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Handbook of Advances in Culture and Psychology, Volume 5 by Michele J. Gelfand 9780190218973
RRP: €95.20€75.34With 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: €86.87€54.10In 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
€53.99Psychotherapy 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: €44.02€23.79Research 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: €63.07€55.12Apologies 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
€114.03This 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: €130.90€98.07Motivated 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: €148.75€113.29Emotions 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: €130.90€98.07Understanding 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... -
Motivation and Self-Regulation across the Life Span by Jutta Heckhausen 9780521591768
RRP: €148.75€110.94In 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: €95.20€83.54Apologies 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: €57.70€46.33Modernizing 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: €14.90€14.03Apologies 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: €63.07€55.12Apologies 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: €17.84€17.37Apologies 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
€107.42During 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: €20.54€15.82Apologies 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: €36.88€28.32This 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: €65.45€54.64Health 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: €119.00€91.74What 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: €119.00€85.88The 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: €36.88€27.19PowerPoint 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: €119.00€85.88Stereotyping 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: €119.00€86.36Contrasts 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: €119.00€85.88This 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: €101.15€66.78The 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: €99.96€81.09The 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: €96.39€79.44This 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
€107.42Eight 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: €36.88€27.19Originally 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: €36.88€24.92Originally 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: €44.02€33.77Taking 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: €130.90€97.59Purposive, 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: €59.49€52.06This 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: €36.88€28.32This 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: €44.02€34.25Loneliness 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: €36.88€24.92Do 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: €35.69€33.93Apologies 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: €18.86€16.86Apologies 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
€46.99The 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...