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Out-of-Wedlock Births: The United States in Comparative Perspective by Mark Abrahamson 9780275956653
$39.62Abrahamson focuses on the dramatic increase in out-of-wedlock births that occurred in the United States during the last half of the 20th century. He provides the most current demographic data, and summarizes the findings in a nontechnical manner made... -
Tax Evasion: An Experimental Approach by Paul Webley 9780521130615
RRP: $39.98$28.24The aim of this book, first published in 1991, is not to examine the moral or economic rights and wrongs of the issue, but to introduce a fresh way of exploring this old but growing problem. Research into tax evasion has been bedevilled with measurement... -
Becoming Ecological: An Expedition Into Community Psychology by James G. Kelly 9780195173796
RRP: $82.56$69.16Community psychology emphasizes an ecological approach to mental health by focusing on the individual in the environment and the influences that shape and change behavior. Becoming Ecological brings together the work of James G. Kelly, one of the... -
The Threat Of Impending Disaster by George H. Grosser 9780262570275
RRP: $41.28$31.23This volume developed from the December 1962 symposium of the American Association for the Advancement of Science on human response to the threat of impending disaster, and brings together insights gained from more than a decade of empirical research... -
Intractable Conflicts: Socio-Psychological Foundations and Dynamics by Daniel Bar-Tal 9780521867085
RRP: $174.15$132.96This book provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary and holistic analysis of the socio-psychological dynamics of intractable conflicts. Daniel Bar-Tal's original conceptual framework is supported by evidence drawn from different disciplines, including... -
Parent-Child Interaction: The Socialization Process Observed in Twin and Singleton Families by Hugh Lytton 9780306405211
$116.45This work is largely based on what has been a mammoth-one person called it a "heroic" -research project. Both fieldwork and data analyses were laborious and time-consuming, and the work could not have come to fruition without the cooperation of... -
The Moral Punishment Instinct by Jan-Willem van Prooijen 9780190609979
RRP: $104.49$73.13Punishment of offenders is one of the most universal features of human behavior. Throughout history, ranging across a multitude of cultures including the ancient hunter-gatherers to our contemporary courts of law, it is extraordinarily common for people... -
Group Dynamics and Emotional Expression by Ursula Hess 9780521842822
RRP: $129.00$86.75The study of emotional expressions has a long tradition in psychology. Although research in this domain has extensively studied the social context factors that influence the expresser's facial display, the perceiver was considered passive. This 2007 book... -
What Came First the Egg (Reason) or the Hen (Emotions)?: A Biopsychosocial (Bps) Model of Reality, an Update by Dr Angell O de la Sierra Esq 9781490793580
RRP: $11.55$8.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781490793580Author Dr Angell O de la Sierra EsqFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Trafford PublishingPublisher Trafford PublishingWeight(grams) 86g -
The Psychology of Legitimacy: Emerging Perspectives on Ideology, Justice, and Intergroup Relations by John T. Jost 9780521781602
RRP: $161.25$120.27This book, first published in 2001, summarizes and integrates the best social scientific research in a previously neglected but rapidly emerging interdisciplinary field seeking to understand processes of legitimation and de-legitimation in social... -
Extending Families: The Social Networks of Parents and their Children by Moncrieff Cochran 9780521445863
RRP: $54.17$42.16How do personal networks evolve and what roles do they play for parents, and for the development of children? Can these ties with relatives, neighbours, and friends provide stability for family members during periods of disruption caused by divorce,... -
Stability and Change in Relationships by Anita L. Vangelisti 9780521369909
RRP: $47.72$36.61Understanding interpersonal relationships requires understanding actors, behaviors, and contexts. This 2002 volume presents research from a variety of disciplines that examine personal relationships on all three levels. The first section focuses on the... -
Dead, Insane, or in Jail: Overwritten by Zack Bonnie 9780996337830
RRP: $18.71$13.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996337830Author Zack BonnieFormat PaperbackPage Count 372Imprint Not with the ProgramPublisher Not with the ProgramWeight(grams) 152g -
