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Book SynopsisHurley and Dobson explore how the wisdom of the Enneagram allows you to bring out the best in yourself and others. Delving deeper than other systems of personality exploration, the Enneagram system of nine distinctive patterns of unconscious motivation reveals the primary sources of our behavior and the reasons we live as we do.Through detailed descriptions and discerning self-inventory questions, Hurley and Dobson make discovering your personality type fun and easy. They provide simple, proven methods for neutralizing negative attitudes about self and others and releasing untapped potential. Armed with the Enneagram''s insights, readers learn to transform weaknesses into strengths, break free of crippling patterns, choose new ways of relating to others, and enjoy balance and harmony. For example: The Achiever can move from dissatisfied perfectionism to effective leadership and become a Pathfinder. The Observer can mo

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Book SynopsisA rich book covering many areas of human experience. . . . For the person looking for an intelligent and clear presentation of the relationship between psychological and spiritual growth, this is the book to read.''--America

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Book SynopsisTherapeutic changes occur in many places, and among animals as well as humans. A theory that attempts to explain therapeutic changes should be based on principles that apply not only to those changes occurring during the hour, but also to those observed in the educational process, in interpersonal relations, and in the social milieu, as well as with animals. It would be desirable to discover principles broad enough to provide a deeper understanding of therapeutic change in this wide variety of situations.Experienced therapists appear to be similar in what they are doing, although they may disagree as to why they do it. In spite of the arguments about theoretical formulations, it can be observed that during an hour with a patient many psychotherapists may not follow their own theories too well. There probably is some relevance in a comparison of psychotherapy with a concept formation test: the subject gives the correct answers but is unable to state why he did so or what princTable of Contents1: Introduction and Overview; 2: The Anatomy of a Message Structure and Motivation; 3: Developing Patterns Choosing Responses to the Environment; 4: Information-Gathering Process in Psychotherapy; 5: The Use of Conventions; 6: Interventions in Psychotherapy; 7: Labeling the Therapist’s Activity; 8: Content Choices in the Psychotherapeutic Hour; 9: Extratherapeutic Incidents; 10: Technical Problems in the Therapeutic Process; 11: Communication Analysis in Family Group and Group Therapy; 12: The Child’s Communication in Therapy; 13: The Changing Landscape of Psychotherapy Practice Managed Care; 14: The Therapist as a Consultant; 15: Supervision in Communication Analytic Therapy *; 16: Nonverbal Communication in Psychotherapy; 17: The Ethical Problems of Control of Behavior; 18: Pills and Caring Talk; 19: Summary and Conclusions

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Book SynopsisInterpersonal Relationships considers friendship and more intimate relationships including theories of why we need them, how they are formed, what we get out of them and the stages through which they go. Social and cultural variations are discussed as well as the effects of relationships on our well-being and happiness.The book is tailor-made for the student new to higher-level study. With its helpful textbook features provided to assist in examination and learning techniques, it should interest all introductory psychology and sociology students, as well as those training for the caring services, such as nurses.Table of ContentsPart 1.Types of Relationships. Introduction. Research on Interpersonal Relationships. Types of Relationships. Summary. Part 2. Types of Love. The Basic Distinction: Companionate and Passionate Love. Rubin's Model of Liking and Loving. Sternberg's Triangle of Love. Lee's Six Styles of Loving. Types of Love and Attachment Styles. Summary. Part 3. Factors Determining Relationship Formation. Proximity. Similarity. Physical Attraction. Reciprocal Liking. Complementarity. Competence. Summary. Part 4.Theories of Interpersonal Attraction. Learning theory. Social Exchange theory. Equity theory. Sociobiology. Summary. Part 5. The Maintenance and Course of Relationships. Stage and Filter Models. Evaluation of Filter and Stage theories. Summary. Part 6.The Dissolution of Relationships. Conflicts in Relationships. Duck's Model of Relationship Dissolution. Rusbult and Zembrodt's Model of Responses to Relationship Dissatisfaction. Concluding Comments. Summary. Part 7.Components and Effects of Relationships. Components of Relationships: Self-Disclosure. Components of Relationships: Rules. Components of Relationships: Power. Health and Happiness. Summary. Part 8.Individual, Social and Cultural Variations in Relationships. Homosexual Relationships. Gender Differences In Same-sex Friendships. Cross-Cultural Differences In Heterosexual Relationships. Summary. Part 9. Study Aids. Improving Your Essay Writing Skills. Key Research Summary. Glossary. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisEver since the inception of economics over two hundred years ago, the tools at the disciplineâs disposal have grown more and more more sophisticated. This book provides a historical introduction to the methodology of economics through the eyes of economists. The story begins with John Stuart Mill's seminal essay from 1836 on the definition and method of political economy, which is then followed by an examination of how the actual practices of economists changed over time to such an extent that they not only altered their methods of enquiry, but also their self-perception as economists. Beginning as intellectuals and journalists operating to a large extent in the public sphere, they then transformed into experts who developed their tools of research increasingly behind the scenes. No longer did they try to influence policy agendas through public discourse; rather they targeted policymakers directly and with instruments that showed them as independent and objective policy advisTrade Review'There is no doubt that Harro Maas’s Economic Methodology: A Historical Introduction is a very important, innovative and scholarly written introduction to the methodology of economics. In putting the practices of economists at its heart it may – and should – attract a wide readership. Students of the history of economic thought and economic methodology will indeed find in this book much food for thought. I can only strongly recommend its reading.' - Journal of Economic Methodology'What is good economics? Instead of offering armchair answers to this question, the book offers detailed descriptions of the practice of economics throughout the course of its rich history.' — Esther-Mirjam Sent, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands.'Harro Maas provides a concise introduction to the sources of factual knowledge and approaches to theoretical knowledge of leading economists of the last two centuries. His book is not about what economists say they do, or what methodologists say they should do, but what they do. It makes for a great read.' — Richard Van Den Berg, Kingston University London, UK 'The book's historical approach reflects a wide knowledge and deep understanding of economics and contains much that will fascinate practising economists and their students. It is a remarkable book, written in a lively and engaging style, that everyone with any interest in economic methodology, as well as economists who think methodology has nothing to say to them, should read.' — Roger Backhouse, University of Birmingham, UKTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Economics: Inductive or deductive science? 3. Economics and Statistics 4. Business-Cycle Research: The rise of modelling 5. John Maynard Keynes and Jan Tinbergen: The dramatist and the model-builder 6. Milton Friedman and the Cowles Commission for Econometric Research: Structural models and ‘as if’ methodology 7. Modelling Between Fact and Fiction: Thought experiments in economics 8. Experimentation in Economics 9. Simulation with Models 10. Economics as Science 11. Further Reading

