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Promoting Environmentalism by Lynette Zelezny 9781405100823
RRP: $67.10$59.41This book focuses on the psychology, sociology, and public policy of global environmental issues. The goals of the book are to describe the current state of the environment and environmentalismto present new theories and research on environmental... -
Consequences of the Internet for Self and Society: Is Social Life Being Transformed? by Katelyn McKenna 9781405100786
RRP: $71.30$62.96The Internet is only 10 years old, but it has already had a great impact on the world. In its 'early' days, it was both heralded as a liberating force for the spread of democracy, and condemned as a grave threat to the social fabric. However, as the... -
Community Psychology: Emerging Issues and Challenges by Sibnath Deb 9781032589305
RRP: $77.68$69.15This book focuses on the theoretical concepts of community psychology and its applications in day-to-day life. It discusses the challenges that adversely affect the welfare and well-being of common people and suggests community-centric, evidence-based... -
Memories and Representations of Terror: Working Through Genocide by Daniel Feierstein 9781032373263
RRP: $77.68$68.31Memories and Representations of Terror: Working Through Genocide explores how memories and representations shape our understanding of historical events, particularly the ways in which societies create narratives about genocide and its aftermath, using... -
The Psychology of Politically Unstable Societies by Anna Kende 9781032252278
RRP: $77.68$68.31This volume presents the latest developments in the field of political psychology by exploring the psychological processes that underlie political instability and how these can be addressed with psychological interventions. Written by a team of... -
Genealogy, Psychology and Identity: Tales from a family tree by Paula Nicolson 9781138998667
RRP: $283.50$246.29The popularity of amateur genealogy and family history has soared in recent times. Genealogy, Psychology and Identity explores this popular international pastime and offers reasons why it informs our sense of who we are, and our place in both... -
Divorce in Psychosocial Perspective: Theory and Research by Joseph Guttmann 9781138990821
RRP: $96.58$84.27Many books deal with divorce and its aftermath -- some deal with the impact of divorce on children and families, others with the legal or sociological aspects of divorce, and a few focus on divorced mothers and fathers. Most of these books are... -
The Legacy of Solomon Asch: Essays in Cognition and Social Psychology by Irvin Rock 9781138989504
RRP: $100.78$87.80This volume honors Solomon Asch, a pioneer in social psychology whose experiments in this field are considered classic. Asch has made important contributions to the fields of memory, learning and thinking, and perception along with extending Gestalt... -
The Altruism Question: Toward A Social-psychological Answer C. Daniel Batson 9781138988767
RRP: $96.58$84.27Are our efforts to help others ever driven solely by altruistic motivation, or is our ultimate goal always some form of self- benefit (egoistic motivation)? This volume reports the development of an empirically-testable theory of altruistic motivation... -
The Construction of Social Judgments by Leonard L. Martin 9781138988965
RRP: $100.78$88.64Researchers have been addressing social judgment from a cognitive perspective for more than 15 years. Within recent years, however, it has become increasingly clear that many of the models and assumptions initially adopted are in need of revision. The... -
Psychological Perspectives on the Self, Volume 4: the Self in Social Perspective by Jerry Suls 9781138984103
RRP: $100.78$87.80The primary aim of this volume is to present the most recent advances in the psychological study of the self with a special emphasis on the factors that contribute to self-concept and self-esteem. This volume offers the following features: *... -
Stress, Coping, and Resiliency in Children and Families E. Mavis Hetherington 9781138983052
RRP: $96.58$84.27Concern with stress and coping has a long history in biomedical, psychological and sociological research. The inadequacy of simplistic models linking stressful life events and adverse physical and psychological outcomes was pointed out in the early 1980s... -
Social Skills of Children and Adolescents: Conceptualization, Assessment, Treatment by Kenneth W. Merrell 9781138982284
RRP: $100.78$87.80This scholarly yet highly readable and practical text systematically covers the importance, development, assessment, and treatment of social skills of children and adolescents. Combining scientific rigor with a highly approachable and readable style of... -
Sexual Images of the Self: the Psychology of Erotic Sensations and Illusions by Seymour Fisher 9781138981737
