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Against the background of Socrates' insight that the unexamined life is not worth living, Reading Our Lives: The Poetics of Growing Old investigates the often overlooked inside dimensions of aging. Despite popular portrayals of mid- and later life as entailing...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2008-06-03
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Social exclusion is a key problem for policy makers, researchers and professionals worldwide. Despite this, the debate lacks a dominant disciplinary focus. This innovative handbook covers evidence from key research and policy to offer cross-disciplinary perspectives on...
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Wiley
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2008-05-23
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This authoritative handbook provides a cutting-edge overview of classic and current research as well as an assessment of future trends in the field of interpersonal processes. Ensures thorough and up-to-date coverage of all aspects of interpersonal processes Includes...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2008-05-12
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Blackwell Handbooks of Social Psychology
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This volume will provide an authoritative, state of the art overview of the field of intergroup processes. The volume is divided into nine major sections on cognition, motivation, emotion, communication and social influence, changing intergroup relations, social...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
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Blackwell Handbooks of Social Psychology
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Since the first edition of this practical book was published in 1990, a number of important developments have taken place and have been incorporated into the new edition. There are now many kinds of "non-traditional" relationships that accompany an increasing divorce...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
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This handbook provides an authoritative, up-to-date overview of the social psychology of group processes. The topics covered include group decisions, juries, group remembering, roles, status, leadership, social identity and group membership, socialization, group...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
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Blackwell Handbooks of Social Psychology
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This volume on intraindividual processes is one of a set of four handbooks in the social psychology field and covers social cognition, attitudes, and attribution theory. Includes contributions by academics and other experts from around the world to ensure a truly...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
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Blackwell Handbooks of Social Psychology
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On the Nature of Prejudice commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Gordon Allport’s classic work on prejudice and discrimination by examining the current state of knowledge in the field. A distinguished collection of international scholars considers...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
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Music is so ubiquitous that it can be easy to overlook the powerful influence it exerts in so many areas of our lives - from birth, through childhood, to old age. The Social and Applied Psychology ofMusic is the successor to the bestselling and influential The Social...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2008-04-10
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Music is so ubiquitous that it can be easy to overlook the powerful influence it exerts in so many areas of our lives - from birth, through childhood, to old age. The Social and Applied Psychology ofMusic is the successor to the bestselling and influential The Social...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2008-04-10
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Although New England boarding schools have been educating America's elite for four generations, they, along with their privileged students, rarely have been the subject of study. Living in a senior boys' dorm at a co-ed school, Sarah Chase was able to witness the inner...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2008-03-20
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They are familiar scenes: sports fans turning on each other in acts of violence, and mobs of sports fans flooding onto the field or out into the streets. Is there something inherent in the competitive sport setting that produces this frequently dangerous behavior?...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2008-03-14
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The volume begins with an overview by Herbert Kelman discussing reconciliation as distinct from related processes of conflict settlement and conflict resolution. Following that, the first section of the volume focuses on intergroup reconciliation as consisting of moving...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2008-03-10
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Do people have free will, or this universal belief an illusion? If free will is more than an illusion, what kind of free will do people have? How can free will influence behavior? Can free will be studied, verified, and understood scientifically? How and why might a...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2008-02-25
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* Winner of Honorable Mention Award for the Otto Klineberg Intercultural and International Relations Prize competition from SSPSI *
This edited volume captures an exciting new trend in research on intergroup attitudes and relations, which concerns how individuals make...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2008-02-15
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People with mental illness are far too often subjected to discrimination and unfair treatment. It is particularly unfortunate that much of this stigmatization comes from the very people they depend upon for help--those in the mental health professions. Too many...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2008-01-08
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In this volume, contributors from a range of perspectives - evolutionary psychology to anthropology, sociology to cognitive and motivational psychology - explore questions of what our attractiveness preferences are and why we find certain others physically attractive,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2007-11-30
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Crises do not occur in cultural vacuums, but help often does. Good intentions are not enough. Lack of cultural understanding, sensitivity, and competencies can hamper and even harm the professional response to disasters. To help and heal, one must know and understand...
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Springer
Parution :
2007-11-26
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This book has a strong theoretical focus and is unique in addressing both mortality and fertility over the full span of human history. It examines the demographic transition in the change in the human condition from high mortality and high fertility to low mortality and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2007-09-21
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