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The Psychology of Consumer and Social Influence: Theory and Research

Psychology Research Progress, Social Psychology, Psychology, Social and Behavioral Sciences
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The Psychology of Consumer and Social Influence stands out from other books on the topic of “influence”. Most books on influence or persuasion select authors to focus on subsets of theoretical issues within a fairly narrow research focus. In this book, you will find a set of consumer and social researchers – some among the…
Problem-Solving: Strategies, Challenges and Outcomes

Perspectives on Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Psychology, Social and Behavioral Sciences
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Life is a series of coping with a variety of problems. Major or minor problems arise for us all the time, and our life is filled with them. Thus, we need to engage in constant problem-solving in our daily lives. This book reviews strategies, challenges and outcomes of problem-solving. Chapter One discusses computational thinking and…
Mind over Matter

Psychology Research Progress, Developmental Psychology, Psychology, Social and Behavioral Sciences
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Mind over Matter explores issues in popular psychology and science that are firstly concerned with the evolution of the human species and, more particularly, of the human mind and its functioning; secondly, it discusses how people orientate to their environments and react through communication and discourse. It will also explore some interesting bisecting roads of…
Gambling: Risk Factors, Prevalence and Treatment Outcomes

Health Psychology Research Focus, Applied Psychology, Psychology, Social and Behavioral Sciences
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Gambling is a public health problem characterized by persistent and recurrent maladaptive patterns of gambling. There is a social incentive to reduce current gambling problems and prevent future gambling addiction. In this book, Chapter One begins with an analysis of the risk factors, prevalence, pathophysiology and discusses treatment options for pathological gambling. Chapter Two provides…
Research Trends in Behavior and Executive Function

Neuroscience Research Progress, Cognitive Psychology, Psychology, Social and Behavioral Sciences
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This book brings together interdisciplinary research in cognitive psychology, cognitive impairment and abnormalities, cognitive networks and neurofeedback, and neurophysiology. Covered are the latest developments, pinpointing directions for future research on cognitive sciences and theory. Essential reading for those working directly in the cognitive sciences or in related specialist areas, “Research Trends in Behavior and Executive…
Metacognition: Theory, Performance and Current Research

Perspectives on Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Psychology, Social and Behavioral Sciences
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The development of metacognitive skills in the human mind has been and is still a great challenge in cognitive psychology. This book provides current research on the theories and performance of metacognition. Chapter One analyzes the nature of metacognition conceptually with respect to its relationship to cognition. Chapter Two studies metacognition and cognitive flexibility in…
Psychology of Meditation

Psychology of Emotions, Motivations and Actions, Other, Psychology, Social and Behavioral Sciences
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Our understanding of the nature and applications of meditation, especially mindfulness meditation, has been expanding almost as rapidly as the empirical evidence from neuroscience and intervention studies that have become available in the research literature. Meditation is centuries old and prevalent in almost all ancient cultures in one form or another. Initially, people in the…
Psychology of Gender Identity: An International Perspective

Psychology Research Progress, Developmental Psychology, Psychology, Social and Behavioral Sciences
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Gender encompasses biological sex but extends beyond it to the socially prescribed roles deemed appropriate for each sex by the culture in which we live. The gender roles we each carry out are highly individualistic, built on our biological and physical traits, appearance and personality, life experiences such as childhood, career and education, and history…
Emotionality of Mental Illness (2 Volume Set)

Psychology of Emotions, Motivations and Actions, Cognitive Psychology, Social and Behavioral Sciences
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Emotionality has long been recognized as a crucial ingredient in human beings. A good connection with emotionality is essential; it is highly complicated and dynamic in human life. It can never be fully explained or analyzed by rational analysis and measurement of emotions. The writer has published a book `Emotionality and Mental Illness: A Multi-dimensional…
Emotionality and Mental Illness: A Multi-dimensional Model

Psychology of Emotions, Motivations and Actions, Cognitive Psychology, Psychology, Social and Behavioral Sciences
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Emotions are interactive, spontaneous and contextual. Its comprehensiveness should be articulated by dynamic interpretation of emotionality rather than a static and description of emotions by reductionistic measurement and scales. The same applies to the emotions of persons with mental illness. This book describes various perspectives and conceptual underpinnings of emotionality including evoluntionary, initial psychological, psycho-evolutionary,…
Recovery and Resilience of Persons with Mental Problems: Conceptual Interpretation and Interaction

Psychology Research Progress, Psychotherapy and Counseling, Psychology, Social and Behavioral Sciences
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Recovery has been the most important concept and ideology in working with clients with mental problems. In 2004, recovery was adopted by the United States Federal government as the guiding principles in mental health services and intervention. Resilience has also been an uprising concept in working with children, adolescents and families which are facing hardships,…
Modeling Human Behavior: Individuals and Organizations

Psychology of Emotions, Motivations and Actions, Social Psychology, Psychology, Social and Behavioral Sciences
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This book analyzes human behaviour from an individual and organizational perspective. Based on cutting-edge research, each chapter is focused on modeling human behaviour in different fields and takes into account uncertain environments by applying innovative quantitative and qualitative approaches. The book deals with the decision-making process of not only individuals behaving as economic agents who…
Advances in Psychology Research. Volume 118