RRP: $100.78$88.64This volume documents how sexual practices and fictions infiltrate and are influenced by a person's feelings about the self and the body. Using paradigms derived from self and body image theory, Fisher combines research from the past several decades... -
Personality: Evolutionary Heritage and Human Distinctiveness by Arnold H. Buss 9781138978256
RRP: $46.18$40.61This innovative study focuses on seven inherent personality traits humans share with primates; activity, fearfulness, impulsivity, sociability, altruism, aggressiveness, and dominance. The author discusses these traits from the dual perspective of our... -
Intersections With Attachment by Jacob L. Gewirtz 9781138973145
RRP: $100.78$88.64Attachment has long been a key area of social development. Work on attachment processes has involved a variety of species as well as humans in diverse cultures and at various points in the life cycle. This volume presents research devoted to the meaning... -
Attitudes and Decisions by J. Richard Eiser 9781138951457
RRP: $104.98$91.35The concept of attitude has long been a central part of social psychological theories. It is important in other disciplines too, such as economics, business studies, politics and sociology. Originally published in 1988, the authors of this text show how... -
Cognitive Processes in Stereotyping and Intergroup Behavior by David L. Hamilton 9781138950351
RRP: $104.98$91.35Originally published in 1981, this volume brings together contributions by several of the authors whose research had contributed significantly to the recent advances in our understanding of the role of cognitive processes in stereotyping and intergroup... -
Motives and Mechanisms: An Introduction to the Psychology of Action by Rom Harre 9781138947764
RRP: $231.00$199.73As the first introductory statement of the `new psychology', Motives and Mechanisms, originally published in 1985, aims to bring the study of human action to the forefront of the subject. Like any science, the practice of psychology is very much... -
Gender and Social Hierarchies: Perspectives from social psychology by Klea Faniko 9781138938090
RRP: $283.50$246.29Gender and Social Hierarchies offers a fresh and coherent picture of applied research from within social psychology on the intricate relationship between gender and social status. It comprises a collection of innovative approaches which seek to... -
How to Rethink Psychology: New metaphors for understanding people and their behavior by Bernard Guerin 9781138916531
RRP: $283.50$246.29Based on the author's forty years of experience in psychology, philosophy, and the social sciences, How to Rethink Psychology argues that to understand people we need to know more about their contexts than the dominant modes of thinking and research... -
Psychological Perspectives on Radicalization by Allard R. Feddes 9781138897564
RRP: $283.50$246.29This innovative book examines radicalization from new psychological perspectives by examining the different typologies of radicalising individuals, what makes individuals resilient against radicalisation, and events that can trigger individuals to... -
Stereotyping as Inductive Hypothesis Testing by Klaus Fiedler 9781138883093
RRP: $48.28$42.34Traditional social hypotheses have a built-in tendency to verify themselves and so involuntarily resist attempts at stereotype change or correction. This is the insight demonstrated and discussed as the start point for an alternative approach to the... -
Contemporary Perspectives on the Psychology of Attitudes by Geoffrey Haddock 9781138877481
RRP: $104.98$92.19What is an attitude? How do different research approaches characterise 'attitude' and its applications in social psychology? The Attitude concept has long formed an indispensable construct in social psychology. In this volume, internationally renowned... -
Social Cognition: The Basis of Human Interaction by Fritz Strack 9781138876743
RRP: $113.38$98.43Social cognition is an area of social psychology that has been flourishing over the past two decades. It has harnessed basic concepts from cognitive psychology and developed and refined them to explain human thinking, feeling, and acting in a social... -
The Psychoanalytic Study of Society, V. 11: Essays in Honor of Werner Muensterberger by L. Bryce Boyer 9781138872103
RRP: $67.18$59.49Volume 11 includes chapters on the analysis of dybbuk possession and exorcism in Judaism (Y. Bilu); crisis and continuity in the personality of an Apache shaman (L. B. Boyer et al.); culture shock and the inability to mourn ( H. Stein); charismatically... -
Women's Reflections on the Complexities of Forgiveness by Wanda Malcolm 9781138872837
RRP: $67.18$59.49This book by women represents a diversity of opinions about every aspect of forgiveness, embodying a tolerance for differing perspectives. The contributors are researchers and therapists who have dedicated themselves to grappling with the controversies... -
