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Psychology and Social Problems by Michael Argyle
RRP: £49.99£43.90First published in 1964 Psychology and Social Problems looks at a changing society and research into problems of the time. Many of the themes in the book, such as delinquency, mental health and racial conflict and are still familiar and current topics of... -
Social Psychology at Work (Psychology Revivals): Essays in honour of Michael Argyle by Peter Collett
RRP: £49.99£44.50Social psychology has much to offer real world problems, especially in industrial and organizational settings. Originally published in 1995, in Social Psychology at Work leading researchers in their respective fields discuss recent findings and their... -
Social Psychological Perspectives on Stigma: Advances in Theory and Research by John B. Pryor
RRP: £91.99£80.20The year 2013 marks the 50th anniversary of the publication Erving Goffman's landmark work, Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity. Through this edited volume, we commemorate the continuing contribution of Goffman's work on stigma to social... -
Interpersonal Relations and Education by David H. Hargreaves
RRP: £32.99£29.16Originally published in 1972, this title provides an analysis of social interactions in educational contexts and opens up the field of the social psychology of education as an area in its own right at the very heart of the process of education. From a... -
Being Married, Doing Gender: A Critical Analysis of Gender Relationships in Marriage by Caroline Dryden
RRP: £37.99£33.38In one of the first psychological studies of women in heterosexual relationships, Caroline Dryden examines the social context of their experiences and emotional struggles. Unlike the developmental literature in which women are studied only as mothers, or... -
Social Dilemmas: The Psychology of Human Cooperation by Paul A. M. van Lange
£40.25One of the key scientific challenges is the puzzle of human cooperation. Why do people cooperate? Why do people help strangers, even sometimes at a major cost to themselves? Why do people want to punish people who violate norms and undermine collective... -
Culture and Early Interactions (Psychology Revivals) by Tiffany M. Field
RRP: £37.99£33.78In the late 1960s, after a period of intense acceleration of the pace of research on human infancy, a number of investigators - some anthropologists, some psychologists, some psychiatrists and paediatricians, and even a few ethologists - developed the... -
Methods in Social Neuroscience by Eddie Harmon-Jones
£56.30Straightforward and practical, this is the first book to provide detailed guidance for using neurobiological methods in the study of human social behavior, personality, and affect. Each chapter clearly introduces the method at hand, provides examples of... -
Transforming Otherness by Peter Nynas
RRP: £135.00£117.28Today, people in different situations and contexts face intercultural challenges. These are a result of increasing mobility. Sometimes such challenges are brought about by crisis situations and an international labor market. However, people also come in... -
Multicultural Responsiveness in Counselling and Psychology: Working with Australian Populations by Vicki Hutton
RRP: £44.99£40.09This textbook explores cultural responsiveness needed for working with diverse Australian communities in psychology and counselling settings, as well as in social science research. Key concepts essential for self-awareness and multicultural understanding... -
Confronting Desire: Psychoanalysis and International Development by Ilan Kapoor
RRP: £108.00£93.40By applying psychoanalytic perspectives to key themes, concepts, and practices underlying the development enterprise, Confronting Desire offers a new way of analyzing the problems, challenges, and potentialities of international development. Ilan Kapoor... -
Foundations of Affective Social Learning: Conceptualizing the Social Transmission of Value by Daniel Dukes
RRP: £30.99£27.40Written by experts in comparative, developmental, social, cognitive and cultural psychology, this book introduces the novel concept of affective social learning to help explain why what matters to us, matters to us. In the same way that social learning... -
Multicultural Psychology by Pamela Balls Organista
RRP: £95.00£83.12Appropriate for both undergraduate and graduate courses, Multicultural Psychology, second edition, provides a comprehensive introduction to the field. This research-based and highly applied text aims to increase students' sensitivity, awareness, and... -
Motives and Mechanisms: An Introduction to the Psychology of Action by Rom Harre
RRP: £43.99£38.44As 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... -
Affect and Cognition in Criminal Decision Making by Jean-Louis Van Gelder
RRP: £49.99£43.50Research and theorizing on criminal decision making has not kept pace with recent developments in other fields of human decision making. Whereas criminal decision making theory is still largely dominated by cognitive approaches such as rational... -
Social Psychology and Politics by Joseph P. Forgas
£60.26Social psychology and politics are intricately related, and understanding how humans manage power and govern themselves is one of the key issues in psychology. This volume surveys the latest theoretical and empirical work on the social psychology of... -
Psychology of Fear, Crime and the Media: International Perspectives by Derek Chadee
RRP: £41.99£36.75The media continue to have a significant persuasive influence on the public perception of crime, even when the information presented is not reflective of the crime rate or actual crime itself. There have been numerous theoretical studies on fear of crime... -
The Psychology of Closed Mindedness by Arie W. Kruglanski
RRP: £51.99£45.19The fundamental phenomenon of human closed-mindedness is treated in this volume. Prior psychological treatments of closed-mindedness have typically approached it from a psychodynamic perspective and have viewed it in terms of individual pathology. By... -
Personality in the Social Process by J. Aronoff
£107.01First published in 1985. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780898595260Author J. AronoffFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint Lawrence Erlbaum Associates IncPublisher Taylor & Francis... -
Collective Memory of Political Events: Social Psychological Perspectives by James W. Pennebaker
RRP: £135.00£70.36Research in collective memory is a relatively new area capturing the interest of scholars in social psychology, memory, sociology, and anthropology. The core idea is that collective attitudes and behaviors are created and shared through common... -
