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Book SynopsisDo emotions happen inside separate hearts and minds, or do they operate across the spaces between individuals? This book focuses on how emotions affect other people by changing their orientation to what happens in the social world. It provides the first sustained attempt to bring together literature on emotion''s social effects in dyads and groups, and on how people regulate their emotions in order to exploit these effects in their home and work lives. The chapters present state-of-the-art reviews of topics such as emotion contagion, social appraisal and emotional labour. The book then develops an innovative and integrative approach to the social psychology of emotion based on the idea of relation alignment. The implications not only stretch beyond face-to-face interactions into the wider interpersonal, institutional and cultural environment, but also penetrate the supposed depths of personal experience, making us rethink some of our strongly held presuppositions about how emotions work.Trade Review'Twenty-first century affective science has become a sprawl of studies and theories that resisted any unified treatment - until now. Brian Parkinson brings reason to emotion in a tour de force of patient and deeply analytical scholarship that is nonetheless personal and highly approachable. This volume is indispensable for anyone who does emotion research.' Alan J. Fridlund, University of California'This is an impressive scholarly monograph … In his theoretically challenging way, the author reverses the traditional inside-out approach and rethinks the heart of emotions as relational processes. Every emotion researcher should read this book.' Agneta H. Fischer, Universiteit van Amsterdam'Brian Parkinson, a pioneer in the social psychology of emotions, weaves a tale of the social facets of emotion in this new book. He masterfully covers decades of research, while transcending disciplinary boundaries. It is a truly important resource for any researcher interested in emotions.' Arvid Kappas, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany'Welcome to a Copernican view of emotion that sees emotions from 'outside and beyond', rather than from 'inside out'. Brian Parkinson achieves a skilful balance between didactic clarity and deep thoughtfulness, while providing an enlightening review of the social role of this scientific mystery called emotion.' José-Miguel Fernández-Dols, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain'When people reflect on their emotions, they tend to assume that these are private events, individual in nature, that happen to them. In this eloquently written and persuasively argued book, Brian Parkinson, the leading proponent of the view that emotions are fundamentally social, systematically undermines each of these assumptions.' Antony Manstead, Cardiff University'Providing a comprehensive review of the major contemporary issues in emotion research, this book recasts emotions first and foremost as a social lynchpin. Doing In doing so, it provides an important framework that promises to advance the study of this complex and fascinating phenomenon called emotion.' Shlomo Hareli, University of Haifa, Isreal'Comprehensive, provocative in parts and delightfully written, this book addresses a perennially timely question in emotion psychology: are emotions primarily intrapsychological or primarily social phenomena? I very much enjoyed reading the book.' Ursula Hess, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin'Claims that 'emotions are social constructions' are all the rage, but they are often divorced from both rigorous argumentation and empirical data. Brian Parkinson's monograph puts flesh around the slogans of the social constructionist movement, making a powerful case that emotions are strategies of relationship realignment rather than passive feelings to be explained in strictly physiological terms.' Andrea Scarantino, Georgia State University'As a longstanding proponent of the social approach to emotion, Brian Parkinson provides an insightful account of state-of-the-art theories and research on emotions' inherently social constitution. This book is invaluable for anyone who wishes to understand emotion's impact on our social lives.' Gerben van Kleef, Universiteit van Amsterdam'In this comprehensive, theoretically rich, accessible treatise, Parkinson (Univ. of Oxford, UK) challenges and reverses traditional psychological and individualistic accounts of emotions' origins. In a wholesale paradigmatic shift, he presents an approach to their understanding that is interpersonal, interactive, relational, and fundamentally social in nature, beginning from birth … The overall result is a thought-provoking study that will certainly extend emotion research into several new directions for years to come.' J. R. Mitrano, ChoiceTable of Contents1. What's at the heart of emotions?; 2. Words and concepts; 3. Facial activity and emotion expression; 4. Explaining emotional influence; 5. Regulating emotions; 6. Social functions; 7. Groups, teams, and crowds; 8. Working with emotions; 9. Reorientation; References.

