Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality Books

Book SynopsisThis timely and applied textbook brings together leading scientists to illustrate how key theories and concepts in social psychology help to predict and explain behavior, and can be successfully applied to benefit social and practical problems. It focuses on robust theories and models known for their successful applications and covers a diverse range of settings—spanning classroom interventions, health behavior, financial decision making, climate change and much more. Each chapter comprises of a theoretical section to define the key concepts and summarize the theory, providing evidence for its reliability and limitations from basic research, as well as an application section that summarizes research in an applied context and provides details about a particular study including the respective application setting. The textbook expertly shows how theory can make meaningful predictions for real world contexts, and isn’t afraid to explain the potential hurdles and pitfalls when applying a theory and its underlying set of concepts in a certain context. Crucially, this format moves towards theory testing in applied contexts, enabling a closer examination of why and under what circumstances interventions may be successful in obtaining a desired behavioral or psychological end-state.Among the topics explored: Mindset theory of action phases and if-then planning Quality of motivation in self-determination theory The focus theory of normative conduct Social identity theory and intergroup contact theory Intergroup forgiveness Social Psychology in Action is a critical resource for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in social and cultural psychology, as well as students of behavioral economics seeking to develop a deeper understanding of major theories and applications of the fields. Practitioners working in the areas of organizational behavior and management, health communication, social work, and educational science and pedagogy will also find the volume pertinent to their work.Table of ContentsForeword -- The science of Social Psychology (Sassenberg, Vliek) 1. How to put theories to good use (Sassenberg, Vliek) 2. Braking habits: Reflective-impulsive model. 3. The shooter bias: Implicit prejudice. Chapter author: Bernd Wittenbrink (University of Chicago), Josh Correll (UC Bolder), & Debbie Ma (UC Northridge). 4. Rubicon model and implementation intentions. Chapter authors: Peter Gollwitzer, Maik Bieleke, & Lucas Keller (NYU). 5. Self-determination theory. 6. Social identity theory. 7. Theory of normative conduct. Chapter author: Denise de Ridder & Marijn Stok (Utrecht University, NL). 8. Theory of planned behaviour and the attitude behaviour gap. 9. Regulatory fit / focus theory. Chapter author: Kai Sassenberg & Micheal Vliek (Knowledge Media Research Center, Tübingen, Germany) 10. Intergroup contact theory. 11. Theory on interpersonal reconciliation. 12. Emotion theory (e.g., the use of fear-appeals etc). 13. Mindset theory. 14. Self-affirmation & Change. 15. Interdependence theory. 16. Social comparison.

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Book SynopsisThis open access book brings together discourse on children and peace from the 15th International Symposium on the Contributions of Psychology to Peace, covering issues pertinent to children and peace and approaches to making their world safer, fairer and more sustainable. The book is divided into nine sections that examine traditional themes (social construction and deconstruction of diversity, intergenerational transitions and memories of war, and multiculturalism), as well as contemporary issues such as Europe’s “migration crisis”, radicalization and violent extremism, and violence in families, schools and communities. Chapters contextualize each issue within specific social ecological frameworks in order to reflect on the multiplicity of influences that affect different outcomes and to discuss how the findings can be applied in different contexts. The volume also provides solutions and hope through its focus on youth empowerment and peacebuilding programs for children and families. This forward-thinking volume offers a multitude of views, approaches, and strategies for research and activism drawn from peace psychology scholars and United Nations researchers and practitioners.This book's multi-layered emphasis on context, structural determinants of peace and conflict, and use of research for action towards social cohesion for children and youth has not been brought together in other peace psychology literature to the same extent. Children and Peace: From Research to Action will be a useful resource for peace psychology academics and students, as well as social and developmental psychology academics and students, peace and development practitioners and activists, policy makers who need to make decisions about the matters covered in the book, child rights advocates and members of multilateral organizations such as the UN. Table of ContentsForeword.