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Book SynopsisDesigned to stimulate debate and critical thinking and to draw readers' attention to the ideological nature of literacy education across a broad range of literacy contexts, this book crosses traditional boundaries between the study of family, community, and school literacies to offer a unique global perspective on multiple literacies, from theory to case studies of various settings. These examples suggest ways that literacy practices should be created by simultaneously shaping relationships and identity, and by privileging particular literacy practices in particular situations. The dialogue within the book among chapter authors writing across traditionally distinct fields highlights the interconnections among diverse literacy sites and stimulates the pursuit of a more integrated and interdisciplinary approach to literacy education. The critical and dialogic approach serves to challenge and extend many conventional notions surrounding literacy education in communities, schools, and fTrade Review"The authors and editors of this volume, taking a lead from the little boy who pointed out that the king was wearing no clothes, have....begun to document what literacy actually looks like in action and in different contexts with different players....Enjoy the work contained in this volume. It is important and desperately needed. Consider it as part of the slowly emerging picture and join us in working on its completion."—Victoria Purcell-GatesFrom the Foreword"...I couldn't put it down! It's that good!...With its look at family literacy, its offer of relatively new research methodologies, and its reports of major policy initiatives, this book will be a welcome volume to scholars in literacy and social policy."—Carole EdelskyArizona State University"The issues addressed are important ones--in particular the concern for school literacy having more to do with students' lives and the development of literate agency in the face of curricula and testing practices designed to prevent it....The central focus of the book is not only at the leading edge of the field, but it is surely timely, particularly in the United States."—Peter JohnstonState University of New York at Albany"The editors have brought together emerging and established scholars who are well-known and respected in the field of literacy to address critical issues in the areas of literacy practices, programming, and policy across the spectrum of youth and adult literacy."—Pat CampbellUniversity of AlbertaTable of ContentsContents: V. Purcell-Gates, Foreword. Preface. M. Kendrick, T. Rogers, S. Smythe, J. Anderson, Portraits of Literacy Across Families, Communities, and Schools: An Introduction. Part I: Family Literacies.E. Gregory, Guiding Lights: Siblings as Literacy Teachers in a Multilingual Community. T.H. Cairney, Literacy Diversity: Understanding and Responding to the Textual Tapestries of Home, School, and Community. J. Anderson, S. Smythe, J. Shapiro, Working and Learning With Families, Communities, and Schools: A Critical Case Study. S. Cody, Snapshot 1: A Single Mother's Journey of Rediscovery. L.M. Phillips, H.L. Sample, Family Literacy: Listen to What the Families Have to Say. R. Hayden, M. Sanders, Snapshot 2: Voices From the Field: Practitioner Perspectives on Issues in Family Literacy. Part II: Early and Youth Literacies.M. Prinsloo, P. Stein, "Down, Up, and Round": Setting Children Up as Readers and Writers in South African Classrooms. M.H. Maguire, A.J. Beer, H. Attarian, D. Baygin, X.L. Curdt-Christiansen, R. Yoshida, The Chameleon Character of Multilingual Literacy Portraits: Re-Searching in "Heritage" Language Places and Spaces. D. Masny, Multiple Literacies: An Alternative OR Beyond Freire. M. Kendrick, R. McKay, L. Moffatt, The Portrayal of Self in Children's Drawings of Home, School, and Community Literacies. T. Rogers, A. Schofield, Things Thicker Than Words: Portraits of Youth Multiple Literacies in an Alternative Secondary Program. S. Moloney, Snapshot 3: A Small Piece of the Truth. B. Norton, A Portrait of Literacy From the Youth Millennium Project. Part III: Community and Adult Literacies.J. Hare, To "Know Papers": Aboriginal Perspectives on Literacy. Ningwakwe/Rainbow Woman, The Rainbow/Holistic Approach to Aboriginal Literacy. J. Horsman, Creating Change in Literacy Programs: Taking Account of Violence. D. Bloome, The People Write Back: Community Literacy Practices and the Visibility of the Ordinary Writer. B.A. Quigley, "First We Must Dream. Nothing Is Harder": Toward a Discourse on Literacy Across the Lifespan. Part IV: Literacy Policy Issues.P. Duff, Thinking Globally About English and New Literacies: Multilingual Socialization at Work. E. Auerbach, Connecting the Local and the Global: A Pedagogy of Not-Literacy.