Successful African-American Men: From Childhood to Adulthood by Sandra Taylor Griffin 9780306463631
$58.53Statistics emphasize that one out of every five men is incarcerated. The background experiences of dysfunctional black men are often explored while few studies focus on the motivating triggers for high achieving black men. Successful African American... -
The Psychology of Politicians by Ashley Weinberg 9780521113724
RRP: $129.00$93.10The Psychology of Politicians explores a topic which fuels public and media debate yet is under-researched and has potentially far-reaching consequences for the success of our political systems. Focusing on research with democratically elected... -
Perspectives on Loss and Trauma: Assaults on the Self by John H. Harvey 9780761921615
RRP: $156.09$136.10Written by a key founder in the field of loss and trauma, this book takes a broad perspective. It reviews theory and research on a sampling of loss and trauma phenomena that include losses due to the death of close others, divorce and dissolution, losses... -
Shared Beliefs in a Society: Social Psychological Analysis by Daniel Bar-Tal 9780761906582
RRP: $156.09$136.10Shared Beliefs in a Society is a much-needed contribution to societal psychology, a new emerging subfield of social psychology, which studies societies from a social psychological perspective. Daniel Bar-Tal presents his work of the last 15 years on... -
Toward Transformation in Social Knowledge by Kenneth J. Gergen 9780803989726
RRP: $77.40$67.47Critical resistance to traditional empirical methods and the quest for foundational knowledge of human action is widespread. Recognition of theoretical and methodological inadequacies has sparked a search for a more robust conception of human science... -
Why War?: Making Sense of Consciousness and Self by Mario Rendon 9780999596562
RRP: $33.91$24.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999596562Author Mario RendonFormat PaperbackPage Count 666Imprint IpbooksPublisher IpbooksWeight(grams) 875g -
Social Markers in Speech by Klaus R. Scherer 9780521295901
RRP: $47.72$31.22Originally published in 1979, this book presents an interdisciplinary study of the role of social markers in speech. Each chapter explores the nature and functioning of speech markers from a different social, biological or psychological perspective, and... -
Theories of Intergroup Relations: International Social Psychological Perspectives, 2nd Edition by Fathali M. Moghaddam 9780275946340
$107.90As the world faces an array of increasingly pervasive and dangerous social conflicts--race riots, ethnic cleansing, the threat of terrorism, labor disputes, and violence against women, children, and the elderly, to name a few--the study of how groups... -
Social Structure and Personality Development: The Individual as a Productive Processor of Reality by Klaus Hurrelmann 9780521357470
RRP: $39.98$30.70Socialisation is here understood as the process of the emergence, formation and development of personality in dependence on and interaction with the human organism on the one hand and the social and material environment on the other hand. In this... -
Self-Efficacy in Changing Societies by Albert Bandura 9780521474672
RRP: $141.90$106.31Adolescents' beliefs in their personal control affects their psychological well-being and the direction their lives take. Self-Efficacy in Changing Societies analyzes the diverse ways in which beliefs of personal efficacy operate within a network of... -
The Diversity of Human Relationships by Ann Elisabeth Auhagen 9780521474634
RRP: $141.90$106.31Over the last decade there has been a growing interest in interpersonal relationships in the scientific community as well as in the general public. Until now, no volume has covered comprehensively different types of interpersonal relationships, such as... -
Developmental Psychobiology of Aggression by David M. Stoff 9780521126991
RRP: $39.98$30.70This book is the outgrowth of a memorial conference to honour the scientific contributions of Robert B. Cairns, an internationally recognised interdisciplinary developmental scientist. It is organised around research themes that were an integral part of... -
Warlike and Peaceful Societies: The Interaction of Genes and Culture by Agner Fog 9781013288739
RRP: $54.12$47.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013288739Author Agner FogFormat HardbackPage Count 362Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g -
Presence in a Conscious Universe: Manual II by Victor, Vernon Woolf 9780974643120
