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Motivation and Self-Regulation across the Life Span by Jutta Heckhausen 9780521591768
RRP: $161.25$120.27In the last two decades, an approach to the study of motivation has emerged that focuses on specific cognitive and affective mediators of behaviour, in contrast to more general traits or motives. This 'social-cognitive' approach grants goal-oriented... -
Racial Identification and Preference in Young Children as a Function of Race and Sex of the Experimenter and Child. by Katrine Kirn 9780530019475
RRP: $103.20$90.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780530019475Author Katrine KirnFormat HardbackPage Count 78Imprint Dissertation Discovery CompanyPublisher Dissertation Discovery CompanyWeight(grams) 476g -
Modernizing Sexuality: U.S. HIV Prevention in Sub-Saharan Africa by Anne Esacove 9780199933617
RRP: $62.55$50.22Modernizing Sexuality illustrates how Western idealizations of normative sexuality and the power of modernity come together in U.S. HIV prevention policy in Sub-Saharan Africa. The results are calls for women's "right to say no " to sex and the... -
The Paranoid Vision: Deciphering the Mystery of Malevolence by Mark Dillof 9780985595333
RRP: $16.15$15.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985595333Author Mark DillofFormat PaperbackPage Count 402Imprint Mystical Kentuckian PressPublisher Mystical Kentuckian PressWeight(grams) 588g -
Racial Identification and Preference in Young Children as a Function of Race and Sex of the Experimenter and Child. by Katrine Kirn 9780530019468
RRP: $68.37$59.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780530019468Author Katrine KirnFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Dissertation Discovery CompanyPublisher Dissertation Discovery CompanyWeight(grams) 204g -
New: Understanding Our Need for Novelty and Change by Winifred Gallagher 9780143123743
RRP: $19.34$18.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143123743Author Winifred GallagherFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint J.P.Tarcher,U.S./Perigee Bks.,U.S.Publisher J.P.Tarcher,U.S./Perigee Bks.,U.S. -
Ecological Research to Promote Social Change: Methodological Advances from Community Psychology by Tracey A. Revenson 9780306467271
$116.45During the past quarter century, community psychologists have worked to make relevant contributions to human welfare in community settings and to effect social change. Working with and in schools, neighborhood organizations, religious institutions,... -
Field-Shifting: The Holodynamics of Integration: Manual III by Victor, Vernon Woolf 9780974643137
RRP: $22.27$17.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780974643137Author Victor, Vernon WoolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint International Academy of HolodynamicPublisher International Academy of... -
Violence Rewired by Richard Whittington 9781009202275
RRP: $39.98$30.70This thought-provoking book draws together research from genetics, anthropology, psychology and the social sciences to show that widespread assumptions about the inevitability of human violence are almost entirely a collection of myths. While violence... -
Expanding the Boundaries of Health and Social Science: Case Studies in Interdisciplinary Innovation by Social Science Research Council 9780195153798
RRP: $70.95$59.24Health Psychology, once subsumed under social psychology, has in recent years surpassed it to become one of the most dynamic, interesting areas in the field. One of the reasons for the rapid success of health psychology is that it provides an in-depth... -
Design by Competition: Making Design Competition Work by Jack L. Nasar 9780521444491
RRP: $129.00$99.45What meanings do buildings and places convey to the people who use and visit them? Too often, design competitions and signature architecture result in costly eyesores that do not work. How can sponsors and clients get more meaningful results? In answer... -
Dialogicality and Social Representations: The Dynamics of Mind by Ivana Markova 9780521824859
RRP: $129.00$93.10The theory of social knowledge developed in this book is based on dialogicality and the theory of social representations. It is argued that dialogicality, the capacity of the human mind to conceive, create and communicate about social realities in terms... -
PowerPoint, Communication, and the Knowledge Society by Hubert Knoblauch 9780521150088
RRP: $39.98$29.48PowerPoint has become an integral part of academic and professional life across the globe. In this book, Hubert Knoblauch offers the first complete analysis of the PowerPoint presentation as a form of communication. Knoblauch charts the diffusion of... -