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Book SynopsisMadeleine A. Fugère is Professor of Psychology at Eastern Connecticut State University, USA. Her research and teaching interests include social psychology, statistics, research methods, and attraction and romantic relationships. She has previously published articles related to romantic relationships, sexual double standards, and teaching psychology courses. Jennifer Leszczynski is Professor of Psychology at Eastern Connecticut State University, USA. Her research interests include contextual influences on masculinity and femininity and gendered beliefs about love across the lifespan. She also studies how using community engagement in college classrooms can dispel gender and age stereotypes.Alita J. Cousins is Associate Professor of Psychology at Eastern Connecticut State University, USA. Her research focuses on conflict in romantic relationships, particularly mate guarding in dating couples. She has published research articles in a variety of journals on topics such as mate guarding, maTrade Review'This book is full of interesting topics that will have great appeal to anyone interested in relationships. The book is student-friendly, bringing research to life with real-life examples, and it features a great mix of classic studies and recently published research. It is refreshing to see all these topics covered in one textbook.' - Claire Hart, Lecturer in Psychology, University of Southampton, UK 'Not since Rubin's classic 1973 Liking and Loving do we have a book that intelligently reviews a broad range of social science research on interpersonal attraction. The authors are masterfully able to discuss abstract scientific concepts in a way that is illuminating as well as engaging. They are able to blend the scientific literature, personal anecdotes, and popular media to cook such a delicious meal that gives all of us plenty to chew on for some time.' - David A. Kenny, Professor Emeritus of Psychology, University of Connecticut, USA "This very well-written book covers a wide array of fascinating topics and is illustrated by many rich examples. Readers will find each chapter to be both interesting and accessible." - Norman Li, Associate Professor of Psychology, Singapore Management University, Singapore 'Fugere, Leszczynski, and Cousins provide an accessible and engaging overview of a topic that should be of particular interest to traditional age undergraduates. The book's summaries and analyses of a range of research are interspersed with illustrative and entertaining examples from the authors' lives and from popular culture. As readers are guided through some of the implications for their own relationships, they may be startled to learn how wrong some of their beliefs about dating are.' - Susan Rakowitz, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Fairfield University, USATable of ContentsPART I: ATTRACTION 1. Forming Attitudes toward Potential Partners: First Impressions of Physical Characteristics 2. Forming Attitudes toward Potential Partners: First Impressions of Non-Physical Characteristics 3. First Impressions of Non-Physical Characteristics: Levels of Acquaintance and the Importance of Meeting in Person 4. Evolutionary Theory 5. Initiating and Enhancing Attraction PART II: ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS 6. Assessing and Changing Attitudes toward Romantic Partners 7. Romantic Relationships 8. Sex and Love 9. Gender.

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Book SynopsisThe environment is part of everyone's life but there are difficulties in communicating complex environmental problems, such as climate change, to a lay audience. In this book Klöckner defines environmental communication, providing a comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the issues involved in encouraging pro-environmental behaviour.Trade Review“This book will appeal to those who want a broad, academic, well-referenced foundation to environmental communication which is understandable to educated laypeople. … this book contains a wealth of actionable concepts and techniques. … The Psychology of Pro-Environmental Communication: Beyond Standard Information Strategies provides a valuable resource which environmental