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Cambridge University Press A Critical History and Philosophy of Psychology
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Cambridge University Press Rationality in Economics
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Cambridge University Press The Individual in the Changing Working Life
Book SynopsisA team of international experts present intriguing theoretical perspectives and research on how recent changes in working life have affected employees. They offer strategies to prevent negative working conditions and to help employees achieve a healthy worklife balance. Written for researchers and graduate students of work and organizational psychology.Table of Contents1. The individual in the changing working life: introduction Katharina Näswall, Johnny Hellgren and Magnus Sverke; Part I. Threats and Challenges: 2. New rules of work: exploring the boundaryless job Michael Allvin; 3. Changing work roles: new demands and challenges Johnny Hellgren, Magnus Sverke and Katharina Näswall; 4. The demand-induced strain compensation model: renewed theoretical considerations and empirical evidence Jan de Jonge, Christian Dormann and Marieke van den Tooren; 5. Job insecurity and employability among temporary workers: a theoretical approach based on the psychological contract Nele De Cuyper and Hans De Witte; 6. Independent contracting: finding a balance between flexibility and individual well-being Daniel G. Gallagher; 7. Work–family conflict in individuals' lives: prevalence, antecedents and outcomes Ulla Kinnunen and Saija Mauno; 8. My love, my life, my everything: work–home interaction among self-employed Toon W. Taris, Sabine A. E. Geurts, Michiel A. J. Kompier, Suzanne Lagerveld and Roland W. B. Blonk; 9. Modern work and safety Nik Chmiel; 10. Romantic relationships at work: old issues, new challenges Jennifer Carson and Julian Barling; 11. Ethnic diversity at work: an overview of theories and research Wido G. M. Oerlemans, Maria C. W. Peeters and Wilmar B. Schaufeli; Part II. Individual Attempts at Restoring the Balance: 12. Skeleton key or siren song: is coping the answer to balancing work and well-being? Jaco Pienaar; 13. The dynamic influence of individual characteristics on employee well-being: a review of the theory, research and future directions Christopher J. L. Cunningham, Gabriel M. De La Rosa and Steve M. Jex; 14. Stress and coping at work: new research trends and their implications for practice José M. Peiró; 15. Work stress, coping and gender: implications for health and well-being Eva Torkelson and Tuija Muhonen; 16. The role of protean career attitude during unemployment and re-employment: a literature review and conceptual model Lea Waters; Part III. Intervention and Promotion on the Organizational Level: 17. Participatory action research as work stress intervention Maureen F. Dollard, Pascale Le Blanc and Sarah J. Cotton; 18. Enhancing work engagement through the management of human resources Wilmar B. Schaufeli and Marisa Salanova; 19. Prevention: integrating health protection and health promotion perspectives Lois E. Tetrick; 20. Workplace interventions for occupational stress E. Kevin Kelloway, Joseph J. Hurrell, Jr. and Arla Day.
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Cambridge University Press Science as Psychology SenseMaking and Identity in Science Practice
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Cambridge University Press Technology and Psychological Wellbeing
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Cambridge University Press Interpersonal Trust During Childhood and Adolescence
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Cambridge University Press Greek Laughter
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Cambridge University Press Executive Function and Dysfunction
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Cambridge University Press Marriage and the Economy Theory and Evidence from Advanced Industrial Societies
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Cambridge University Press The Foundations of Ethnic Politics
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Cambridge University Press Very LowMass Stars and Brown Dwarfs Cambridge Contemporary Astrophysics
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Piaget
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Cambridge University Press All Too Human
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Cambridge University Press Theorizing World Orders
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Cambridge University Press Understanding Technology and Society
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Cambridge University Press Theres No Such Thing as Creativity
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Cambridge University Press The Psychology of Wisdom
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Cambridge University Press Facing Death Across Cultures
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Handbook of Psychology and Legal DecisionMaking
Book SynopsisThis Handbook provides students and researchers with a broad overview of existing literature in many areas of legal decision-making, including examples of decisions made by different professionals. Inspiring future research and practice, it will interest those in psychology, sociology, criminal justice, and more.
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Cambridge University Press Facing Death Across Cultures
Book SynopsisThis book is an invaluable resource for understanding the profound connections between culture, healthcare, and mortality. In a world where healthcare professionals ? doctors, nurses, clients, patients, and staff ? are increasingly engaging in cross-cultural interactions, this text equips readers with essential insights to navigate diverse beliefs and expectations surrounding health and treatment, particularly in moments of stress and vulnerability. While healthcare is often grounded in Euro-American belief systems, this book broadens the reader''s perspective, offering essential tools to enhance intercultural understanding during health crises and end-of-life care. It empowers both patients and practitioners to adapt and collaborate, fostering better treatment outcomes by bridging cultural divides. Gaining this multicultural lens is not only crucial for healthcare and cross-cultural psychology but also for confronting the universal experience of mortality ? our own and that of our loved ones.
