contexts, in some cases people are better off putting reason aside. In a... -
Concerning the Rites of Psychoanalysis: Or the Villa of the Mysteries by Bice Benvenuto
RRP: £16.99£15.22This is the first book that looks at Lacanian psychoanalysis in the context of the clinic. Benvenuto draws on her twelve years of clinical practice to develop a novel perspective on the work of Lacan.About the AuthorBice Benvenuto is the author of... -
Payback: Why We Retaliate, Redirect Aggression, and Take Revenge by David P. Barash 9780195395143
RRP: £26.49£20.94From the child taunted by her playmates to the office worker who feels stifled in his daily routine, people frequently take out their pain and anger on others, even those who had nothing to do with the original stress. The bullied child may kick her... -
The Psychology of Peace: An Introduction, 2nd Edition by Rachel M. MacNair 9780313397233
£56.36Despite our advances in technology and education, we still live in a world permeated by violence. This introductory textbook in the field of peace psychology addresses the psychological causes of violence and nonviolence, conflict resolution, nonviolent... -
Why Aren't We Saving the Planet?: A Psychologist's Perspective by Geoffrey Beattie
RRP: £21.99£19.34Global warming. Many of us believe that it is somebody else's problem, that it will affect other people and that other people will come up with the solution. This is not true. "Global" warming is a global problem: it will affect every single one of us... -
Divided We Stand: The Strategy and Psychology of Ireland's Dissident Terrorists by John Horgan 9780199772858
RRP: £41.49£33.44Terrorism has returned to the streets of Northern Ireland. In the years after the 1998 Real IRA bombing of Omagh, which killed 29 people, violent dissident Republican groups have re-emerged as a major security threat to a region that has been denied... -
Embodied Interaction: Language and Body in the Material World by Jurgen Streeck 9780521895637
RRP: £100.00£77.09How do people organize their body movement and talk when they interact with one another in the material world? How do they coordinate linguistic structures with bodily resources (such as gaze and gesture) to bring about coherent and intelligible courses... -
Vision, Reality and Complex: Jung, Politics and Culture by Thomas Singer
RRP: £18.99£16.87Vision, Reality and Complex brings together a rich selection of Thomas Singer's scholarship on the development of the cultural complex theory and explores the relationship between vision, reality, and illusion in politics and psyche.The chapters in this... -
Crossing the Psycho-Social Divide: Freud, Weber, Adorno and Elias by George Cavalletto 9780367603762
RRP: £39.99£35.06The prevailing view among social scientists is that the psyche and the social reside in such disparate domains that their proper study demands markedly incompatible analytical and theoretical approaches. Over the last decade, scholars have begun to... -
The Psychology of Action: Linking Cognition and Motivation to Behavior by P. M. Gollwitzer
£107.61How are social behaviors initiated, sustained, disrupted, and resumed? What are the cognitive bases of goals, and how are goals and actions affected by emotions? Putting an end to the traditional, and unproductive, juxtaposition of motivation and... -
On the Self-Regulation of Behavior by Charles S. Carver 9780521572040
RRP: £85.00£76.51This book presents a thorough overview of a model of human functioning based on the idea that behavior is goal-directed and regulated by feedback control processes. It describes feedback processes and their application to behavior, considers goals and... -
The Way Out: How to Overcome Toxic Polarization by Peter T. Coleman 9780231197410
RRP: £15.99£12.91The partisan divide in the United States has widened to a chasm. Legislators vote along party lines and rarely cross the aisle. Political polarization is personal, too-and it is making us miserable. Surveys show that Americans have become more fearful... -
Case Studies for Teaching Social Psychology: Critical Thinking and Application by Thomas E Heinzen
RRP: £33.99£31.95What captivates learners and interests them in studying social psychology? In Case Studies for Teaching Social Psychology, Tom Heinzen and Wind Goodfriend use brief, entertaining case stories to further enhance the historical context, evolution of, and... -
Understanding Practice: Perspectives on Activity and Context by Seth Chaiklin
RRP: £51.99£43.42Understanding Practice brings together the many different perspectives that have been applied to examining social context. From Ole Dreier's work on the therapeutic relationship, to Hugh Mehan's work on learning by disabled students, to Charles and Janet... -
Emotions and Beliefs: How Feelings Influence Thoughts by Nico H. Frijda 9780521787345
RRP: £38.99£33.26Few people would question nowadays that emotions influence beliefs but until recently little scientific research has been done on exactly how this effect takes place. This important new book, with contributions from some of the leading figures in the... -
