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Elsevier's Psychology collection is vital for students and psychologists, providing a thorough understanding of the mind and behavior. Covering human thought, development, personality, emotion, and motivation, it offers insights into both theoretical and practical aspects. Through topics like cognitive, developmental, and clinical psychology, it equips researchers and students to address real-world challenges and advance their understanding of the field.

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The Psychology of Gambling

1st Edition
Michael Walker
English

It is a difficult problem to understand why people gamble at all, but far more difficult to understand why a person will borrow, steal, defraud, lie, break a range of promises, prove irresponsible and commit a range of crimes all in order to gamble. In this comprehensive study the author examines gambling behaviour, with descriptions of specific games, along with different explanations for gambling and approaches to treatment of problem gambling. In the preface the author points out there are few accurate statistics regarding problem gambling, and demonstrates laboratory experiments on gambling are largely unreliable. Consequently the book relies mostly on field studies in drawing its conclusions. While relying on field studies for data, the book does not limit itself in its theoretical approach. All perspectives can coexist, and a joint approach to understanding is more effective as an explanation than any one perspective alone.

Subjective Well-Being

1st Edition
F. Strack + 2 more
English

This volume brings together several authors from different areas of psychology and the neighbouring social sciences. Each contributes their own perspective on the growing interest topic of subjective well-being. The aim of the volume is to present these divergent perspectives and to foster communication between the different areas. Split into three parts, this volume firstly discusses the general perspectives of subjective well-being and addresses fundamental questions, secondly it discusses the dynamics of subjective well-being and more specific research issues to give a better understanding of the general phenomenon, and thirdly the book emphasizes the social context in which people experience and report their happiness and satisfaction.

Children's Social Competence in Context

1st Edition
Barry Schneider
English

Interpersonal relationships have been systematically studied in North America and Europe for about 80 years, yet many theorists have avoided the thorny task of charting the origins or causes of social relations and individual styles of relating. Thebelief that the child's interpersonal style is moulded by the parents' discipline and the example they set is deeply ingrained in Western culture. The values of parents in bringing up a child are combined with the values repersented by school and society.Many authorites, however, now reject the idea that there is a one-to-one correspondence between the way children are raised and the persons they become, or, at least, recognize that the issue is more complex than it once seemed. The purpose of this book is to equip the reader to understand the dynamics by which these contexts - home, school and culture - may come to influence the emergence of the child's social competence. The theoretical foundations and scope of relevant research are depicted, and critized, in a constructive way.

Genius & Eminence

2nd Edition
Robert S. Albert
English

In this second edition there are 28 chapters, of which 17 are new while the remaining chapters have been revised and updated. The book clearly reflects a continued vigour in the research on exceptional achievement. More emphasis is given to empirical work with newer arguments on personal dynamics and biological processes; new arguments for and against IQ as a measure of intelligence; more contemporary research of family and learning experiences linked to achievement; and new perspectives on the possible linkage between artistic creativity and psychological dynamics and biological processes. The changes bring the book up-to-date and give a coherent view of social and family variables and the important distinctions between academic and real-world performance among the gifted and talented.

Social Dilemmas

1st Edition
W B G LIEBRAND
English

Social dilemmas are societal problems created by us. They arise because we often assign a higher priority to our own short term interests than to the interests of others. At the third conference on social dilemmas, it was decided to prepare a book aboutthe advances social psychologists from America, Europe and Japan have made in this area, insights which may contribute to the understanding and resolution and social dilemmas. This book does not just contain papers as a justification of what has beencommunicated at the conference. On the contrary, each chapter tries to discuss its own research findings against the background of a more comprehensive view on social dilemmas. In addition, Chapter 1 tries to provide that comprehensive view by discussingthe relation between the major findings of the subsequent chapters.

Emotion and Social Judgments

1st Edition
Joseph P. Forgas
English

Feelings and emotions can play a major role in many social judgments and decisions. This book surveys and integrates the most recent work by leading psychologists on how emotions come to influence thinking and judgments. The role of emotions in interpersonal judgments about health and illness and in social decisions receive particular attention. Previous publications in this field have focused on either social judgments or emotional influence. This is the first book to integrate the two. It is organized in three main sections. The first looks at different conceptual approaches to the connection between emotion, mood and judgments. The second integrates and extends these basic theories, seeking to present a broader, more critical view of how feelings affect social judgments. The final section integrates well-defined theoretical models and their application in research.

Taste Today

1st Edition
P. Lloyd Jones
English

In the affluent economy of the 1990s, consumer culture is becoming increasingly removed from the functionalism of satisfying primary physical needs and moving towards an indulgence of 'taste' - the acts and arts of appreciation. Taste Today, the winner of the International Robert Maxwell Prize for New Writing on Design Thinking, aims to redirect the attention of designers, marketeers and consumers to the subjective factors which underlie the choice and purchase of possessions. Combining critical studies from the history of art and design with recent advances in sociological and psychological theory in consumer behaviour, Taste Today provides a unique account of the concept of 'taste' in contemporary consumer society. Over 200 black and white illustrations and 50 colour photographs form a unique visual parallel to the text. An extensive bibliography including approximately 400 notes and references offers a useful source of information on related topics.

Assertion and Its Social Context

1st Edition
CYNTHIA GALLOIS + 1 more
English

Social rules theory is used to explore differences in the meaning and construction of assertion, extending both the way we think about assertive communication, its relation to effective interpersonal communication and methods of assertiveness training.

The Theory of Reasoned Action

1st Edition
CYNTHIA GALLOIS + 1 more
Cynthia Gallois + 2 more
English

Despite the amount of attention directed towards the examination of factors that influence whether people choose to engage in high-risk practices, there have been a few attempts to review and integrate this research. The Theory of Reasoned Actioncombines theoretical exposition, critique and empirical research and their relation to major models in health psychology with specific applications to AIDS education.

The Child in the World of Tomorrow: The Next Generation

1st Edition
S. Nakou + 1 more
English

This book provides an interdisciplinary projection of the factors affecting the lives of Europe's children in the coming decades. It is a sequel to a volume of the same name, published in 1979. Europe is undergoing dramatic changes, demographic, political and technological, which will influence the health, well-being and potential of children. Children are an ever diminishing proportion of the population and their interests rank low on the agenda of most countries. Efforts to improve the quality of their life tend to be uni-dimensional, focusing on a specific group or undertaken by a specific discipline. The absence of co-operation, coordination or even communication between professionals involved with children and families results in inappropriateness, inaccessibility and ineffectiveness of programmes for children and their families. Lack of advocacy for children results in priority being given to other groups.This book brings together professionals and researchers from a wide range of disciplines (maternal and child health, genetics, psychology, psychiatry, social sciences, epidemiology, city planning, education, law etc.), who participated in a conference, discussed the issues and contributed chapters on topics which appear to be of greatest importance, or to present new challenges, for the healthy development of Europe's children and their passage into a satisfying and productive adulthood. The chapters are arranged in five sections dealing with family, environment, health, education and state, with a final section covering the overall projections. Reference is made to the predictions made in the earlier volume, and the success or failure in basing action on those predictions, and special emphasis is given to children with special needs.