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Book SynopsisA well-rounded education in the 21st century requires not just verbal and mathematical proficiency, but also the ability to interpret, critique, create, and use visual communication on sophisticated levels. In todayâs visual world, it is critically important to hold an appreciation for the profound effects imagery has on individuals and the communities in which they live.Visual Communication focuses on cultivating visual and media literacy from both consumption and production points of view and introduces students to the application of intuitive intelligence to a visual context. Innovative in its field, it provides a solid theoretical overview of the most advanced thinking and research about visual communication, teaching readers how to apply theory to enhance their understanding of and work with images.This book is intended for students in visual literacy and communication courses. It can also be used in photojournalism courses and other coursework with a visual component. Individuals interested in mass media studies will likewise find the book to be a worthwhile read.Trade Review“An intelligent and beautifully illustrated book on how visual communication helps us achieve intellectual and intuitive literacy. A well-researched treatise that instantly shows what Omniphasism and Integrative Mind are all about. What Fritjof Capra tired to do in the Tao of Physics three decades ago, the authors have accomplished here: to bring rational and intuitive intelligences into balance and to help us reconcile our inner and outer vision for a higher state of awareness and a richer state of life.” -- Herb Zettl, San Francisco State University“Drawing on their extensive experience as visual artists, educators, and researchers, the authors have produced a book that will inform and stimulate any reader who wants to gain a better understanding of the ways in which our minds make sense of visual images. This is a work of mature scholarship, containing a new theory of visual communication as well as a synthesis of prior research. A valuable addition to the visual studies literature.” — Paul Messaris, University of Pennsylvania, Annenberg School of Communication“This is an important and truly beautiful book, one that is personally and professionally useful, as well as theoretically advanced. In it, Williams and Newton synthesize key theories in neurology, art and visual communication as a platform for the concept of an integrative, balanced mind. Filled with insights and practical exercises to achieve this balance, this book suggests that the truly integrated mind finds an equilibrium between intuition and reason that leads to both a fuller way of life and a philosophical outlook with vast educational and cultural implications.” — Ann Marie Barry, Boston College"Rick Williams and Juliana Newton are two of the most accomplished theorists in the wide field of visual communication. Their years of experience as educators and photographers combine in a well developed and important theory of intuitive intelligence. Additionally the exercises they have created and tested in their own courses illuminate for students ways to access visual intelligence, creativity and the whole mind. The book is a strong argument for inclusion of courses in visual communication and visual literacy in the liberal arts curriculum. Especially valuable are the examples and historical review of the intersections between science and art as performed in the highly mediated culture in which we live and learn. All of us have something to learn from this text." -- Diane S. Hope, William A. Kern Professor in Communications, Rochester Institute of Technology“A challenging book because it presents a thorough review of theory and research in visual communication. An eloquent book because it demonstrates the beauty and process of visual communication through illustrations and many creative exercises. It integrates the art and science of visual communication and is a testimony to the power and insights of Omniphasism—the underlying theory on which this work is based and which explores an integrative balance in ways of thinking and knowing, both rational and intuitive. Visual Communication breaks new ground in textbook writing by bringing alive the creative and mind-stretching classroom exercises that these professors have developed for their own instructional use. It helps rational thinkers learn to break through to their intuitive side through experiential learning. You have to do more than read about it to open up the intuitive side of the brain. Every student, whatever the learning or thinking style, expands individual potential in a personal and private journey through these broadening exercises.” — Sandra Moriarty, University of ColoradoTable of ContentsPREFACE. Knowing Before WordsACKNOWLEDGMENTSINTRODUCTION. The Integrative MindClarifying TermsVisual IntelligenceMusical IntelligencePsychological IntelligencePhysiological IntelligenceUnderstanding a Key PointPART I. Vision and Intelligence.Understanding Intelligence as Intuitive and RationalCHAPTER ONE. Seeking Dynamic Balance: The Shaman, The Scientist, and the TheologianShe-Bear: The Power of Integrating Visual and Verbal CommunicationA Theory of Integrative MindTable 1. Key TermsTable 2. Key IdeasTable 3. Primary Intuitive & Rational Cognitive ProcessesCREATIVE ONE. The Intimate Eye: Accessing Your Inner Vision Through Creative VisualizationThe Goal: Enhancing Your Creative AbilitiesCHAPTER TWO. Abu Rocks: Integrating Perceptual and Conceptual RealitiesCREATIVE TWO. Visualizing a Personal Symbolic PortraitThe Goal: Creative Problem SolvingCHAPTER THREE. Art and Personal Development: The Quest for BalanceArt and the Integrated IndividualThe Stages of Artistic DevelopmentCREATIVE THREE. The Perceptual to Conceptual Leap: First DrawingsThe Goal: Creative Decision MakingCHAPTER FOUR. Overcoming Intuitive Illiteracy: Accessing Your Whole MindRepetition Techniques & PerceptionRational Bias & Visual ResponseThe Second Nature of ConsciousnessCREATIVE FOUR. The Yin/Yang of Drawing: Drawing Contours, Not FeaturesThe Goal: Integrating Ways of Seeing and KnowingCHAPTER FIVE. Ulysses in His Right Mind: The Historical Intuitive MindJulian Jaynes: The Bicameral Mind & the Ancient Intuitive MindBogen & Sperry and Distinctive Cognitive ProcessingCREATIVE FIVE. Drawing the Figure: One Contour, One Space at a TimeThe Goal: Drawing What You SeeCHAPTER SIX. Multiple Intelligences and Nonconscious Biases: The Contemporary Intuitive MindHoward Gardner:Multiple Intelligence TheoryTable 4. Comparison of Integrative Mind and Gardner’s Multiple IntelligencesThe Nature of Holistic ProcessingDamasio: Nonconscious Mind and BehaviorTable 5. Visual/Spatial IntelligenceTable 6. Intrapersonal IntelligenceTable 7. Interpersonal IntelligencesTable 8. Bodily Kinesthetic IntelligenceTable 9. Musical IntelligenceTable 10. Naturalist IntelligenceTable 11. Complementary/Parallel Systems of KnowingBringing It All TogetherCREATIVE SIX. Bringing It All Together: Drawing for RealThe Goal: Seeing Results of Cognitive BalancePART II. Visual Illiteracy and Education. What We Don’t LearnCHAPTER SEVEN. The Square Peg and the Round Hole: Education and Intuitive IntelligenceThe Contemporary VisionCultivating the IntuitiveThe Rational Side of Visual LiteracyThe Intuitive Side of Visual LiteracyThe Need for an Integrative New ApproachTable 12. Omniphasic Visual LiteracyBeyond Visual Literacy: A Holistic Approach to Being, Seeing, Knowing, and CreatingIn ConclusionTable 13. Summary of Theories Relevant to OmniphasismCREATIVE SEVEN. Designing Shapes: Concept in Visual FormThe Goal: Communicating Concepts VisuallyCHAPTER EIGHT. Visions in Voice: Language and the Intuitive Mind Visions in VoiceWritten LanguageOn Sounds and SignsWords as Balanced Ways of KnowingThe Sounds of WordsThe Form of the PresentationConclusionCREATIVE EIGHT . The Visual Word: Giving Vision to VoiceThe Goal: Integrating Visual and VerbalCHAPTER NINE. Insight Out: Dreams and the Nonconscious MindAn ExampleThe Role of Dreams in Human KnowingMiguel de Cervantes: Another Great DreamerWhat Science Has to SayHistorical Foundations of DreamsContemporary Research about DreamsCREATIVE NINE. Dream Visions: Insight OutThe Goal: Understanding Mental ImageryCHAPTER TEN. Sharing the Vision:Photography as a Medium of BalancePhotographic TruthTechnique in PhotographyThe Still CameraFilm, Film Speed, and Digital RatingsPhotography and LightContrastDirectionColorCamera ControlsShutter Speed Controls Light and MotionF/Stop Controls Light and Depth of FieldWorking Shutter Speed and F/Stop TogetherLensesAdding LightTripodsConstantly Changing TechnologyCREATIVE TEN. Image Insights: Photography from the Inside OutThe Goal: Translating Seeing into ImagesCHAPTER ELEVEN. Designing for MeaningThe Basic ElementsPointLinePlane/ShapeVolumeFrameSummary of Key PointsThe Core PrinciplesContrastRhythmBalanceProportionAdditional Terms of Graphic StructureMovementCenter of InterestRule of ThirdsScaleSpatialityPerspectiveLight and ColorContextTying it All TogetherPrinciples of the GestaltUnityCultural BiasesCREATIVE ELEVEN. Graphic Visions: Looking for MeaningThe Goal: Understanding the FrameCHAPTER TWELVE. Embedded Meanings: Learning to Look Behind the Mirrors and Beyond the WindowsCulture and Making Sense of What We SeeTraditional Ways to Study VisualsOther Methods to Study VisualsSix PerspectivesConclusionCREATIVE TWELVE. Thinking Systematically about ImagesThe Goal: Focusing on the RationalPART III. The Public as Art and Image. The Academy, The Media, and Visual PersuasionCHAPTER THIRTEEN. Stopping Time and Framing SpaceStill Media DefinedFormats of the FrameDesigning Well Within the FrameCharacteristics of TypeParts of a LetterformType GroupsOther TermsPractical Guidelines for Effective DesignMore than AppearancesCREATIVE THIRTEEN. Personal Impact Assessment: Understanding Images from Intuitive and Rational PerspectivesThe Goal: Understanding How Still Images CommunicateCHAPTER FOURTEEN. Images That Move and SoundMoving Media: Transcending Time & SpaceThe Body as Moving ImageTechnological HistoryBasic Elements of Moving ImagesLight and ColorTwo-Dimensional SpaceThree-Dimensional SpaceTime and MotionSoundReturning to ContentCREATIVE FOURTEEN. Film Clip AnalysisThe Goal: Understanding How Moving Images CommunicateCHAPTER FIFTEEN. Living at the Speed of Mind: Old Media–New MediaWhat Does All This Mean?What Do We Know?LayoutImagesAdsMultimediaReconceptualizing Media StudiesCREATIVE FIFTEEN. Communicating the Story of a PersonThe Goal: To tell a story visually with supporting wordsCHAPTER SIXTEEN. The Thousand Year ProjectSynthesisThe Larger ProblemFrom Ulysses to Artificial IntelligenceThe Other Side of the ProblemThe PlanTable 14: The Key IdeasAn Eye to the FutureConclusionAFTERWORD. Ecology in ParadiseCONTRIBUTORSREFERENCESSUGGESTED READINGSINDEX OF TERMS BY CHAPTER/CREATIVEALPHABETICAL INDEXCOLOR PLATES

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Book SynopsisThis scholarly book in SIOPâs Organizational Frontier series looks at research on enhancing knowledge acquisition and its application in organizations. It concentrates on training, design and delivery given the changing nature of work and organizations. Now that work is increasingly complex, there is greater emphasis on expertise and cognitive skills. Advances in technology such as computer simulations and web-based training are necessitating a more active role for the learner in the training process. In the broad context of the organization systems, this book promotes learning and development as a continuous lifelong endeavor.Trade Review"Everything you want to know regarding the scientific principles for effective training interventions, principles that are leading edge, questions not previously asked let alone addressed are here in this edited book of original chapters written by the titans in our field. This book is a dream come true for doctoral students and faculty who are searching for worthy ideas in need of research." -Gary P. Latham, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto"This is must reading and a valuable reference for researchers, students and practitioners in training, human resources, and organizational development. I was impressed by the comprehensive examination of state-of-the-art training methods, including active learning in virtual and informal contexts. Chapters by the field's leading experts review the latest research findings and show the importance of creating organizational cultures and structures for continuous individual and organizational learning...just right for understanding learning in today's high pressure, rapidly changing environment." -Manual London, College of Business, State University of New York at Stony Brook"The editors of LEARNING, TRAINING, AND DEVELOPMENT IN ORGANIZATIONS have assembled a volume with highly respected authors who have written chapters with exciting and up-to-date content. Major sections comprehensively address issues related to the learner, the design and delivery of instruction and the organizational context in which learning and development occur. This will be required reading for graduate seminars." -James L. Farr, Pennsylvania State UniversityTable of ContentsPart 1. The Learner, Learning Processes, and Training Outcomes. Gully, Chen, Individual Differences, Attribute-Treatment Interactions, and Training Outcomes. Beier, Kanfer, Motivation in Training and Development: A Phase Perspective. Salas, Rosen, Experts at Work: Principles for Developing Expertise in Organizations. Ford, Kraiger, Merritt, An Updated Review of the Multidimensionality of Training Outcomes: New Directions for Training Evaluation Research. Part 2. Emerging Issues for Design and Delivery. Cooke, Fiore, Cognitive Science-Based Principles for the Design and Delivery of Training. Mayer, Research-Based Solutions to Three Problems in Web-Based Training. Cannon-Bowers, Bowers, Synthetic Learning Environments: On Developing a Science of Simulation, Games, and Virtual Worlds for Training. Bell, Kozlowski, Toward a Theory of Learner-Centered Training Design: An Integrative Framework of Active Learning. Part 3. The Organizational Context, Levels, and Time. Tannenbaum, Beard, McNall, Salas, Informal Learning and Development in Organizations. Molloy, Noe, "Learning" a Living: Continuous Learning for Survival in Today’s Talent Market. Kozlowski, Chao, Jensen, Building an Infrastructure for Organizational Learning: A Multilevel Approach. Mathieu, Tesluk, A Multi-Level Perspective on Training and Development Effectiveness. Part 4. Reflection and an Agenda for the Future. Thayer, Goldstein, Where Have We Been and Where Are We Going? Salas, Kozlowski, Learning, Training, and Development in Organizations: Much Progress and a Peek Over the Horizon.