RRP: $22.27$17.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780974643120Author Victor, Vernon WoolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint International Academy of HolodynamicPublisher International Academy of... -
Attitudes and Related Psychosocial Constructs: Theories, Assessment, and Research by Lewis R. Aiken 9780761924524
RRP: $156.09$136.10`I would find this book a tempting alternative to my current text for two reasons: its coverage of more recent search and theorizing...and its focus on applications of attitude measurement and survey research to a number of very important practical... -
The Environmental Psychology of Prisons and Jails: Creating Humane Spaces in Secure Settings by Richard E. Wener 9780521452762
RRP: $129.00$98.16This book distils thirty years of research on the impacts of jail and prison environments. The research program began with evaluations of new jails that were created by the US Bureau of Prisons, which had a novel design intended to provide a... -
Self and Society: Narcissism, Collectivism, and the Development of Morals by Drew Westen 9780521301718
RRP: $161.25$120.27The relation between individual and collective processes is central to the social sciences, yet difficult to conceptualize because of the necessity of crossing disciplinary boundaries. The result is that researchers in different disciplines construct... -
Theories of Intergroup Relations: International Social Psychological Perspectives, 2nd Edition by Fathali M. Moghaddam 9780275946357
$62.28As the world faces an array of increasingly pervasive and dangerous social conflicts--race riots, ethnic cleansing, the threat of terrorism, labor disputes, and violence against women, children, and the elderly, to name a few--the study of how groups... -
Handbook of Advances in Culture and Psychology, Volume 5 by Michele J. Gelfand 9780190218973
RRP: $103.20$81.67With 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... -
Decolonizing Psychology: Globalization, Social Justice, and Indian Youth Identities by Sunil Bhatia 9780199964727
RRP: $94.17$58.64In recent years, the news media has directed a significant amount of attention to the effect of globalization on the second most populous nation in the world: India. With the emergence of new economic opportunities and the influx of foreign popular... -
Effective Psychotherapy for Low-Income and Minority Patients by Frank X. Acosta 9780306408793
$58.53Psychotherapy involves a deep ethical commitment to self-knowl edge, personal change, and mutual respect by both the therapist and the patient. Unfortunately, therapists have not always lived up to that commitment in understanding and treating low income... -
Ethnicity and Causal Mechanisms by Michael Rutter 9780521615105
RRP: $47.72$25.79Research 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... -
Attachment Style and Perceived Quality of Romantic Partner's Opposite-sex Best Friendship: The Impact on Romantic Relationship Satisfaction by Kelly Burton 9780530000480
RRP: $68.37$59.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780530000480Author Kelly BurtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Dissertation Discovery CompanyPublisher Dissertation Discovery CompanyWeight(grams) 172g -
Small Groups: An Introduction by Herbert H. Blumberg 9780275948962
$123.61This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the social-psychological literature on social interaction in small groups. Part I covers the influence of the physical situation, personalities, and social characteristics of the group members on the... -
Personality and Intelligence by Robert J. Sternberg 9780521417907
RRP: $141.90$106.31Motivated by their belief that the most interesting work on intelligence is now being done at the interface of intelligence and personality, Robert Sternberg and Patricia Ruzgis have collected a body of essays exploring the interconnections and... -
Feelings and Emotions: The Amsterdam Symposium by Antony S. R. Manstead 9780521816526
RRP: $161.25$122.81Emotions are central to human behavior and experience. Yet scientific theory and research ignored emotions during most of the twentieth century. This situation changed dramatically during the last 30 years of that century, which witnessed an upsurge of... -
Stability and Change in Relationships by Anita L. Vangelisti 9780521790765
RRP: $141.90$106.31Understanding interpersonal relationships requires understanding actors, behaviors, and contexts. This 2002 volume presents research from a variety of disciplines that examine personal relationships on all three levels. The first section focuses on the...