Social Identity and Social Cognition by Dominic Abrams 9780631206439
RRP: £57.95£50.62In recent years there has been a rapprochement between the traditionally opposing theories of North American social cognition and European social identity theory.About the AuthorDominic Abrams is Professor of Social Psychology and Director of the Centre... -
Social Psychology by Paul A. M. Van Lange 9781462550241
£53.92This definitive work--now extensively revised with virtually all new chapters--has introduced generations of researchers to the psychological processes that underlie social behavior. What sets the book apart is its unique focus on the basic principles... -
Industrial-Strength Denial: Eight Stories of Corporations Defending the Indefensible, from the Slave Trade to Climate Change by Barbara Freese
RRP: £21.00£16.63How corporate denial harms our world and continues to threaten our future. Corporations faced with proof that they are hurting people or the planet have a long history of denying evidence, blaming victims, complaining of witch hunts, attacking their... -
Mistrust by Glynis M. Breakwell
RRP: £35.99£29.60Mistrust in the 21st century is a major societal concern. This book: - explores social psychological processes that explain why and how mistrust develops - considers the effects that it has upon those who are mistrustful and those who are mistrusted ... -
Social Beings: Core Motives in Social Psychology by Susan T. Fiske 9781119492733
RRP: £75.95£67.17It is a nearly universal truth that people need people; humans have adapted to life with other humans, and the interactions and relationships that result are the most relevant adaptation environment. This book explores the core motives and goals that... -
Genealogy, Psychology and Identity: Tales from a family tree by Paula Nicolson
RRP: £37.99£33.38The popularity of amateur genealogy and family history has soared in recent times. Genealogy, Psychology and Identity explores this popular international pastime and offers reasons why it informs our sense of who we are, and our place in both... -
Microaggression Theory: Influence and Implications by Gina C. Torino 9781119420040
RRP: £51.95£45.56Get to know the sociopolitical context behind microaggressions Microaggressions are brief, everyday exchanges that send denigrating messages to certain individuals because of their group membership (e.g., race, gender, culture, religion, social class,... -
Speaking from the Heart: Gender and the Social Meaning of Emotion by Stephanie A. Shields 9780521802970
RRP: £49.99£42.53Who gets called 'emotional'? And what does it mean when that happens? What tells us that a person is 'speaking from the heart'? The prevailing stereotype is that she is emotional, while he is not. In Speaking From the Heart Professor Shields draws on... -
The Psychology of Conspiracy by Michal Bilewicz
RRP: £41.99£36.75Why did the third World Trade Center building (WTC7) collapse on September 11th , even though it was not struck by any aircraft?Why did Princess Diana's "drunk" driver look sober as he climbed into the car minutes before their deadly accident? Could a... -
The Psychology of Influence: Theory, research and practice by Joop van der Pligt
RRP: £47.99£41.81Whether it's our choice of a new car or what we think about our neighbours, our opinions and attitudes are a way of negotiating the world around us. The Psychology of Influence explores how these preferences and behaviours are influenced and affected by... -
Critical Social Psychology by Tomas Ibanez 9780761952893
RRP: £58.00£50.59Much recent work in social psychology has questioned the assumptions and practices of traditional research and debate. Accessible and often passionately argued, this book pulls these new trends together in a major overview of the main theoretical,... -
Handbook of Value: Perspectives from Economics, Neuroscience, Philosophy, Psychology and Sociology by Tobias Brosch 9780198716600
RRP: £117.50£114.64What is value? Where does it come from? How does it impact our emotions, motivations, decisions and experiences? Value is involved in practically every aspect of human life: whether we decide whom to marry or which political candidate to elect, whether... -
Genealogy, Psychology and Therapy: Uncovering Trauma by Paula Nicolson
RRP: £35.99£31.69Fully revised and updated, Genealogy, Psychology and Therapy highlights the importance of genealogy in the development of identity, and the therapeutic potential of family history in cultivating wellbeing. The popularity of amateur genealogy and family... -
The Science of Subjective Well-Being by Michael Eid
£59.28This authoritative volume reviews the breadth of current scientific knowledge on subjective well-being (SWB): its definition, causes and consequences, measurement, and practical applications that may help people become happier. Leading experts explore... -
The Psychology of Facial Expression by James A. Russell 9780521587969
RRP: £43.99£38.54Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.