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Why are we more likely to fall in love when we feel in danger?Why would an experienced pilot disregard his training and the rules of the aviation industry, leading to the deadliest airline crash in history?Why do we find it near-impossible to re-evaluate our first...
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Virgin Digital
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2010-04-30
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Winner of the 2011 Ursula Gielen Global Psychology Book Award!
This award is presented by APA Division 52 to the authors or editors of a book that makes the greatest contribution to psychology as an international discipline and profession.
This international volume...
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Oxford University Press
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2010-04-28
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Overall, its breaking of disciplinary isolation, enhancing of mutual understanding, and laying out of a transdisciplinary platform makes this Handbook a milestone in identity studies. - Sociology Increasingly, identities are the site for interdisciplinary...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2010-03-23
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Social psychiatry is concerned with the effects of the social environment on the mental health of the individual, and with the effects of the person with a mental disorder on his/her social environment. The field encompasses social interventions, prevention and the...
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Wiley
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2010-03-04
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- How do unconscious motivational needs (i.e., implicit motives) influence physiological, cognitive, affective, and behavioral responses to incentives?
- How can implicit motives be measured?
- How are they shaped by culture, how do they influence political and...
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Oxford University Press
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2010-02-18
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New research on children's executive functioning and self-regulation has begun to reveal important connections to their developing social understanding (or "theories of mind") and emotional competence. The exact nature of the relations between these aspects of...
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Oxford University Press
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2010-01-27
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This highly important book introduces the realm of organ donation, providing an overview of the current situation, highlighting the challenges, summarizing past research, and providing guidance for future research. The first book to bridge the gap between applied...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2009-12-15
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Blackwell/Claremont Applied Social Psychology Series
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Many coastal areas around the world are experiencing dramatic landscape changes as a result of increased tourism development and the "sea change phenomenon" – the migration of affluent urbanites to small coastal towns seeking beautiful, natural surroundings. In response...
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Springer
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2009-12-13
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Delve into this "delightful" (Bloomberg News) collection of Malcolm Gladwell's writings from The New Yorker, in which the bestselling author of The Bomber Mafia focuses on "minor geniuses" and idiosyncratic behavior to illuminate the...
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Little, Brown and Company
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2009-10-20
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Hailed as "a feast" (Washington Post) and "a modern-day bestiary" (The New Yorker), Stephen Asma's On Monsters is a wide-ranging cultural and conceptual history of monsters--how they have evolved over time, what functions they have served for us, and what shapes they...
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Oxford University Press
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2009-10-14
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The Psychology of Prosocial Behavior provides original contributions that examine current perspectives and promising directions for future research on helping behaviors and related core issues. Covers contributions which deal explicitly with interventions designed to...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2009-10-08
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Multiculturalism and Diversity focuses on the ways in which history and identity inform each other, and examines the politics of culture as well as the politics of cultural identities within the U.S. Illustrates the basic proposition that each of us is a unique...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-10-06
Collection :
Contemporary Social Issues
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Multiculturalism and Diversity focuses on the ways in which history and identity inform each other, and examines the politics of culture as well as the politics of cultural identities within the U.S. Illustrates the basic proposition that each of us is a unique...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-10-06
Collection :
Contemporary Social Issues
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Nearly half of all physicians and biologists are females, as are the majority of new psychologists, veterinarians, and dentists, suggesting that women have achieved equality with men in the workforce. But the ranks of professionals in math-intensive careers remain...
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Oxford University Press
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2009-09-02
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Winner of the 2012 International Association for Relationship Research Book Award
Can we predict how well -- or how poorly -- two strangers will get along? According to social psychologist William Ickes, the answer is yes. Drawing upon relevant research findings from...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2009-08-27
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The concept of identity has become widespread within the social and behavioral sciences in recent years, cutting across disciplines from psychiatry and psychology to political science and sociology. All individuals claim particular identities given their roles in...
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Oxford University Press
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2009-08-18
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Paraphrasing Descartes, we may say that one method is to take the reader into your conf idence by explaining to him how you arrived at your discovery; the other is to bully him into accepting a conclusion by parading a series of propositions which he must accept and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2009-06-12
Collection :
Peace Psychology Book Series
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Recent trends and events worldwide have increased public interest in nonviolence, pacifism, and peace psychology as well as professional interest across the social sciences. Nonviolence and Peace Psychology assembles multiple perspectives to create a more comprehensive...
Editeur :
Springer
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2009-05-28
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Peace Psychology Book Series
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Why do people become extremists? What makes people become so dismissive of opposing views?Why is political and cultural polarization so pervasive in America?
In Going to Extremes, renowned legal scholar and best-selling author Cass R. Sunstein offers startling insights...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2009-05-13
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Since the mid-1980s, the psychology of liberation movement has been a catalyst for collective and individual change in communities throughout Latin America, and beyond; and recent political developments are making its powerful, transformative ideas more relevant than...
Editeur :
Springer
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2009-04-28
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Peace Psychology Book Series
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