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Black Families at the Crossroads: Challenges and Prospects by Leanor Boulin Johnson 9780787972226
RRP: €50.58€44.46This updated edition of the classic book Black Families at the Crossroads, offers a comprehensive examination of the diverse and complex issues surrounding Black families. Leanor Boulin Johnson and Robert Staples combine more than sixty years of writing... -
Social Identification in Groups by Shane R. Thye 9780762312238
€125.39"Advances in Group Processes" publishes theoretical analyses, reviews and theory based empirical chapters on group phenomena. Volume 22, the fourth volume of a 5-series set, includes papers that address fundamental issues of Social... -
The Body and Psychology by Henderikus J. Stam 9780761955344
RRP: €69.02€60.20The body has come to provide a central site for theory and debate from social theory to cultural studies. This important and compelling book looks beyond psychology's traditional biological body to explore what insights can be gained from recent theories... -
Social Identity: International Perspectives by Stephen Worchel 9780761955245
RRP: €69.02€60.20Social identity and social categorization theories have offered some of the most exciting developments in social psychology - informing work on everything from intergroup relations to personal identity. This comprehensive book surveys the latest... -
Close Relationships: A Sourcebook by Clyde Hendrick 9780761916062
RRP: €83.30€72.88`The authors ... extend the reach of their comprehensive reviews into theoretically driven and innovating explorations. The scope of coverage across and within chapters is striking. The developmentalist, the methodologist, the feminist, the... -
The Cancer of Civilization Jihad by Paul Sutliff 9780578885278
RRP: €16.77€15.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578885278Author Paul SutliffFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Paul SutliffPublisher Paul SutliffWeight(grams) 354g -
Personality, Identity, and Character: Explorations in Moral Psychology by Darcia Narvaez 9780521895071
RRP: €148.75€105.09Moral notions are foundational questions that have commanded deep reflection since antiquity, reflection that psychological science cannot evade, because the moral formation of children is a central concern of parents, schools, and communities charged... -
Emotions and Beliefs: How Feelings Influence Thoughts by Nico H. Frijda 9780521771382
RRP: €119.00€80.03Few people would question nowadays that emotions influence beliefs but until recently little scientific research has been done on exactly how this effect takes place. This important new book, with contributions from some of the leading figures in the... -
Social Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice by Ryszard Praszkier 9780521767316
RRP: €113.05€87.04Social Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice is about the creative ways in which social entrepreneurs solve pressing and insurmountable social problems. Theories of social change are presented to help demystify the 'magic' of making an immense, yet... -
Dialogical Self Theory: Positioning and Counter-Positioning in a Globalizing Society by Hubert Hermans 9780521765268
RRP: €130.90€98.07In a boundary-crossing and globalizing world, the personal and social positions in self and identity become increasingly dense, heterogeneous and even conflicting. In this handbook scholars of different disciplines, nations and cultures (East and West)... -
The Social Life of Emotions by Larissa Z. Tiedens 9780521828116
RRP: €130.90€92.21This book showcases research and theory about the way in which the social environment shapes, and is shaped by, emotion. The book has three sections, each of which addresses a different level of sociality: interpersonal, intragroup, and intergroup. The... -
Developmental Psychobiology of Aggression by David M. Stoff 9780521826013
RRP: €119.00€91.02This 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... -
Children, Courts, and Custody: Interdisciplinary Models for Divorcing Families by Andrew I. Schepard 9780521822015
RRP: €119.00€85.88Courts today seek to involve both parents in a child's life rather than choosing between them. Mediation and education have replaced the courtroom as the primary forum for resolving parental disputes. This book provides an overview of these trends in... -
Emotional Lives: Dramas of Identity in an Age of Mass Media by E. Doyle McCarthy 9780521820141
RRP: €119.00€87.04Emotional Lives explores the changes in emotional cultures that have taken place during the last half century and continue to affect people's identities today. These changes are driven by the culture of consumerism in contemporary post-industrial society... -
The Social Amplification of Risk by Nick Pidgeon 9780521817288
RRP: €148.75€110.94The management of and communication about risks has become a major question of public policy and intellectual debate in the modern world. The social amplification of risk framework describes how both social and individual factors act to amplify or dampen... -
Constructing Social Psychology: Creative and Critical Aspects by William McGuire 9780521641074
RRP: €148.75€110.94This collection of papers by William J. McGuire reports research on the phenomenal self, revealing how we selectively perceive ourselves and other complex stimuli in terms of distinctive or atypical features, often noticing what is missing rather than... -
Sex and Gender by John Archer 9780521632300
RRP: €119.00€86.36Sex 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... -
The Social Mind: Construction of the Idea by Jaan Valsiner 9780521580366
RRP: €148.75€110.94The 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... -
Remembering Reconsidered: Ecological and Traditional Approaches to the Study of Memory by Ulric Neisser 9780521485005
RRP: €44.02€28.32In 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... -
Psyche and Eros: Mind and Gender in the Life Course by Gisela Labouvie-Vief 9780521468244
RRP: €36.88€28.32In Psyche and Eros, first published in 1994, Gisela Labouvie-Vief describes historical and current concepts of mind and development, drawing from disciplines as diverse as philosophy, mythology, religion, literature, and psychology. She then presents a... -
