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Advances in Motivation Science

  • 1st Edition
  • Volume 7
  • February 13, 2020
  • Andrew J. Elliot
  • English
  • Hardback
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Advances in Motivation Science, Volume Seven, the latest release in Elsevier's serial on the topic of motivation science, contains interesting articles that cover topics such as Moving from Research on Message Framing to Principles of Message Matching: The Use of Gain- and Loss-Framed Messages to Promote Healthy Behavior, 35 Years of Research on Students’ Subjective Task Values and Motivation: A Look Back and a Look Forward, The Motivational Potency of Nostalgia: The Future is Called Yesterday, Adaptive Self-Regulation, Subjective Well-Being, and Physical Health: The Importance of Goal Adjustment Capacities, and much more.

Advances in Experimental Social Psychology

  • 1st Edition
  • Volume 60
  • August 27, 2019
  • James M. Olsen
  • English
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Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 60, the latest release in this highly cited series, contains contributions of major empirical and theoretical interest in social psychology. Chapters in this new release include Belief in Karma: How Cultural Evolution, Cognition, and Motivation Shape Belief in Supernatural Justice, Into Another’s Mind Darkly: How the Mechanisms of Social Judgment Yield Predictable Accuracy, Bias, and Insights for Improvement, Toward Capturing the Functional and Nuanced Nature of Social Stereotypes: An Affordance Management Theory, Mechanisms of Motivated Self-Perception and Their Relation to Authenticity, The Dual-Hormone Hypothesis of Testosterone and Cortisol Interactions in Human Behavior, and more.

Handbook of Crime Correlates

  • 2nd Edition
  • June 4, 2019
  • Lee Ellis + 2 more
  • English
  • Hardback
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The Handbook of Crime Correlates, Second Edition summarizes more than a century of worldwide research on traits and social conditions associated with criminality and antisocial behavior. Findings are provided in tabular form, enabling readers to determine at a glance the nature of each association. Within each table, results are listed by country, type of crime (or other forms of antisocial behavior), and whether each variable is positively, negatively, or insignificantly associated with offending behavior. Criminal behavior is broken down according to major categories, including violent crime, property crime, drug offenses, sex offenses, delinquency, and recidivism. This book provides a resource for practitioners and academics who are interested in criminal and antisocial behavior. It is relevant to the fields of criminology/criminal justice, sociology, and psychology. No other publication provides as much information about how a wide range of variables—e.g., gender, religion, personality traits, weapons access, alcohol and drug use, social status, geography, and seasonality—correlate with offending behavior.

Confronting Prejudice and Discrimination

  • 1st Edition
  • March 9, 2019
  • Robyn K. Mallett + 1 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Confronting Prejudice and Discrimination: The Science of Changing Minds and Behaviors focuses on confrontation as a strategy for reducing bias and discrimination. The volume tackles questions that people face when they wish to confront bias: What factors influence people’s decisions to confront or ignore bias in its various forms? What are the motives and consequences of confrontation? How can confrontation be approached individually, through education and empowerment, and in specific contexts (e.g., health care) to yield favourable outcomes? These questions are paramount in contemporary society, where confrontation of bias is increasingly evident. Moreover, great strides in the scientific study of confrontation in the past 20 years has yielded valuable insights and answers. This volume is an essential resource for students and researchers with an interest in prejudice and prejudice reduction, and will also be valuable to non-academics who wish to stand up to bias through confrontation.

Advances in Child Development and Behavior

  • 1st Edition
  • Volume 56
  • March 5, 2019
  • Janette B. Benson
  • English
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Advances in Child Development and Behavior, Volume 56 is the latest release in this classic resource on the field of developmental psychology. Chapters highlight some of the most recent research in the field of developmental psychology, with this release covering Early moral development through social interactions, Cognitive Functioning in Children with Down Syndrome: Moderators and Opportunities for Intervention, Cultural snapshots: A Method to Capture Social Contexts in the Development of Prejudice and Stereotyping, Speaking Your Mind: Language and Narrative in Young Children’s Theory of Mind Development, Interactive Digital Media and Symbolic Development, Understanding Strategy Change: Individual, Meta-cognitive and Contextual Factors, and more.