- Introduction.- Part I Addressing the Well-Being of Refugee and Migrant Children.- 1. A Multi-Method Assessment of Risk and Protective Factors in Family Violence: Comparing Italian and migrant families.- 2. Engaging Men to Support the Resilience of Syrian Refugee Children & Youth in Lebanon.- 3. Promoting civic engagement and social inclusion interventions for minors involved with crimes.- 4. Indirect Contact Interventions to Promote Peace in Multicultural Societies.- 5. Promoting prosocial behaviour toward refugees: Exploring the empathy-attitude-action model in middle childhood.- 6. Civic Participation and Other Interventions that Promote Children’s Tolerance of Migrants.- 7. Does Participating in Volunteer Organizations Promote Migrant Integration? A Study with Young First and Second Generation Immigrants.- 8. About power and empowerment for intergroup harmony.- Part II Children Growing Up in Violent Geopolitical Contexts.- 9. Beyond Risk Factors: Structural Drivers of Violence Affecting Children.- 10. Growing up in violent contexts: Differential effects of community, family and school violence on child adjustment.- 11. When do Intergenerational Narratives of Ingroup Responsibility for Past Violence Result in Peace and Violence?.- 12. Youth identity, peace and conflict: Insights from conflict and diverse settings.- 13. Children’s Conceptualizations of Forgiveness, Reconciliation, and Peacebuilding in the Context of Armed Conflict.- Part III Promoting Peace and Well-Being in Children.- 14. Learning for Peace: Lessons Learned from UNICEF’s Peacebuilding, Education and Advocacy in Conflict-Affected Contexts Programme.- 15. Educating towards a culture of peace through an innovative teaching method and experiences between secondary school and university.- 16. The Role of Cognitive Complexity in Promoting a Positive Representation of Diversity in Children.- 17. Political Orientation and Engagement from Adolescence to Adulthood: Evidence of (Dis)Continuity from a Three-Decade Longitudinal Study in the German Peace Movement.- 18. Enabling Full Participation: A Community-Led Approach to Child Protection.- 19. From research to action and the spaces in-between: experiences from peacebuilding programs for young people in Cambodia and Uganda.- 20. Working for the Well-Being of Children: The Value and Efficacy of Adopting a Cooperative, Inter-Agency Approach.- Part IV Children and Survival of the Species.- 21. Climate change and children: An issue of intergenerational justice.- Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThis book focuses on the social psychological aspects of gay men’s lives and provides a cutting-edge examination of topics including sexual orientation, sexual behavior, identity, relationships, prejudice, and health. The Social Psychology of Gay Men forces us to re-think existing theory and research, much of which has taken heterosexuality for granted. With identity process theory at its heart, this book advocates a social psychology of gay men which incorporates three levels of analysis – the psychological, interpersonal and societal. The book promises not only a deeper understanding of gay men’s lives but also pathways for enhancing wellbeing, intergroup relations and equality in this key population. This illuminating and thought-provoking text is an invaluable resource not only for psychologists, but for students, scholars and practitioners working in the area of gay men’s life. Trade Review Table of Contents

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Book SynopsisThe Psychology of Brexit examines the psychological causes, catalysts, and consequences of Brexit. Unlike most cultural upheavals, Brexit is not the result of accidental tragedy or spontaneous economic turmoil. Rather, it exists because people decided to make it exist. It is a product of human psychology – shaped in critical ways by people’s perceptions, preferences, choices, self-images, attitudes, ideas, assumptions, group relations, and reasoned (or ill-reasoned) conclusions. This book discusses how reasoning biases and illusions of control propel – and pollute – the perspective of both Leavers and Remainers. It shows how social stereotypes and motivated irrationality help otherwise groundless beliefs thrive in everyday culture, leading to group polarisation and echo-chamber reasoning. It reveals the way cultural biases like sexism influence how Brexit politicians are portrayed and perceived. And it explores the psychological impact of Brexit – its effect on social attitudes, future thinking, and collective and individual mental health. In this compelling new book, psychologist Brian Hughes examines what scientific psychology reveals about the dynamics of Brexit, what Brexit teaches us about ourselves, and what we can do to deal with its short-term impact and long-term fallout. Table of ContentsChapter 1. Brexit as Psychodrama.- Chapter 2. Reasoning Through Brexit.- Chapter 3. The Brexit People.- Chapter 4. Brexit Anxiety.- Chapter 5. Learning from Brexit.