Stereotypes as Explanations: The Formation of Meaningful Beliefs about Social Groups by Craig McGarty 9780521800471
RRP: $129.00$93.10Stereotyping 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... -
Contrasts and Effect Sizes in Behavioral Research: A Correlational Approach by Robert Rosenthal 9780521652582
RRP: $129.00$93.62Contrasts are statistical procedures for asking focused questions of data. Compared to diffuse or omnibus questions, focused questions are characterized by greater conceptual clarity and greater statistical power when examining those focused questions... -
Minding the Close Relationship: A Theory of Relationship Enhancement by John H. Harvey 9780521633185
RRP: $129.00$93.10This volume provides a statement of a theory of how committed romantic partners can maintain and enhance their close relationships over an extended period. It blends the relationship scholarship on closeness with practical advice and comparison of... -
Life and Narrative: The Risks and Responsibilities of Storying Experience by Brian Schiff 9780190256654
RRP: $109.65$72.39The challenge of life and literary narrative is the central and perennial mystery of how people encounter, manage, and inhabit a self and a world of their own - and others' - creations. With a nod to the eminent scholar and psychologist Jerome Bruner,... -
The Promise of Integrated Multicultural and Bilingual Education: Inclusive Palestinian-Arab and Jewish Schools in Israel by Zvi Bekerman 9780199336517
RRP: $108.36$87.90The Promise of Integrated and Multicultural Bilingual Education presents the results of a long-term ethnographic study of the integrated bilingual Palestinian-Jewish schools in Israel that offer a new educational option to two groups of... -
The Child Witness: Legal Issues and Dilemmas by Nancy E. Walker 9780803937727
RRP: $98.04$86.12This is the first book for professionals who seek an integrated, up-to-date review of psychological research and recent court cases dealing with children as witnesses in court. It is organized around four issues: the competence of children as witnesses,... -
Behavior, Health, and Environmental Stress by Sheldon Cohen 9780306421389
$116.45Eight years ago, four psychologists with varying backgrounds but a common in terest in the impact of environmental stress on behavior and health met to plan a study of the effects of aircraft noise on children. The impetus for the study was an article in... -
Talking Politics: A Psychological Framing of Views from Youth in Britain by Kum-Kum Bhavnani 9780521125833
RRP: $39.98$29.48Originally published in 1991, this study examines the views of politics presented by young people in contemporary Britain. Bhavnani argues that previous studies of youth and youth culture were limited by too great a reliance on simple survey techniques,... -
The Political System Matters: Social Psychology and Voting Behavior in Sweden and the United States by Donald O. Granberg 9780521125840
RRP: $39.98$27.01Originally published in 1988, this book asks the question, how does the political system affect the behaviour of individuals? Donald Granberg and Soeren Holmberg use long-term cross-sectional and panel national surveys of electorates in two very... -
Taking Care: Understanding and Encouraging Self-Protective Behavior by Neil D. Weinstein 9780521154444
RRP: $47.72$36.61Taking Care examines the reasons why people take precautions - and the reasons why they do not. Some authors offer theoretical perspectives on issues ranging from the cognitive processes of the individual to the values and historical trends in the larger... -
Social Motivation: Conscious and Unconscious Processes by Joseph P. Forgas 9780521832540
RRP: $141.90$105.79Purposive, goal-directed behaviour is one of the defining characteristics of human beings. This volume surveys theories and research on the psychological mechanisms involved in the planning and execution of motivated social behaviour. The contributors... -
Constructing Identities: The Social, the Nonhuman and Change by Mike Michael 9780803989528
RRP: $64.49$56.44This volume provides a distinctive overview and analysis of the place of social constructionism in social psychology. The author's arguments revolve around two key questions: How can social constructionism account for changes in human identities? In what... -
Minding the Close Relationship: A Theory of Relationship Enhancement by John H. Harvey 9780521028165
RRP: $39.98$30.70This volume provides a statement of a theory of how committed romantic partners can maintain and enhance their close relationships over an extended period. It blends the relationship scholarship on closeness with practical advice and comparison of... -
Loneliness in Childhood and Adolescence by Ken J. Rotenberg 9780521088923
