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Book SynopsisThis book forms a basis and a starting point for a closer dialogue between musicologists, anthropologists and psychologists to achieve a better understanding of the cultural psychology of musical experience. This is done by arranging a meeting point or an arena in which different aspects of psychology and musicology touch and encounters each other due to how the two fields might be defined today. In line with this the book consists of a group of scholars that have their feet solidly grounded in psychology, social science or musicology, but at the same time have a certain interest in uniting them. On this basis it is divided into five parts, which investigates musical sensations, musical experiences, musical transformations, musical fundamentals and the notion of a cultural psychology of music. Thus another aim of this book is to prepare the basis for a further growth of a cultural psychology that is able to include the experiences of music as a basis for understanding the ordinary human life. Thus this book should be of interest for those who want to investigate the mysterious intersection between music and psychology.

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Book SynopsisThis book forms a basis and a starting point for a closer dialogue between musicologists, anthropologists and psychologists to achieve a better understanding of the cultural psychology of musical experience. This is done by arranging a meeting point or an arena in which different aspects of psychology and musicology touch and encounters each other due to how the two fields might be defined today. In line with this the book consists of a group of scholars that have their feet solidly grounded in psychology, social science or musicology, but at the same time have a certain interest in uniting them. On this basis it is divided into five parts, which investigates musical sensations, musical experiences, musical transformations, musical fundamentals and the notion of a cultural psychology of music. Thus another aim of this book is to prepare the basis for a further growth of a cultural psychology that is able to include the experiences of music as a basis for understanding the ordinary human life. Thus this book should be of interest for those who want to investigate the mysterious intersection between music and psychology.

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Book SynopsisWhat does the world look like from Africa? What does it mean to think, feel, express without apology for being African? How does one teach society and children to be African – with full consciousness and pride? In institutions of learning, what would a textbook on African-centred psychology look like? How do researchers and practitioners engage in African social psychology, African-centred child development, African neuropsychology, or any area of psychology that situates African realities at the centre?Questions such as these are what eminent professor of psychology Kopano Ratele grapples with in this lyrical, philosophical and poetic treatise on practising African psychology in a decolonised world view. Employing a style common in philosophy but rarely used in psychology, the book offers thoughts about the ideas, contestation, urgency and desire around a psychological praxis in Africa for Africans. While Setting out a framework for researching, teaching and practicing African psychology, the book in part coaxes, in part commands and in part urges students of psychology, lecturers, researchers and therapists to reconsider and reach beyond their received notions of African psychology.Trade ReviewThis book builds a case for thinking and doing psychology differently in and for Africa. Its strength lies in the author’s arguments on psychology as a colonial discipline and what it does as it is transported to the African continent. — Floretta Boonzaier, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Cape Town Ratele is the kind of scholar whose experience means he can jettison old ways of doing things in favour of experimentation and breaking boundaries. He insists on meddling with and poking at accepted ways of knowing and doing. Innovative in both form and content, the book is an important contribution to our scholarship. — Hugo Canham, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

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Book SynopsisBecoming Men is the story of 32 boys from Alexandra, one of Johannesburg's largest townships, over a period of twelve seminal years in which they negotiate manhood and masculinity. Psychologist and academic Malose Langa documents in close detail what it means to be a young black man in contemporary South Africa.The boys discuss a range of topics including the impact of absent fathers, relationships with mothers, siblings and girls, school violence, academic performance, homophobia, gangsterism, unemployment and, in one case, prison life.Deep ambivalence, self-doubt and hesitation emerge in their approach to alternative masculinities premised on non-violent, non-sexist and non-risk-taking behaviour. Many of the boys appear simultaneously to comply with and oppose the prevalent norms, thereby exposing the difficulties of negotiating the multiple voices of masculinity.Providing a rich interpretation of how emotional processes affect black adolescent males, Langa suggests interventions and services to support and assist them, especially in reducing high-risk