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Book SynopsisThis book offers a comprehensive overview of the latest developments in the social psychology of nonverbal communication. It explores topics including social skill, empathy, adaptive advantage, emotion-reading and emotion-hiding; and examines personal charisma, memory and communicating with robots. Together, the authors present diverse, cutting-edge research on nonverbal social intelligence as an adaptive strategy for survival and success. The collection provides an effective demonstration of the interdisciplinary nature of this topic, and it’s relevance to researchers across the social sciences and beyond. Table of Contents1. Social intelligence: What it is and why we need it more than ever before; Robert J. Sternberg, Avery Siying Li.2. Nonverbal receiving ability as emotional and cognitive empathy: Conceptualization and measurement; Ross Buck, Brett Graham, Ryan Allred, Roeland Hancock.3. Empathy and rapport as spontaneous communication: At the intersection of the traditional social and behavioral sciences, and the new affective and communication sciences; Ross Buck, Stephen Stifano, Brett Graham, Ryan Allred.4. Factors that facilitate or impair kinesic and vocalic nonverbal behaviors during interpersonal deception; Judee K. Burgoon, Lauren M. Hamel, J. Pete Blair, Nathan W. Twyman.5. Nonverbal communication: Evolution and today; Mark G. Frank and Anne Solbu.6. Nonverbal steps to the origin of language; David B. Givens.7. A new look at person memory; Terrence G. Horgan.8. Communicating with robots: What we do wrong and what we do right in Artificial Social Intelligence, and what we need to do better; Arvid Kappas, Rebecca Stower, Eric J. Vanman.9. Reading faces: Ability to recognize true and false emotion; Aleksandra Kostić, Derek Chadee, Jasmina Nedeljković.10. Hidden tears and scrambled joy: On the adaptive costs of unguarded nonverbal social signals; Dennis Küster.11. Interpersonal accuracy and interaction outcomes: Why and how reading others correctly has adaptive advantages in social interactions; Tristan Palese, Marianne Schmid Mast.12. Skill in social situations: The essence of savoir-faire; Ronald E. Riggio, Leslie G. Eaton, David C. Funder.13. Inter- and intrapersonal downsides of accurately perceiving others’ emotions; Katja Schlegel.14. Trait impressions from faces demonstrate preserved social intelligence in older adulthood; Leslie A. Zebrowitz, Robert G. Franklin.15. Postscript: Social intelligence as the social construction of reality: An augmented Agenda for social-intelligence research; Robert J. Sternberg.

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Book SynopsisThis book investigates interaction-focused scholarship on online communication. It focuses on a broad range of online contexts including social media, dating apps, online comments, instant messaging and video-mediated interaction. Bringing together experts from a variety of scholarly backgrounds, chapters demonstrate how different microanalytic methods, including conversation analysis, membership categorization analysis and discursive psychology, can be applied to online communication. The book also goes on to address ethical, methodological and theoretical issues of analysing online social interaction. With the explosion of the use of online platforms for everyday and institutional interaction, this book is a timely collection which explores the current state of the field, and considers future directions for microanalysis of online communication. Trade Review“Analysing Digital Interaction is an extremely timely contribution representing an important statement on how methods from CA, MCA, and DP can inform our understanding of the rapid social socio-technological that we are currently experiencing. … Flexible and sensitive analytic methods such as those discussed here are capable of rendering distinctive views of these interactional nuances and they are critical to help us understand these rapidly evolving forms of life.” (Will Gibson, Symbolic Interaction, March 14, 2023)Table of Contents1. Introduction: The Microanalysis of Digital Interaction; Joanne Meredith, David Giles and Wyke J. P. Stommel.- 2. Ethical Challenges in Collecting and Analysing Online Interactions; Hannah Ditchfield.- 3. Context, History, and Twitter Data: Some Methodological Reflections; David Giles.- 4. “It’s time to shift this blog a bit”: Categorial Negotiation as a Local and Cumulative Accomplishment; Linda Walz.- 5. The Radio Host Cried, the Facebook Users Identified: Crying as an Action Linked to ‘good people’; Elisabeth Muth Andersen.- 6. “On that note I’m signing out”: Endings of Threads in Online Newspaper Comments; Joanne Meredith.- 7. Similarities and Differences Across Settings: The Case of Turn Continuations in Instant Messaging; Anna Spagnolli, Sonia Genovese, Mattia Mori.- 8. The Spectre of ‘Ghosting’ and the Sequential Organization of Post-match Tinder Chat Conversations; Christian Licoppe.- 9. Participation of Companions in Video-Mediated Medical Consultations: A Microanalysis; Wyke Stommel and Martijn W. J. Stommel.- 10. Conclusion: Future Directions in Analysing Digital Interaction; Janet Smithson.