Advances in Motivation Science

  • 1st Edition
  • Volume 6
  • February 25, 2019
  • Andrew J. Elliot
  • English
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Advances in Motivation Science, Volume Six, the latest release in Elsevier's serial on the topic of motivation science, presents articles on a variety of topics, including Motivation, Emotion, Cognition, and Communication: Definitions and Notes toward a Grand Theory, Motivation in the Service of Allostasis: The Role of anterior Mid Cingulate, Climatic Ignition of Motivation, My Journey to the Attribution Fields, Inspiration as optimal motivation: From ancient theory to contemporary science, The development of self-determination theory: The emergence of SDT's six mini theories and their validation, and more. The advent of the cognitive revolution in the 1960 and 70s eclipsed the emphasis on motivation to a large extent, but in the past two decades motivation has returned en force. Today, motivational analyses of affect, cognition and behavior are ubiquitous across psychological literatures and disciplines. This series brings together internationally recognized experts who focus on cutting-edge theoretical and empirical contributions in this important area of psychology.

Advances in Experimental Social Psychology

  • 1st Edition
  • Volume 59
  • February 20, 2019
  • James M. Olson
  • English
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Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 59, the latest release in this highly cited series in the field, contains contributions of major empirical and theoretical interest that represent the best and brightest in new research, theory and practice in social psychology. This serial is part of the Social Sciences package on Science Direct, and is available online beginning with Volume 31. Topics in this updated release include Women and Men, Moms and Dads: Leveraging Social Role Change to Promote Gender Equality, The Dynamics of Belonging Regulation, and Inter-object and Inter-individual Differences in Attitude Content, amongst other interesting topics.

The Handbook of Antagonism

  • 1st Edition
  • February 14, 2019
  • Joshua W. Miller + 1 more
  • English
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The Handbook of Antagonism: Conceptualizations, Assessment, Consequences, and Treatment of the Low End of Agreeableness looks at the theoretical and empirical underpinnings of antagonism, highlighting the consequences of the trait, its role in a number of problem behaviors and psychiatric disorders, and how it exerts itself on externalizing behaviors. Covering the biological and evolutionary roots of antagonism, the book provides clinical insight on assessment strategies, while also outlining a number of treatment techniques, including motivational interviewing, cognitive behavioral therapy, interpersonal psychology and psychodynamic treatment approaches. In addition, the book explores the development of antagonism across childhood and adolescence, discussing the societal consequences of the trait, as well as its role in a number of problem behaviors, such as aggression, violence, crime and substance use.

Cognitive Foundations for Improving Mathematical Learning

  • 1st Edition
  • Volume 5
  • January 3, 2019
  • David C. Geary + 2 more
  • English
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The fifth volume in the Mathematical Cognition and Learning series focuses on informal learning environments and other parental influences on numerical cognitive development and formal instructional interventions for improving mathematics learning and performance. The chapters cover the use of numerical play and games for improving foundational number knowledge as well as school math performance, the link between early math abilities and the approximate number system, and how families can help improve the early development of math skills. The book goes on to examine learning trajectories in early mathematics, the role of mathematical language in acquiring numeracy skills, evidence-based assessments of early math skills, approaches for intensifying early mathematics interventions, the use of analogies in mathematics instruction, schema-based diagrams for teaching ratios and proportions, the role of cognitive processes in treating mathematical learning difficulties, and addresses issues associated with intervention fadeout.

Creativity and Humor

  • 1st Edition
  • August 29, 2018
  • Sarah R. Luria + 2 more
  • English
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Creativity and Humor provides an overview of the intersection of how humor influences creativity and how creativity can affect humor. The book's chapters speak to the wide reach of creativity and humor with different topics, such as play, culture, work, education, therapy, and social justice covered. As creativity and humor are individual traits and abilities that have each been studied in psychology, this book presents the latest information.

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