RRP: $47.72$37.13Loneliness is experienced by children, adolescents and adults across varied cultures. In the early 1960s and 1970s, some authorities in the field of psychology did not believe that children experienced loneliness. This book ushers in a new wave of theory... -
National Characteristics by Dean Peabody 9780521154994
RRP: $39.98$27.01Do different nationalities have different psychological characteristics? This question is often avoided as being too controversial, but it is squarely faced in this illuminating comparative study, first published in 1985. Dean Peabody focuses principally... -
Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell 9780316024976
RRP: $38.69$36.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316024976Author Malcolm GladwellFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint Little Brown and CompanyPublisher Little Brown and CompanyWeight(grams) 540g -
The Aftershock of Trauma: Relating to Mental Wellness & Resilience After the Earthquake in Haiti 2010 by Denise Angelle 9780980940398
RRP: $20.45$18.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780980940398Author Denise AngelleFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint WorldstrengthPublisher WorldstrengthWeight(grams) 191g -
The Evolutionary Outrider: The Impact of the Human Agent on Evolution, Essays honouring Ervin Laszlo by David Loye 9780275964092
$50.94The overriding challenge for our species during the 21st century, many believe, will be that of evolving...or becoming extinct. Can the theory of evolution be expanded into a source of guidance that could help our species save itself? This collection... -
Youth Unemployment and Society by Anne C. Petersen 9780521444736
RRP: $129.00$98.67As societies become more technically advanced and jobs require more expertise, young people are forced into a prolonged state of social marginality. Employment during adolescence could provide significant experiences for growth into later work roles, but... -
Social Processes in Children's Learning by Paul Light 9780521593083
RRP: $129.00$93.10This book, first published in 2000, is about children's learning and problem-solving behaviour. It reflects the increasingly close integration seen in recent years between social and cognitive approaches to researching the learning process. In... -
Interaction in Cooperative Groups: The Theoretical Anatomy of Group Learning by Rachel Hertz-Lazarowitz 9780521483766
RRP: $39.98$30.70Interaction in Cooperative Groups brings together related research from education, developmental psychology, and social psychology in an approach that is both integrative and analytical. Its intent is to provide an understanding of the dynamics of... -
Attachment Style and Perceived Quality of Romantic Partner's Opposite-sex Best Friendship: The Impact on Romantic Relationship Satisfaction by Kelly Burton 9780530000497
RRP: $103.20$90.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780530000497Author Kelly BurtonFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Dissertation Discovery CompanyPublisher Dissertation Discovery CompanyWeight(grams) 449g -
The Quest for Identity: From Minority Groups to Generation Xers by Donald M. Taylor 9780275973094
$107.38There are groups in society that experience profound social problems. Others betray a growing social malaise. Massive academic underachievement, family dysfunction, substance misuse, violence, and delinquent behavior are some of the major crises... -
Queering Families: The Postmodern Partnerships of Cisgender Women and Transgender Men by Carla A. Pfeffer 9780199908059
RRP: $82.56$59.43Ozzie and Harriet, move over. A new couple is moving into the neighborhood. In the postmodern era, advances in medical technologies allow some individuals categorized female at birth to live in accordance with their gender identities, as men. While a... -
Handbook of Advances in Culture and Psychology: Volume 6 by Michele J. Gelfand 9780190458867
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... -
European Review of Social Psychology, Volume 10 by Wolfgang Stroebe 9780471899686
RRP: $123.78$123.50This annual series reflects the dynamism of social psychology in Europe and the attention now being paid to European ideas and research. Although open to authors from all nations, one of its major purposes is to further the international exchange of... -
Confronting Racism: The Problem and the Response by Jennifer Eberhardt 9780761903680
RRP: $156.09$136.10The contributors to this volume identify the cognitive and motivational influences on the intrapersonal, interpersonal and intergroup processes that lead to racism. Confronting Racism establishes a unique link between public discourse on race and social...