Books in Personality

Road Traffic Coordinated Actuated Signal Control

1st Edition
October 3, 2025
Zong Tian + 4 more
English
eBook
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Road Traffic Coordinated Actuated Signal Control: Global Practices examines the major principles and distinct practices on signal control systems tailored to unique traffic network and intersection design around the world. The book shows how multimodal traffic is handled at signalized intersections and arterials, addressing the expected changes and requirements on all transport modes due to the emerging connected and automated vehicle technologies. A valuable reference in countries where fixed-time control is still predominant, this book will serve as a comprehensive practical reference for practitioners and classroom teaching.

Social Anxiety

4th Edition
October 1, 2025
Patricia M. DiBartolo + 1 more
English

Social Anxiety: Clinical, Developmental, and Social Perspectives, Fourth Edition provides a comprehensive view of what social anxiety is, how it is related to shyness and embarrassment, its assessment and treatment. The book integrates research by social and developmental psychologists with findings on Social Anxiety Disorder in psychiatry, neuroscience, and clinical psychology.  The 4e is fully updated including 4 new chapters on issues related to gender, social media, a meta-analysis on treatment choices, and novel treatments.

International Encyclopedia of Business Management

1st Edition
September 1, 2025
Vanessa Ratten
English
Hardback
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eBook
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The Encyclopedia of Business Management, Four Volume Set is a comprehensive resource that covers over 200 topics across various areas of business management. Each entry is written in an accessible manner, making complex concepts easy to understand. The encyclopedia addresses interdisciplinary subjects such as cultural entrepreneurship, tourism innovation, and marketing promotions. By emphasizing definitions and practical applications, the entries help readers grasp the relevance of each topic. Expert editors lead each section, ensuring that the contributions are authoritative and well-rounded.The encyclopedia is divided into seven broad themes, including business entrepreneurship, human resource management, innovation management, international business, organizational behavior, project management, supply chain management, and sport and tourism management. Each section's articles begin with a technical analysis of key definitional issues, followed by an exploration of the topic's broader context. This structured approach provides a holistic examination of the subjects, allowing readers to gain a comprehensive understanding of vital business management concepts.

The Psychology of Romantic Relationships

1st Edition
August 1, 2025
Ami Rokach + 2 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Dive deep into the complex waters of martial intimacy with The Psychology of Romantic Relationships. Aimed for researchers, students, and clinicians, this comprehensive exploration and dissecting what factors contribute to successful relationships. Starting with Intimacy in Romantic Relationships, each chapter unfolds a new facet of the intricate dynamics that underlie successful marriages. From the crucial role of communication and trust in The Centrality of Communication in Marriage and Trust in Romantic Relations to the delicate balance of Gratitude in Intimate Relationships and Forgiveness, this book provides a rich tapestry of insights for anyone seeking to understand and improve their martial bonds. Whether you're a seasoned psychologist, a budding therapist, or a curious student of the human heart, 'Psychology of Martial Intimacy' equips you with the knowledge and tools to navigate the blissful highs and occasional mayhem of love.

Handbook of Organizational Creativity

2nd Edition
June 22, 2023
Roni Reiter-Palmon + 1 more
English
Hardback
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eBook
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Handbook of Organizational Creativity: Individual and Group Level Influences, Second Edition covers creativity from many perspectives in two unique volumes, including artificial Intelligence work, creativity within specific applied domains (e.g., engineering, science, therapy), and coverage of leadership. The book includes individual, team and organizational level factors and includes organizational interventions to facilitate creativity (such as training). Chapters focus on creative abilities and creative problem-solving processes, along with individual differences such as motivation, affect and personality. New chapters include the neuroscience of creativity, creativity and meaning, morality/ethicality and creativity, and creative self-beliefs. Sections on group level phenomena examine team cognition, team social processes, team diversity, social networks, and multi-team systems and creativity. Final coverages includes different types and approaches to leadership, such as transformational leadership, ambidextrous leadership leader-follower relations, and more.