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Book SynopsisThis book is a theoretical and practical guide in the field of social skills and social competence, based on decades of experience gained by the authors as researchers and professionals in psychology. The book was written for students and professionals who are involved in some way improving individuals´ social skills in different contexts, such as clinical, educational, organizational and community settings. The authors present the conceptual foundations, procedures, techniques, strategies and practical guidelines for planning and conducting effective programs aimed to social skills and social competence.In the first part of the book, key concepts and fundamentals on the area are presented, as well as the basic behavioral classes of social skills and their non-verbal and paralinguistic components. The authors also propose a portfolio for the assessment of clients’ social skills deficits and strengths to thereby define the aims and procedures of interventions.The second part focuses on guidelines to select and use procedures and techniques for promoting social skills and social competence. The authors present experiential activities that they created in previous interventions and that were tested in their research, showing evidence of effectiveness. Suggestions on how to evaluate participants’ repertoires and how to use these ideas in intervention planning are also described. Finally, in the third part of the book, the authors go further presenting practical guidelines for planning and conducting programs and sessions to promote social skills and social competence, in either group or individual settings. Table of ContentsPART I CONCEPTUAL BASIS1) SOCIAL SKILLS2) SOCIAL COMPETENCE3) INTERPERSONAL TASKS AND CULTURAL PRACTICES4) THE EXPERIENTIAL METHOD AND PROGRAMSPART II GUIDELINES FOR PRACTICE5) EVALUATION6) TECHNIQUES, PROCEDURES AND RESOURCES ASSOCIATED WITH EXPERIENTIAL ACTIVITIES7) HOW TO PROMOTE SOCIAL COMPETENCE REQUIREMENTSPART III PLANNING AND CONDUCTING PRACTICE8) PLANNING A SOCIAL SKILLS PROGRAM TARGETED AT SOCIAL COMPETENCE9) CONDUCTING A SOCIAL SKILLS PROGRAM ORIENTED TOWARD SOCIAL COMPETENCE10) EXPERIENTIAL ACTIVITIES AND OTHER PROCEDURES AND TECHNIQUES FOR SOCIAL SKILLS PROGRAMS

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Book SynopsisThe Caribbean and Oceania are understudied areas from a psychological perspective, and this book is designed to fill that knowledge gap. In addition to diverse, rich cultural traditions and abundant economic opportunity for some, these regions also reflect the challenges of modernity, including crime, poverty, ethnic tensions, adaptations to climate change, and disparities in health, education, and access to care. With contributions from noted psychologists in the Caribbean and Oceania, as well as experts from around the globe, this book provides nuanced examination of significant psychological issues in nations such as Fiji, Guyana, Belize, Haiti, Jamaica, and more. Psychologists, psychiatrists, and other mental health professionals with an interest in this part of the world, will find this volume a rich resource, as will those generally interested in the relationship between culture and psychology. This book takes you on an outstanding journey of what is occurring in cultural psychology in the 21st century. It addresses the abundance of each nation through a transformational lens of current practices in psychology in Oceania and the Caribbean. I would absolutely recommend it to anyone interested in sailing the high seas connecting the present with the endless possibilities of those who dare to journey into the waters of a divine future.”- Florence Denmark, Past-President, American Psychological Association "Chock full of expert knowledge and insights, Psychology in Oceania and the Caribbean is an indispensable resource for psychologists. A must-read that will expand your understanding of life in these regions and beyond! “- Pamela A. Hays, PhD, Author of Addressing Cultural Complexities in Practice "This is a breath-taking book in its coverage of the uniquely endowed psychology worlds of Oceania and the Caribbean. Now that Dr. Rich, Dr. Ramkumar, and colleagues have produced this awesome book volume on the cultural psychology of the rim water nations, I have a palpable sense of relief from their having addressed a huge gap in cultural psychology scholarship. This volume opens hitherto undreamed of opportunities for further studies on cultural practices in psychology in Oceania and the Caribbean!”