Social, group or collective psychology Books

This handbook is the first resource for the practicing clinician that addresses the role of homework - patients' between-session activities - across major therapeutic paradigms and complex clinical problems. The book opens with...

 Indigenous psychology is an emerging new field in psychology, focusing on psychological universals in social, cultural, and ecological contexts - Starting point for psychologists who wish to understand various cultures...

What are the barriers in computer-mediated communication for cooperative learning and work? Based on empirical research, the chapters of this book offer different perspectives on the nature and causes of such barriers for...

Humans are surrounded by trillions of stimuli. Their eyes, for instance, can discriminate 7,500,000 colors. But, there is a severe limitation in the number of discriminably different stimuli that they can process at one time. George Miller argued that...

Although forced migration is not new in human history it has become, in our time, one of the world's major problems. In the last few decades, armed conflict and political unrest have created vast numbers of asylum seekers,...

This ground-breaking book introduces a new model of extremism that emphasizes motivational imbalance among individual needs, offering a unique multidisciplinary exploration of extreme behaviors relating to terrorism, dieting, sports, love, addictions,...

Striving for Perspicuity: Talking Our Way Forward; Tom Strong and David Paré.-Levinas: Therapy as Discourse Ethics; Glenn Larner with Peter Rober and Tom Strong.-Acknowledging the Otherness of The Other: Poetic Knowing in Practice and the Fallacy of...

Comparison of objects, events, and situations is integral to judgment; comparisons of the self with other people comprise one of the building blocks of human conduct and experience. After four decades of research, the topic of...

A fundamental assumption underlying the formation of our most important relationships is that they will persist indefinitely into the future. As an acquaintanceship turns into a friend­ ship, for example, both members of this...

A few years ago, a book of this type and style could not or would not have been written. This is because, until a few years ago, no real in-depth knowl­ edge of computers and computerized equipment was at the disposal of those...

The present volume in the series focuses on homes, residences, and dwellings. Although many fields have had a long-standing interest in different aspects of home environments, the topic has recently come to the forefront in the...

People have strong moral beliefs about right and wrong, yet commonly act contrary to those beliefs. Most of us, at some time or another, have crossed a moral line and yet still view ourselves as moral and have a clean conscience. From intimate...

Bringing poststructuralist theories of discourse into dialogue with biologically and culturally informed models of pain and affect, this book explores the representation of traumatic historical events such as war and revolution in literary texts by...

This book presents an approach to narrative analysis from a critical social perspective. It describes the background to discursive and narrative approaches and then takes the reader through a variety of analysis at different 'levels'. These focus on...

Taking the notion of transgression - the breaking of boundaries - as its starting point, this book brings a fresh approach to cultural criminology by exploring representations of the transgressive in fictive texts and ethnographic research. Chapters...

Everyday Friendship conceptualises the lived experience of intimacy in a world in which the terms and conditions of love and friendship are increasingly unclear. Drawing on writing on friendship, love, and intimacy by such thinkers as Simmel and...

Modern Privacies addresses emergent transformations of privacy in western societies from a multidisciplinary and international perspective. It examines social and cultural trends in new media, feminism, law, work and intimacy which indicate that our...

This book provides a three-part investigation into identity construction. Theory, voice and praxis are all represented as the book follows the rationale, stories and narrative methodology of the study of a group of women. The final part of the book...

Using an innovative approach in critical psychology, this study examines collectivity, participation, and subjectivity, and the social theories that may help us understand these matters.

Richard Bernstein expressed the view that pragmatism was ahead of its time; the same has been true of symbolic interactionism. These two closely related perspectives, one philosophical and the other sociological, place human action at the center of their...

OVER 1 MILLION COPIES SOLDJoe Navarro, a former FBI counterintelligence officer and a recognized expert on nonverbal behavior, explains how to "speed-read" people: decode sentiments and behaviors, avoid hidden pitfalls, and look for deceptive behaviors...

There are chapters dealing with important stages in the life cycle such as childhood, adolescence, marriage, maturity, retirement, old age and death. Also, chapters concerned with special topics such as divorce, poverty, wealth, gambling, stealing,...

This book explores communication in older adulthood, particularly in the areas of interpersonal, intercultural, and mass communication, and includes coverage of communication using new technology. The book synthesizes existing research and builds a case...

