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The Psychopolitics of Food: Culinary rites of passage in the neoliberal age by Mihalis Mentinis
RRP: £24.99£21.81The Psychopolitics of Food probes into the contemporary 'foodscape', examining culinary practices and food habits and in particular the ways in which they conflate with neoliberal political economy. It suggests that generic alimentary and culinary... -
How to Rethink Human Behavior: A Practical Guide to Social Contextual Analysis by Bernard Guerin
RRP: £47.99£41.81Developed from the author's long teaching career, How to Rethink Human Behavior aims to cultivate practical skills in human observation and analysis, rather than offer a catalogue of immutable 'facts'. It synthesizes key psychological concepts with... -
Cyberbullying in Schools, Workplaces, and Romantic Relationships: The Many Lenses and Perspectives of Electronic Mistreatment by Gary W. Giumetti
£44.98This volume brings together research on cyberbullying across contexts, age groups, and cultures to gain a fuller perspective of the prevalence and impact of electronic mistreatment on individual, group, and organizational outcomes. This is the first book... -
Cultural Psychology of Immigrants by Ramaswami Mahalingam
£54.90This new volume provides an interdisciplinary perspective on how intersections of race, class, gender, sexuality, and culture shape the cultural psychology of immigrants. It demonstrates the influence transnational ties and cultural practices and beliefs... -
Culture and Social Behavior: The Ontario Symposium, Volume 10 by Richard M. Sorrentino
£39.04Cross-cultural differences have many important implications for social identity, social cognition, and interpersonal behavior. The 10th volume of the Ontario Symposia on Personality and Social Psychology focuses on East-West cultural differences and... -
Foundations of Social Cognition: A Festschrift in Honor of Robert S. Wyer, Jr. by Galen V. Bodenhausen
£91.60A tribute to Robert S. Wyer, Jr.'s remarkable contributions to social psychology, Foundations of Social Cognition offers a compelling analysis of the underlying processes that have long been the focus of Bob Wyer's own research, including attention,... -
Applied Social Psychology by Gun Semin
RRP: £60.00£48.82This comprehensive and accessible textbook overviews the applications of social psychology to a wide range of problems and issues in contemporary society. With internationally respected contributors who survey the major developments in their fields, this... -
Psychoanalysis: A Critical Introduction by Ian Craib
RRP: £60.00£51.95Psychoanalysis: A Critical Introduction is a clearly written and accessible introduction to the main schools of psychoanalysis and the practice of psychotherapy. Unusually, it is written by an academic sociologist specializing in social theory who is... -
Communicating Social Support by Daena J. Goldsmith
RRP: £64.00£57.28When stresses and hassles challenge our abilities to cope, we frequently turn to family, friends, and partners for help. Yet social support from close relational partners does not uniformly benefit recipients or their relationships. By probing the... -
Social Comparison and Social Psychology: Understanding Cognition, Intergroup Relations, and Culture by Serge Guimond
RRP: £110.00£82.41Much of our knowledge about ourselves, and about the world in which we live, is based on a process of social comparison. Our tendency to appraise events, objects, people, and social groups by making comparisons has captured the interest of social... -
The Dark Side of Relationship Pursuit: From Attraction to Obsession and Stalking by Brian H. Spitzberg
RRP: £71.99£62.45Awards and Praise for the first edition: Recipient of the 2006 International Association for Relationship Research (IARR) Book Award"This text, as it presently stands, is THE go-to text for stalking researchers. That is my opinion and the opinion of... -
Social Psychology by Richard Gross
RRP: £47.99£43.40In everyday life we depend upon, interact with, influence are influenced by many people in situations that range from brief single encounters to the special relationships we form with family and close friends. Social interactions such as these are just a... -
Hustlers, Beats, and Others by Ned Polsky
RRP: £43.99£38.44Ranging from pool hustling to pornography, this book analyzes deviant branches of American life, dispels misconceptions about them, and throws new light on sociological theory and method. Each chapter radically dissents from one or more mainstream... -
Key Issues in Cross-cultural Psychology by Hector Grad
RRP: £125.00£108.26These proceedings are organized into six parts, covering conceptual and methodological issues; consequences of acculturation; cognitive processes; values; social psychology; and personality, developmental psychology and health psychology.Book... -
Encouraging Sustainable Behavior: Psychology and the Environment by Hans C.M. Van Trijp
£59.86Increasingly it is being recognized that consumer behavior may be a key trigger in the march toward sustainable development. Several lines of psychological theory and approaches have been developed relatively independently, each of which may provide... -
Sexual Selection Under Parental Choice: The Evolution of Human Mating Behavior by Menelaos Apostolou
£43.00Parents often disagree with their children over their choice of partner. Although the reasons may vary the outcome is very often one of conflict - a conflict peculiar to the human species. For the first time in one volume, Sexual Selection under Parental... -
Physical Violence in American Families by Murray A. Straus
RRP: £43.99£38.84The informative and controversial findings in this book are based on two path-breaking national surveys of American families. Both show that while the family may be the central locus of love and support, it is also the locus of risk for those who are... -
National Character: A Psycho-Social Perspective by Alex Inkeles
RRP: £43.99£38.84Seen in modern perspective, the concept of national character poses fundamental problems for social science theory and research: To what extent do conditions of life in a particular society give rise to certain patterns in the personalities of its... -
In the Midst of Plenty: Homelessness and What To Do About It by Marybeth Shinn
RRP: £20.95£18.50Foreword by Nan Roman, President and CEO of the National Alliance to End Homelessness This book explains how to end the U.S. homelessness crisis by bringing together the best scholarship on the subject and sharing solutions that both local communities... -
Social Psychology by Paul A. M. Van Lange
£104.61This definitive work--now extensively revised with virtually all new chapters--has introduced generations of researchers to the psychological processes that underlie social behavior. What sets the book apart is its unique focus on the basic principles... -