communicators may benefit from drawing on for insights and the stimulation of brainstorms.” (George M. Jacobs, Language & Ecology, ecolinguistics-association.org, 2017)“Multidisciplinary in nature, this book offers a comprehensive overview of theory and case studies. The parts of this book dedicated to accounting for the role of intraorganizational dynamics and innovation are arguably the most useful. These insights are applicable not only to environmental communication, but also organizational communication and management.” (Hyun Tae (Calvin) Kim, International Journal of Communication, Vol. 10, 2016)Table of ContentsPreface1. What is Environmental Communication and Why is it Important? 2. Potential and Limitations of Environmental Communication3. Understanding Communication - Insights from Theories of Communication4. Decision models - What Psychological Theories Teach Us about People's Behaviour5. Communication in Large Social Systems - How Information Spreads through Societies6. Traditional and New Media - About Amplification and Negation7. Target Group Segmentation - Why Knowing your Audience is Important8. An Overview of Communication-Based Intervention Techniques9. Promoting Pro-Environmental Behaviour in Groups and Organisations 10. Playing Good? - Environmental Communication through Games and Simulations11. Rock Festivals, Sport Events, Theatre - Some Out-of-the-Ordinary Means of Environmental Communication

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Book Synopsis1.Introduction. The Production of Outer Space; Peter Dickens and James S. Ormrod 2. Terrestrial Geographies in and of Outer Space; Jason Beery 3. Capitalism, Class and the Cosmos; Peter Dickens 4. Satellite Surveillance and Outer Space Capitalism: The Case of MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates; Jocelyn Wills 5. The Meta-Geopolitics of Outer Space; Nayef Al-Rodhan 6. Cosmofeminism: Challenging Patriarchy in Outer Space; Chris Pesterfield 7. Dialectics, Society and Cosmology; Peter Mason 8. Narrating the Universe; Felicity Mellor 9. The Social Impacts of Space Science; Mark R. Johnson 10. Res Communis?: A Critical Legal Geography of Outer Space, Antarctica, and the Deep Seabed; Christy Collis 11. Snared Suns and Liberated Moons: Decoding Cryptic 'Astronomies' in Indigenous Cultures; Lionel Sims12. Contemporary Cosmologies, Critical Re-Imaginings; Allen Abramson and Martin Holbraad 13. The Whiteness of Cinematic Outer Space;Sean Redmond 14. Seeking the Galactic Club: Fred Hoyle, Carl Sagan and the C/SETI Novell; De Witt Douglas Kilgore 15. Space Activism: A Psychosocial Approach; James S. Ormrod 16. Transmissions from the Noosphere: Contemporary Art and Outer Space; Nicola Triscott 17. Conclusion: The Future of Outer Space; Peter Dickens and James S. OrmrodTrade Review“The volume achieves its purpose of providing an in-depth exploration. It also inspires debate in a field of study that is expanding as humans close the gaps among society, culture, and outer space. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through researchers and faculty; professionals.” (R. I. Saltz, Choice, Vol. 54 (4), December, 2016)Table of Contents1.Introduction. The Production of Outer Space; Peter Dickens and James S. Ormrod 2. Terrestrial Geographies in and of Outer Space; Jason Beery 3. Capitalism, Class and the Cosmos; Peter Dickens 4. Satellite Surveillance and Outer Space Capitalism: The Case of MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates; Jocelyn Wills 5. The Meta-Geopolitics of Outer Space; Nayef Al-Rodhan 6. Cosmofeminism: Challenging Patriarchy in Outer Space; Chris Pesterfield 7. Dialectics, Society and Cosmology; Peter Mason 8. Narrating the Universe; Felicity Mellor 9. The Social Impacts of Space Science; Mark R. Johnson 10. Res Communis?: A Critical Legal Geography of Outer Space, Antarctica, and the Deep Seabed; Christy Collis 11. Snared Suns and Liberated Moons: Decoding Cryptic 'Astronomies' in Indigenous Cultures; Lionel Sims12. Contemporary Cosmologies, Critical Re-Imaginings; Allen Abramson and Martin Holbraad 13. The Whiteness of Cinematic Outer Space; Sean Redmond 14. Seeking the Galactic Club: Fred Hoyle, Carl Sagan and the C/SETI Novell; De Witt Douglas Kilgore 15. Space Activism: A Psychosocial Approach; James S. Ormrod 16. Transmissions from the Noosphere: Contemporary Art and Outer Space; Nicola Triscott 17. Conclusion: The Future of Outer Space; Peter Dickens and James S. Ormrod