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Cambridge University Press Applying Benfords Law for Assessing the Validity of Social Science Data
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Cambridge University Press Applying Benfords Law for Assessing the Validity of Social Science Data
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Cambridge University Press Comorbid Eating Disorders and ObsessiveCompulsive Disorder
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Cambridge University Press Handbook of Augmented Reality Training Design Principles
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Cambridge University Press The Fair Process Effect
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Cambridge University Press Language Discourse and Anxiety
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Cambridge University Press Language Discourse and Anxiety
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Cambridge University Press Dynamic Approaches to Phonological Processing
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Cambridge University Press From Loss to Memory
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Cambridge University Press Psychopathy in Adolescence and its Consequences in Adulthood
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Cambridge University Press Wellbeing
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Cambridge University Press Prophets at a Tangent
Few recent books, films, artworks or exhibitions have helped us imagine how our world could solve its problems or how it might be better a generation or more from now. This Element argues that artists work best not as prophets of a new society but rather as 'prophets at a tangent'.
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Cambridge University Press Freuds Thinking
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Cambridge University Press Conflict and Change
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Cambridge University Press Handbook of Body ImageRelated Measures
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Cambridge University Press Human Nature
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Cambridge University Press John Deweys Human Nature and Conduct
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Cambridge University Press Technological Innovations in Participatory Health
Book SynopsisThis book offers a critical introduction to participatory health research with adolescents. It serves as a valuable tool for researchers and professionals working in participatory methods with adolescents, particularly in understanding their health experiences and needs.
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Cambridge University Press Divination
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Cambridge University Press Narrative Creativity
Book SynopsisNarrative creativity is a new, neuroscience-based approach to innovation, problem solving, and resilience that has proved effective in business executives, scientists, engineers, doctors, and students as young as eight. This Element offers a concise introduction to narrative creativity''s theory and practice. It distinguishes narrative creativity from ideation, divergent thinking, design thinking, brainstorming, and other current approaches to cultivating creativity. It traces the biological origins of narrative creativity and explains why narrative creativity will always be mechanically impossible for computer artificial intelligences. It provides practical exercises, developed and tested in hundreds of classrooms and businesses, and validated independently by the US Army, for improving narrative creativity. It explains how narrative creativity contributes to technological innovation, scientific progress, cultural growth, and psychological well-being, and it describes how narrative creativity can be assessed. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
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Cambridge University Press Narrative Creativity
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Cambridge University Press Historical Trauma
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Cambridge University Press Mechanisms of Change and Creativity in Nature and Culture
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Cambridge University Press Mathematics and the Body Material Entanglements in the Classroom Hardback
Book SynopsisThis book explores alternative ways to consider the relationship between mathematics and the material world. Drawing on the philosophy of Gilles Châtelet and the post-humanist materialism of Karen Barad, the authors present an ''inclusive materialist'' approach to studying mathematics education. This approach offers a fresh perspective on human and nonhuman bodies, challenging current assumptions about the role of the senses, language, and ability in teaching and learning mathematics. Each chapter provides empirical examples from the classroom that demonstrate how inclusive materialism can be applied to a wide range of concerns in the field. The authors analyze recent studies on students'' gestures, expressions, and drawings in order to establish a link between mathematical activity and mathematical concepts. Mathematics and the Body expands the landscape of research in mathematics education and will be an essential resource for teachers, students, and researchers alike.Trade Review'This book is a fabulous and timely contribution. It is a much-needed and radical critique of current embodied approaches within mathematics education, arguing that such approaches have, in large part, retained the very splits (inner/outer, individual/social) that they hoped to overcome. The scholarship is excellent and the writing is clear and concise.' Alf Coles, University of Bristol'This book is challenging and bracingly intellectual, in a field that has not always been so orientated. But it is not only theoretical and sophisticated about its ideas; it is also intellectual and academic in the best sense about practical contexts of mathematics schooling and what I might term 'everyday' phenomena of educational