Handbook of Organizational Creativity

2nd Edition
June 22, 2023
Roni Reiter-Palmon + 1 more
English
Hardback
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eBook
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Handbook of Organizational Creativity: Leadership, Interventions, and Macro Level Issues, Second Edition covers creativity from many perspectives in two unique volumes, including artificial Intelligence work, creativity within specific applied domains (e.g., engineering, science, therapy), and coverage of leadership. The book includes individual, team and organizational level factors and includes organizational interventions to facilitate creativity (such as training). Chapters focus on creative abilities and creative problem-solving processes, along with individual differences such as motivation, affect and personality. New chapters include the neuroscience of creativity, creativity and meaning, morality/ethicality and creativity, and creative self-beliefs. Sections on group level phenomena examine team cognition, team social processes, team diversity, social networks, and multi-team systems and creativity. Final coverages includes different types and approaches to leadership, such as transformational leadership, ambidextrous leadership leader-follower relations, and more.

Machine Learning for Transportation Research and Applications

1st Edition
April 19, 2023
Yinhai Wang + 2 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Transportation is a combination of systems that presents a variety of challenges often too intricate to be addressed by conventional parametric methods. Increasing data availability and recent advancements in machine learning provide new methods to tackle challenging transportation problems. This textbookis designed for college or graduate-level students in transportation or closely related fields to study and understand fundamentals in machine learning. Readers will learn how to develop and apply various types of machine learning models to transportation-related problems. Example applications include traffic sensing, data-quality control, traffic prediction, transportation asset management, traffic-system control and operations, and traffic-safety analysis.

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Smart City Planning

1st Edition
January 11, 2023
Vedik Basetti + 3 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Smart City Planning shows the reader practical applications of AIML techniques and describes recent advancements in this area in various sectors. Owing to the multidisciplinary nature, this book primarily focuses on the concepts of AIML and its methodologies such as evolutionary techniques, neural networks, machine learning, deep learning, block chain technology, big data analytics, and image processing in the context of smart cities. The text also discusses possible solutions to different challenges posed by smart cities by presenting cutting edge AIML techniques using different methodologies, as well as future directions for those same techniques.

Creativity and Morality

1st Edition
October 27, 2022
Hansika Kapoor + 1 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Creativity and Morality summarizes and integrates research on creativity used to achieve bad or immoral ends. The book includes the use of deception, novel ideas to commit wrongdoings across contexts, including in organizations, the classroom and terrorism. Morality is discussed from an individual perspective and relative to broader sociocultural norms that allow people to believe actions are justified. Chapters explore this research from an interdisciplinary perspective, including from psychology, philosophy, media studies, aesthetics and ethics.

Individual Differences and Personality

4th Edition
March 26, 2022
Michael C. Ashton
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Individual Differences and Personality, Fourth Edition provides a comprehensive overview of research regarding what personality is and how and why it differs between people. This book begins with a description of the study of personality and then presents basic principles of personality measurement, the concept of personality traits, and the major dimensions of personality variation. Further chapters review personality change and stability, biological causal mechanisms, genetic and environmental influences, and evolutionary adaptive function. Personality disorders are examined as are life outcomes (such as relationships, work, and health) that are predicted by personality characteristics. In addition, the book examines important individual differences beyond personality, such as mental abilities, religious beliefs, political attitudes, and sexuality. Revisions to the fourth edition include updates to all chapters and substantial new content. For example, the developmental change chapter includes new studies of long-term stability, and the biological bases chapter includes new research about the effects of dopamine-like substances on impulse control. The genetics chapter has been heavily revised to cover recent meta-analyses and large-scale studies of the heritability of personality traits. In the chapter on the evolutionary function of personality, the discussion of sex differences is expanded to include cross-cultural variation. The chapter on personality and life outcomes includes new coverage of rating the personality of one's hypothetical ideal partner. The chapter on mental ability has updates on brain volume and IQ and on motivation and IQ.

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Books in Personality

Road Traffic Coordinated Actuated Signal Control

Social Anxiety

International Encyclopedia of Business Management

The Psychology of Romantic Relationships

Handbook of Organizational Creativity

Handbook of Organizational Creativity

Machine Learning for Transportation Research and Applications

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Smart City Planning

Creativity and Morality

Individual Differences and Personality