behaviours generally associated with hegemonic masculinity. This is essential reading for students, researchers and scholars of gender studies who wish to understand manhood and masculinity in South Africa. Psychologists, youth workers, lay counsellors and teachers who work with adolescent boys will also find it invaluable.Table of Contents Acknowledgements Chapter 1 What makes a man a man? Chapter 2 Reshaping masculinities - Understanding the lives of adolescent boys Chapter 3 Backdrop to Alex - South African townships and stories in context Chapter 4 Absent fathers, present mothers Chapter 5 Pressures to perform - Tsotsi boys vs academic achievement Chapter 6 Double standards - Dating, sex and girls Chapter 7 Defying homophobia: 'This is who I am, finish and klaar' Chapter 8 Young fathers and the world of work Chapter 9 'Im still hopeful, still positive' - Holding onto a dream Chapter 10 Safe spaces - Listening, hearing, action Bibliography Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThe Elgar Companion to Public Choice, Second Edition brings together leading scholars in the field of political economy to introduce readers to the latest research in public choice.The Companion lays out a comprehensive history of the field and, in five additional parts, it explores public choice contributions to the study of the origins of the state, the organization of political activity, the analysis of decision-making in non-market institutions, the examination of tribal governance, and to modeling and predicting the behavior of international organizations and transnational terrorism.With broad and up-to-date coverage, this second edition will appeal to politicians and policymakers, academics and researchers in public and social choice and political science as well as graduate students in economics, political science and public administration.Contributors include: D.G. Arce M., A. Batinti, F. Bose, G. Brennan, M. Brooks, U. Cantner, R.D. Congleton, C.J. Coyne, N.V. Crain, W.M. Crain, R.B. Ekelund Jr, J.S. Ferris, R.K. Fleck, A. Glazer, A. Hamlin, F.A. Hanssen, A.L. Hillman, R.G. Holcombe, L.W. Kenny, Y. Kim, M.S. Kimenyi, K.M. Larkin-Wong, J.G. Matsusaka, F.S. McChesney, R.R. McGregor, D.C. Mueller, M.C. Munger, F. Padovano, A. Pellillo, R. Pietrantonio, A. Razo, L. Razzolini, M. Reksulak, C.K. Rowley, P.H. Rubin, J.M. Shepherd, W.F. Shughart II, R.S. Sobel, T. Stratmann, O. Taiwo, R.D. Tollison, R. Vaubel, M. WohlgemuthTrade Review‘This is a comprehensive set of essays on myriad facets of public choice by many of the leading contributors in the field. The coverage is excellent and the essays are terrific. I highly recommend this book for researchers and students.’ -- Todd Sandler, University of Texas at Dallas, US‘Co-Editors Michael Reksulak, Laura Razzolini, and William Shughart have assembled a fine extension of the first Elgar Companion to Public Choice that was published in 2003 (Shughart and Razzolini 2003). . . Overall, the 2013 Companion is useful to scholars both as specialists in the specific topics covered and as generalists interested in surveying the field.’ -- Edward J. Lopez, Journal of Public Finance & Public ChoiceTable of ContentsContents: Preface to the Second Edition Preface to the First Edition PART I: THE CHOICE IN PUBLIC CHOICE 1. Individual Choice and Collective Choice: An Overview Michael Reksulak, Laura Razzolini and William F. Shughart II 2. Public Choice: The Origins and Development of a Research Program Charles K. Rowley 3. Political Science and Public Choice Michael C. Munger PART II: THE FRAMEWORK OF GOVERNMENT 4. The Origins of the State Dennis C. Mueller 5. Constitutional Political Economy Alan Hamlin 6. Autocrats and Democrats Armando Razo PART III: SYSTEMS OF COLLECTIVE DECISION-MAKING 7. Expressive Voting Geoffrey Brennan and Michael Brooks 8. Direct Democracy John G. Matsusaka 9. Legislatures Nicole V. Crain and W. Mark Crain 10. Parliaments Fabio Padovano 11. Federal Systems Randall G. Holcombe 12. Tribal Systems Mwangi S. Kimenyi and Olumide Taiwo PART IV: PUBLIC CHOICE ANALYSES OF THE TOOLS OF GOVERNMENT 13. The Politics of Elections and Congressional Oversight Russell S. Sobel and Adam Pellillo 14. Judges: Why do they Matter? Robert K. Fleck and F. Andrew Hanssen 15. Monetary Policy Rob Roy McGregor 16. Fiscal Policy J. Stephen Ferris 17. Regulatory Policy Amihai Glazer 18. The Public Choice Perspective on Antitrust Law Fred S. McChesney and Katherine M. Larkin-Wong PART V: PUBLIC CHOICE PERSPECTIVES ON THE RELATIONS BETWEEN GOVERNMENT AND THE GOVERNED 19. Rent Seeking Arye L. Hillman 20. Campaign Finance Thomas Stratmann 21. Public Choice and the Law Paul H. Rubin and Joanna M. Shepherd 22. Public Choice and the Modern Welfare State Roger D. Congleton with Alberto Batinti, Feler Bose, Youngshin Kim and Rinaldo Pietrantonio 23. Public Choice and Public Education Lawrence W. Kenny 24. Public Choice and Religion Robert B. Ekelund Jr and Robert D. Tollison 25. Experimental Public Choice Laura Razzolini 26. Evolutionary Public Choice Uwe Cantner and Michael Wohlgemuth PART VI: PUBLIC CHOICE PERSPECTIVES ON THE RELATIONS BETWEEN INTERNATIONAL ACTORS 27. International Organizations Roland Vaubel 28. The Political Economy of War and Peace Christopher J. Coyne and Adam Pellillo 29. Collective Action and (Counter) Terrorism Daniel G. Arce M. References Index