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Book SynopsisDigitalism is a philosophical strategy that uses new computational ways of thinking to develop naturalistic but meaningful ways of thinking about bodies, souls, universes, gods, and life after death. Your Digital Afterlives examines four recently developed and digitally inspired theories of life after death.Table of ContentsPreface Series Editors' Preface 1. Ghosts 2. Persistence 3. Anatomy 4. Uploading 5. Promotion 6. Digital Gods 7. Revision 8. Superhuman Bodies 9. Infinite Bodies 10. Nature References Index

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Book SynopsisIntroduction 1. Theoretical Discourse, Subjectivity and Critical Psychology PART I: ENLIGHTENMENT, REALISM AND POWER (AND THEIR REVERSE) 2. Against Postmodernism: Psychology in Cultural Context 2a. Against Against-ism: Comment on Parker; Fred Newman and Lois Holzman 2b. Critical Distance: Reply to Newman and Holzman 3. Against Relativism in Psychology, On Balance 3a. Regulating Criticism: Some Comments on an Argumentative Complex; Jonathan Potter, Derek Edwards and Malcolm Ashmore 3b. The Quintessentially Academic Position 4. Against Wittgenstein: Materialist Reflections on Language in Psychology 4a. The Practical Turn in Psychology: Marx and Wittgenstein as Social Materialists; John. T. Jost and Curtis D. Hardin 4b. Reference Points for Critical Theoretical Work in Psychology PART II: THE TURN TO DISCOURSE AS A CRITICAL THEORETICAL RESOURCE 5. Discursive Psychology Uncut 6. Discourse: Definitions and Contradictions 6a. Discourse: Noun, Verb or Social Practice?; Jonathan Potter, Margaret Wetherell, Ros Gill and Derek Edwards 6b. The Context of Discourse: Let's Not Throw the Baby Out With the Bathwater; Dominic Abrams and Michael A. Hogg 6c. Real Things: Discourse, Context and Practice PART III: CRITICAL DISCURSIVE RESEARCH, SUBJECTIVITY AND PRACTICE 7. Reflexive Research and Grounding of Analysis: Psychology and the Psy-Complex 8. Tracing Therapeutic Discourse in Material Culture 9. Constructing and Deconstructing Psychotherapeutic Discourse 10. The Psychosocial Turn 11. Critical ReflectionsTrade Review"Critical Discursive Psychology collects more than a decade's intellectual work into a single volume...readers now have easy-access to some of the most pertinent, theoretically inspiring, and discursively engaged of Parker's contributions." - Catriona Macleod and Lindy Wilbraham, Psychology in SocietyTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Theoretical Discourse, Subjectivity and Critical Psychology PART I: ENLIGHTENMENT, REALISM AND POWER (AND THEIR REVERSE) 2. Against Postmodernism: Psychology in Cultural Context 2a. Against Against-ism: Comment on Parker; Fred Newman and Lois Holzman 2b. Critical Distance: Reply to Newman and Holzman 3. Against Relativism in Psychology, On Balance 3a. Regulating Criticism: Some Comments on an Argumentative Complex; Jonathan Potter, Derek Edwards and Malcolm Ashmore 3b. The Quintessentially Academic Position 4. Against Wittgenstein: Materialist Reflections on Language in Psychology 4a. The Practical Turn in Psychology: Marx and Wittgenstein as Social Materialists; John. T. Jost and Curtis D. Hardin 4b. Reference Points for Critical Theoretical Work in Psychology PART II: THE TURN TO DISCOURSE AS A CRITICAL THEORETICAL RESOURCE 5. Discursive Psychology Uncut 6. Discourse: Definitions and Contradictions 6a. Discourse: Noun, Verb or Social Practice?; Jonathan Potter, Margaret Wetherell, Ros Gill and Derek Edwards 6b. The Context of Discourse: Let's Not Throw the Baby Out With the Bathwater; Dominic Abrams and Michael A. Hogg 6c. Real Things: Discourse, Context and Practice PART III: CRITICAL DISCURSIVE RESEARCH, SUBJECTIVITY AND PRACTICE 7. Reflexive Research and Grounding of Analysis: Psychology and the Psy-Complex 8. Tracing Therapeutic Discourse in Material Culture 9. Constructing and Deconstructing Psychotherapeutic Discourse 10. The Psychosocial Turn 11. Critical Reflections

