Filter By
- Book
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
The Social Self: Cognitive, Interpersonal and Intergroup Perspectives Joseph P. Forgas 9781841690827
$119.15What is the nature of the 'self', how do everyday experiences shape it, and how does it influence our thinking, judgements and behaviors? Such questions constitute enduring puzzles in psychology, and are also of critical practical importance for applied... -
Crossing the Psycho-Social Divide: Freud, Weber, Adorno and Elias by George Cavalletto 9780367603762
RRP: $83.98$73.63The 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... -
Friendship Processes by Beverley Fehr 9780803945616
RRP: $268.80$221.55This broad-ranging volume examines how friends give meaning to our lives. Each phase of the friendship process is illustrated with empirical research. The result is a conceptual framework that illuminates the fascinating components involved in making... -
Group Performance Bernard A. Nijstad 9781841696690
$93.14People interact and perform in group settings in all areas of life. Organizations and businesses are increasingly structuring work around groups and teams. Every day, we work in groups such as families, friendship groups, societies and sports teams, to... -
Handbook of Implicit Social Cognition: Measurement, Theory, and Applications Bertram Gawronski 9781606236734
$227.75Virtually every question in social psychology is currently being shaped by the concepts and methods of implicit social cognition. This tightly edited volume provides the first comprehensive overview of the field. Foremost authorities synthesize the... -
Remembering Reconsidered: Ecological and Traditional Approaches to the Study of Memory by Ulric Neisser 9780521330312
RRP: $231.00$185.45In Remembering Reconsidered, the new ecologically oriented study of memory makes contact with more traditional approaches. The emerging result may be what several of the authors have begun to call 'functionalism': a concern with the adaptive significance... -
The Science of Subjective Well-Being Michael Eid 9781606230732
$125.45This 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... -
Evil: The Science Behind Humanity's Dark Side by Julia Shaw 9781419735196
RRP: $33.60$22.18What is it about evil that we find so compelling? From our obsession with serial killers to violence in pop culture, we seem inescapably drawn to the stories of monstrous acts and the aberrant people who commit them. But evil, Dr. Julia Shaw argues, is... -
The Social Psychology of Power Ana Guinote 9781606236192
$137.55Addressing an issue of central concern in social life, this authoritative book examines how having or lacking power influences the way individuals and groups think, feel, and act. Leading international experts comprehensively review classic and... -
A Science of Decision Making: The Legacy of Ward Edwards by Jie W. Weiss 9780195322989
$157.86Ward Edwards is well known as the father of behavioral decision making. In his 1954 Psychological Bulletin paper on decision making, he brought psychological ideas into what had been the province of economists. His influence in this realm is so pervasive... -
Alienation Richard Schacht 9781138889750
RRP: $92.38$81.56First published in 1970, original blurb:'Alienation' is the catchword of our time. It has been applied to everything from the new politics to the anti-heroes of today's films. But what does it mean to say that someone is alienated? Is alienation a state... -
Emotions: Essays on Emotion Theory Stephanie H.M. van Goozen 9780805812084
$132.80Based upon lectures presented at an invitational colloquium in honor of Nico Frijda, this collection of essays represents a brief and up-to-date overview of the field of emotions, their significance and how they function. For most, emotions are simply... -
Computation and Human Experience by Philip E. Agre
RRP: $77.68$71.30This book offers a critical reconstruction of the fundamental ideas and methods of artificial intelligence research. Through close attention to the metaphors of artificial intelligence and their consequences for the field's patterns of success and... -
Motivation and Morality: A Multidisciplinary Approach Martha K. Berg 9781433838729
RRP: $161.70$135.81This book offers an integrative examination of the role of motivation in shaping moral cognition, judgment, and behavior. How do we define good and bad? Where do our moral systems originate? These questions have long sparked inquiry across multiple... -
Psychological Aspects of Cyberspace: Theory, Research, Applications by Azy Barak 9780521694643
RRP: $104.98$87.09Hundreds of millions of people across the world use the Internet every day. Its functions vary, from shopping and banking to chatting and dating. From a psychological perspective, the Internet has become a major vehicle for interpersonal communication... -
Benign Bigotry: The Psychology of Subtle Prejudice by Kristin J. Anderson
RRP: $52.48$45.32While overt prejudice is now much less prevalent than in decades past, subtle prejudice - prejudice that is inconspicuous, indirect, and often unconscious - continues to pervade our society. Laws do not protect against subtle prejudice and, because of... -
Behavioral Insights for Public Policy: Contextualizing our Science by Crystal C. Hall
RRP: $35.70$30.91There has been an increasing effort to integrate behavioral insights into public policy. These insights are often reliant on social psychological research and theory. However, in this relatively young field, policy interventions and behavioral insights... -
Blackwell Handbook of Social Psychology: Interpersonal Processes Garth J. O. Fletcher (University of Canterbury, New Zealand) 9780631212294
RRP: $117.50$104.01This authoritative handbook provides a cutting-edge overview of classic and current research as well as an assessment of future trends in the field of interpersonal processes. Ensures thorough and up-to-date coverage of all aspects of interpersonal... -
Concerning the Rites of Psychoanalysis: Or the Villa of the Mysteries Bice Benvenuto (Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research, London) 9780745615301
RRP: $35.68$32.47This 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... -
Research Integrity: Best Practices for the Social and Behavioral Sciences by Lee Jussim
RRP: $113.40$103.38The primary goal of science is to "get it right," meaning that scientists seek to accurately document the world as it is. While erroneous conclusions and flawed theories can and do occur, they can only be tolerated as long as reliable mechanisms of... -