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Book SynopsisAcclaim for the first edition:'A tour-de-force of trust research methodologies, from survey methods to critical incidents to hermeneutics... will prove invaluable to trust researchers of every stripe.'- Aks Zaheer, University of Minnesota'This book fills an important gap. The burgeoning field of trust research has employed a wide variety of definitions and methods, but until the appearance of this Handbook there was no comprehensive overview of them. Its contributions, many written by leading international experts, cover conceptual issues as well as qualitative and quantitative methods. The editors are all working at the frontiers of trust research and in this Handbook they have compiled an indispensable source of reference for years to come.'- John Child, University of Birmingham, UK'This is the right book at the right time. Central to the advancement of research on trust is the need to address a host of methodological, empirical, and analytical challenges. This Handbook provides a vital resource for doing so and holds the promise of infusing the literature with novel and enhanced approaches for studying and understanding trust. Researchers new to the field as well as established experts will find a wealth of insights contained herein.'- Bill McEvily, University of Toronto, CanadaDrawing together a wealth of research methods knowledge gained by trust researchers into one essential volume, this book provides an authoritative in-depth consideration of quantitative and qualitative methods for empirical study of trust in the social sciences.This second edition of the Handbook of Research Methods on Trust provides a fully updated and extended account of quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods for empirical research. While many researchers have already drawn inspiration and insight from the previous edition, the dynamic development of trust research calls for further and deeper engagement with methodological issues, particular methods, practical research experience, and current challenges and innovations as offered by this new edition.Identifying innovative methods for researching trust, this important handbook will prove invaluable for students and academics in the social sciences who are interested in trust, particularly postgraduates planning empirical research on trust, undergraduates researching issues of trust, faculty teaching research-based courses on trust and related topics, and experienced trust researchers looking for reflection, discussion and inspiration.Contributors: S.J. Addison, N. Alex, M.J. Ashleigh, R. Bachmann, D. Barrera, K.M. Bijlsma-Frankema, M.C. Bligh, B.F. Blumberg, G. Breeman, C. Brinsfield, C. Burns, V. Buskens, J.S. Carroll, S.M. Conchie, D.L. Ferrin, D.E. Gibbons, N. Gillespie, C. Goodall, J.C. Kohles, R.M. Kramer, T.M. Kühlmann, A. Langley, V. Le Gall, R.J. Lewicki, E. Meyer, M. Muethel, R. Münscher, B. Nooteboom, J.M. Peiró, A. Pentland, R.L. Priem, W. Raub, R.A. Roe, D.M. Rousseau, R.H. Searle, M. Tillmar, E.M. Uslaner, B. Waber, A.A. Weibel, F. Welter, M. Williams, R. ZolinTrade ReviewAs any field of academic study matures, researchers refine methods for investigating the phenomenon of interest. For research on trust, this Handbook Second Edition reflects where the trust literature has been, where it is now, and where it is going with respect to research methods. If you are a mature trust scholar, or someone starting research on trust, the Handbook is an indispensable resource for evaluating the full range of methods that may be appropriate for your study. --Steven C. Currall, University of California, DavisTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction. Researching Trust: The Ongoing Challenge of Matching Objectives and Methods Fergus Lyon, Guido Möllering and Mark N.K. Saunders PART I CONCEPTUAL ISSUES 2. Pursuing Ecological Validity in Trust Research: Merits of Multi-Method Research Roderick M. Kramer 3. An Abductive Approach to Investigating Trust Development in Strategic Alliances Véronique Le Gall and Ann Langley 4. Trust Research: Measuring Trust Beliefs and Behaviors Roy J. Lewicki and Chad Brinsfield 5. Agent-Based Simulation of Trust Bart Nooteboom 6. Researching Trust in Different Cultures Friederike Welter and Nadezhda Alex 7. Trust and Social Capital: Challenges for Studying their Dynamic Relationship Boris F. Blumberg, Jose M. Peiró and Robert A. Roe 8. Measuring Generalized Trust: In Defense of the ‘Standard’ Question Eric M. Uslaner PART II QUALITATIVE RESEARCH 9. Access and Non-Probability Sampling in Qualitative Research on Trust Fergus Lyon 10. Working With Difficult to Reach Groups: A ‘Building Blocks’ Approach to Researching Trust in Communities Christine Goodall 11. Cross-Cultural Comparative Case Studies: A Means of Uncovering Dimensions of Trust Malin Tillmar 12. Using Mixed Methods-Combining Card Sorts and In-Depth Interviews Mark N.K. Saunders 13. Mixed Methods Application in Trust Research: Simultaneous Hybrid Data Collection in Cross-Cultural Settings Using the Board-Game Method Miriam Muethel 14. Using Scenarios as Part of a Concurrent Mixed Methods Design Susan J. Addison 15. Utilising Repertory Grids in Macro-Level Comparative Studies Reinhard Bachmann 16. Deepening the Understanding of Trust: Combining Repertory Grid and Narrative to Explore the Uniqueness of Trust Melanie J. Ashleigh and Edgar Meyer 17. Studying Trust Relationships using Social Network Analysis Roxanne Zolin and Deborah E. Gibbons 18. Hermeneutic Methods in Trust Research Gerard Breeman 19. Using Critical Incident Technique in Trust Research Robert Münscher and