Relative Deprivation: Specification, Development, and Integration by Iain Walker 9780521801324
RRP: €130.90€98.07The 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... -
Polygamous Families in Contemporary Society by Irwin Altman 9780521567312
RRP: €49.97€38.89In this intriguing book, social psychologist Irwin Altman and anthropologist Joseph Ginat examine husband-wife and wife-wife relationships in contemporary Mormon polygamous families. They describe how husbands and wives in plural families cope with their... -
Mind and Social Practice: Selected Writings of Sylvia Scribner by Ethel Tobach 9780521462037
RRP: €148.75€105.09Sylvia 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... -
Personality and Intelligence by Robert J. Sternberg 9780521428354
RRP: €44.02€33.77Motivated 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... -
Shyness and Embarrassment: Perspectives from Social Psychology by W. Ray Crozier 9780521355292
RRP: €130.90€98.07In this 1990 volume leading international researchers draw upon a variety of perspectives on the study of shyness and embarrassment, shame, blushing and self-consciousness. The contributors conceive of shyness and embarrassment as widely shared everyday... -
Social Psychology: Attitudes, Cognition and Social Behaviour by J. Richard Eiser 9780521339346
RRP: €44.02€34.25Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Explanations, Accounts, and Illusions: A Critical Analysis by John McClure 9780521385329
RRP: €119.00€91.74This book provides a lucid survey of the major viewpoints in social psychology concerning people's self-awareness (or lack of it), their explanations of their own actions, and their cognitive illusions and self-misunderstandings. In this readable but... -
Understanding Events: Affect and the Construction of Social Action by David R. Heise 9780521295444
RRP: €36.88€28.32It is Professor Heise's premise that the psychology of affect theoretically governs common social actions, such as those of a patient toward a doctor or a mother toward a child. Human behaviour, he argues, normally promotes the maintenance of a steady... -
The Social Psychology of Knowledge by Daniel Bar-Tal 9780521127066
RRP: €44.02€34.25This collection, published in 1988, brings an innovative perspective to research in social cognition. It assembles fifteen chapters by many leading scholars in the field, which together provide an innovative and integrative analysis of the phenomenon of... -
Social Representations of Intelligence by Gabriel Mugny 9780521124034
RRP: €36.88€28.32This innovative study argues convincingly that intelligence is essentially a plural concept, socially and historically determined, and that it can only be fully understood when the socio-psychological foundations of intelligence have been explored. Using... -
Social Judgments: Implicit and Explicit Processes by Joseph P. Forgas 9780521184243
RRP: €44.02€34.25The objective of this book, which was originally published in 2003, is to provide an informative, scholarly yet readable overview of advances on judgmental research, and to offer a closer integration between implicit, subconscious, and explicit conscious... -
Romantic Relationships in Emerging Adulthood by Frank D. Fincham 9780521195300
RRP: €130.90€86.36Emerging adulthood - the period between the late teens and mid-twenties - is a unique and important developmental period during which people gain relationship experience before settling on someone to partner with. Romantic Relationships in Emerging... -
Account Episodes: The Management or Escalation of Conflict by Peter Schonbach 9780521155021
RRP: €36.88€24.92Responsibility and accountability are the issues at the heart of this book. An account episode, according to Professor Schoenbach's conception, is a four-phase interaction between an actor and an opponent. Account episodes occur in many different social... -
Social Motivation: Conscious and Unconscious Processes by Joseph P. Forgas 9780521114134
RRP: €44.02€34.25Purposive, 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... -
Individual Development from 3 to 12: Findings from the Munich Longitudinal Study by Franz E. Weinert 9780521176347
RRP: €44.02€33.77This book describes the findings of a longitudinal study conducted with about 200 children from 1984 to 1993. Children were recruited for the study when they had just entered kindergarten at the age of about 4 years. The study aimed to investigate... -
The Individual, Communication, and Society: Essays in Memory of Gregory Bateson by Robert W. Rieber 9780521134170
RRP: €44.02€27.67The Individual, Communication, and Society is a collection of original essays on communication written by leading scholars in honor of the work of the late Gregory Bateson. Bateson, who began his career as a zoologist at Cambridge University, was one of... -
The Self-Society Dynamic: Cognition, Emotion and Action by Judith A. Howard 9780521030151
RRP: €44.02€33.77Sociologists generally study macrolevel institutions and social processes with little reference to the individual. Psychologists, on the other hand, tend to study individual-level processes with little reference to society. This volume, featuring... -
Developing Prosocial Communities Across Cultures by Forrest B. Tyler 9780387714844
RRP: €53.54€53.51Communities are basic social units that provide contexts in which people live together to their mutual benefit. This book defines exactly what prosocial communities are, identifying their elements and relevant interrelationships, and reviewing the... -
Powerarchy: Understanding the Psychology of Oppression for Social Transformation [Standard Large Print 16 Pt Edition] by Melanie Joy 9780369373090
RRP: €32.12€27.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780369373090Author Melanie JoyFormat PaperbackPage Count 418Imprint ReadHowYouWantPublisher ReadHowYouWantWeight(grams) 526g -
Finding Love from 9 to 5: Trade Secrets of Office Romance by Jane Merrill 9780313391293
€57.45Employees of both sexes share the work environment, and a mishandled office romance can be disastrous for love, a life partnership, or a career. Avoid the pitfalls of love-at-work-from the corner office to the online "friend"-with this...