Attitudes and Persuasion by Philip Erwin
£88.60Attitudes and Persuasion provides an up-to-date overview of the crucial role that attitudes play in our everyday lives and how our thoughts and behaviour are influenced. The nature, function and origins of attitudes are examined, and a review of how they... -
Psychology of Self-Regulation: Cognitive, Affective, and Motivational Processes by Joseph P. Forgas
RRP: £45.99£40.53The ability to regulate and control our behaviors is a key accomplishment of the human species, yet the psychological mechanisms involved in self-regulation remain incompletely understood. This book presents contributions from leading international... -
Principles of Social Psychology: Third Edition by Kelly G. Shaver
RRP: £45.99£41.13Originally published in 1987 this third edition won praise from students and instructors alike for its challenging "no nonsense" approach to the field. Thoroughly updated to reflect current research of the time, the text retains the qualities that had... -
Social Psychology: The Study of Human Interaction by Theodore M. Newcomb
RRP: £49.99£44.50Combining the efforts of sociologists and psychologists, this work, originally published in 1952 and revised in 1966, embraces these two disciplines to show how social-psychological problems must be viewed in individual as well as general terms. Human... -
The Social Psychology of HIV Infection by John B. Pryor
£94.00In the early 1980s we witnessed the birth of one of the most complex and perplexing social problems faced by modern society: the epidemic of infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)... -
Political Psychology: New Explorations by Jon A. Krosnick
£60.26In recent decades, research in political psychology has illuminated the psychological processes underlying important political action, both by ordinary citizens and by political leaders. As the world has become increasingly engaged in thinking about... -
Positive Psychology: Established and Emerging Issues by Dana S. Dunn
£50.94This volume is a comprehensive review of theoretical and empirical contributions to positive psychology. It provides a scientific understanding of how human strengths help people psychologically and physically, showing how stressful circumstances do not... -
The Motivation-Cognition Interface: From the Lab to the Real World: A Festschrift in Honor of Arie W. Kruglanski by Catalina E. Kopetz
£50.94This volume honors the work of Arie W. Kruglanski. It represents a collection of chapters written by Arie's former students, friends, and collaborators. The chapters are rather diverse and cover a variety of topics from politics, including international... -
Senseless Violence and Its Ramifications by Ami Rokach
RRP: £84.99£73.85The baby boomer generation grew up in the 1950s when there existed the general belief that the Cold War was the greatest threat to the world order, and a frightening possibility. It was difficult to believe, then, that it could get worse, but the same... -
Queer Politics in India: Towards Sexual Subaltern Subjects by Shraddha Chatterjee
RRP: £37.99£33.38Queer Politics in India simultaneously tells two interconnected stories. The first explores the struggle against violence and marginalization by queer people in the Indian subcontinent, and places this movement towards equality and inclusion in relation... -
Social Communication by Klaus Fiedler
RRP: £53.99£47.27This volume is devoted to the fascinating topic of social communication - fascinating because communication is ubiquitous, in that one cannot not communicate. And yet, the art of effective communication can be extremely demanding and elusive, because a... -
Selves as Solutions to Social Inequalities: Why Engaging the Full Complexity of Social Identities is Critical to Addressing Disparities by Tiffany N. Brannon
RRP: £17.00£14.72Social disparities tied to social group membership(s) are prevalent and persistent within mainstream institutions (e.g., schools/workplaces). Accordingly, psychological science has harnessed selves - which are malleable and meaningfully shaped by social... -
Personality, Values, Culture: An Evolutionary Approach by Ronald Fischer
RRP: £103.99£93.41Humans are complex social beings. To understand human behaviour, an integrated perspective is required - one which considers both what we regularly do (our personality traits) and what motivates us (our values). Personality, Values, Culture uses an... -
Changing Legal and Civic Culture in an Illiberal Democracy: A Social Psychological Survey of the Hungarian Legal System by Istvan H. Szilagyi
RRP: £49.99£43.50Changing Legal and Civic Culture in an Illiberal Democracy is a unique empirical study on recent developments in legal and civic consciousness in Hungary. Drawing its methodology from social psychology, this study illuminates a shift in legal... -
Social Psychology: Exploring the Dynamics of Human Experience by Robin R. Vallacher
£56.90This textbook provides a thorough insight into the discipline of social psychology, creating an integrative and cumulative framework to present students with a rich and engaging account of the human social experience. From a person's momentary impulses... -
Processes of Community Change and Social Action by Allen M. Omoto
£43.00This volume--an outgrowth of the annual meeting of the Claremont Symposium on Applied Social Psychology--focuses on examples of social change and community action, and the processes at work in creating change. The presenters engaged each other and the... -
Odyssey of the Heart: Close Relationships in the 21st Century by John H. Harvey
£21.00Written in a personal, story-telling style, Odyssey weaves excerpts of actual relationships with current and classic research to provide a better perspective on our own experiences in light of the principles of relationships. Highlights of its... -
Assumptions of Social Psychology: A Reexamination by Robert E. Lana
£39.04This book is a thorough revision of the successful Assumptions of Social Psychology, first published in 1969. Reexamining the implicit and explicit assumptions concerning inquiry as to the nature of the human organism, it takes as its major thesis the... -
Content and Process Specificity in the Effects of Prior Experiences: Advances in Social Cognition, Volume III by Thomas K. Srull
£48.96In Volume 3, Eliot R. Smith of Purdue University proposes that social cognition theorists have placed excessive emphasis on the role of schemata, prototypes, and various other types of abstractions. This has affected both the methodologies they use and... -
Personality: Evolutionary Heritage and Human Distinctiveness by Arnold H. Buss
£39.44This 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...