Torsten M. Kühlmann PART III QUANTITATIVE APPROACHES 20. Survey Measures of Trust in Organizational Contexts: An Overview Nicole Gillespie 21. The Actor–Partner Interdependence Model: A Method for Studying Trust in Dyadic Relationships Donald L. Ferrin, Michelle C. Bligh and Jeffrey C. Kohles 22. Embedded Trust: The Analytical Approach in Vignettes, Laboratory Experiments and Surveys Davide Barrera, Vincent Buskens and Werner Raub 23. Measuring the Decision to Trust Using Metric Conjoint Analysis Richard L. Priem and Antoinette A. Weibel 24. Diary Methods in Trust Research Rosalind H. Searle 25. Measuring Implicit Trust and Automatic Attitude Activation Calvin Burns and Stacey M. Conchie 26. A Voice is Worth a Thousand Words: The Implications of the Micro-Coding of Social Signals in Speech for Trust Research Benjamin Waber, Michele Williams, John S. Carroll and Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland 27. It Takes a Community to Make a Difference: Evaluating Quality Procedures and Practices in Trust Research Katinka M. Bijlsma-Frankema and Denise M. Rousseau Index

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Book SynopsisWorking the Aisles takes the reader on tumultuous driving trips across the United States and France, on phone sex escapades in San Francisco, on banking battles in Sweden, and many other adventures - including, of course, on trips to supermarkets, where the author has had to 'work the aisles'. Moving back and forth through time, like a novelist, indeed in something of a memoirist tour de force, the book develops the story of struggle, of poverty and depression, but also of gaiety and desire, of a will to live in spite of it all, and to keep working the aisles. It moves the reader through highs and lows, through episodes of ecstasy and thoughts about suicide, and tells how this particular Everyman ended up sane but sorry.Trade ReviewThis exploration of our desires, commercial and otherwise, and how we are manipulated by them and how we manipulate, reaches far beyond the shopping mall critique: Mr Appelbaum ranges from the highly intellectual social psychology and literary deconstruction to a highly personal narrative, with dramatic scenes of arrest and odd love encounters and vivid details from the United States, England, and France. Covering roughly 50 years, from 1960 till a few years ago, Working the Aisles paints a telling picture of the astounding economic and social changes of the half century. This is a very entertaining and at the same time melancholy and thoughtful novel-like trip into our ever-growing appetites. It should satisfy reading appetites of nearly everybody: rigorous scholars and those looking for a good and fresh story. Mr Appelbaum will keep you lively company for a couple of nights. You might even want to light a pipe. --Josip Novakovich, finalist for the Man Booker International Prize, author of April Fool's Day and Shopping for a Better Country

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Book SynopsisCommunication is a crucial issue in our complex societies tinted by distrust. It is the core of democratic life and almost all human and social actions. Therefore it is essential for communication to be responsible. But responsible communication cannot only be conceived as a deontological issue, framed by ethical compliance requirements or good practices promotion. It should be considered with all the virtualities of communication, from conversation to consideration, going through narrative, interpretation and argumentation. Indeed each of these communicational capacities has its properties, assets, complementarities and limitations. They constitute different ways to be responsive. This book offers a contribution to the debate of Theory of Deliberative Theory (TDD), reexamined here within its different inspiration sources, notably the opposition between communicational turn and system, the fact of moral pluralism and the public reason.Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xv Introduction xvii Part 1 As Many Critiques as There Are Deliberations 1 Chapter 1 From Defiant Critical Citizenship to Pluralist Political Critique 5 1.1 Testing critical citizenship 7 1.2 Critique as defiance 8 1.2.1 Relational critique 8 1.3 Stealth democracy versus sunshine democracy 11 1.4 From reactive critique to pluralist political critique 14 1.5 The critique of common sense 18 1.6 Intensity of critique towards democracy and propensity to engage 20 1.7 Comparative attractiveness of five features of democracy 25 1.8 From critical citizenship to citizenship critique 26 1.8.1 Democracy, citizenship and types of critique 27 1.8.2 Beyond the four types of critique: communication, responsibility and burdens of judgment 29 1.9 An unusual debate to tame the critics’ 34 Chapter 2 Multiple and Conflicting Origins of Deliberative Democracy 43 2.1 Recent and deflationary definition of deliberative democracy 46 2.2 The sources of deliberative democracy 48 2.2.1 Eight phases in the evolution of a conflict theory 48 2.2.2 Late arrival of philosophy? 51 2.2.3 Three additional steps in the history of TDD 53 2.2.4 A division into two generations 59 2.3. Questionable developments, remaining problems and the promise of theory 60 2.4 TDD from three other perspectives 63 2.5 Contested deliberation and probation 68 Part 2 Disseminated Deliberation between Empirical Analyses and Theoretical Disputes 77 Chapter 3 Deliberation, Argumentation, Multiscale Agreement Modes 79 3.1 Fragmented deliberations under institutional constraints 80 3.2 Access to the agreements 85 3.3 Philosophy and practical deliberations 92 3.3.1 Theory and empirical differences 92 3.3.2 Constructive or critical philosophy 94 3.3.3 Mobilization of philosophy for empirical work 97 3.4 Guaranteed or “unfiltered” deliberation? 