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Book SynopsisThe Importance of Being a Vocabulary; Jaan Valsiner1. Why Do We Need a New Vocabulary for Creativity?; Vlad Petre Gl?veanu, Lene Tanggaard and Charlotte Wegener2. Affordance; Vlad Petre Gl?veanu3. Business as Usual; Kristian Dahl and Lene Tanggaard4. Craft; Vlad Petre Gl?veanu5. Difference; Vlad Petre Gl?veanu6. Fear; Luca Tateo7. Language; Carolin Demuth and Vlad Petre Gl?veanu8. Lostness; Charlotte Wegener9. Memory; Brady Wagoner and Vlad Petre Gl?veanu10. Mess; Lene Tanggard and Tue Juelsbo11. Mirroring; Charlotte Wegener12.Pathways; Lene Tanggard13. Perspective; Vlad Petre Gl?veanu14. Power; Claus Elmholdt and Marten Fogsgaard15. Reflexivity; Constance de Saint-Laurent and Vlad Petre Gl?veanu16. Rhythm; Vlad Petre Gl?veanu17. Rules; Tues Juelsbo18. Space; Nikita A. Kharlamov19. Stumbling; Lene Tanggaard20 Things; Vlad Petre Gl?veanu21 Translation; Vlad Petre Gl?veanu22. Upcycling; CharlotteTrade Review"A provocative and unique contribution to the field of creativity studies. If you're interested in creativity, keep this book close at hand. I know I will!" - Ronald A. Beghetto, Editor of the Journal of Creative Behavior, Professor of Educational Psychology, University of Connecticut, USA "One of the biggest challenges facing creativity researchers is the lack of a common language across fields. People in business, psychology, and education study very similar issues but are often unaware of related work. It is easy to switch terms between creativity, imagination, and innovation, but a real solution requires more work. What this essential volume does is to explore core ideas (such as language or memory or power) that span fields and disciplines and discuss how they relate to creativity. This book is not just for people interested in creativity research – it is for anyone interested in how science can grow and evolve." - James C. Kaufman, Professor of Educational Psychology, University of Connecticut, USATable of ContentsThe Importance of Being a Vocabulary; Jaan Valsiner 1. Why Do We Need a New Vocabulary for Creativity?; Vlad Petre Gl?veanu, Lene Tanggaard and Charlotte Wegener 2. Affordance; Vlad Petre Gl?veanu 3. Business as Usual; Kristian Dahl and Lene Tanggaard 4. Craft; Vlad Petre Gl?veanu 5. Difference; Vlad Petre Gl?veanu 6. Fear; Luca Tateo 7. Language; Carolin Demuth and Vlad Petre Gl?veanu 8. Lostness; Charlotte Wegener 9. Memory; Brady Wagoner and Vlad Petre Gl?veanu 10. Mess; Lene Tanggard and Tue Juelsbo 11. Mirroring; Charlotte Wegener 12.Pathways; Lene Tanggard 13. Perspective; Vlad Petre Gl?veanu 14. Power; Claus Elmholdt and Marten Fogsgaard 15. Reflexivity; Constance de Saint-Laurent and Vlad Petre Gl?veanu 16. Rhythm; Vlad Petre Gl?veanu 17. Rules; Tues Juelsbo 18. Space; Nikita A. Kharlamov 19. Stumbling; Lene Tanggaard 20 Things; Vlad Petre Gl?veanu 21 Translation; Vlad Petre Gl?veanu 22. Upcycling; Charlotte Wegener

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Book SynopsisCertainly, to that minority of scholars whose conceptions of politics do include ‘power’ as an indispensable basic concept, the approaches of the vast majority of their colleagues for whom, as their answers in the survey reveal, ‘power’ does not play an eminent role must appear, in an 3 important sense, mistaken or perhaps even incomprehensible.Trade Review"Exact but not exacting, this is a fine work of overview and analysis; it makes an excellent contribution to the literature on power and freedom." (Philip Pettit, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics, Princeton University) "In this work, the author assumes the task of a ‘logical clean-up’ – an extremely valuable contribution to the promotion of scientific rigour and clarity in political scholarship." [This book] "gives the reader orientation in a conceptual jungle." [It is] "an excellent analysis of the relationships between normative and social power." (Ernesto Garzón Valdés, Prof. em. of Legal Philosophy, President of The Tampere Club) "A genuinely pioneering contribution insofar as the author – to my knowledge: for the first time ever – succeeds in giving a conceptually rather clear profile to a descriptive-analytic and normative understanding of the phenomenon of influence and in elucidating – again, by way of thorough and profound analysis – that this is much more than an academic glass-bead game, because our understanding of such essential normative foundations of political theory as freedom and equality is inextricably linked to the concepts of power and influence, and because this is the only way how we can come to see the fundamental obstacles to a coherent interpretation and institutional realization of the idea of the democratic Rechtsstaat." (Rainer Schmalz-Bruns, Prof. of Political Theory, Darmstadt University of Technology)Table of ContentsPart I. Concepts Taken Apart.