The Social Psychology of Childhood Disability by David Thomas 9781138853324
RRP: $92.38$80.72'Some years ago I read the phrase "the spontaneous revulsion to the deformed". The phrase seemed to be both potent and provocative: Was there a spontaneous revulsion to disabilities in children or did such conditions evoke a more compassionate... -
An Introduction to Social Psychology by William McDougall 9781138851252
RRP: $92.38$82.82On its first publication in 1908 this pioneer book received immediate acclaim and was thought to have probably done more than any other single publication to stimulate study of the foundations of social behaviour. Professor McDougall was the most... -
Social Psychology Through Experiment by George Humphrey 9781138845824
RRP: $92.38$80.72Although widely taught to undergraduates, teachers, managers and adult students, practical work and demonstrations in social psychology were often found very difficult to carry out satisfactorily. Originally published in 1962, this book presented for the... -
Human Behaviour: Towards a Practical Understanding by Jill Ford 9781138845473
RRP: $60.88$52.69Originally published in 1983, this clear-sighted study built an understanding of what human behaviour meant at the time: an understanding which can still be of practical use for those who work with people in their everyday lives today. The various... -
Human Behaviour: Towards a practical understanding by Jill Ford 9781138845442
$165.06Originally published in 1983, this clear-sighted study built an understanding of what human behaviour meant at the time: an understanding which can still be of practical use for those who work with people in their everyday lives today. The various... -
Applied Social Psychology and Organizational Settings by John S. Carroll 9781138845091
RRP: $104.98$91.35Originally published in 1990, this title presents work that bridges social psychology and organizations. The primary goal is understanding, but that goal has two opposite sides: understanding organizations by bringing to bear the concepts and methods of... -
The Social Psychology of Everyday Politics by Caroline Howarth 9781138814448
RRP: $283.50$246.29The Social Psychology of Everyday Politics examines the ways in which politics permeates everyday life, from the ordinary interactions we have with others to the sense of belonging and identity developed within social groups and communities... -
Honor Related Violence: A New Social Psychological Perspective by Robert Ermers 9781138749146
RRP: $283.50$247.13Honor related violence is generally associated with crimes committed by people from the Middle East and adjacent areas. Perpetrators sometimes justify their deeds saying they 'had to' restore their honor. Theorists have argued that men from these... -
Experiences and Explanations of ADHD: An Ethnography of Adults Living with a Diagnosis by Mikka Nielsen 9781138307063
RRP: $283.50$246.29Experiences and Explanations of ADHD: An Ethnography of Adults Living with a Diagnosis presents research on the lived experiences of those diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Drawing on in-depth interviews with adults... -
Subjectivity, Language and the Postcolonial: Beyond Bourdieu in South Africa by Hannah Botsis 9781138289338
RRP: $283.50$246.29In Subjectivity, Language and the Postcolonial, Hannah Botsis draws on theoretical work that exists at the intersection of critical social psychology, sociolinguistics and the political economy of language, to examine the relationships between language,... -
The Transformation of Sexuality: Gender and Identity in Contemporary Youth Culture by Thomas Johansson 9781138251779
RRP: $113.38$98.43How do contemporary young people construct their sexual identities? Are young people sexually liberated, or is human sexuality increasingly controlled and manipulated by commercial forces? Thomas Johansson explores the construction of sexual identities... -
Family, Gender and Kinship in Australia: The Social and Cultural Logic of Practice and Subjectivity by Allon J. Uhlmann 9781138264397
RRP: $83.98$73.63This ethnographically-based exploration draws on sociological, historical and demographic data to provide a comprehensive analysis of family, gender and kinship in Australia, which informs modern kinship and gender at large. Allon Uhlmann charts the... -
Jury Psychology: Social Aspects of Trial Processes: Psychology in the Courtroom, Volume I Daniel A. Krauss 9781138264113
RRP: $113.38$98.43The first of a two-volume set on the Psychology of the Courtroom, Jury Psychology: Social Aspects of Trial Processes offers a definitive account of the influence of trial procedures on juror decision-making. A wide range of topics are covered including...