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The Everyday Lives of Young Children: Culture, Class, and Child Rearing in Diverse Societies by Jonathan Tudge 9780521148481
RRP: €41.64€35.81Where do young children spend their time? What activities are they involved in and who do they interact with? How do these activities and interactions vary across different societies and cultural groups? This book provides answers to these questions, by... -
Speech and Reasoning in Everyday Life by Uli Windisch 9780521129107
RRP: €36.88€31.45This book examines the nature and operation of social thought and language as used in everyday life, and looks at social thinking through the complex patternings and functions of discourse. It is based on extensive empirical evidence about the language... -
Stereotypes and Prejudice in Conflict: Representations of Arabs in Israeli Jewish Society by Daniel Bar-Tal 9780521127035
RRP: €57.11€49.35In the last two decades, the study of social stereotypes and prejudice has become one of the central interests in social psychology in particular. One reflection of this growing interest is the focus on shared stereotypes and prejudices. The primary... -
Communicating Social Support by Daena J. Goldsmith 9780521066860
RRP: €32.12€27.13When stresses and hassles challenge our abilities to cope, we frequently turn to family, friends, and partners for help. Yet social support from close relational partners does not uniformly benefit recipients or their relationships. By probing the... -
Ethnicity and Causal Mechanisms by Michael Rutter 9780521849937
RRP: €130.90€96.90Research clearly indicates that ethnic groups differ significantly on levels of mental and physical health, antisocial behavior, and educational attainment. This book explains these variations among ethnic groups with respect to their psychological and... -
Effect of a Relational Approach to Parent Education for Incarcerated Mothers in a Work Release Center by Lesley Lebaron 9780530004655
RRP: €95.20€84.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780530004655Author Lesley LebaronFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint Dissertation Discovery CompanyPublisher Dissertation Discovery CompanyWeight(grams)... -
Effect of a Relational Approach to Parent Education for Incarcerated Mothers in a Work Release Center by Lesley Lebaron 9780530004648
RRP: €63.07€55.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780530004648Author Lesley LebaronFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Dissertation Discovery CompanyPublisher Dissertation Discovery CompanyWeight(grams)... -
Information Sampling and Adaptive Cognition by Klaus Fiedler 9780521831598
RRP: €79.73€71.42A 'sample' is not only a concept from statistics that has penetrated common sense but also a metaphor that has inspired much research and theorizing in current psychology. The sampling approach emphasizes the selectivity and the biases that are inherent... -
Parenting Representations: Theory, Research, and Clinical Implications by Ofra Mayseless 9780521828871
RRP: €148.75€123.83The study of parents from their own perspective not just as socializing agents of their children has been long neglected. This book summarizes and presents the new and surging literature on parenting representations namely parents' views, emotions and... -
Collective Guilt: International Perspectives by Nyla R. Branscombe 9780521817608
RRP: €130.90€105.09Emotion can result from interpreting group actions as reflecting on the self due to an association between the two. This volume considers the nature of collective guilt, the antecedent conditions necessary for it to be experienced, how it can be... -
Voices of Collective Remembering by James V. Wertsch 9780521810500
RRP: €69.02€61.65There is currently a great deal of discussion in the humanities and social sciences about collective memory, but there is very little agreement on what it is. The first goal of this volume is to review various understandings of this term to bring some... -
Stereotypes as Explanations: The Formation of Meaningful Beliefs about Social Groups by Craig McGarty 9780521804820
RRP: €46.40€39.58Stereotyping is one of the biggest single issues in social psychology, but relatively little is known about how and why stereotypes form. Stereotypes as Explanations is the first book to explore the process of stereotype formation, the way that people... -
Learning and Expanding with Activity Theory by Annalisa Sannino 9780521760751
