Название: Out in Psychology: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Queer Perspectives
Автор: Victoria Clarke, Elizabeth Peel
Издательство: Wiley
Год: 2007
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 496
Размер: 14 MB
Язык: English

There has been a recent explosion of interest in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans Perspective Psychology amongst students and academics, and this interest is predicted to continue to rise. Recent media debates on subjects such as same-sex marriage have fuelled interest in LGBTQ perspectives. This edited collection showcases the latest thinking in LGBTQ psychology. The book has 21 chapters covering subjects such as same sex parenting, outing, young LGBTQ people, sport, learning disabilities, lesbian and gay identities etc. The book has an international focus, with contributors from UK, US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand

Название: Psychology, Rationality and Economic Behaviour: Challenging Standard Assumptions
Автор: Bina Agarwal, Alessandro Vercelli
Издательство: Palgrave Macmillan
Год: 2005
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 285
Размер: 1 MB
Язык: English

Economics has paid little attention to the psychology of economic behavior, leading to somewhat simplistic assumptions about human nature. The psychological aspects have typically been reduced to assumptions of standard utility theory, based on a narrow conception of rationality, often called "substantive rationality". However, recent work, some theoretic, some based on experimental economics or an empirical analysis of existing data, challenges these assumptions and forefronts the psychological dimensions of economic decisions. The essays in this volume provide a glimpse of this exciting and newly emerging field.

Название: Role of General Mental Ability in Industrial, Work, and Organizational Psychology
Автор: Chockalingam Viswesvaran, Deniz S. Ones
Издательство: Psychology Press
Год: 2002
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 232
Размер: 2 MB
Язык: English

This special issue summarizes the state of knowledge of g as it relates to IWO psychology and masterfully draws out areas of question and contention. Each of the papers highlights similarities and differences among perspectives and sheds light on research needs for the future. The last article summarizes the major themes that run across all the articles and offers a review of contrasts in viewpoints. The final product will be informative and beneficial to researchers, graduate students, practitioners, and decision makers.

Название: The Lost Art of Compassion: Discovering the Practice of Happiness in the Meeting of Buddhism and Psychology
Автор: Lorne Ladner
Издательство: HarperOne
Год: 2005
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 328
Размер: 1 MB
Язык: English

Now in paperback, this practical guide to cultivating compassion delivers Buddhist and psychological insight right where we need it most—navigating the difficulties of our daily lives. Compassion is often seen as a distant, altruistic ideal cultivated by saints, or as an unrealistic response of the naively kind-hearted. Seeing compassion in this way, we lose out on experiencing the transformative potential of one of our most neglected inner resources. Dr Lorne Ladner rescues compassion from this marginalised view, showing how its practical application in our life can be a powerful force in achieving happiness. Combining the wisdom of Tibetan Buddhism and Western psychology, Ladner presents clear, effective practices for cultivating compassion in daily living.

Название: Evolutionary Psychology as Maladapted Psychology
Автор: Robert C. Richardson
Издательство: MIT Press
Год: 2007
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 227
Размер: 2 MB
Язык: English

This is one of those books where an author expresses his wondering thoughts without making a clear point or really suggesting or proving anything. His arguments are weak and his writing is unfocused.

Название: Psychology in Organizations - The Social Identity Approach
Автор: Dr S Alexander Haslam
Издательство: Sage Publications Ltd
Год: 2004
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 337
Размер: 3 MB
Язык: English

Alex Haslam has thoroughly revised and updated his ground-breaking original text with this new edition. While still retaining the highly readable and engaging style of the best-selling First Edition, the author presents extensive reviews and critiques of major topics in organizational psychology - including leadership, motivation, communication, decision making, negotiation, power, productivity and collective action - in this thoroughly revised edition.

Название: Ethics and the A Priori: Selected Essays on Moral Psychology and Meta-Ethics
Автор: Michael Smith
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
Год: 2004
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 402
Размер: 2 MB
Язык: English

This volume includes a series of essays about the nature of belief and desire, the status of normative judgment, and the relevance of the views we take on both these topics to the accounts we give of our nature as free and responsible agents. The long awaited collection comprises some of the most influential of Michael Smith's essays written over a period of fifteen years and will be of interest to students in philosophy and psychology.

Название: Popular Psychology: An Encyclopedia
Автор: Luis A. Cord?n
Издательство: Greenwood Press
Год: 2005
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 296
Размер: 3 MB
Язык: English

Luis Cordon's reference is actually an encyclopedia, providing a basic guide for high school to college students who want to understand the foundations of serious psychology. There are over a hundred entries from acupuncture and alien abduction to brainwashing, chemical imbalance and more. Topics range from mood disorders to stress disorders, seasonal disorders and pop trends which aren't really true psychology.

Название: Encyclopedia of Applied Psychology, Three-Volume Set
Автор: Charles Spielberger
Издательство: Academic Press
Год: 2004
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 696
Размер: 7 MB
Язык: English

The Encyclopedia of Applied Psychology encompasses applications of psychological knowledge and procedures in all areas of psychology. This compendium is a major source of information for professional practitioners, researchers in psychology, and for anyone interested in applied psychology. The topics included are, but are not limited to, aging (geropsychology), assessment, clinical, cognitive, community, counseling, educational, environmental, family, industrial/organizational, health, school, sports, and transportation psychology. The entries drawn from the above-referenced areas provide a clear definition of topic, a brief review of theoretical basis relevant to the topic, and emphasize major areas of application. Also available online via ScienceDirect - featuring extensive browsing, searching, and internal cross-referencing between articles in the work, plus dynamic linking to journal articles and abstract databases, making navigation flexible and easy. For more information, pricing options and availability visit www.info.sciencedirect.com.

Название: Joint Attention: Communication and Other Minds: Issues in Philosophy and Psychology
Автор: Naomi Eilan, Christoph Hoerl, Teresa McCormack, Johannes Roessler
Издательство: Oxford University Press, USA
Год: 2005
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 345
Размер: 2 MB
Язык: English

Some time around their first birthday, children begin to engage in ''triadic'' interactions, i.e. interactions with adults that turn specifically on both child and adult jointly attending to an object in their surroundings. Recognized as a developmental milestone amongst psychologists for some time, joint attention has recently also started to attract the attention of philosophers. This volume brings together, for the first time, psychological and philosophical perspectives on the nature and significance of joint attention. Original contributions by leading researchers in both disciplines explore the idea that joint attention has a key foundational role to play in the emergence of communicative abilities, psychological understanding, and, possibly, in the very capacity for objective thought. Contributors: Dare Baldwin, Josep Call, John Campbell, Naomi Eilan, Fabio Franco, Juan-Carlos Gomez, Jane Heal, R. Peter Hobson, Christoph Hoerl, Sue Leekam, Teresa McCormack, Christopher Peacocke, Vasudevi Reddy, Johannes Roessler, Mark A. Sabbagh, Michael Tomasello, Amanda L. Woodward.