- Chapter 1. The Concept of Power.- 1. The ‘essential contestedness’ issue 1. Conceptual vagueness and ambiguity. Value-dependence. A pragmatic objection. An epistemological objection. The simple inconsistency objection. The sophisticated inconsistency objection. The unfoundedness objection. Value-dependence examined. 2. Conceptions of power 1. Sociological conceptions: from Max Weber to Steven Lukes. A Philosophical Conception: Hartmut Kliemt. An economic conception: Brian Barry. 3. Conclusions 1. A classificatory framework. The question of causation. Cutting through the jungle. Chapter 2. The Concept of Influence.- 1. Distinguishing influence from power: General remarks. 2. The power-as-ability-to-influence view.- Excursus: The concept of influence in social-psychological scholarship 3. The sanction-based distinction: Lasswell and Kaplan. The intention-based distinction: Dennis Wrong 5. The normativity-based distinction: Ingmar Pörn . Assorted other views. 7. A subject-centered view: Mokken and Stokman. 8. A tentative proposal. Part II. Concepts put Together.- Chapter 3. Power and Freedom.- 1. Felix Oppenheim 1. The relationship between freedom and power. Discussion. Conclusion. 2. Philip Pettit 1. The relationship between freedom and power. Discussion. Conclusion 3. Kristján Kristjánsson 1. The relationship between freedom and power. Discussion. Conclusion 4. Conclusions. Chapter 4. Social Power and Legal Power.- 1. Introduction. 2. Distinguishing the two kinds of power 1. Normative or legal power. Social power. 3. Political power at the crossroads of legal and social power. 4. On justifying political power 5. Conclusion. Chapter 5. Influence and Power: A Mess Transformed?- References.- Index of names

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Book SynopsisList of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgements Preface Introduction Attitude: Ways of Feeling Engagement and Graduation: Alignment, Solidarity and the Construed Reader Evaluative Key: Taking a Stance Enacting Appraisal: Text Analysis References IndexTable of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgements Preface Introduction Attitude: Ways of Feeling Engagement and Graduation: Alignment, Solidarity and the Construed Reader Evaluative Key: Taking a Stance Enacting Appraisal: Text Analysis References Index

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Book Synopsis(1981) described the core elements of the stress process in a brief paragraph: The process of social stress can be seen as combining three major conceptual domains: the sources of stress, the mediators of stress, and the manifestations of stress.Table of ContentsConceptual and Methodological Developments.- Understanding Health Disparities: The Promise of the Stress Process Model.- Compensatory Coping with Stressors.- Neighborhood as a Social Context of the Stress Process.- Suppression Effects in Social Stress Research and Their Implications for the Stress Process Model.- Stress Processes in Social Roles and Contexts: Family and Work.- Family Structure and Women’s Lives: A Life Course Perspective.- The Stress Process Model: Some Family-Level Considerations.- Linking Early Family Adversity to Young Adult Mental Disorders.- Work, Family, and Their Intersection.- Psychosocial Concepts and Processes.- Sense of Mattering in Late Life.- It’s Tough to Cope in Rural Mali: Financial Coping Style, Mastery, Self Confidence, and Anxiety in a Bad and Worsening Socioeconomic Environment.- Stress Valuation and the Experience of Parenting Stress in Late Life.- Stress Process Applications in Child Victimization Research.- The Evolution of the Stress Process Paradigm.- The Stress Process as a Successful Paradigm.