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Book SynopsisA comprehensive, multidisciplinary review, Neural Plasticity and Memory: From Genes to Brain Imaging provides an in-depth, up-to-date analysis of the study of the neurobiology of memory. Leading specialists share their scientific experience in the field, covering a wide range of topics where molecular, genetic, behavioral, and brain imaging techniques have been used to investigate how cellular and brain circuits may be modified by experience. In each chapter, researchers present findings and explain their innovative methodologies. The book begins by introducing key issues and providing a historical overview of the field of memory consolidation. The following chapters review the putative genetic and molecular mechanisms of cell plasticity, elaborating on how experience could induce gene and protein expression and describing their role in synaptic plasticity underlying memory formation. They explore how putative modifications of brain circuits and synaptic elements through experiTable of ContentsSearching for Memory in the Brain: Confronting the Collusion of Cells and Systems. Long-Term Potentiation and Depression as Putative Mechanisms for Memory Formation. Molecular Mechanisms of Synaptic Plasticity Underlying Long Term Memory Formation. Modification of Brain Circuits through Experience. Presynaptic Structural Plasticity and Long-Lasting Memory: Focus on the Learning-Induced Redistribution of Hippocampal Mossy Fibers. Electrophysiological Representation of Taste Memory. Changes in Neurotransmitters Extracellular Levels During Memory Formation. Reversible Brain Inactivation of Brain Circuits in Learning and Memory Research. Enhanced Learning Protects the Brain Against the Effects of Amnesic Treatments. Studies on Short-Term Avoidance Memory. Memory Reconsolidation or Post-Retrieval Updating Information? Memory Impairments by Stress and Aging. Adrenal Stress Hormones and Enhanced Memory for Emotionally Arousing Experiences. Neuro-Immune Associative Learning. Sex and Hemisphere Influences on Neural Mechanisms of Emotional Memory.

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Book SynopsisThis book presents an accessible and state-of-the-art survey of current research on social dilemmas. A social dilemma arises when actions that are justifiable in terms of individual rationality (e.g. over-harvesting resources, or using private instead of public transportation) threaten the common good and in the long run the individual''s own self-interest as well. The study of social dilemmas has important links with many areas in psychology, as well as with cognate disciplines such as risk analysis, environmental science, political science, and economics. Accordingly, the book should appeal not only to psychologists but also to a wider audience of scholars and researchers. Contributors include both established authorities and recent innovators, and the organization and contents of the book reflect the most recent trends in this exciting area. Increased attention is given to modeling dynamics and processes in social dilemmas, and greater emphasis placed on exploring structural solutiTable of ContentsM. Foddy, M. Smithson, Theories and Strategies for Studying Social Dilemmas. Part I. Formal Models andDynamic Systems Approaches. M. Smithson, Taking Exogenous Dynamics Seriously in Public Goods and Resource Dilemmas. Y. Watanabe, T. Yamagishi, Emergence of Strategies in a Selective Play Environment with Geographic Mobility. E. Takagi, Generalized Exchange and the Emergence of Social Order. A. Rapoport, W. Almadoss, Social Dilemmas Embedded in Between-group Competitions: Effects of Contest and Distribution Rates. W. Au, Sequential Effects in Give-some and Take-some Social Dilemmas. Part II. ControlSystems and Structural Solutions. N. Kerr, Anonymity and Social Control in Social Dilemmas. M. van Vugt, Managing Natural Resource Dilemmas Through Structural Change. A. Franzen, The Volunteer's Dilemma: Theoretical Models and Empirical Evidence. S. Suleiman, K. Or-Chen, Providing Step-level Public Goods Under Uncertainty: The Case of Probable External Supply. M. Beckenkamp, Sanctioning as an Ambiguous Structural Solution. Xiao-Ping Chen, Work Team Cooperation: A Longitudinal Study on the Effects of Reward Allocation Rules. J. Webb, Structural Change Decision-Making in Social Dilemmas: A Preliminary Framework. Part III. Linking Individual and GroupProcesses. D. Messick, Models of Decision Making in Social Dilemmas. T. Garling, A. Biel, M. Gustafsson, Managing Uncertain Common Resources. G. Hertel, Mood Effects in Social Dilemmas. A. Biel, C. von Borgstede, U. Dahlstrand, Norm Perception and Cooperation in Large-scale Social Dilemmas. S. Schneider, J. Sundali, Curbside Recycling: Does it Promote Environmental Responsibility? J. Garvill, Factors Influencing Elementary and Instrumental Cooperation in Choice of Transportation Mode. J. Schopler, C.A. Insko, The Role of Future Consequences in the Reduction of the Interindividual-intergroup Discontinuity Effect. B. Morrison, Interdependence, the Group, and Social Cooperation: A New Look at an Old Problem. M. Foddy, M. Hogg, Leaders and Social Dilemmas: The Intergroup Context. S. Schneider, M. Brewer, Social Dilemmas and Social Evolution.