- Elias Mpofu, PhD, DE.D, CRC, MAPS, Professor of Health Sciences at the University of North Texas, Honorary Professor of Health Sciences at the University of Sydney and Executive Board member of the Australian Psychological Society’s Rehabilitation Psychology Interest Group"This book represents a vital exploration into the purpose and practice of Psychology in island nations. It is a welcome compilation of academic writings from sociocultural perspectives within Oceania and the Caribbean and serves as a landmark account of the unique forces shaping the development and evolution of Psychology in these states." - Gerard Hutchinson MD, Professor of Psychiatry, University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and TobagoTable of ContentsPreface 1. Psychology in Paradise: Perspectives from Oceania and the Caribbean: An Overview Chapter - Grant J. Rich & Neeta A. Ramkumar Section: Psychology in the South Pacific 2. Psychology in Polynesia 3. Psychology in Hawaii and American Samoa – Anthony Marsella (U. Hawai’i) (tentative) 4. Psychology in New Zealand- B Kennedy and B Stiles-Smith (Massey University) 5. Psychology in Melanesia 6. Psychology in Fiji - Neeta A. Ramkumar 7. Psychology in New Caledonia (France) 8. Psychology in Papua New Guinea 9. Psychology in Micronesia Section: Psychology in the Caribbean 10. Psychology in the French speaking Caribbean 11 Psychology in Haiti - Wismick Jean-Charles and Grant J. Rich 12. Psychology in the Dutch speaking Caribbean 13. Psychology in the Spanish speaking Caribbean 14. Psychology in Puerto Rico- Irene López (Kenyon College) 15. Psychology in Cuba Psychology in the Dominican Republic 16. Psychology in the Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean- Donna-Maria Maynard, Mia Jules, & Suriya Daya (University of the West Indies) 17. Psychology in Jamaica 18. Psychology in Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago- Jaipaul L. Roopnarine (Syracuse U.) 19. Psychology in Belize- Grant J. Rich (Walden University) Section: Conclusion 20. Conclusion: Past, Present, and Future of Psychology in Paradise

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Book SynopsisThis book reflects on the various ways in which intelligence can manifest itself in the wide range of diverse contexts in which people live. Intelligence is often viewed as being tantamount to a score or set of scores on a decontextualized standardized intelligence test. But intelligence always acts within a sociocultural context. Indeed, early theorists defined intelligence in terms of adaptation to the environment in which one lives. The tradition of decontextualization is old, dating back to the very beginning of the 20th century with the development of the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scales. This tradition is not only old, however, but obsolete. Because people live in different sociocultural as well as physical environments, intelligence can take somewhat different forms in different places and even at different times. The chapters in this edited volume show that intelligence viewed in the abstract is a somewhat vacuous concept - it needs to be contextualized in terms of people’s physical and sociocultural surroundings.Table of ContentsPreface.1. Introduction. Robert J. SternbergPart I. Intelligence and cultural evolution2. Intelligence as Ecological and Cultural Adaptation. John W. Berry3. Adaptive Intelligence and Cultural Evolution. Chi-yue Chiu, Hiu-sze Chan, Sau-lai Lee, and Jennifer Yuk-Yue TongPart II. Culture and society in the history of research on human intelligence4. A Brief History of IQ Testing: Fixed vs. Malleable Intelligence. Alan S. Kaufman, Dowon Choi, Hansika Kapoor, James C. Kaufman5. The Idea of a Peculiarly Female Intelligence: A Brief History of Bias Masked as Science. Gerd