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Book SynopsisThe proposed book explores the theme of identity, specifically as applied to its role and development in virtual worlds. factors that support the development of identity in virtual worlds; managing multiple identities across different environments and creating an online identity for a physical world purpose.Table of ContentsIdentity: A Primer.-The Self and Second Life, A Case Study Exploring the Emergence of Virtual Selves.-Liminal Phases of Avatar Identity Formation in Virtual World Communities.-Encountering Oneself and The Other: A Case Study of Identity Formation in Second Life.-Virtual Fashion Play as Embodied Identity Re/assembling: Second Life.-Fashion Bloggers and Their Avatar Body Images.-Embodying Self in Virtual Worlds.-Is That Your Boyfriend? An Experiential and Theoretical Approach to Understanding Gender Bending in Virtual Worlds.-Constructing Disability in Online Worlds; Conceptualising Disability in Online Research.-As Long as They Don’t Know Where I Live.-Multiple Personality Order.-Comparing Avatar and Video Representations.-What is my Avatar? – Who is my Avatar? The Avatar as a Device to Achieve a Goal: Perceptions and Implications.- Situated Learning in Virtual Worlds and Identity Reformation.-Safe Harbours for Identity Exposition and Exploration

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Book SynopsisWe, on the other hand, are convinced that social psychology is, after all, a social science and that a study based on orthodox theories is still eminently significant.Table of Contents1. Introduction.- 2. The Discovery of the Masses.- A New Human Dimension: The Crowd.- How a Science Discovers Its Facts.- The Riddle of Crowd Formation.- A Science of the Irrational.- Crowds are the Unconscious.- Natural Crowds and Artificial Crowds.- 3. Models of Suggestive Influence and the Disqualification of the Social Crowd.- The Political and Intellectual Climate of Fin-de-Siècle Paris.- Disqualification and Revolution: The Perspective of the Crowd Psychologies.- From Medical to Psychiatric Praxis—From Animal Magnetism to Suggestive Influence.- Hypnosis Versus Suggestion—The Nancy/Salpêtrière Debate.- Binet at the Salpêtrière—Dogmatic Experimentation.- The Pervasiveness of the Hypnosis/Suggestion Model at the End of the 19th Century.- From Theories of Magnetism to Political Ideology.- From Suggestive Influence to Crowd Psychology.- Binet at the Crossroads of the Social Psychology of Interpersonal Influence.- Conclusion.- 4. Freud and Massenpsychologie.- 5. Mass Psychology, Social Psychology, and the Politics of Mussolini.- Brief Presentations.- Mussolini and the Three Authors.- Le Bon, Orano, and Sorel and the Sociopsychological Study of Mussolini’s Rise and Fall.- 6. The Social Psychology of William McDougall.- McDougall’s Two Volume Social Psychology.- Reaction to McDougall’s Social Psychology.- Postscript.- 7. The Individualization of the Social and the Desocialization of the Individual: Floyd H. Allport’s Contribution to Social Psychology.- Social Psychology as Individual Psychology.- The Individual Psychology of Crowds and Groups.- The Individualization of Social Psychology: An Evaluation in Retrospect.- 8. Conceptions of Crowds and Crowding.- Everyday Experiences of Crowds and Crowding.- The Unrelatedness of Crowds and Crowding in Scientific Research and Discourse.- Crowd Psychology.- Crowding Phenomena and Research on Crowding.- The Janus-Faced Problem of Crowd and Crowding.- 9. Collective Behavior from the 17th to the 20th Century: Change of Phenomena, Change of Perception or No Change at All? Some Preliminary Reflections.- A Paradigm Change in Perception.- From “Revolts” to “Revolution”: The Continental World.- The Natural Law of Mass Action: The Anglo-Saxon World.- The Rebellious Subjects: Germany.- A Paradigm Change in Interpretation of Motivation: From Passions to Interests (17th-18th Centuries).- A Paradigm Change in Perceiving the “Laboring Poor” in England: From Low to High Wages as Incentive for Work.- The Laborer as “Working Animal” and the “Unpredictable Natural Forces” of Working Class Action: The German Kaiserreich.- Class Interests and Perception.- 10. Masses—From an Idealistic to a Materialistic Point of View? Aspects of Marxian Theory of the Class.- Social Movement as a Dialectical Process.- The Conflict Between Bauer and Marx.- Mass and Class.- 11. Mass, Mobilization, and the State.- Individual Action and Collective Movement.- 12. The Social Organization of Early Human Groups.- 13. Crowd Mind and Behavior: Afterthoughts.- The Historical Versus Scientific Approach to Mass Phenomena.- Top-Down Versus Bottom-Up Conceptions of Mass Phenomena.- The Rationalist Versus Irrationalist Explanations of Crowd Phenomena.- Author Index.