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Book SynopsisAccording to recent surveys, approximately 40% of American women between the ages of 18 and 44 do not have children. Yet these women are virtually missing from accounts of women's lives. In this important new work, Mardy Ireland defines a place for women outside the parameters of motherhood and gives voice to the significant number of women who are not mothers. She draws extensively from interviews with over 100 childless women from various ethnic and educational backgrounds, demonstrating the myriad ways they came to view themselves as complete adults without recourse to the traditional defining criteria of motherhood. Her work offers all women--mothers and nonmothers alike--a vision of self-defined adulthood and a recognition that every woman is the subject of her own life. Challenging the assumption of deprivation or deviance that is traditionally applied to childless women in psychological theory and popular culture, Dr. Ireland reframes childlessness as a concept and laTrade ReviewFinally, a book about women who are not mothers--normal women who by choice or happenstance remain childless. If you want to understand who these women are, what they think and feel, how deeply the ideology of motherhood has infected our thinking about women and femininity, read Mardy Ireland's insightful and sensitive analysis of women who, even today, remain an anomaly, seen as less than 'woman' simply because they are not mothers. --Lillian Rubin, Ph.D., author of Worlds of Pain: Life in the Working Class Family and Intimate Strangers: Men and Women TogetherDr. Ireland has written an outstanding, pathbreaking book that gives a long-absent and much-needed voice and place to the 'other' women in our culture. By sharing the stories of childless women she has interviewed, Dr. Ireland holds up a mirror in which the diverse group of women who are not mothers can finally see their reflection. Beyond this significant contribution, she artfully considers their stories in the context of clearly presented psychoanalytic theory and feminist thought. In an evenhanded manner she broadens our conception of female identity, until now too-narrowly defined by our culture, apart from the social and psychic reality of women. By reconceiving women so that the concrete fact of childlessness is not the same as its meaning in the context of women's lives, Ireland succeeds in separating motherhood from female identity. In the psychological space she creates, she transforms the loss or absence of children into the presence of new potential. Dr. Ireland thus gives all contemporary women psychological room and permission to find new metaphors for female identity and innovative pathways for their intrinsic creative and generative energy. --Sue N. Elkind, Ph.D.Mardy Ireland's RECONCEIVING WOMEN: SEPARATING MOTHERHOOD FROM FEMALE IDENTITY is a necessary book for anyone interested in contemporary feminism and psychoanalytic theory. In the first half of this book, Ireland delineates a cultural problem new to contemporary history: the child-less woman. In three categories (traditional women/child-less; transitional women/child-free & child-less; transformative women: child-free) she examines the psychoanalytic views of well-known female psychologists.In the second half of the book, Ireland breaks new ground for the American psychoanalytic clinic, particularly in making an opening for working with particular female problems. Her innovate work here makes of this clear and well-written book required reading for feminists and clinical psychologists. Mardy Ireland's book opens a clear path for object-relations clinicians to follow in their desire to begin working with Lacan: especially in the all crucial areas of gender politics and sexual difference. --Ellie Ragland Sullivan, Ph.D., Department of English, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO - [A] smart, challenging book....Accessible and necessary. --The New York Times Book Review, 6/3/1993ƒƒ Reconceiving Women will be of interest to clinicians, especially those who work with women who are struggling with decisions about childbearing or who are confronting the impossibility of conceiving. --Contemporary Psychology, 6/3/1993Table of ContentsPreface.1. Childless in the 1990s: The Other Woman and Why Now?2. The Traditional Woman: Child-less.3. The Transitional Woman: Child-free and Child-less.4. The Transformative Woman: Child-free.5. The Development of Female Identity: Facts or Fictions?6. Weaving an Alternative Understanding.7. The Gendered View of Identity: Limitations and Possibilities.8. Women but Not Mothers.Appendix: Research Data Chapter Notes. Index.

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Book SynopsisWhat do Madonna, Confucius, and Jackie Robinson have in common? What does it take to go down in history as a great political leader? Why do revolutions occur, riots break out, and lynch mobs assemble? Which events do people find the most shocking or memorable?This path-breaking work offers the first comprehensive examination of the important personalities and events that have influenced the course of history. It discusses whether people who go down in history are different from the rest of us; whether specific personality traits predispose certain people to become world leaders, movie stars, scientific geniuses, and athletes, while others are relegated to ordinary lives. In exploring the psychology of greatness, this volume sheds light on the characteristics that any of us may share with history-making people.Throughout, the book addresses two broad questions: what sorts of people are responsible for historic events and achievements, and what kinds of events are mostTrade ReviewThis is a book that might be used as a text or as a reference but here's the great part: It can be read for enjoyment!...Simonton has created a monument to completeness and complexity, but it is highly readable. The book is replete with fascinating tables, lists, and charts about individuals deemed as great who share a common characteristic....The book is very well written, full of examples and creative interpretation, persuasive, and up to date. This is a great book about greatness. --Malcolm James Ree in Personnel PsychologySimonton's book is so comprehensive and so engagingly written that, if major research universities regularly offered courses in the psychology of history, Greatness: Who Makes History and Why would be widely adopted as a text. The book is, in short, a tour de force: spirited, erudite, and entertaining - well within the reach of advanced undergraduates. --Philip E. TetlockFascinating, thorough, varied, readable, good text for students. --Joel Funk, Plymouth State College, New HampshireEverything you wanted to know--and more--about the great historical figures who have shaped culture and society, Dean K. Simonton, our most prolific psychologist in the field of creativity studies, has assembled here a treasure-trove of facts and observations that will delight the reader, and serve as a useful reference for many years to come. --Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Ph.D., The University of Chicago, author of FLOW: The Psychology of Optimal ExperienceDean Simonton's book on Greatness is a tour de force that explores the many aspects of greatness, including intelligence, creativity, leadership, social forces, and more. The book combines Simonton's own pathbreaking analyses of greatness with those of others, providing essential reading for anyone interested in what makes some people stand out from the rest. The book is written in a lucid, engaging style that will interest laypeople as well as professionals in all disciplines who wish to know what makes some people stand out from the rest. --Robert J. Sternberg, Ph.D., Yale University, author of The Nature Of CreativityDean Keith Simonton has long been esteemed within the social sciences for his pioneering studies of creativity, leadership, and genius. Now he has produced a fascinating, accessible, and authoritative survey of work in this area. Students and seasoned experts are equally in his debt. --Howard Gardner, Ph.D., Harvard University, Graduate School of Education - Only a great book could do justice to greatness throughout the ages, and Simonton has produced one. --Readings, 5/23/1994Table of ContentsPreface. Prologue: The Psychologist Confronts Greatness. Birthrights and Birthmarks: Psychobiological Explanations. Acts, Affects, and Thoughts: Learning?Based and Cognitive Theories. The Creative Quest. The Drive to Succeed. Infants, Children, and Teenagers: The Famous in Their Youth. Life's Prime and Death's Advance: A Life?Span Perspective. The Importance of Intelligence. The Importance of Personality. The Significance of Psychopathology. Violence as a Shaper of History. The Influence of Attitudes and Beliefs. Imitation, Affiliation, Group Dynamics, and Leadership. Epilogue: Has the Psychologist Succeeded? Notes. References. Subject Index.

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Book SynopsisFor women in Western society, there is no straightforward path of development to autonomous adulthood. The double-bind of female authority--that a women cannot be both a healthy adult and an ideal woman-- is the context in which a woman must construct her self in this culture. Whether she sees herself as too needy or too controlling, too insecure or too self-reliant, she is gathering evidence to support a theory of personal inadequacy. The traditional perspectives of psychodynamics and psychopathology reinforce women's sense of inferiority. How then does a woman claim her own authority-- the validity of her own truth, beauty, goodness, originating in her own experience. Young-Eisendrath and Wiedemann break with the tradition of deficit thinking, the examination of what is absent, wrong, or deficient. Recognizing this as a fundamental barrier to the empowerment of women, they work instead from an understanding of what is already strong and satisfying in the lives of women and girTrade ReviewHighly recommended to all therapists, male and female, who are looking for a new window through which to see the plight of women in today's society. - Psychotherapy in Private Practice

