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The Psychology of Passion: A Dualistic Model by Dr. Robert J. Vallerand 9780199777600
€119.57The concept of passion is one we regularly use to describe our interests, and yet there is no broad theory that can explain the development and consequences of passion for activities across people's lives. In The Psychology of Passion, Robert J... -
Atlas of Moral Psychology Kurt Gray (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States) 9781462532568
€101.86This comprehensive and cutting-edge volume maps out the terrain of moral psychology, a dynamic and evolving area of research. In 57 concise chapters, leading authorities and up-and-coming scholars explore fundamental issues and current controversies. The... -
The Creativity Reader by Vlad Petre Glaveanu 9780190841706
RRP: €127.93€116.85The Creativity Reader is a necessary companion for anyone interested in the historical roots of contemporary ideas about creativity, innovation, and imagination. It brings together a prestigious group of international experts who were tasked with... -
Crossing the Psycho-Social Divide: Freud, Weber, Adorno and Elias by George Cavalletto 9780367603762
RRP: €47.59€41.72The 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: €152.32€125.55This 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... -
Handbook of Implicit Social Cognition: Measurement, Theory, and Applications Bertram Gawronski 9781606236734
€129.06Virtually 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: €130.90€105.09In 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... -
Evil: The Science Behind Humanity's Dark Side by Julia Shaw 9781419735196
RRP: €19.04€12.57What 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... -
A Science of Decision Making: The Legacy of Ward Edwards by Jie W. Weiss 9780195322989
€89.45Ward 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: €52.35€46.22First 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
€75.26Based 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... -
Speaking from the Heart: Gender and the Social Meaning of Emotion by Stephanie A. Shields 9780521802970
RRP: €59.49€50.21Who 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... -
Computation and Human Experience by Philip E. Agre
RRP: €44.02€40.40This 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... -
Explaining and Arguing: The Social Organization of Accounts by Charles Antaki 9780803986060
RRP: €63.07€54.68Explanations identify causes, back up claims and justify actions. Social scientists study them because they reveal how people understand and construct their worlds. This stimulating book offers a critical review of the major approaches to the study of... -
The Social Psychology of Good and Evil, Second Edition Arthur G. Miller 9781462525409
€99.17This timely, accessible reference and text addresses some of the most fundamental questions about human behavior, such as what causes racism and prejudice and why good people do bad things. Leading authorities present state-of-the-science theoretical and... -
Psychological Aspects of Cyberspace: Theory, Research, Applications by Azy Barak 9780521694643
RRP: €59.49€49.35Hundreds 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... -
Behavioral Insights for Public Policy: Contextualizing our Science by Crystal C. Hall
RRP: €20.23€17.52There 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: €66.58€58.94This 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: €20.22€18.40This 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: €64.26€58.58The 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: €91.63€80.47In 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: €139.17€120.21The 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: €52.35€46.45A 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... -
Rumors: Uses, Interpretation and Necessity Jean-Noel Kapferer 9781412851558
RRP: €52.35€45.39Rumors may be the oldest medium of mass communication of information or ideas. Even before there were newspapers, radio, or television, rumors communicated by word-of-mouth made and shattered reputations, and set off riots and wars. Yet contrary to... -
Industrial-Strength Denial: Eight Stories of Corporations Defending the Indefensible, from the Slave Trade to Climate Change by Barbara Freese
RRP: €24.99€19.79How 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: €116.61€104.36Psychology 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
€58.74This 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: €139.83€105.65How 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: €46.40€40.06Sex 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: €49.97€38.89This 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: €110.67€100.77This 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: €139.83€136.42What 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
€30.76Apologies 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
€131.86This 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
€100.67This 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: €36.88€33.65The 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... -
Group Performance Bernard A. Nijstad 9781841696690
RRP: €52.35€51.93People 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... -
Heroes: What They Do and Why We Need Them by Scott T. Allison
RRP: €45.80€38.48Abraham 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: €47.59€41.72Why 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: €20.23€17.52The 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?...