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Book SynopsisThe Global Perspective.- The Impact of Global Economic, Political, and Social Transformations on the Lives of Children.- Globalization in Cross-Cultural Perspective.- The Status of Children in International Law.- Democratization and Children's Lives.- Global Trends in Children's Lives.- Children and Family Life.- Civic Participation by Children and Youth.- The Effects of Political and Economic Transformations on Children.- Children and the Media.- Developmental-Ecological Considerations.- Applying the Lens of Global Change to the Actual Lives of Children.- The Transition to Democracy in Latin America.- Promises Kept, Promises Broken.- The Effects of Structural Adjustment Programs on the Lives of Children in Jamaica.- Conclusions.- Conclusions.Table of ContentsThe Global Perspective.- The Impact of Global Economic, Political, and Social Transformations on the Lives of Children.- Globalization in Cross-Cultural Perspective.- The Status of Children in International Law.- Democratization and Children’s Lives.- Global Trends in Children’s Lives.- Children and Family Life.- Civic Participation by Children and Youth.- The Effects of Political and Economic Transformations on Children.- Children and the Media.- Developmental-Ecological Considerations.- Applying the Lens of Global Change to the Actual Lives of Children.- The Transition to “Democracy” in Latin America.- Promises Kept, Promises Broken.- The Effects of Structural Adjustment Programs on the Lives of Children in Jamaica.- Conclusions.- Conclusions.

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Book SynopsisPreface and acknowledgments.- Joey T. Cheng, Jessica L. Tracy, and Cameron Anderson.- Part I. Theoretical Perspectives: The Nature of Social Status and Hierarchy.- Chapter 1.Toward a unified science of hierarchy: Dominance and prestige are two fundamental pathways to human social rank Joey T. Cheng and Jessica L. Tracy.- Chapter 2. Prestige and the ongoing process of culture revision Jerome H. Barkow Chapter 3. Do status hierarchies benefit groups? A bounded functionalist account of status Cameron Anderson and Robb Willer.- Chapter 4. What's in a name? Status, power, and other forms of social hierarchy Steven L. Blader and Ya-Ru Chen.- Part II. Who Leads? Psychological Underpinnings of Status Attainment.- Chapter 5. Personality and status attainment:  A Micropolitics perspective.- Cameron Anderson and Jon Cowan.- Chapter 6.The status-size hypothesis: How cues of physical size and social status influence eacTable of ContentsFront Matter Preface and acknowledgments Joey T. Cheng, Jessica L. Tracy, and Cameron Anderson Part I. Theoretical Perspectives: The Nature of Social Status and Hierarchy Chapter 1. Toward a unified science of hierarchy: Dominance and prestige are two fundamental pathways to human social rank Joey T. Cheng and Jessica L. Tracy Chapter 2. Prestige and the ongoing process of culture revision Jerome H. Barkow Chapter 3. Do status hierarchies benefit groups? A bounded functionalist account of status Cameron Anderson and Robb Willer Chapter 4. What’s in a name? Status, power, and other forms of social hierarchy Steven L. Blader and Ya-Ru Chen Part II. Who Leads? Psychological Underpinnings of Status Attainment Chapter 5. Personality and status attainment: A Micropolitics perspective Cameron Anderson and Jon Cowan Chapter 6. The status-size hypothesis: How cues of physical size and social status influence each other Nancy M. Blaker and Mark van Vugt Chapter 7. Prosocial behavior and social status Sara Kafashan, Adam Sparks, Vladas Griskevicius, and Pat Barclay Chapter 8. The pursuit of status: A self-presentational perspective on the quest for social value Mark R. Leary, Katrina P. Jongman-Sereno, and Kate J. Diebels Chapter 9. The roots and fruits of social status in small-scale human societies Christopher von Rueden Chapter 10. The emotional underpinnings of social status Conor M. Steckler and Jessica L. TracyPart III. Intrapsychic and Interpersonal Consequences of Status Chapter 11. Decision-making at the top: Benefits and barriers Nathanael J. Fast and Priyanka D. Joshi Chapter 12. Social categories create and reflect inequality: Psychological and sociological insights Michael S. North and Susan T. FiskePart IV. How is Status Manifested in the Body? Chapter 13. Hormones and hierarchies Erik L. Knight and Pranjal H. Mehta Chapter 14. Neural basis of social status hierarchy Narun Pornpattananangkul, Caroline F. Zink, Joan Y. Chiao Chapter 15. Nonverbal communication and the vertical dimension of social relations Judith A. Hall, Ioana-Maria Latu, Dana R. Carney, Marianne Schmid Mast Part V. Methodology Chapter 16. The assessment of social status: A review of measures and experimental manipulations Joey T. Cheng, Aaron C. Weidman, and Jessica L. Tracy

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