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Social Psychology in Action
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 245

Social Psychology in Action

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-07-01
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  • Publisher: Springer

This timely and applied textbook brings together leading scientists to illustrate how key theories and concepts in social psychology help to predict and explain behavior, and can be successfully applied to benefit social and practical problems. It focuses on robust theories and models known for their successful applications and covers a diverse range of settings—spanning classroom interventions, health behavior, financial decision making, climate change and much more. Each chapter comprises of a theoretical section to define the key concepts and summarize the theory, providing evidence for its reliability and limitations from basic research, as well as an application section that summarize...

Intergroup Relations
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 337

Intergroup Relations

This book analyses recent developments in intergroup research. It diverges from classical approaches that looked at diverse needs and motives, focussing not on what motivates intergroup behaviour, but on how intergroup behavior functions.

Strategic Uses of Social Technology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 227

Strategic Uses of Social Technology

On an everyday basis, we communicate with one another using various technological media, such as text messaging, social networking tools, and electronic mail, in work, educational, and personal settings. As a consequence of the increasing frequency of use and importance of computer-supported interaction, social scientists in particular have heeded the call to understand the social processes involved in such interactions. In this volume, the editors explore how aspects of a situation interact with characteristics of a person to help explain our technologically supported social interactions. The person-by-situation interaction perspective recognizes the powerful role of the situation and social forces on behavior, thought, and emotion, but also acknowledges the importance of person variables in explaining social interaction, including power and gender, social influence, truth and deception, ostracism, and leadership. This important study is of great relevance to modern readers, who are more and more frequently using technology to communicate with one another.

Self-control & Self-regulation in Social Contexts
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 56

Self-control & Self-regulation in Social Contexts

Self-regulation processes operate on an intrapersonal level during goal-striving. They comprise cognition and behavior individuals perform intentionally and consciously (self-control) as well as automatic, highly efficient, and nonintentional mechanisms (self-regulation). As well as examining these processes, this book also features a discussion on automatic self-regulation.

Power, Politics, and Paranoia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 339

Power, Politics, and Paranoia

Why are people frequently suspicious of their political and corporate leaders? This book examines the psychological roots of political paranoia.

Handbook of Research on Discourse Behavior and Digital Communication: Language Structures and Social Interaction
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 889

Handbook of Research on Discourse Behavior and Digital Communication: Language Structures and Social Interaction

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-05-31
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  • Publisher: IGI Global

A compendium of over 50 scholarly works on discourse behavior in digital communication.

Epidemics and Othering
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 247

Epidemics and Othering

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the lives of many people around the globe and has brought to the fore discussions about the ways in which relations of power have shaped human biology and the health of populations. Focusing on these biopolitics, this collection brings together a number of historical and cultural perspectives on processes of othering in the long transnational human history of epidemics and pandemics. Contributors explore the intertwinement of biopolitics and othering with regard to specific bodies, people, and places, in relation to COVID-19 and beyond, as they discuss othering dynamics in the context of post/colonialism and with reference to a number of different cultural, political, medical and media discourses.

The Seven Deadly Sins of Psychology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 293

The Seven Deadly Sins of Psychology

Why psychology is in peril as a scientific discipline—and how to save it Psychological science has made extraordinary discoveries about the human mind, but can we trust everything its practitioners are telling us? In recent years, it has become increasingly apparent that a lot of research in psychology is based on weak evidence, questionable practices, and sometimes even fraud. The Seven Deadly Sins of Psychology diagnoses the ills besetting the discipline today and proposes sensible, practical solutions to ensure that it remains a legitimate and reliable science in the years ahead. In this unflinchingly candid manifesto, Chris Chambers shows how practitioners are vulnerable to powerful biases that undercut the scientific method, how they routinely torture data until it produces outcomes that can be published in prestigious journals, and how studies are much less reliable than advertised. Left unchecked, these and other problems threaten the very future of psychology as a science—but help is here.

Governing Natural Resources for Sustainable Peace in Africa
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 188

Governing Natural Resources for Sustainable Peace in Africa

This book examines the dynamics of natural resource conflicts in Africa and explores the different governance approaches for securing sustainable peace. One of the most prominent challenges facing Africa today is the consequences of natural resource extraction. While these resources hold the potential for economic transformation across Africa, their extraction also comes with a range of environmental, social, and economic consequences, including issues related to governance. This book assembles a unique cohort of peacebuilding, environmental justice, and sustainable development scholars and practitioners from Africa and beyond to examine the dynamics of natural resource conflict and explore ...

The Exercise of Power in Communication
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 337

The Exercise of Power in Communication

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-05-05
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book explores the various choices speakers or communicators make when expressing power relations in modern societies. The volume brings together several disciplines, such as linguistics, sociology, communication studies and social psychology, to give insight into how interactants co-construct different aspects of power in their everyday life.