102 Chapter 4 More than a “Familial Dispute” at the Foundation of Deliberative Democracy 109 4.1 Between Rawls and Habermas, incompatible perspectives 111 4.1.1 Disputes about the limits of politics and the instruments of representation (Rawlsian division) 114 4.1.2 Playing Rawls against Rawls (Habermasian reconstruction) 114 4.2 Disagreements at the heart of deliberative tools: reflective equilibrium and argumentation 116 4.2.1. The equilibrium control of the conjecture of the original position (Rawls) 116 4.2.2 Reflective equilibrium well understood (Habermas) 118 4.2.3 Theory of incomplete argumentation (Rawls) 119 4.3 Challenges of pluralism and limits of reflective equilibrium 120 4.3.1 Pluralism at the heart of the judgment 121 4.4 Reflective equilibriums put to the test 125 4.4.1 Recomposition of the burdens of judgment 126 4.4.2 Burdens of judgment in search of equilibrium 128 4.5 The law at the risk of democratic debate 130 Part 3 Embodied Rhetoric and Complex Political System 135 Chapter 5 Argumentation Put Into Question 143 5.1 Argumentation, the key to saving communicative rationality 144 5.1.1 Problems of the relationship between reasons and validity 147 5.1.2 Importance of the relationship between reasons and validity 150 5.2 Enigmatic Habermasian additions on argumentation 152 5.3 Expectations and disappointed promises of argumentative hopes 158 5.4 Give up? 160 5.5 Venturing out as the situation requires 163 5.6 Types of questions and components of the argument 165 5.7 The frameworks of argumentation 169 5.8 Arguing, from law to politics 172 5.9 Argumentation, legal methodology, social justice 174 Chapter 6 From Conversation to Consideration 183 6.1 Communication capacities 183 6.1.1 Narration 186 6.1.2 Interpretation 186 6.1.3 Combinations of communication capacities 187 6.2 Conversation 189 6.3 Consideration 194 6.4 Issues, circumstances and responsibilities 198 6.4.1 General issues (hexameter) fixing the circumstances 199 6.4.2 Detailed responsibilities 200 6.4.3 The will is not only a matter of conflicting desires 201 6.4.4 Communicating, from circumstances to political responsibilities 204 6.5 Rhetoric, as essence and perfection of language 206 6.6 System of deliberative systems 212 6.6.1 System functions and levels of pluralism 214 6.6.2 From social deliberation to deliberative systems 216 6.7 Deliberative stage system and expertise 218 Conclusion 225 References 237 Index 251

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Book SynopsisWhat do healthy relationships look like? Most of the difficulties we face on a daily basis have to do with our relationships - be it with our partners, families, children, parents - or with our friends, neighbors or colleagues at work. This is why most of us really want to know how we can best get along with other people. What do healthy couple relationships look like? What do healthy families look like? What are the characteristics of respectful, constructive conversations? How can we best navigate through the challenges we meet in our daily lives and disagree with our friends, colleagues and families in a respectful way without running away or going on the attack? Is it possible to speak respectfully and reach compromises which function for everyone involved? In short, what do healthy relationships look like? Barbara Berger’s answer to these important questions are her Healthy Models which describe what healthy relationships look like in practice. The value of these Healthy Models is that when we have clear models of how healthy behavior looks, we can then compare our own relationships to these models and identify what is not working in our relationships. And this can be a big help because then we can begin to work to improve our relationships. The book is packed with practical techniques and exercises.

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Book SynopsisSocial Psychology: Learning through Case Studies introduces readers to key concepts within the field through a collection of engaging real-life scenarios. It covers a broad range of topics, including the concept of self, cognitive dissonance, social influence, group processes, prosocial behaviour, aggression, prejudice, and more.Each chapter introduces a specific topic within the realm of social psychology, followed by relevant case studies and questions designed to encourage critical thinking and practical application. Discussion questions following each individual case and key takeaways at the end of each chapter encourage student engagement and retention of the material.Social Psychology is an exceptional resource for courses and programs in social psychology, as well as interdisciplinary studies, especially those that emphasize human behaviour, social interactions, and real-world applications of psychological theories.

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Book SynopsisThe Handbook of Trust and Social Psychology highlights the crucial importance of trust in a wide variety of contexts, such as individual well-being, societal stability and personal and professional relationships. This Handbook is a testament to the profound impact of Ken J. Rotenberg's work on developmental and social psychology.