RRP: €79.73€71.42This book is a collection about cultural-historical activity theory as it has been developed and applied by Yrjoe Engestroem. The work of Engestroem is both rooted in the legacy of Vygotsky and Leont'ev and focuses on current research concerns that are... -
Becoming Parents: Exploring the Bonds between Mothers, Fathers, and their Infants by Judith A. Feeney 9780521772501
RRP: €69.02€61.65This book examines the transition from the perspective of adult attachment theory. It reviews previous studies of the transition to parenthood and of adult attachments, and presents the results of a comprehensive new study of parenthood. In this study,... -
Attribution, Communication Behavior, and Close Relationships by Valerie Lynn Manusov 9780521770897
RRP: €130.90€105.09The field of close relationships is one of the most fertile areas of work in the social and behavioural sciences. Central to theoretical developments in the study of close relationships is a focus on people's interpretive activities and communication... -
Gender and Emotion: Social Psychological Perspectives by Agneta H. Fischer 9780521639866
RRP: €51.16€44.22When do people call someone emotional? Why is it generally accepted that women are emotional and men are not? What are the actual differences between men and women with regard to specific emotions? Under what circumstances are these differences most... -
The Social Mind: Construction of the Idea by Jaan Valsiner 9780521589734
RRP: €59.49€51.67The Social Mind, first published in 2000, charts the intellectual history of the idea of socially constructed mind through the examination of four key theorists - Lev Vygotsky, George Herbert Mead, James Mark Baldwin, and Pierre Janet. An analysis of the... -
Emotions, the Social Bond, and Human Reality: Part/Whole Analysis by Thomas J. Scheff 9780521585453
RRP: €47.59€39.58In his important book, first published in 1997, Thomas Scheff offers an approach to researching human behavior which relates the smallest parts of social interaction to the greatest wholes of social structure. These are the details and connections... -
Intentions in the Experience of Meaning by Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr. 9780521572453
RRP: €96.39€86.36What do our assumptions about authorship matter for our experience of meaning? This book examines the debates in the humanities and social sciences over whether authorial intentions can, or should, constrain our interpretation of language and art... -
Technology in Action by Christian Heath 9780521568692
RRP: €49.97€43.07Despite the extraordinary advances in digital and communication technology over recent years, we know very little about the way these complex systems affect everyday work and interaction. This book seeks to explore these issues through a series of... -
My Neighbor, My Enemy: Justice and Community in the Aftermath of Mass Atrocity by Eric Stover 9780521542647
RRP: €52.35€45.86My Neighbour, My Enemy tackles a crucial and highly topical issue - how do countries rebuild after ethnic cleansing and genocide? And what role do trials and tribunals play in social reconstruction and reconciliation. By talking with people in Rwanda and... -
Collective Guilt: International Perspectives by Nyla R. Branscombe 9780521520836
RRP: €46.40€39.58Emotion can result from interpreting group actions as reflecting on the self due to an association between the two. This volume considers the nature of collective guilt, the antecedent conditions necessary for it to be experienced, how it can be... -
Disclosure Processes in Children and Adolescents by Ken J. Rotenberg 9780521470988
RRP: €82.11€73.27To be known, and to know others, is critical to all social relationships. This topic of 'disclosure processes' not only pertains to people's disclosure of daily thoughts and emotions, but to their disclosure of many controversial problems in contemporary... -
Mind and Social Practice: Selected Writings of Sylvia Scribner by Sylvia Scribner 9780521467674
RRP: €49.97€43.54Sylvia Scribner's research and theory have been monumental in forming the emergent field of cultural psychology. Her studies of reasoning and thinking in their cultural and activity contexts added new concepts, methods, and findings to what many are now... -
The Remembering Self: Construction and Accuracy in the Self-Narrative by Ulric Neisser 9780521431941
RRP: €129.71€110.94This book brings a surprisingly wide range of intellectual disciplines to bear on the self-narrative and the self. The same ecological/cognitive approach that successfully organized Ulric Neisser's earlier volume on The Perceived Self now relates ideas... -
The Computer as Medium by Peter Bxgh Andersen 9780521419956