Advances in Psychology Research, Psychological Methods, Research and Statistics, Psychology, Social and Behavioral Sciences
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This book focuses on the latest developments in psychology research. The author of Chapter One contends that lucid control across states of consciousness can be used to change the negative aspects of mental processes such as nightmares, phobic anxiety, addictions, obsessive compulsive symptoms and hallucinations. Chapter Two reviews how to identify loneliness in intimate relations.…
The Five-Factor Model: Recent Developments and Clinical Applications

Psychology Research Progress, Psychological Methods, Research and Statistics, Psychology, Social and Behavioral Sciences
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Personality traits are enduring dispositional tendencies commonly defined as “dimensions of individual differences in tendencies to show consistent patterns of thoughts, feelings, and actions.” The broad consensus within the personality literature is that normal or general personality traits can be organised around five higher-order dimensions. These five personality dimensions are Neuroticism, Extraversion, Openness to Experience…
Discussions with Julian Jaynes: The Nature of Consciousness and the Vagaries of Psychology

Psychology Research Progress, History and Philosophy of Psychology, Psychology, Social and Behavioral Sciences
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In 1976, the late Julian Jaynes of Princeton University published the groundbreaking The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind in which he argued that before the twelfth century BC, the minds of individuals were of a different neurocultural organization. Rather than being consciously self-aware as people nowadays think of it, the…
Emotional Intelligence and Health Outcomes: Toward an Ecological Model of Well-Being

Health Psychology Research Focus, Psychological Methods, Research and Statistics, Psychology, Social and Behavioral Sciences
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Everybody talks about emotional intelligence, it seems; educators, organizational science experts, self-help and self-growth gurus all speak of the ability to identify emotions, use them in problem-solving, decode complex emotional reactions and regulate emotion to guide internal and external behavior. Is emotional intelligence really the big answer to all those big questions that went unanswered…
Advances in Psychology Research. Volume 117

Advances in Psychology Research, Psychological Methods, Research and Statistics, Psychology, Social and Behavioral Sciences
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This book focuses on the latest developments in psychology research. Chapter One aims at the presentation of specific determinants for indirect type aggressive behaviour in adolescence. Chapter Two studies child-to-parent violence (CPV). Chapter Three briefly summarizes the long-standing literature on stereotypes about gender and emotion and how gender role socialization reinforces these stereotypes before highlighting…
Palliative Care: Psychosocial and Ethical Considerations

Health and Human Development (Edited Series), Psychotherapy and Counseling, Psychology, Social and Behavioral Sciences
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A great number of cancer patients will suffer some form of social, emotional or psychological distress and challenges as a result of the disease and its treatment. Unattended, psychosocial issues can leave patients and families ill-equipped to cope and manage their cancer diagnosis and treatment. When psychosocial care is properly integrated into clinical care, it…
Self-Concept: Perceptions, Cultural Influences and Gender Differences

Psychology of Emotions, Motivations and Actions, Cognitive Psychology, Psychology, Social and Behavioral Sciences
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Self-concept is broadly defined as a person’s perceptions of himself or herself. Self-concept is one of the most extensively researched constructs in educational psychology. This book provides new research, perceptions, cultural influences and gender differences of self-concept. Chapter One discusses a process called fusion which states that various constructs may be perceived to be more…
Psychology of Empathy: New Research

Psychology of Emotions, Motivations and Actions, Cognitive Psychology, Psychology, Social and Behavioral Sciences
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Empathy has been identified as a necessary capability to facilitate effective interpersonal interaction in social settings. As a sophisticated set of skills that are integrated into communication (Arnold, 2005), empathy represents one of the fundamental forms of human expression facilitating the development of social behaviour. This book provides new research on the psychology of empathy.…
Adversity after the Crash: The Physical, Psychological and Social Burden of Motor Vehicle Crashes

Trauma and Recovery - New in 2018, Upcoming Publications, Psychology
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The World Health Organization recognizes that motor vehicle crashes and their impacts have become a serious public health crisis, with injury rates expected to escalate globally over the next 30 years. This is not surprising as adversity associated with the traumatic experience of a motor vehicle crash in which one could have died can be…
Self-Esteem: Perspectives, Influences and Improvement Strategies

Psychology of Emotions, Motivations and Actions, Personality and Individual Differences, Psychology, Social and Behavioral Sciences
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Self–esteem is very important in modern and contemporary Western psychology. This concept has had a profound influence on personality, social psychology, and cross–cultural studies. Self-esteem is an important construct that underlies and often helps to explain human thoughts, feelings, and behavior. This book discusses the perspectives and influences of self-esteem, and provides a review on…
Prosocial Behavior: Perspectives, Influences and Current Research

Psychology of Emotions, Motivations and Actions, Social Psychology, Psychology, Social and Behavioral Sciences
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Prosocial behaviour is a form of behaviour that is voluntarily carried out in order to provide benefits for others. In this book, Chapter One includes a theoretical review, highlighting different studies investigating some aspects present in prosocial behavior. Chapter Two analyzes prosocial behavior from a social psychology point of view, examines the theoretical contributions of…
Chronic Stress and Health

Health Psychology Research Focus, General Psychology, Psychology, Social and Behavioral Sciences
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Stress is the process in which environmental demands exceed an individual’s ability to cope, resulting in affective, behavioral, and physiological changes. In response to stress, the body activates several pathways as the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA), sympathetic-adrenal-medullary, renin-angiotensin system (RAS) and parasympathetic system in attempting to preserve homeostasis. This book provides new research on the impact chronic…