Название: Blackwell Handbook of Social Psychology - Intergroup Processes
Автор: Rupert Brown, Sam Gaertner
Издательство: Wiley-Blackwell
Год: 2002
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 560
Размер: 2 MB
Язык: English

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 comparison, self-identity, methods and applications.Provides an authoritative, state of the art overview of the field of intergroup processes.Divided into nine major sections on cognition, motivation, emotion, communication and social influence, changing intergroup relations, social comparison, self-identity, methods and applications.Written by leading researchers in the field.Referenced throughout and include post-chapter annotated bibliographies so readers can access original research articles in order to further their study.- Now available in full text online via xreferplus, the award-winning reference library on the web from xrefer. For more information, visit www.xreferplus.com

Название: The Encyclopedia of Positive Psychology
Автор: Shane J. Lopez
Издательство: Wiley Blackwell
Год: 2009
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 1146
Размер: 6 MB
Язык: English

ndeavor, say in contrast to Humanistic Psychology of the 1950s, which sharesmany of its premises with one major exception – mainstream, cumulative, andreplicable scientific method? The city of Florence in the fifteenth century offers aclue. When nations are at war, in famine, poor, and in civil turmoil, it is quitenatural that the endeavors they support will be about defense and damage. Whennations are (relatively) peaceful, sated, wealthy, and harmonious, they ask, notjust about removing the disabling conditions of life, but about creating theenabling and ennobling conditions of life.

Название: Research Methods in Clinical Psychology An Introduction for Students and Practitioners,2nd Ed
Автор: Chris Barker, Nancy Pistrang, Robert Elliott
Издательство: Wiley
Год: 2002
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 299
Размер: 3 MB
Язык: English

RESEARCH METHODS IN CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY is a reader-friendly introduction to doing, and thinking about, research for clinical psychologists. This systematic guide takes students and practitioners through the basic steps of a research project, from start to finish. It is an invaluable tool for those who want to conduct their own research, or simply want a better understanding of published research. Chris Barker, Nancy Pistrang and Robert Elliott provide a balanced account of both qualitative and quantitative methods within a framework of methodological pluralism -fitting the method to the research question. This new edition presents many new methods that have developed over the last decade, alongside the more traditional approaches. With a wealth of features to aid teaching and learning, such as: Chapter outlines Case examples Chapter summaries Annotated further reading Web based extra material for instructors and students. This fully revised textbook is essential for new students, as well as more experienced practitioners wishing to update their knowledge and stay abreast of developments.

Название: The Self, the Soul and the Psychology of Good and Evil (Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory)
Автор: Ilham Dilman
Издательство: Routledge
Год: 2005
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 175
Размер: 648 kB
Язык: English

The way an individual's psychology is intertwined with their morality is the subject of this fascinating book from the pen of the late Ilham Dilman. Dilman convincingly argues that evil, though it cannot be reduced to psychological terms (it is a moral concept) is explicable in terms of an individual person's psychology. Goodness, by contrast, comes from the person and not their psychology. Philosophers the world over will want to read this book and see how Dilman skilfully defends his arguments.

Название: Comprehensive handbook of clinical health psychology
Автор: Bret A. Boyer, M. Indira Paharia
Издательство: John Wiley & Sons
Год: 2008
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 507
Размер: 4 MB
Язык: English

Bringing together an international group of experts from across all health-related disciplines, Comprehensive Handbook of Clinical Health Psychology bridges the gap between health psychology and medicine to provide you with the up-to-date and relevant information and strategies you need to address both the physical and mental health care needs of your clients. Written in an accessible, reader-friendly manner, this reference covers the conditions and trends that have become most prevalent in the field of health psychology today.

Название: Encyclopedia of psychology & law
Автор: Brian L. Cutler
Издательство: SAGE Publications
Год: 2008
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 947
Размер: 15 MB
Язык: English

This set is edited by Cutler (psychology, Univ. of North Carolina), who already has to his credit other scholarly works on the growing field of psychology and the law, including Mistaken Identification: The Eyewitness, Psychology and the Law. The legal topics addressed here span the major subdivisions of psychology-i.e., cognitive, developmental, clinical, biological, and industrial/organizational. The 400 entries are authored by a score of international contributors, range in length from one to five pages, and are arranged alphabetically by topic.

Название: The Psychology of Environmental Problems: Psychology for Sustainability
Автор: Deborah Du Nann Winter, Susan M. Koger
Издательство: Psychology Press
Год: 2003
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 306
Размер: 16 MB
Язык: English

the subject is an important one. when the authors - professors none the less - end the book by suggesting prayer as way to help the environment - and pepper the book with personal vignettes about communing with nature, meditation retreats and such you wonder what the point was.
i am a psychologist and spent good money because i wanted to learn something about the topic. i wish i could get my $ refunded. a joke it is not. but a big let down: yes. do NOT bother do not buy!

Название: Designing and Engineering Time: The Psychology of Time Perception in Software
Автор: Steven C. Seow
Издательство: Addison-Wesley Professional
Год: 2008
Формат: chm
Страниц: 224
Размер: 4 MB
Язык: English

One of the reviewers thought this book was a gem for experienced programmers, I totally disagree. I'm an experienced programmer and I suggested this book for a book club at work. We are all experienced programmers. But I did not find this book that much helpful. I would rather have spent the time it took to read the book doing something else... like reading About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design (again).I probably found two or three concepts interesting throughout the book. In general I think it already states the obvious, uses too much comparisons and has too much images (just for the sake of it - without adding value). A MSDN article with say, 20 pages, would have been more than enough instead of a 191 p book. I expected to get some examples from real life software and to get more insight in software and how to handle time.After reading the book I wanted to get the sense of "Hey! We can do even better software, now let's go and do it!" But instead the book left me feeling like I had wasted my time reading it from cover to cover.When reading Designing and Enginering Time I though that it appears to be a report from a student, like a master thesis report. When discussing the book with a colleague in the book club he said the exact same thing! The last two chapters was ok but it is still a "Don't like it" from me.

Название: The Social Psychology of Exercise and Sport
Автор: Martin Hagger, Nikos Chatzisarantis
Издательство: Open University Press
Год: 2005
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 280
Размер: 2 MB
Язык: English

The Social Psychology of Exercise and Sport examines the role that social psychology has in the explanation of exercise and sport behavior. It devotes considerable attention to key social psychological issues within the two disciplines, exercise behavior for health reasons, and the behavior of competitive sport participants and the spectators of elite sport. The book focuses on a narrow range of selected topics and provides comprehensive, in-depth, and analytical coverage using social psychology as a framework.

Название: Culture in Minds and Societies: Foundations of Cultural Psychology
Автор: Jaan Valsiner
Издательство: Sage Publications Pvt. Ltd
Год: 2007
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 385
Размер: 5 MB
Язык: English

In short, Culture in Minds and Societies: Foundations of Cultural Psychology presents a new look at the relationship between people and society, produces a semiotic theory of cultural psychology and provides a dynamic treatment of culture in human lives. This book makes a decisive break from the post-modernist theoretical framework that considers knowledge as local and situation-specific. It restores the goal of construction of general knowledge to the social sciences. While recognizing the uniqueness of all human personal experience from birth to death, it emphasizes the universality of cultural organization of human minds and societies.