A Psychology of Food, Cooks, and Cooking by David Livert 9781793634740
RRP: $161.70$142.00In A Psychology of Food, Cooks, and Cooking, David Livert employs current psychological research and theory to provide insights into the ubiquitous human behavior of cooking. Topics include how cooking strengthens identities, cognitive processes involved... -
Positioning Theory: Moral Contexts of International Action Rom Harre (Linacre College, Oxford) 9780631211389
RRP: $245.60$212.14The word 'position' has long been used in the field of social psychology. Now social psychologists are creating new theories on group positioning by studying everyday language and discourse and the application of some of these ideas has revealed the... -
Peace Psychology: A Comprehensive Introduction by Herbert H. Blumberg
RRP: $92.38$81.96A comprehensive introduction to the rapidly growing research area of peace psychology. Both a topic in its own right and studied within courses on peace studies, conflict studies and subsidiaries of psychology, international relations and politics, peace... -
Industrial-Strength Denial: Eight Stories of Corporations Defending the Indefensible, from the Slave Trade to Climate Change by Barbara Freese
RRP: $44.10$34.92How 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... -
Psychology and Climate Change: Human Perceptions, Impacts, and Responses by Clayton 9780128131305
RRP: $205.78$184.17Psychology and Climate Change: Human Perceptions, Impacts, and Responses organizes and summarizes recent psychological research that relates to the issue of climate change. The book covers topics such as how people perceive and respond to climate change,... -
Connections Between Sexuality and Aggression Dolf Zillmann 9780805819076
$103.66This is the only available comprehensive monograph on interrelations and interdependencies between agonistic and sexual behaviors. Integrating theory and research from biology, anthropology, neurophysiology, endocrinology, psychophysiology, and... -
The Institutional Logics Perspective: A New Approach to Culture, Structure, and Process by Patricia H. Thornton 9780199601936
RRP: $246.75$186.44How do institutions influence and shape cognition and action in individuals and organizations, and how are they in turn shaped by them? Various social science disciplines have offered a range of theories and perspectives to provide answers to this... -
Sex and Gender by John Archer 9780521635332
RRP: $81.88$70.69Sex and Gender is a substantially revised second edition of a classic text. Adopting a balanced and straightforward approach to the often controversial study of sex differences, the authors aim to introduce the reader to the fundamental questions... -
Social Situations by Michael Argyle 9780521298810
RRP: $88.18$68.63This book not only documents the authors' own studies of real life social situations, but also provides an extensive review of other literature in this field. Michael Argyle and his colleagues are particularly concerned with the practical applications of... -
The Hidden Genius of Emotion: Lifespan Transformations of Personality by Carol Magai
RRP: $195.30$177.83This thoughtful and beautifully written book demonstrates compellingly that emotions are central to personality development across the lifespan. Carol Magai and Jeannette Haviland-Jones draw on a wealth of textual and film material to forge an original... -
Handbook of Value: Perspectives from Economics, Neuroscience, Philosophy, Psychology and Sociology by Tobias Brosch 9780198716600
RRP: $246.75$240.74What 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... -
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles MacKay 9781515435730
$54.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781515435730Author Charles MacKayFormat HardbackPage Count 440Imprint SMK BooksPublisher SMK BooksWeight(grams) 812gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 29mm -
Measures of Personality and Social Psychological Attitudes: Volume 1 by John Paul Robinson 9780125902441
$232.70This volume is sponsored by Division 9 of the American Psychological Association: The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues.****This is an essential reference book for any social scientist or student who uses measuresof attitude or... -
Handbook of Emotion Regulation, Third Edition by James J. Gross 9781462553037
$177.66This 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... -
The Psychology of the Social by Uwe Flick 9780521588515
RRP: $65.08$59.39The differences between individual and collective representations have occupied social scientists since Durkheim, and the social psychological theory of social representations has been one of the most influential theories in twentieth-century social... -
Heroes: What They Do and Why We Need Them by Scott T. Allison
RRP: $80.83$67.91Abraham Lincoln, Princess Diana, Rick in Casablanca--why do we perceive certain people as heroes? What qualities do we see in them? What must they do to win our admiration? In Heroes, Scott T. Allison and George R. Goethals offer a stimulating tour of... -
An Introduction to Attribution Processes Kelly G. Shaver 9781138691155
RRP: $83.98$73.63Why do people act the way they do? How do their desires and fears become known to us? When are our opinions of others correct, and when are they likely to be mistaken? These are questions which attribution theory tries to answer. Originally published in... -
Undoing the Gender Binary by Charlotte Chucky Tate
RRP: $35.70$30.91The central question of this Element is this: What does it mean to be transgender - in general and in specific ways? What does the designation mean for any individual and for the groups in which the individual exists? Biologically, what occurs?... -
Social Psychology: Core Concepts and Emerging Trends by Daniel W. Barrett 9781506310602
RRP: $268.80$237.89Employing a lively and accessible writing style, author Daniel W. Barrett integrates up-to-date coverage of social psychology's core theories, concepts, and research with a discussion of emerging developments in the field-including social neuroscience... -
Adieu to God: Why Psychology Leads to Atheism by Mick Power 9780470669945
RRP: $52.40$45.74Adieu to God examines atheism from a psychological perspective and reveals how religious phenomena and beliefs are psychological rather than supernatural in origin. Answers the psychological question of why, in the face of overwhelming scientific...