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Book SynopsisThis comprehensive Handbook addresses a wide variety of methodological approaches adopted and developed by behavioural economists, exploring the implications of such innovations for analysis and policy. Presenting analytical narratives from renowned economists and economic psychologists, the Handbook applies a broad array of methodological perspectives to behavioural economics. These span from bounded rationality, asymmetric information, and heuristics and biases to fast and frugal heuristics, rational agents and smart decision-makers, and capabilities improvements and institutional design. Chapters further explore diverse areas such as public policy, micro and macroeconomics, labour economics, the firm, decision-making, preference formation, punishment, love, altruism, trust, the environment, money and finance, health, and sports. Providing a pluralistic approach to behavioural economics, the Handbook ultimately introduces readers to an array of possible methodologies that can be adopted to address topical economic issues, as well as facilitating an enriched and nuanced understanding of human behaviour in an economic context. Comparing and contrasting different methodologies within behavioural and neoclassical economics, this dynamic Handbook will be an invaluable resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students enrolled in economics, social psychology, and marketing courses. Policymakers will also benefit from its examination of the implications of behavioural economics for real-world decision making and policy.Trade Review‘The chapters of this Handbook take us beyond the now familiar areas of behavioural economics research and give attention to a wider range of methods and further applications of the findings – a much needed help in the many fields, such as environmental and health economics, in which the usefulness of these findings is just beginning to be realized.’ -- Jack L. Knetsch, Simon Fraser University, Canada‘Behavioral economics needs to go beyond documenting deviations from neoclassical norms and interpreting these as flaws in humans rather in the theory. We need to take uncertainty seriously, take heuristics seriously, and study how people actually make decisions instead of building as-if models. This excellent collection of approaches offers many ways to rethink behavioral economics and equip it with a fresh vision.’ -- Gerd Gigerenzer, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany‘Morris Altman succeeds in assembling experts from various scholarly disciplines who present the arsenal of research methods in behavioral economics and their potential in applied social research. This is an excellent comprehensive Handbook that is of interest to students and scholars, committed to understanding economic behavior which is often driven by a-rationality and irrationality rather than the capacity to rationally maximize one’s own utility.’ -- Erich Kirchler, University of Vienna, AustriaTable of ContentsContents: 1. Morris Altman: Introduction PART I BEHAVIOURAL ECONOMICS METHODS IN GENERAL 2. Gerrit Antonides: Behavioral economic methods 3. Steve J. Bickley , and Benno Torgler: Behavioural Economics, What Have We Missed?” 4. Exploring “Classical” Behavioural Economics Roots in AI, Cognitive Psychology, and Complexity Theory 5. Beryl Chang: Assumptions in Economic Modeling: How Behavioral Economics Can Enlighten PART II REAL WORLD ECONOMICS 6. Gigi Foster and Paul Frijters: RealEconomik: Using the messy human experience to drive clean theoretical advance in economics 7. Pascal Moliner and Patrick Rateau: The common-sense economy PART III BEHAVIOURAL MACROEOCNOMICS 8. Michelle Baddeley: Behavioural Methods for Macroeconomics: Modelling Investment 9. Tobias F. Rötheli: The Business Cycle and the Cycles of Behavioral Economics PART IV BEHAVIOURAL LABOUR ECONOMICS AND THE THEORY OF THE FIRM 10. Morris Altman: Behavioural Labour Economics 11. Sodany Tong: Some Implications of X-efficiency Theory for the Role of Managerial Quality as a Key Determinant of Firm Performance and Productivity 12. Morris Altman: Behavioural Theories of the Firm with a Focus on X-Efficiency and Effort Discretion: Implications for Analysis PART V MONEY AND BEHAVIOURAL ECONOMICS 13. Agata Gasiorowska & Tomasz Zaleskiewicz: The Psychology of Money 14. Tomasz Zaleskiewicz & Agata Gasiorowska: Taking Financial Advice: Going Beyond Making Good Decisions PART VI BEHAVIOURAL APPROACHES TO HEALTH ECONOMICS 15. Hannah Rachel Josepha Altman and Morris Altman; Bounded Rationality, Imperfect and Costly Information and Sub-optimal Outcomes in the Sports and Health and Fitness Industries 16. Nazmi Sari: Empirical methods and methodological developments in economics of health and health behavior: A discussion of theory and applications 17. David A. Savage and Derek Friday: The Behavioural Impact of Pandemics: Incomplete Markets and the Supply Chain PART VII ‘EMOTIONS’ AND MORALS, AND BEHAVIOURAL ECONOMICS 18. Jefferson Arapoc: Economics of Trust: its nature, measures, determinants, and application 19. Roger Frantz: Intuition and Behavioral Economics. A Very Brief History 20. Natalia V. Czap and Hans J Czap: Conserve the Planet, NOT Empathy! Revising the Empathy Conservation Framework 21. Shinji Teraji: Behavioral Economics of Morality and Sustainability 22. Alexis V. Belianin: Antisocial punishment PART VIII EVALUATION AND FORMATION OF BELIEFS AND PREFERENCES 23. Fang-Fang Tang : Auction Methods of Valuation and the Endowment Effect 24. David Leiser: Statistical approaches to the analysis of belief patterns 25. Matthew G. Nagler: Motivated Preferences 26. Mina Mahmoudi, Mark Pingle, Rattaphon Wuthisatian: Might Ambiguity Exist When None Seems to Exist? PART IX BEHAVIOURAL APPROACHES TO POLICY 27. Irene Mussio and Angela C.M. de Oliveira: Norms, networks, nudges: non-traditional approaches to improve healthy behaviors 28. Noah V. Peters and Lucia A. Reisch: Bridging Psychology and Sociology: Towards a Socio- ecological Perspective in Behavioural Economics and Policy Index