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Book SynopsisDrawing lessons from the complex and often contradictory position of white women writing in the colonial period, This unique book explores how feminism and poststructuralism can bring new types of understanding to the production of geographical knowledge. Through a series of colonial and postcolonial case studies, essays address the ways in which white women have written and mapped different geographies, in both the late nineteenth century and today, illustrating the diverse objects (landscapes, spaces, views), the variety of media (letters, travel writing, paintings, sculpture, cartographic maps, political discourse), and the different understandings and representations of people and place. Trade Review...is a useful contribution to the literature on gender perspectives of the colonized world... --Helen Ruth Aspaas, African Studies Review...presents compelling ways of bringing together ideas from poststructuralist and postcolonial theory around geographical questions, and provides much material, both for those working within a similar intellectual territory, and for those grappling with more general methodological questions. I should find its place on many reading lists, if it has not already done so, as it provides an accessible contribution to contemporary debates around identity, space, and power. -- R. Elmhirst, Wye College University of London, Environment and Planning AThis timely collection of essays explores ways in which feminism, space, and the politics of identity, subjectivity, and representation come together in diverse colonial and postcolonial settings....I unhesitatingly invite colleagues and students across disciplines to read this fresh and imaginative collection of essays.... --Karen Morin, Growth and ChangeAs edited volumes go, this is a remarkably coherent (and successful) one.... This book makes an important contribution to feminist geography. --Geraldine Pratt, University of British ColumbiaThis is a superb new contribution to the literature on space, power and difference. In drawing together an exciting range of well-researched essays, it articulates the complex relations between gender, class, race and sexuality in different historical and geographic settings. With an emphasis on diversities among women and the contexts within which they occur, it is particularly effective in highlighting the fragmented, fluid and often contradictory nature of identity and space. --Morag Bell, Ph.D., Loughborough University of TechnologyAlthough I don't always see eye to eye with the authors in this volume, I warmly welcome this set of essays on women's colonial and post-colonial cartographics. For here we have a feisty feminist geography that is theoretically self-critical, empirically vigorous, and morally challenging....One thing is certain: coming to grips with this critique will lay upon readers an obligation; an obligation to expose the pretended innocence of the metaphorical and material maps we have historically produced...and the maps we currently plot. --David N. Livingstone, Professor of Geography, The Queen's University of BelfastThis is an important, path-breaking collection of essays. In highlighting the complicities and resistances of white women to imperial discourses, the book speaks to wider epistemological issues about human subjectivity. In different ways, the chapters demonstrate the inherent partiality, instability, positionality, and situatedness of subjectivity. By extension, conventional notions of space are unsettled in a powerful acknowledgment of our gendered imaginaries. This leads us to re-imagine space and mapping in fresh ways. --Kay Anderson, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer in Geography, University of New South Wales and author of the award-winning Vancouver's Chinatown: Racial Discourse in Canada, 1875-1980This is an important, path-breaking collection of essays. In highlighting the complicities and resistances of white women to imperial discourses, the book speaks to wider epistemological issues about human subjectivity. In different ways, the chapters demonstrate the inherent partiality, instability, positionality, and situatedness of subjectivity. By extension, notions of transcendent, coherent space are unsettled in a powerful acknowledgment of our gendered imaginaries. This leads us to reimagine space and mappings in fresh ways. --Kay Anderson, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer in Geography, University of New South Wales and author of the award-winning Vancouver's Chinatown: Racial Discourses in Canada, 1875-1980 - This timely collection of essays explores ways in which feminism, space, and the politics of identity, subjectivity, and representation come together in diverse colonial and postcolonial settings....I unhesitatingly invite colleagues and students across disciplines to read this fresh and imaginative collection of essays.... --Growth and Change, 8/21/1994

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Book SynopsisWho among us has not at some point asked, ``what is the meaning of life?'' In this extraordinary book, an eminent social scientist looks at the big picture and explores what empirical studies from diverse fields tell us about the human condition. MEANINGS OF LIFE draws together evidence from psychology, history, anthropology, and sociology, integrating copious research findings into a clear and conclusive discussion of how people attempt to make sense of their lives. In a lively and accessible style, emphasizing facts over theories, Baumeister explores why people desire meaning in their lives, how these meanings function, what forms they take, and what happens when life loses meaning. It is the most comprehensive examination of the topic to date.Trade ReviewRoy Baumeister writes conceptually exact, richly factual, and continuously delightful books on deep subjects, and this is his best. --Roger Brown, Ph.D.The topic is, of course, tremendous. We feel giddily nervous on even entertaining it, and so usually take it for granted or leave it to Monty Python. Fortunately, this volume has now arrived, bringing with it a far-reaching analysis of how life's meaning impinges on social life. It is rare to find such a broad array of intriguing and subtle hypotheses derived from a single theme, and even more rare to find such wide-ranging awareness of history and culture in contemporary social psychology. --Daniel M. Wegner, Ph.D.The book encourages the reader to struggle with hard questions that have no objective answers. --Jerry Bruce, Sam Houston State, Huntsville, Texas - A scholarly and intriguing review of research and thought on finding meaningfulness in life. Laypeople and psychologists alike will find it a fascinating read. --Contemporary Psychology, 9/27/1992

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Book SynopsisThroughout history, unrequited love has inspired ballads, arias, poetry, drama, and literature. Almost always, however, the tale of the star-crossed lovers has been told from the point of view of the heartbroken pursuer. This illuminating new work explores unrequited love from both sides--that of the aspiring and eventually brokenhearted lover, and more unusually, that of the beloved, unwilling rejector. Based on systematically collected first-person accounts, BREAKING HEARTS shows how radically different and often contradictory the two experiences actually are. Trade ReviewEngagingly written, BREAKING HEARTS offers an insightful and broad-ranging theoretical analysis and a careful empirical documentation of the heart breakers and the heart broken....It captures the drama of breaking hearts without sacrificing the rigor of the scientific enterprise.''--Bella DePaulo, Ph.D., University of VirginiaThis book is a rich and enlightening account of the experience of unrequited love, and should be of interest not only to scientists who study close relationships, but also to the general public. --Caryl E. Rusbult, Ph.D., University of North CarolinaThe topic of unrequited love is an intriguing one that has caused much interest lately since the film, Fatal Attraction, and the several cases of stalking that have received public attention. This book offers the first systematic attempt to uncover the patterns of unrequited love and it is a good example of what a psychological analysis of important social issues can contribute to their solution. --Steve Duck, Ph.D., University of Iowa - Often I found myself swept along by the charming, fluid style in which the book is written....In short, the authors are highly successful in creating a book that will appeal to a wide audience....This book makes a significant contribution to the literature. --Contemporary Psychology, 8/7/1994ƒƒ For all who've ever loved and lost, and for all therapists who've worked with lovesick clients (or their fantasy objects). --Behavioral Science Book Service, 8/7/1994Table of ContentsContents: The Psychology of Heartbreak: An Introduction. Perspectives on Heartbreak. The Emotional Crossfire. The Ups and Downs of Self-Esteem. Guilt, Justification, Morality: Struggling with Right and Wrong. What Actually Happened? Lessons Learned and Mysteries Glimpsed. Conclusion: The Two Sides of Heartbreak.

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Book SynopsisAfter decades of banishment to popular magazines and advice columns, jealousy and envy have emerged as legitimate topics of scientific inquiry. This volume includes chapters from nearly every major contributor to the psychological literature in this area. From emotional, and cognitive processes that underlie jealousy and envy; to the ways these emotions are experienced and expressed within close relationships; to family, societal, and cultural contexts, the volume offers a definitive statement of current theory and research.Trade ReviewTHE PSYCHOLOGY OF JEALOUSY AND ENVY is must reading for anyone in the close-relationships field, but will be of interest to anyone at all who has ever experienced these emotions or who has been the victim of them in someone else. The book is full of interesting insights....Anyone and everyone will stand to gain from this book not only from an academic standpoint, but from the very practical standpoint of understanding experiences they confront in their everyday close relationships.--Robert J. Sternberg, IBM Professor of Psychology and Education, Yale UniversityThis book offers an extremely distinguished set of authors who are all at the forefront of the growing work on jealousy and envy. Salovey has done a great service in pulling together into this one volume these scholars' work on an emotion that almost everyone has felt. This book lays bare the basis for the legitimate scientific study of jealousy and envy and shows how theoretical and empirical developments have culminated in some very strong and broad advances in our knowledge. The book is an outstanding sign of the advances that can be made in understanding the processes of personal relationships and of persons in relationships.--Steve Duck, Ph.D., Daniel & Amy Starch Research Professor, The University of Iowa - Provides the most comprehensive review available of the current state of research on jealousy. It should be very valuable to researchers and clinicians, as well as to graduate students and advanced undergraduates. --Contemporary Psychology, 2/17/1991ƒƒ This excellent book confronts the therapist. How these exciting ideas can be utilized in a clinical setting...is a task that keen therapists will regard as one worth tackling. --Journal of Sex & and Marital Therapy, 2/17/1991Table of ContentsI. JEALOUS AND ENVIOUS THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS. 1. The Emotional Experiences of Envy and Jealousy, Parrott. 2. The Organization of Jealousy Knowledge: Romantic Jealousy as a Blended Emotion, Sharpsteen. 3. A Cognitive Theory of Jealousy, Mathes. 4. Envy and the Sense of Injustice, Smith. II. THE EXPERIENCE OF JEALOUSY IN CLOSE RELATIONSHIPS. 5. Psychosocial Aspects of Jealousy: A Transactional Model, Bringle. 6. Developmental Correlates of Jealousy, Clanton & Kosins. 7. Jealousy in Close Relationships: An Exchange Theoretical Perspective, Buunk. 8. Modes of Response to Jealousy-Envoking Situations, Bryson. III. FAMILY, SYSTEMS, AND CULTURE IN JEALOUSY AND ENVY. 9. Jealousy: Its Conceptualization, Measurement, and Integration with Family Stress Theory, Hansen.10. Self, Relationship, Friends, and Family: Some Applications of Systems Perspectives to Romantic Jealousy, White. 11. The Motive for the Arousal of Romantic Jealousy: Its Cultural Origin, Hupka. 12. Envy and Jealousy: Self and Society, Salovey & Rothman.