RRP: €149.94€128.51Computers are developing into a powerful medium integrating film, pictures, text and sound, and the use of computers for communication and information is rapidly expanding. The Computer as Medium brings insights from art, literature and theatre to bear... -
Landscapes of Emotion: Mapping Three Cultures of Emotion in Indonesia by Karl G. Heider 9780521401517
RRP: €130.90€105.09Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Algebraic Models for Social Networks by Philippa Pattison 9780521365680
RRP: €129.71€110.94As the analysis of social networks, or networks of interpersonal and social relationships among social groups, has become an increasingly important method of research in several of the social and behavioural sciences, the gathering of network data has... -
The Mechanism of Human Facial Expression by G. -B. Duchenne de Boulogne 9780521363921
RRP: €122.57€105.09In Mecanisme de la physionomie humaine, the great nineteenth-century French neurologist Duchenne de Boulogne combined his intimate knowledge of facial anatomy with his skill in photography and expertise in using electricity to stimulate individual facial... -
Applications of Environment-Behavior Research: Case Studies and Analysis by Paul D. Cherulnik 9780521337700
RRP: €46.40€39.58Architects, city planners, and other design professionals have used theory and research from psychology and other behavioral sciences to make their work more responsive to the needs of the people who use the buildings, parks, and city streets they help... -
Social Facilitation by Bernard Guerin 9780521333580
RRP: €129.71€110.47Humans may run faster, read less or type more quickly, simply because someone else is present. The presence of one person affects the behaviour of another: this is known as social facilitation and is one of the oldest topics in social psychology. Despite... -
People in Cities: The Urban Environment and its Effects by Edward Krupat 9780521319461
RRP: €45.21€38.41People in Cities is about the experience of urban life. Edward Krupat analyzes current research and theory about the ways in which cities affect people. He contrasts urban living with life in smaller communities, and compares popular notions and... -
The Social Dimension: Volume 1: European Developments in Social Psychology by Henri Tajfel 9780521283830
RRP: €57.11€49.35The two volumes of The Social Dimension present a comprehensive survey of the major developments in social psychology which took place in Europe during the very active 1970s and 1980s. They aim to capture the diversity and vitality of the discipline,... -
Relative Deprivation: Specification, Development, and Integration by Iain Walker 9780521180696
RRP: €44.02€34.93The relative deprivation construct has been widely used in the social sciences to explain phenomena from experiencing psychosomatic stress to participating in urban riots. It is currently a valuable tool in research, being used especially to understand... -
The Hidden Genius of Emotion: Lifespan Transformations of Personality by Carol Magai 9780521129534
RRP: €60.68€52.82This 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... -
The Social Psychology of Minority Influence by Gabriel Mugny 9780521128780
RRP: €36.88€32.61This book, first published in 1987, looks at the processes and spread of social innovation: the mechanisms of this innovation are rooted in the conflict that minorities are capable of creating in others and introducing into the social system. These... -
Perspectives on Minority Influence by Serge Moscovici 9780521246958
RRP: €122.57€105.09Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Social Facilitation by Bernard Guerin 9780521119795
RRP: €45.21€38.41Humans may run faster, read less or type more quickly, simply because someone else is present. The presence of one person affects the behaviour of another: this is known as social facilitation and is one of the oldest topics in social psychology. Despite... -
Bullying in Different Contexts by Claire P. Monks 9780521114813
RRP: €83.30€75.80Bullying has a tendency to be associated with aggression between children in the playground, but bullying and abuse can also be observed in other social settings. Bullying in Different Contexts brings together, for the first time, leading international... -
The Causes of Crime: New Biological Approaches by Sarnoff A. Mednick 9780521111898
RRP: €51.16€44.70In this century, social factors have dominated theories of antisocial behaviour to the near-exclusion of other explanatory variables in the study of criminology. Criminologists are now coming to realise that fully understanding the causes of criminality...