YOUR SUCCESS AND HAPPINESS IN LIFE WILL BE PARTIALLY DETERMINED BY YOUR ABILITY TO COMMUNICATE EFFECTIVELY WITH OTHERS. In this powerful book, professional speaker Jeff Joiner covers practical, simple, life-changing strategies to help you:·...

Psicología Oscura es una obra exhaustiva que sumerge al lector en las profundidades de la mente humana, explorando los aspectos más complejos y desafiantes de la psicología. Desde los fundamentos y orígenes hasta las estrategias de prevención,...

Want to be fearless, fabulous, and ooze confidence for the rest of your life?  Then this is the ultimate guide you need. I know, I know… you've heard it all and seen it all. All this talk of 'ultimate guides' and 'ultimate...

Hvordan kan vi blive bedre til at skabe samhørighed og nærhed i vores relationer, så ensomhed kan fylde mindre ? At høre til er en oplevelse af at være en del af andres liv, og at andre er en del af dit. At mærke samhørighed med de mennesker, man har i...

Social Psychology for Beginners: Understanding Socio-Psychological Circumstances25 Easily-Explicable Socio-Psychological PhenomenaAre you interested in social psychology?Do you want to know how our thoughts can mislead us?Do you know when and why we are...

Masterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Psychologie - Sozialpsychologie, Note: 1,0, Helmut-Schmidt-Universität - Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Vorbilder sind Personen, mit denen wir uns identifizieren und deren...

Master's Thesis from the year 2013 in the subject Psychology - Social Psychology, grade: B, Lund University, course: Political Psychology & Psychoanalytic Theory, language: English, abstract: The explanations of what caused the England riots in 2011...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Psychologie - Sozialpsychologie, Note: 1,4, Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart, früher: Berufsakademie Stuttgart, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Als Klient für die Erstellung dieser...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Psychologie - Sozialpsychologie, Note: 2,5, SRH Hochschule Heidelberg, Veranstaltung: Integration und Interkulturalität, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Migration stellt Menschen vor schwerwiegende Probleme. Sie...

Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2008 in the subject Psychology - Social Psychology, grade: magna cum laude, University of Mannheim (Fakultät für Sozialwissenschaften, Lehrstuhl für Mikrosoziologie und Sozialpsychologie), language: English,...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2004 im Fachbereich Psychologie - Sozialpsychologie, Note: 1,0, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, Veranstaltung: Konfliktmanagement, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In einer Zeit, in der immer stärker die...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich Psychologie - Sozialpsychologie, Note: 1,0, Freie Universität Berlin, Veranstaltung: Vorlesung: Sprache und Kommunikation, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Angaben des Statistischen Bundesamtes zufolge hatten im...

Diplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Psychologie - Sozialpsychologie, Note: 1,3, Universität Trier, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die hohen Prävalenzen von gestörtem Sozialverhalten zeigen, dass dieses Phänomen nicht mehr aus unserer Gesellschaft...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Psychologie - Sozialpsychologie, Note: 1,0, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Was wäre der Mensch ohne seine Kreativität? Irgendetwas, aber kein Mensch. Was dem Vogel die...

Chart Your Course For Ascension... Then Let Your Spirit Fly!Unlock your ultimate spiritual potential by removing barriers to your true native state.Learn how to easily attain Self-actualization and help to actualize others along the way.A greater...

Sexiness is communicated using all five senses, but its most powerful channel of communication is the visual image. No sooner do people perceive sexy images than they are transformed into mental images that have the power to arouse reproductive drives...

New edition with bonus chapter detailing practical applications.Scientific evidence and personal experience tell us that sincere, engaging personal relationships are essential for health and happiness. Yet, little is said about how we might actively...

Laurence Wylie (1919-1995), a renowned scholar and teacher of French at Harvard, assembled this collection of French conventional gestures after studying at the Jacques Lecoq school of mime in Paris. The more than 60 photographs of him portraying the...

"Scott Harms Rose takes up questions about intimacy among gay men, which even in these post-postmodern times is not a well-traveled subject ... The exploration of the subjects' sense of masculinity, and of their relationships with their fathers and with...

"The animus is the deposit, as it were, of all woman's ancestral experiences of man-and not only that, he is also a creative and procreative being." -C.G. Jung Inextricably enmeshed in the life of every woman is a constellation of autonomous energy...

Now in his mid-eighties, Tom Carbery - OBE, KSG, and holder of the Lord Provost's Medal for Services to the City of Glasgow - has been telling stories for more than 70 years; here he selects fifty of his best, aiming to give rise to many a smile and...