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Book SynopsisHow valuable to us are the activities of government? Public Goods and Private Wants explores psychological approaches to public economics in order to answer this question. The contributions of economists and political scientists to the study of government spending are discussed, and subjective measures, largely derived from psychology, that could be used to evaluate government spending are considered. The author then uses empirical studies to explain how people value government goods and services, and what they appear to want the government to do. The results have implications for methods of valuing government services, the way people think about government spending and political processes.This accessible and thought-provoking volume will be of interest to academics in the areas of economics, psychology and political science. Those concerned with government decision making will also find it of great value.Trade Review'This is a highly readable account of individual attitudes towards government services written from a psychological perspective.' -- Alistair Munro, Journal of Economic Psychology'Kemp's work is readily accessible to economists. He bridges the gap between psychology and economics with his expertise in both fields, and hopefully his innovative survey research will be taken up.' -- A. Stutzer, Journal of Economics/Zeitschrift fur Nationalokonomie'In democracy, we ask people whom they would like to govern them. Simon Kemp shows how and why the same principle applies to the types and amounts of public goods that governments supply. If you seek solutions to public-sector supply-demand mismatch - read Kemp's lively, topical treatise.' -- Shlomo Maital, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, IsraelTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction 2. Economics and Public Goods 3. Government Spending in Democracies 4. Quality of Life 5. Methods of Assessing Value 6. Psychophysical Scaling of Value 7. Taxation and its Relationship to Spending 8. Valuation and Knowledge of Cost 9. What Do People Want the Government to Undertake? 10. Conclusions References Index

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Book SynopsisThis authoritative and encyclopaedic reference work provides a thorough account of the public choice approach to economics and politics. The Companion breaks new ground by joining together the most important issues in the field in a single comprehensive volume. It contains state-of-the-art discussions of both old and contemporary problems, including new work by the founding fathers as well as contributions by a new generation of younger scholars.The book reviews the literature of public choice, highlighting the common ground between all rational choice approaches to politics. It demonstrates the important impact of public choice on economics, political science, philosophy and sociology. It will be an indispensable source of reference for many years to the ideas, analytical methods and empirical research in the field.The Companion will serve as the standard reference work for all those engaged in the field of public choice and will be essential reading for politicians and policymakers, scholars in political science, public and social choice, as well as graduate students in economics, political science and public administration.Trade Review'. . . this compendium offers a solid introduction into an economic field that is gaining in influence.'Table of ContentsContents: Preface Introduction: Public Choice at the Millennium Part I: Methodology Part II: The Constitutional Framework Part III: Institutions and Mechanisms of Collective Choice Part IV: Public Choice Perspectives on Government and the Economy Part V: The Public Choice Revolution References Index

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Book SynopsisWhat makes despotic leaders tick? How do they become despots? On a lesser (but far more common) scale: why are some people ruthlessly abrasive in the workplace? Why do some business leaders appear to lose their sense of humanity? How and why do they create a culture of fear, uncertainty and doubt in their companies?Lessons on Leadership by Terror attempts to discover what happens to people when they acquire power, and whether the abuse of power is inevitable. Manfred Kets de Vries examines the life of the nineteenth-century Zulu king Shaka Zulu in order to help us understand the psychology of power and terror. During his short reign, Shaka Zulu established one of the most successful regimes based on terror that has ever existed, from which the traits of despotic leaders are illustrated. Shaka's life history is a study in the psychology of terror, and he can be a proxy for the behavior of any despot, be it from antiquity or modern times. From his leadership behavior fifteen cautionary lessons are derived, offering valuable principles for contemporary leaders.The book also explores the characteristics of totalitarian states, and discusses what can be done to prevent despotic leaders from coming to the fore. Clear parallels are drawn between Shaka's behavior and that of other, more contemporary, leaders including Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot and Saddam Hussein.This fascinating and highly original book will be of enormous interest to a broad audience - from students and academics focusing on leadership, political science, and political psychology, to practitioners such as managers, executives, consultants, and leadership coaches.Trade Review'A serious, but readable, study that should be widely read by all concerned with