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Book SynopsisIt should not surprise us that so many are finding unique value in the experiential techniques. The fact that eating-disordered patients adopt physical and often complex metaphoric means of expressing their emotional pain suggests the difficulty we are likely to encounter in asking them to articulate the inarticulable. In moving to spatial, kinesthetic, and symbolic expression, we are, in a sense, agreeing to speak the patient's language rather than our own.Given the very nature of eating disorders, many clinicians are finding that experiential methods are particularly applicable for treating patients who suffer from them. Providing a valuable new tool for practitioners, EXPERIENTIAL THERAPIES FOR EATING DISORDERS is the first text to focus solely on the application of expressive therapies and experiential techniques to the treatment of anorexia nervosa and bulimia.Each chapter of this innovative work systematically reviews a single experiential treatment approach. ATrade ReviewProvides practitioners with a wealth of ideas on how to work with eating-disordered patients by doing, rather than by just talking. - Contemporary PsychologyTable of Contents1. Introduction, Hornyak & Baker.PART I. BULIMIA NERVOSA.2. Reclaiming the Body: Using Guided Imagery in the Treatment of Body Image Disturbance among Bulimic Women, Kearney-Cooke.3. Hypnosis, Hypnotizability, and the Bulimic Patient, Pettinati, Kogan, Margolis, Shrier, & Wade.4. The Use of In-session Structured Eating in the Outpatient Treatment of Bulimia Nervosa, Hoage.5. Family Sculpting with Bulimic Families, Root.6. Psychodrama and the Treatment of Bulimia, Callahan.7. Dance/Movement Therapy with Bulimic Patients, Stark, Aronow, & McGeehan.8. Art Therapy in the Long-term Psychodynamic Treatment of Bulimic Women, Morenoff & Sobol.9. Music Therapy Improvisation Techniques with Bulimic Patients, Nolan.PART II. ANOREXIA NERVOSA10. The use of Metaphor/Poetry Therapy in the Treatment of the Reticent Subgroup of Anorectic Patients, Woodall & Andersen.11. Structured Eating Experiences in the Inpatient Treatment of Anorexia Nervosa, Sparnon & Hornyak.12. Anorexia Nervosa: Experiencing the Self through Psychodrama and Gestalt Therapy, Hudgins.13. Disturbed Body Image in Anorexia Nervosa: Dance/Movement Therapy Interventions, Rice, Hardenbergh, & Hornyak.14. Art Therapy and Anorexia: Experiencing the Authentic Self, Fleming.15. Music as a Therapeutic Tool in Treating Anorexia Nervosa, Parente.

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Book SynopsisPresenting a general theory of social motivation, this compelling work integrates research on achievement evaluation, stigmatization, helping behavior, aggression, and impression management. Bernard Weiner examines how responsibility inferences are reached, the manner in which such judgments affect emotions, and the role that cold judgments of responsibility versus hot feelings, such as anger, play in producing both pro- and antisocial behaviors. Ideal for students as well as researchers and mental health practitioners, the book includes experiments for the reader to complete that illustrate the main points of the text.Trade ReviewThis book is a major achievement that extends Weiner's already impressive attribution theory of motivation in new directions. With pristine clarity it demonstrates how judgment of responsibility can be used to generalize theoretical principles derived from the study of achievement evaluation to a wide variety of behaviors. The result is a comprehensive theory of social conduct that is essential reading for anyone interested in human behavior. --Frank D. Fincham, Ph.D., FBPsS, University of Wales, CardiffProfessor Weiner has made a bold attempt to present a scientific analysis of the issues involved in assigning responsibility and blame. In contrast with traditional solutions, he argues that it is not blame but emotion (anger or sympathy) that mediates subsequent social behavior. Weiner's clear thinking and relevant empirical data bring a fresh and interesting perspective to highly significant and perennially debated social and moral issues. --Carroll E. Izard, Ph.D., Unidel Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Delaware ...we pronounce the book good, judge it innocent of poor scholarship, and sentence it to having a long impact on research and theory on interpersonal judgment....this book is a significant read with enormous strengths and a provocative, testable point of view. It presents an important perspective that adds emotional and moral elements into our more cognitive models for judgments of others....accessible to a broad audience....the text is appropriate both for undergraduates and for graduate students and established academics tilling the fields of attribution processes. The book can serve as a wonderful teaching tool as the reader completes studies, gets personally involved, and therefore easily grasps the ideas and findings. --Kathryn C. Oleson and Robert M. Arkin, Contemporary Psychology - We pronounce the book good, judge it innocent of poor scholarship, and sentence it to having a long impact on research and theory on interpersonal judgment....This book is a significant read with enormous strengths and a provocative, testable point of view. It presents an important perspective that adds emotional and moral elements into our more cognitive models for judgments of others....The text is appropriate both for undergraduates and for graduate students and established academics tilling the fields of attribution processes. --Contemporary Psychology, 4/16/1995Table of Contents1. The Anatomy of Responsibility2. Responsibility and Achievement Evaluation3. Responsibility and Stigmatization4. AIDS and Stigmatization5. Responsibility, Stigmatization, Mental Illness, and the Family6. Helping Behavior7. Aggression8. Reducing Inferences of Responsibility: Excuses and Confession9. On the Construction of Psychological Theory and Other Issues

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Book SynopsisThe European Review of Social Psychology (ERSP) is an international open-submission review journal, published under the auspices of the European Association of Social Psychology. It provides an outlet for substantial, theory-based reviews of empirical work addressing the full range of topics covered by the field of social psychology. Potential authorship is international, and papers are edited with the help of a distinguished, international editorial board. Articles published in ERSP typically review a program of the author's own research, as evidenced by the author''s own papers published in leading peer-reviewed journals. The journal welcomes theoretical contributions that are underpinned by a substantial body of empirical research, which locate the research program within a wider body of published research in that area, and provide an integration that is greater than the sum of the published articles. ERSP also publishes conventional reviews and meta-analyses. Table of Contents1. Fitting in: How the intergroup context shapes minority acculturation and achievement 2. It's not just "us" versus "them": Moving beyond binary perspectives on intergroup processes 3. Text-based E-contact: Harnessing cooperative Internet interactions to bridge the social and psychological divide 4. How static facial cues relate to real-world leaders' success: a review and meta-analysis 5. Bystanders' reactions to intimate partner violence: an experimental approach 6. A meta-analytic integration of research on the relationship between right-wing ideological attitudes and aggressive tendencies 7. Social game theory: Preferences, perceptions, and choices 8. Harm inflation: Making sense of concept creep 9. A communal approach to sexual need responsiveness in romantic relationships 10. Ideological differences in attitude and belief similarity: distinguishing perception and reality 11. Changing prejudiced attitudes, promoting egalitarianism, and enhancing diversity through fundamental processes of persuasion