Social Psychology, Past and Present: An Integrative Orientation by Jay M. Jackson
£25.44Providing a clearer understanding of contemporary issues through a broad, historical perspective, this scholarly overview unites the multidisciplinary roots of social psychology into one coherent book. The author attempts to unite the works and theories... -
Child Care in Context: Cross-cultural Perspectives by Michael E. Lamb
£60.26Child care is an integral part of the web of influences and experiences that shape children's development. Utilizing an interdisciplinary approach that covers both historic and economic contexts, this unique book characterizes child care in 18 countries... -
The Scientific Credibility of Folk Psychology by Garth J. O. Fletcher
£38.04The examination and evaluation of folk psychology and lay cognition has been carried out predominantly in two domains: personality and social psychology, and the philosophy of psychology. Yet, work in these two areas has largely proceeded independently... -
Perspectives on Minority Influence by Serge Moscovici
RRP: £33.99£29.35How does a minority exert influence on a majority? Traditionally social psychologists have characterised influence as a process leading to conformity - the minority coming to accept the view of the majority. For the contributors to this volume, working... -
The Crisis in Modern Social Psychology (Psychology Revivals): and how to end it by Ian Parker
RRP: £120.00£103.61In the late 1960s a 'crisis' erupted in social psychology, with many social psychologists highly critical of the 'old paradigm', laboratory-experimental approach. Originally published in 1989, The Crisis in Modern Social Psychology was the first book to... -
Social Justice and the Experience of Emotion by Russell Cropanzano
RRP: £43.99£38.44This book seeks to integrate the scholarship on justice and affect. The authors focus on empirical social scientific theories pertaining to fairness, mood and emotion. Most of the literature in this book is drawn from social and organizational psychology... -
The Myth of the Madding Crowd by Clark McPhail
RRP: £43.99£38.44Crowd behavior is one of the most colorful but least understood forms of human social behavior. This volume is a major contribution to the field of collective behavior, with implications for social movement analysis.McPhail's critical assessment of the... -
Conceptual Metaphor in Social Psychology: The Poetics of Everyday Life by Mark J. Landau
£54.90We learn in grade school that metaphor is an ornamental figure of speech reserved for poets. But we now know that it is also a key strategy people use to make sense of the world, from basic concepts like time and causation to the major social issues... -
The Alcoholic Society: Addiction and Recovery of the Self by Norman K. Denzin
RRP: £45.99£40.53Offering a unique theoretical foundation to understanding the lived experience of the active alcoholic, Denzin asserts that alcoholism is a disease in which negative emotions divide the self into warring, inner factions, fueled and distorted by alcoholic... -
Handbook of Positive Emotions by Michele M. Tugade
£102.60This authoritative handbook reviews the breadth of current knowledge about positive emotions: their nature, functions, and consequences for individuals and society. Specific emotions are analyzed in depth, including happiness, pride, romantic love,... -
The Social Consequences of Modern Psychology by Hans Eysenck
RRP: £43.99£38.44In The Social Consequences of Modern Psychology Eysenck takes the position that social science has real substance, and its findings ought to be applicable to social problems of our times. Although there is little that scientists can do about war and its... -
The Sage Handbook of Social Constructionist Practice by Sheila McNamee
RRP: £120.00£97.48The SAGE Handbook of Social Constructionist Practice is the first major survey of innovations in professional practice emerging from a social constructionist orientation to social science. This key perspective has been unique in its stimulation of... -
Beyond Virtue: The Politics of Educating Emotions by Liz Jackson
RRP: £100.00£84.96Educating students for emotional wellbeing is a vital task in schools. However, educating emotions is not straightforward. Emotional processes can be challenging to identify and control. How emotions are valued varies across societies, while individuals... -
Culture as Process: A Tribute to Jaan Valsiner by Brady Wagoner
RRP: £74.99£67.73Jaan Valsiner has made numerous contributions to the development of psychology over the last 40 years. He is internationally recognized as a leader and innovator within both developmental psychology and cultural psychology, and has received numerous... -
Psychological Aspects of Cyberspace: Theory, Research, Applications by Azy Barak
RRP: £95.00£72.57Hundreds of millions of people across the world use the Internet every day. Its functions vary, from shopping and banking to chatting and dating. From a psychological perspective, the Internet has become a major vehicle for interpersonal communication... -
Coping with Lack of Control in a Social World by Ana Guinote
RRP: £54.99£47.72Coping with Lack of Control in a Social World offers an integrated view of cutting-edge research on the effects of control deprivation on social cognition. The book integrates multi-method research demonstrating how various types of control deprivation,... -
Psychological Perspectives on Radicalization by Allard R. Feddes
RRP: £36.99£32.53This innovative book examines radicalization from new psychological perspectives by examining the different typologies of radicalizing individuals, what makes individuals resilient against radicalization, and events that can trigger individuals to... -
Psycho-Analysis and Social Psychology by William McDougall
RRP: £43.99£38.44From the Preface: 'In these few lectures delivered in the University of London (May 1935) I have returned to the always interesting, but generally quite futile, task of criticizing the teachings of Professor Sigmund Freud and his school. On the present... -
Honor Related Violence: A New Social Psychological Perspective by Robert Ermers
RRP: £41.99£36.75Honor 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... -
Theories of Culture by Arnold Groh
RRP: £37.99£33.78This authoritative but concise guide describes the most significant cultural theories from the 19th to the 21st century and their originators, as well as the links between them and their mutual influences. This guide explores ideas around what culture...