interest.' David Pimm, University of Alberta'The sense of timing for this work is finely tuned, because some of us have been thinking that too often in mathematics education, in particular, we have been asking the wrong questions in the wrong way. The authors' response is through a different 'conceptual space'. Rather than invoking a sociocultural, linguistic, or sociopolitical turn, the authors' specific approach is to explore the 'material'. It is an approach that invites dialogue from which new knowledge can be built.' Margaret Walshaw, Massey UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. When does a body become a body?; 2. The 'ontological turn' of inclusive materialism; 3. Diagrams, gestures, movement; 4. Inventiveness in the mathematics classroom; 5. Materialist approaches to mathematics classroom discourse; 6. The sensory politics of the body mathematical; 7. Mapping the cultural formation of the mathematical aesthetic; 8. The virtuality of mathematical concepts; Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press The Relational Lens
Book SynopsisThis book uses real-life examples and five key 'lenses' to highlight the importance of relationship building to effective organisations. It is for business practitioners, who will find it highly practical, as well as graduate students in fields as diverse as change management, leadership, organisational psychology, and organisational and human behaviour.Trade Review'What the authors do quite successfully in this volume … is to explain how components of their relational proximity framework fit together with more ephemeral concepts such as trust, empathy, commitment and respect. This book has been many years in the making but arrives at just the right time.' Vincent Neate, Social Value and Intangibles Review'The Relational Lens is a well-written book. It will appeal primarily to an applied and lay audience, but it references a good deal of psychological research. Its main contribution might be that it adds fuel to the burgeoning fire around the focus on interpersonal relationships in the organization. For this reason, it should be taken seriously by anyone who wants to understand the complexities of organizational life, relational life in particular.' Richard D. Harvey and Andrew Bleckman, PsycCRITIQUESTable of ContentsIntroduction. The dark matter of organisations; 1. The value and importance of relationships; 2. Why organisations should think relationally; 3. How to measure relationships; 4. Directness - high touch organisation; 5. Continuity - connection across time; 6. Multiplexity - context for breadth; 7. Parity - power, balance, fairness; 8. Commonality - overlap of purpose; 9. What relational proximity builds; 10. Relationships between stakeholders; 11. Managing, measuring, reporting, regulating; Epilogue.
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Cambridge University Press Narcissism and Politics Dreams Of Glory
Book SynopsisIn this age of narcissism, the proliferation of politicians with significant narcissistic personality features is dramatic. Driven by dreams of glory, they seem to find the spotlight that the arena of politics provides irresistible. This book analyzes narcissism and politics and systematically explores the psychology of narcissism - the entitlement, the grandiosity and arrogance overlying insecurity, the sensitivity to criticism, and the hunger for acclaim - illustrating different narcissistic personality features through a spectrum of international and national politicians. It addresses the power of charismatic leader-follower relationships, as well as the impact of age and illness on leaders driven by dreams of glory.Trade Review'Post is a pioneer in the field of political-personality profiling.' Jane Mayer, writer for The New Yorker'In Narcissism and Politics: Dreams of Glory, Jerrold Post skilfully knits together in-depth knowledge of psychoanalytic studies of the vicissitudes of self-esteem and the life stories of prominent people. An exceptional value of Post's treatment is the balanced view he presents of the adaptive or maladaptive aspects of narcissism and their benevolent or destructive influences on human development and leadership success. And a great plus for the reader is the stories - well told of example after example. The result is a book highly recommended to both a professional and a general readership.' Joseph D. Lichtenberg, Founder and Director Emeritus, Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis'Few scholars combine the clinical training, theoretical depth, and policy experience necessary to analyze the pervasive role of narcissism in political life. Jerrold Post does. If you read just one book on the subject, it should be his.' Stanley Renshon, City University of New York'Humans need narcissism, self-love, like they need bread and water. Some people, for personal reasons, exaggerate their narcissistic needs. In this book, Jerrold M. Post, who has spent decades analyzing the personality of political and military leaders with exaggerated and even malignant narcissism, illustrates the significance of his work for understanding leader-follower relationships and world affairs. This is a most fascinating and informative book on this topic.' Vamık Volkan, author of Enemies on the Couch: A Psychopolitical Journey through War and Peace'Jerrold M. Post is an authority in the field of political profiling and in this book he presents an overview of narcissism in politics. … this book remains a must-read for everyone who is interested in a different view on international politics. Post is a pioneer and proves in this book that he still has a lot to contribute to the field of political psychology.' Annelien van Remoortere, Politics, Culture and SocializationTable of Contents1. Narcissism in full bloom; 2. Dreams of glory and narcissistic rage; 3. Great expectations; 4. Daughters of destiny I - Indira Gandhi; 5. Daughters of destiny II - Benazir Bhutto; 6. Narcissism and the charismatic leader-follower relationship; 7. Self objects: the special role of wives and the inner circle; 8. Narcissism, entitlement, sex, and power; 9. An exceptional exception: the rise and fall of Italy's Silvio Berlusconi; 10. Phallic narcissism in the governor's mansion; 11. The impact of illness and age on narcissistic leaders; 12. Seeking immortality: dictators and their progeny; 13. Leaders by default: second-choice sons; Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press Virtuous Violence
