Bridging Multiple Worlds (Child Development in Cultural Context)
by Catherine R Cooper
In every cultural group and in regions worldwide, education is strongly linked to children and adolescents' life opportunities and choices. Many societies embrace the ideals that their children will have equal access to education, and can advance through their merit. However, in many nations, as children move through primary and secondary school towards higher education, the number of immigrant, minority, and low-income youth who finish secondary school and attend college shrinks, signifying a g...
The Psychological Wealth of Nations (Contemporary Social Issues and Interventions)
by Professor of Psychology Shigehiro Oishi
The Psychological Wealth of Nations reviews the range of new scientific research related to individual and societal happiness. Presents a comprehensive review of happiness, from conceptual and measurement issues to an exploration of predictors and consequences of happiness Explores the psychology and economics of happiness and examines the correlations between societal wealth, productivity, and happiness in different countries Offers compelling insights into the ways individual happine...
Philosopher John Lachs observes that humans today live lives of comfort but also sees that these comfortable lives come at a cost: our increasing unhappiness. In The Cost of Comfort, Lachs contemplates what humans need in order to live fulfilled lives in today's world. While comfort has not always reached everyone evenly, Lachs acknowledges that most of us who live in the US today reap the benefits of modern life. We live longer, we eat better food, we have access to good medical care, and we ca...
Little Foxes, Or, the Insignificant Little Habits Which Mar Domestic Happiness
Social Psychology (Hardcover) + Heinzen: Social Psychology Interactive eBook (Ieb)+ Case Studies in Social Psychology (Paperback)
by Thomas E. Heinzen and Dr Wind Goodfriend
Coping with Threatened Identities (Psychology Library Editions: Social Psychology)
by Glynis M. Breakwell
People cope with threats to their identities in many different ways. Until the original publication of this title in 1986, there had been no theoretical framework within which to analyse their strategies for doing this, or to examine the nature and impact of the threatening experiences themselves. In this elegant and original book, Glynis Breakwell proposes an integrative model which explores the structure of identity and the principles directing its development. Focusing on examples of threat...
Multi Pack: Social Psychology 3e with Penguin Psychology Dictionary
by Michael Hogg and Graham Vaughan
This Multi Pack consists of Social Psychology 3rd ed (0130336327) with Penguin Psychology Dictionary (0140514511).
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This dual-platform CD-ROM includes 15 interactive experiment and demonstration modules that give students the opportunity to explore concepts in perception, vision science, neuroscience, cognition, and experimental psychology. Each experiment demonstrates a particular experiment procedure and permits students to generate a real data set that can be summarized, graphed, and subjected to statistical analysis. Each interactive demonstration illustrates a particular visual phenomenon and permits the...
A Social Psychology Perspective on The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Peace Psychology Book)
Due to its intensity and extensive effects both locally and globally, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has drawn the attention of scholars from numerous disciplines, who attempt to explain the causes of the conflict and the reasons for the difficulties in resolving it. Among these one can find historians, geographers, political scientists, sociologists and others. This volume explores the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from a social psychology perspective. At the core of the book is a theory of in...