Gigerenzer6. Intelligence and Wisdom in Chinese Intellectual History and in Modern Day Taiwan. Shih-ying Yang, Kimberly Y. H. Chang, and Shin-yi HuangPart III. Socio-cultural influences in human intelligence7. The Status of Intelligence as a Panhuman Construct in Cross-Cultural Psychology. Johnny R. J. Fontaine and Ype H. Poortinga8. Cultural intelligence: From Intelligence in Context and across Cultures to Intercultural Contexts. Kok Yee Ng, Soon Ang, Thomas Rockstuhl 9. Cultural change in Africa under the Pressure of HIV/AIDS: The Role of Natively Developed Intelligence. Mei Tan, Elena L. GrigorenkoPart IV. Context, assessment, and intellectual performance10. Taking an Intelligence Test: Does the Context Matter? Adrian Furnham11. A Contextual Approach to Research on Intelligence and Complex Task Performance. David Z. HambrickPart V. Social issues and the science of human intelligence12. Mindsets of Intelligence: Their Development, Consequences, and Relation to Group-based Inequality. Lin Bian13. Re-Envisioning Intelligence in Cultural Context. Lisa Suzuki, Taymy Josefa Caso, Aysegul Yucel14. Challenges for Intelligence Today: Combatting Misinformation and Fake News. Stephen J. Ceci, Wendy M. Williams Part VI. The future of the science of human intelligence and its implications for society15. Human intelligence in the Time of the Anthropocene. David D. Preiss16. Time Bomb: How the Western Conception of Intelligence Is Taking Down Humanity. Robert J. SternbergPart VII. Conclusion17. Conclusion: Intelligence Does Not Inhere within the Individual but rather in Person x Task x Situation Interactions. Robert J. Sternberg, David D. Preiss

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Book SynopsisThis book is an up-to-date compendium of knowledge on the secret language of close relationships, namely nonverbal routes of communication. In close relationships, as everyone learns sooner or later, the usefulness of words can be somewhat limited, because people (a) mean different things by the same words, (b) mean the same thing by different words, (c) sometimes find it hard to express their feelings in words, and (d) lie. Nonverbal signals therefore often provide the best means of communication. The book points out how decoding (interpreting) nonverbal signals is a major key to success, because often what people say wholly belies how they feel—nonverbal signals reveal their true feelings rather than what they want other people to think their feelings are. This book helps decode those secret signals. The book is written by the leading worldwide experts in the field of nonverbal communication to ensure accuracy, comprehensiveness, and timeliness.Table of Contents1. Interpersonal Oculesics: Eye-Related Signals of Attraction, Interest, and Connection.2. Communication and Communal Emotions in the Learning of Love.3. The Role of Nonverbal Communication in Leadership Skills.4.The Look of Love: Evolution and Nonverbal Signs and Signals of Attraction.5. Love Signals and the Reproductive Force.6. The Verbal and Nonverbal Communication of Romantic Interest.7. Misunderstood Non-verbal Cues in Close Relationships: Contributions of Research Over Opinions.8. What Words Don’t Tell Us: Non-verbal Communication and Turmoil in Romantic Relationships.9. Negative Emotions, Facial Clues, and Close Relationships: Facing the End?.10. Love in the Time of COVID-19: What We Can Learn About Non-verbal Behaviour from Living with a Pandemic.11. Non-verbal communication: From good endings to better beginnings.12. The Functions and Consequences of Interpersonal Touch in Close Relationships.13. Nonverbal Skills in Relationships: Too Little or Too Much May Be a Bad Thing.14. Non-verbal Communication in Relationships as a Link between Affect and Social Intelligence.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1: Cultural similarities and differences in emotional expression.- Chapter 2: Emotional recognition across cultures.- Chapter 3: Happiness and well-being around the world.- Chapter 4: Emotion regulation across cultures.- Chapter 5: Dealing with emotion problems: Where clinical psychology and cross-cultural psychology meet.

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