Book SynopsisWhy do people hurt and kill others, or themselves? This provocative book argues that people mostly commit violence because they feel that it is the morally right thing to do. Virtuous Violence shows how human nature, culture, and social relationships can generate violence - or nonviolence.Trade Review'With its wealth of eye-opening ethnographic and historical comparisons and its contrarian but well-argued analyses, this book is a fascinating exploration of violence and a major contribution to our understanding of the human condition.' Steven Pinker'Through compelling analyses ranging from primeval forms of human sacrifice to contemporary torture, ancient wars to medieval jousts, contact sports to gang fights, violent revolutions to suicide terrorism and mass murder, Virtuous Violence lays bare the moral motives for murderous passions, as a sort of evolutionary impetus to manage the interpersonal and intergroup interactions upon which societies depend, often aided by gods, spirits and abstract causes to which no creature but man is subject.' Scott Atran, Directeur de Recherche, Anthropologie, CNRS/Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris and author of In Gods We Trust and Talking to the Enemy'A provocative tour through the (long) world history of violence. You won't think about violence and its many manifestations - or read a newspaper - the same way again.' Dov Cohen, University of Illinois'It's so hard for us to think clearly about violence because acts of violence trigger such strong moral condemnation. Fiske and Rai strip the moralism out of our own minds and put it where it belongs - in the minds of the perpetrators, who usually think their acts are justified. This astonishing book offers a unified approach to understanding the most ghastly events, from street crime and honor killings through war crimes and genocide. This book is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand and ultimately reduce violence.' Jonathan Haidt, New York University Stern School of Business, and author of The Righteous Mind'It's not possible to have a clear understanding of the past, present or future of war, terrorism and torture without knowing the basic message of Virtuous Violence.' Richard E. Nisbett, Distinguished University Professor, University of Michigan'We have all watched movies where violent actions occur as part and consequence of social relations, and where the art of the movie consists of letting the audience share exactly the same emotions and motives that make that violence inevitable and feel right. At the same time, the mainstream social psychological arguments rarely pick up on these motives. This book provides a powerful argument in favor of scientifically considering these causes of violence. It is a scientifically important book, which touches on many issues we are concerned about as citizens, and will surely attract much attention and discussion as well as hopefully influencing future work in the social and behavioural sciences on this topic.' Thomas Schubert, University of Oslo'The authors of this exciting book convincingly show that most individuals and groups engage in violence believing that what they do is right, moral and even obligatory. This well-written book shows the great challenge of preventing such righteous violence, and provides the knowledge base to engage with this challenge.' Ervin Staub, author of The Roots of Evil; The Psychology of Good and Evil and Overcoming Evil'Virtuous Violence settles the question of whether violence is a rational act or an expressive gesture triggered by the emotions. Morally motivated violence, the authors explain, is based on emotional experience. But while emotions may be acted on impulsively, there is no reason why a moral stance cannot be arrived at logically and pursued with careful planning. This solution is much more intellectually satisfying than the binary division of one versus the other, and means that the message of the book may be reconciled with the work of diverse theorists.' David Mansley, Theoretical CriminologyTable of ContentsThe point; 1. Why are people violent?; 2. Violence is morally motivated to regulate social relationships; 3. Defense, punishment, and vengeance; 4. The right and obligation of parents, police, kings, and gods to violently enforce their authority; 5. Contests of violence: fighting for respect and solidarity; 6. Honor and shame; 7. War; 8. Violence to obey, honor, and connect with the gods; 9. On relational morality: what are its boundaries, what guides it, and how is it computed?; 10. The prevailing wisdom; 11. Intimate partner violence; 12. Rape; 13. Making them one with us: initiation, clitoridectomy, infibulation, circumcision, and castration; 14. Torture; 15. Homicide: he had it coming; 16. Ethnic violence and genocide; 17. Self-harm and suicide; 18. Violent bereavement; 19. Non-bodily violence: robbery; 20. The specific form of violence for constituting each relational model; 21. Why do people use violence to constitute their social relationships, rather than using some other medium?; 22. Metarelational models that inhibit or provide alternatives to violence; 23. How do we end violence?; 24. Evolutionary, philosophical, legal, psychological, and research implications; The dénouement.
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Cambridge University Press Darwinian Hedonism and the Epidemic of Unhealthy Behavior
This book brings a new perspective to psychological hedonism as a fundamental theory of human behavior based on ideas grounded in affective neuroscience and evolutionary biology. The resulting Darwinian hedonism viewpoint is then applied to the growing epidemic of unhealthy behaviour; including poor diet, physical inactivity, and substance use.
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