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Quick ViewResearchers have questioned the dilemma of looking the family as a casual social group or as an organization that works and can be measured with the same constructs to estimate labor organizations (Brotheridge, M. and Lee, R. [2006]). In New Developments in Psychology Research, analyzing the congruence between the performance of work organizations and family…
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Quick ViewThis Festschrift in honor of Professor Jean Guichard celebrates the important theoretical and applied contributions of his writings on guidance and counseling. This book is a tribute and global recognition of the strength of the international scientific contributions of Jean Guichard. Among his many achievements, the UNESCO Chair of Lifelong Guidance and Counseling was founded…
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Quick ViewAs the power of talk therapy was beginning to be discovered, it became clear at about the same time that it was very difficult to provide individual therapy for many people at the same time. Such therapy was extremely time-consuming and costly of human energy. This book reviews group therapies, personal growth groups, and support…
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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 ViewInmates assume different roles during the course of incarceration to survive the pains of imprisonment. It is believed that women feel the pains of imprisonment more harshly than males because of the difficulty in being separated from their family and children. Adaptations to the prison environment differ according to sex, yet, both sexes can succumb…
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Quick ViewPlacebo effect is a medical term indicating an effect attributed to sham pharmaceutical preparations, which are able to induce a positive or a recovery response in an individual interacting both with placebo and the general practitioner, physician or caregiver. The placebo response is a well-recognized phenomenon, particularly in the context of clinical trails. The chapters…
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Quick ViewFriendship has a positive impact on social and metacognitive skills, and many pedagogues and authors hypothesize that having friends can affect positively children’s school performance. In this book, an exploratory study conducted with young pupils to investigate the impact of friendship on cognitive engagement during several search information tasks. The second chapter reviews recent research…
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Quick ViewPhilosophy has long wondered about relations between a happy and an honest, moral life. This book includes chapters on the relationship between the satisfaction with life (the cognitive component of subjective well-being) and happiness. Furthermore, the economics of happiness and subjective well-being (SWB) has been the focus of considerable attention among social scientists recently. All…
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Quick ViewThis book aims to present an overview of current research and dominant theories on human attention. It presents a comprehensive review of the current state of theories in the field, including the measurement and neuropsychology of attention. It also discusses the relationship between attention and new media. The title of this book includes the word…
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Quick ViewThis book presents contemporary psychoanalytic perspectives, ideas, concepts and socio-psychological implications of living in the modern world, both within the therapy room and outside. Since its inception, and as with any conceptual framework of human perception and motivation that frames how the world is experienced, psychoanalysis has evolved in both theory and application to now…
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Quick View“Collective behavior” is can be defined as human individuals acting together in groups; these groups can be as small as three people, or as large as millions of people. Collective behavior is also concerned with animals forming swarms and flocks, neurons firing in synchrony, and chemical and biochemical particles with on-board energy depots acting together…
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Quick ViewThis book was originally part of a much larger project tentatively entitled The Propertied Self: Wealth, Progress, and Human Nature. This was an overly ambitious manuscript whose coherence was probably not obvious to many readers. It was never published. However, portions that were not included in the work formed another book called A Psychohistory of…
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Quick ViewThis book provides fundamentals, applications and future directions of several theories of psychology. The first chapter focuses the classification of narcissism and argues multiple parallels between narcissistic behaviors and documented responses to justice threat. Chapter two examines if individuals who report living on following a gluten-free diet adhere across a typical week, and the behaviors…
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Quick ViewThe relationship between self-esteem and body image has been well-established such that low levels of self-esteem have been found to be associated with body image concerns. The authors review previous research on the link between low self-esteem and body image concerns and then discuss more recent research concerning the importance of contingent self-esteem in this…
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Quick ViewThe main aspects of developmental psychology can be found in Section I; it includes the concept of attachment, which is a central construct of developmental psychology that has gained more and more importance in clinical psychology and psychotherapy over the years. Neuropsychological disorders, which play a central role in many other psychological disorders (e.g.: executive…
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Quick ViewNowadays, organizational competitiveness depends on its effectiveness, versatility and the ability to respond to customer needs. Thus, companies look for flexibility in human resources as a means of attaining an economic advantage. In fact, the increasing recourse to contingent work may be regarded as more than an economic matter; it can be considered a reflex…
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Quick ViewPositive Psychology for Positive Pedagogical Actions is organized into three different sections, each containing an introduction and three chapters. This book provides desirable and attainable new ideas for improving education as positive interventions. The introduction of this book frames the authors’ analysis using positive psychology tools to develop techniques promoting positive pedagogical actions. Each section…
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Quick ViewThis collection of articles embraces theoretical and practical issues related to the emerging phenomenon of ‘nature-based creative arts therapies’, or ‘eco-arts therapies/environmental arts therapies’. Due to the negative effects of some aspects of technological development upon various social and environmental processes, the relationship between human beings and nature has received more recognition. The growing field…
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