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Quick ViewPsychological well-being can be influenced by several factors. This book provides research and reviews cultural influences of well-being, as well as discusses measurement strategies and health implications. Chapter One studies immigrants’ psychological well-being by investigating their motivation, preference of tourist activities, and emotional experiences during their visit to their homeland. Chapter Two proposes the creation…
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Quick ViewThis book is about figuring out what the best course of action is when things go wrong. The goal is to provide a set of tools so that the non-strategist can make the best of bad situations. It does so by providing worksheets and a knowledge transfer system based on the Socratic Method, as well…
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Quick ViewThe study of risk perception started when experts in these matters figured out that common people often disagreed about how they envisage risk, even in how people observed that risk. There are many theories about risk perception. Some are exclusively related to risk perception while others are adaptations from perception theories. Many of these theories…
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Quick ViewCreativity is a property of a finished idea or product. An idea is creative if it is both new and adaptive. Creative ideas are needed in a world that becomes ever more complex, and poses problems with no clear path to a solution and for which no solution method is known. These ill-conditioned problems are…
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Quick ViewGaming is continuing to grow into one of the largest entertainment industries, not only in North America but also in the entire world. It has been estimated that, as of early 2015, nearly one-third (115 million) of Americans are playing video games. There is an average of two gamers in a United States household, and…
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Quick ViewThis book introduces the most significant studies and practices developed by scholars and researchers in school psychology in Brazil. The chapters discuss a critical, historical and cultural perspective of how psychology as a science and psychologists as professionals are able to contribute with schooling and education. Its goal is to provide an overview about the…
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Quick ViewAnxiety can be defined as an emotional state that combines either physiological and psychological response and reflects a stage of cognitive and behavioral alert that an organism mobilizes in response to a potential distress. This pathology can be conceptualized as having two components: state and trait. Trait anxiety refers to an individual’s personality and predisposition…
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Quick ViewMany events in our daily lives require that we allocate attentional resources towards relevant information in the environment. However, we are constantly presented with more information than we can possibly attend to at any given moment. Visual spatial attention is the prioritization of visual processing to a particular spatial region in one’s environment, and is…
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Quick ViewSuicide is a serious problem, hallmarked by complexity and ranked as a leading cause of death worldwide. International studies of suicide epidemiology show that suicide rates are generally greater in males than females and increase with age, with the elderly having the highest suicide rates (WHO, 2002). The prevention of suicide is, in part, contingent…
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Quick ViewPsychological distress has become a very relevant and highly debated topic as a result of the increasing volume of information available. In fact, in the last decades, more and more research has been conducted in order to provide unique knowledge and shed new light on this important and sensible malady. In a complex and variegated…
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Quick ViewDefining creativity comprehensively explains what creativity is from an international diverse standpoint. At the same time, it makes for a concise and inspiring read that brings together everything there is to know about creativity and gifted children. This practical text is based on the newest research, and the described practice enables the reader to understand…
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Quick ViewThe 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…
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Quick ViewMind 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…
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Quick ViewGender 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…
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Quick ViewThis book focuses on persons with severe depression and formulates empathic, humanistic and effective interventions in dealing with severe depression. The NICHE approach described in this book is a prolonged and accumulative crystallization of innovative ideas, successful interventions, genuine sharing and courageous trials in the process of clinical training and supervision. The acronym NICHE refers…
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Quick ViewRecovery 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,…
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Quick ViewPersonality 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…
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Quick ViewThis book presents compelling empirical evidence, collected in the US and Europe, that how one reacts to others’ ups and downs may profoundly affect their own mental health. Depression continues to devastate a growing number of lives globally. More than 350 million people worldwide have depression (Smith, 2014). While medications and psychotherapy help many, more…
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Quick View“The Psychology of Handwriting” is an interdisciplinary study of the relationship between psychological characteristics and handwriting. The results presented in the book refer to a possibility of identification of a person’s personality/mental traits on the basis of one’s handwriting. The author has performed very extensive research in the area and has replicated all of her…
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Quick ViewIn 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…
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Quick ViewAccording to the World Health Organization, pathological addiction is the psychic, and sometimes even physical, condition arising from the interaction between a living organism and an exogenous substance, characterized by behavioral responses and other reactions that always include a compulsive need to take the substance continuously or periodically, in order to get its psychic effects…
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Quick ViewWith intelligence now getting a front-row seat in governments around the world, this book is especially timely. Intelligence rains in, but without an understanding of the nature of the intelligence, it accumulates in puddles of obscurity. The problems therefore seem to be how to obtain it, how to understand it, and how to sell it…
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Quick ViewThe human brain deals, at every instant, with a huge amount of visual stimuli. Besides that, the problem of treating all this information becomes even more complex if we consider that each component of a given stimuli needs to be compared to a set of known signals stored in memory. In Chapter One a numerical…
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Quick ViewThis book presents important research advances in the study of psychology research. Topics discussed herein include cultural psychology; meta-mood research; child and adolescent psychiatry; psychological influences on child nutrition; psychotherapy of addictive diseases; sexual hormones and aggressive behavior in schizophrenia; Asperger syndrome; personality traits of intelligence; and the expression patterns of bizarre behavior. (Imprint: Nova)
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