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Book SynopsisThe European Review of Social Psychology (ERSP) is an international open-submission review journal, published under the auspices of the European Association of Social Psychology. It provides an outlet for substantial, theory-based reviews of empirical work addressing the full range of topics covered by the field of social psychology. Potential authorship is international, and papers are edited with the help of a distinguished, international editorial board. Articles published in ERSP typically review a programme of the author's own research, as evidenced by the author''s own papers published in leading peer-reviewed journals. The journal welcomes theoretical contributions that are underpinned by a substantial body of empirical research, which locate the research programme within a wider body of published research in that area, and provide an integration that is greater than the sum of the published articles. ERSP also publishesTable of ContentsThe person-based nature of prejudice: individual difference predictors of intergroup negativity. A dynamic model of engagement in normative and non-normative collective action: Psychological antecedents, consequences, and barriers. Intergroup reconciliation: Instrumental and socio-emotional processes and the needs-based model. Things we (don't) want to hear: Exploring responses to group-based feedback. The presence of the past: Identity continuity and group dynamics. A sociocultural framework for understanding partner preferences of women and men: Review of concepts and evidence. The role of self-evaluation and envy in Schadenfreude. How self-regulation helps to master negotiation challenges: An overview, integration, and outlook. Cognition is a matter of trust: Distrust tunes cognitive processes. European Review of Social Psychology Volume 26, 2015, Reviewer Acknowledgments. Editorial board

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Book SynopsisIn recent years there has been an astonishing growth in scholarly work at the intersection of economics, neuroscience, and psychology. As neuroeconomics (as this domain is usually known) continues to blossom, this new title from Routledge's Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences series provides a much-needed compendium of foundational and the very best cutting-edge scholarship. The collection also assembles pioneering manifestos and explicates howrather than being merely an underlabourer' of economics or neuroscienceneuroeconomics is becoming a specialized discipline in its own right with distinct research methods, insights, and results.Neuroeconomics is fully indexed and has a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editors, which places the collected material in its historical and intellectual context. It is an essential work of reference and is destined to be valued by scholars and students as a vital one-stop research and pedagogic resource.

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Book SynopsisThe European Review of Social Psychology (ERSP) is an international open-submission review journal, published under the auspices of the European Association of Social Psychology. It provides an outlet for substantial, theory-based reviews of empirical work addressing the full range of topics covered by the field of social psychology. Potential authorship is international, and papers are edited with the help of a distinguished, international editorial board. Articles published in ERSP typically review a programme of the author's own research, as evidenced by the author''s own papers published in leading peer-reviewed journals. The journal welcomes theoretical contributions that are underpinned by a substantial body of empirical research, which locate the research programme within a wider body of published research in that area, and provide an integration that is greater than the sum of the published articles. ERSP also publishes convenTable of Contents1. Indirect emotion regulation in intractable conflicts: A new approach to conflict resolution, Eran Halperin, Smadar Cohen-Chen & Amit Goldenberg 2. Beyond terror: Towards a paradigm shift in the study of threat and culture, Leonard L. Martin & Kees van den Bos 3. Media violence use as a risk factor for aggressive behaviour in adolescence, Barbara Krahé 4. Power, negotiations, and the anticipation of intergroup encounters, Tamar Saguy & Nour Kteily 5. Living in a multicultural world: Intergroup ideologies and the societal context of intergroup relations, Serge Guimond, Roxane de la Sablonnière & Armelle Nugier 6. Conceptions of national identity in a globalised world: Antecedents and consequences, Kumar Yogeeswaran & Nilanjana Dasgupta 7. What’s really in a Name-Letter Effect? Name-letter preferences as indirect measures of self-esteem, Vera Hoorens 8. The strategic role of language abstraction in achieving symbolic and practical goals, Monica Rubini, Michela Menegatti & Silvia Moscatelli 9. Improving intergroup relations with extended and vicarious forms of indirect contact, Loris Vezzali, Miles Hewstone, Dora Capozza, Dino Giovannini & Ralf Wölfer

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Book SynopsisPsychoanalytic Studies of the Work of Adam Smith blends the rich intellectual heritage of the hermeneutic tradition with the methods and concepts of psychoanalysis, in order to examine the seminal works of Adam Smith. This is the first book on Smith to analyse the works of the groundbreaking moral theorist and founding father of economics from a psychoanalytic perspective, whilst also examining the human capacities and skills that are necessary to put Smith's ideas into practice. Starting with a detailed discussion of the psychological difficulties that afflicted Smith, Özler and Gabrinetti examine the influence that Smith's life had on the ideas that are found in his major works. The authors explore the sympathetic process in Smith's The Theory of Moral Sentiments (TMS) from an intersubjectivist perspective and use ideas from developmental psychology to argue that sympathy leads to morality. This book contains a thorough analysis of the defences that are usedTrade Review‘This provocative and rich book offers not uncritical re-readings of Adam Smith's The Theory of Moral Sentiments from multiple psychoanalytic perspectives in order to reveal that the father of homo economicus anticipates important elements of Freudian moral psychology and social theory. The argument also reveals the humanity and generosity of the authors who invite us to reflect not just on the foundations of Smith's system, but also on our own reactions to his writings.’ - Eric Schliesser, Professor of Political Science, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.‘Şule Özler and □Paul A. Gabrinetti have written a wonderful book inter-translating Adam Smith and psychoanalysis. Explaining Freud’s work on empathy by Smith’s on sympathic is deeply helpful. This opens up opportunities for exploration since they tell us Freud himself knew Smith’s Weath of Nations as that of "a great philosopher and wit." For me, the most illuminating aspect the work is their use of Jung’s doctrine – all humans have a mix of feminine and masculine – to explain Smith’s difficult doctrine that "humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity if a man" without having to appeal to innate differences among humans. Smith takes pains to assert the observed difference of the philosopher and the street porter are not fixed by nature but set by incentives, history, and luck, so Özler and Gabrinetti have offered a reading coherent with Smith’s larger doctrine.’ - David M. Levy, Professor of Economics, George Mason University, and Distinguished Fellow of the History of Economics Society, USA. Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. An Intersubjective Interpretation of Sympathy 3. Sympathy, Empathy and Evidence from Developmental Psychology 4. The Impartial Spectator, Conscience and Morality 5. The Role of the Deity in Smith’s Moral System 6. A Known World: an Analysis of Defenses in Adam Smith’s the Theory of Moral Sentiments 7. Defenses and Morality: Adam Smith, Sigmund Freud and Contemporary Psychoanalysis 8. An Evolutionary Psychological and Adaptive Defenses View of Relations between Markets and Morality 9. On Dependency 10. On Friendship 11. A Jungian Interpretation of the Place of Women in Smith’s Works 12. Conclusions

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Book SynopsisThe Basal ganglia, to adopt a phrase of Churchill''s, are a riddle wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma. And although there is a wealth of information available on them, this research field remains controversial due in part to the diverse number of disciplines involved. A Theory of the Basal Ganglia and Their Disorders provides a clear, coherent view of basal ganglia that integrates evidence from the basic neurosciences, neurology, and psychiatry. The author explores the basal ganglia within a context of the function of the mammalian forebrain as a whole.Divided into two parts, the book explores the basic framework in which normal functions of the basal ganglia can be understood, and then moves on to discuss major disorders. It explains, as far as possible, symptoms and related clinical facts in terms of the underlying pathology and pathophysiology. With this goal in mind, the author includes only disorders of the basal ganglia for which there are already clear ideas about thTrade Review"Miller’s knowledge of the anatomy of neurological disorders is impressive. Only a person with a lifetime of experience in basal ganglia research could pull together such a wide range of information into a coherent model. We can all be grateful for the work of researchers like Robert Miller who have persevered for so many years in this area and are giving us all a coherent model of basal ganglia function." – James J. Jakubow in PsycCRITIQUES, Volume 54, No. 35, 2008Table of ContentsThe Framework for Normal Basal Ganglionic Function. Interpretation of Symptoms of Diseases of the Basal Ganglia.

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