leadership issues.' -- International Journal of Strategic Management'A serious but readable study that should be widely read by all concerned with leadership issues.' -- Long Range Planning'This book is the most up-to-date available investigation of the understanding of tyranny and terror that psychologists, psychoanalysts and experts on group and institutional behaviour can provide. Manfred Kets de Vries has produced a masterpiece. He draws on a wealth of published research in the field and relates it in an academically excellent, yet eminently readable, way to the premier problem of the beginning of the 21st century. I strongly recommend it.' -- Anton Obholzer, formerly Tavistock Centre London, Psychoanalyst and Organizational Consultant'From constructive narcissism to reactive narcissism, we are but one step away from megalomania and terror. Professor Kets de Vries traces the origin of leadership by terror to early childhood in this case study of Shaka Zulu. A gruesome story warns us that terror may be inherent in the human condition.' -- Abraham Zaleznik, Harvard Business School, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface Introduction Part I: The Historical Context 1. A School for Tyranny: Learning from Hardship, Betrayal and Humiliation 2. The Making of a Military State: Honing the Assegai 3. Ruling by Fear: Bringing Enemies and Allies Alike to Submission Part II: The Question of Character 4. The Inner Theatre of the King: Acting Out Personal Concerns on a Public Stage 5. Monte Cristo in Africa: Seeking Revenge for Past Wrongs 6. The Nature of Relationships: Being Unable to Establish Real Intimacy 7. Paranoia – The Disease of Kings: Exercising Caution Beyond the Bounds of Danger 8. The Terrorist Mind: Protecting the Self by Victimizing Others Part III: Leadership by Terror 9. Following the Leader: Colluding in Cruelty 10. Lessons in Leadership: Teaching by Example and Omission Part IV: Deconstructing Totalitarianism 11. A Throne of Blood: Deploying the Tools of Tyranny 12. Dancing with Vampires: Preventing Tyranny through Effective Governance Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThere is an unbridgeable controversy between the functionalist sociologist who anchors his theories on society and the group, and the existentialist who bathes his thoughts on the individual. Durkheim and Parsons, as well as many contemporary American sociologists, are adjustment based in the sense that all those individuals who rock the boat even if they are creative innovators would be labelled deviant or mad. The existentialists, from Kierkegaard to Buber, regard the individual as the focus of life; they see philosophy and society as at best a curbing control-structure and at worst coercing, stigmatizing and ostracizing. The present volume treads in the giant footsteps of Albert Camus who saw the absurd as the conflictual encounter between the individual and society. Society and the Absurd attempts to overcome this deep sociological controversy by investigating absurdity through the prism of an interdisciplinary theory of personality.Trade Review"Society and the Absurd portrays the norms of madness as well as legally expectable behavior and the reality of those who reject normative standards. It stresses that every man can achieve truth and self-determination by recognizing that the outside norms are totally lacking justification. This confrontation at last is now available to those who read this succinct scholarly and forthright treatise..." -- Harold Laswell and Lawrence Freedman, The University of Chicago."Prof. Shoham is at once avant-garde and traditional, revolutionary and sensitive to everything sound and yet not hackneyed in the established body of academic usages. This book is likely to play an important role in the world-wide effort to take the true measure of and deal effectively with the human condition..." -- Zigmund Bauman, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Leeds.Table of ContentsCONTENTS: A Fragile Peace: Could a 'Race to the Bottom' Have Been Avoided?; The Pursuit of Israeli-Palestinian Peace: A Retrospective; Ending the Conflict: Can the Parties Afford It?; Domestic Israeli Politics and the Conflict; Foundering Illusions: The Demise of the Oslo Process; Islamic Perspectives on the Oslo Process; From Oslo to Taba: What Went Wrong?; Why Did Oslo Fail?: Lessons for the Future; The Oslo Peace Process: From Breakthrough to Breakdown; The Middle East Peace Process -- Where to Next?; A Fragile Peace: Are There Only Lessons of Failure?; The Contributors; Index.

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Book SynopsisWhat makes despotic leaders tick? How do they become despots? On a lesser (but far more common) scale: why are some people ruthlessly abrasive in the workplace? Why do some business leaders appear to lose their sense of humanity? How and why do they create a culture of fear, uncertainty and doubt in their companies?Lessons on Leadership by Terror attempts to discover what happens to people when they acquire power, and whether the abuse of power is inevitable. Manfred Kets de Vries examines the life of the nineteenth-century Zulu king Shaka Zulu in order to help us understand the psychology of power and terror. During his short reign, Shaka Zulu established one of the most successful regimes based on terror that has ever existed, from which the traits of despotic leaders are illustrated. Shaka's life history is a study in the psychology of terror, and he can be a proxy for the behavior of any despot, be it from antiquity or modern times. From his leadership behavior fifteen cautionary lessons are derived, offering valuable principles for contemporary leaders.The book also explores the characteristics of totalitarian states, and discusses what can be done to prevent despotic leaders from coming to the fore. Clear parallels are drawn between Shaka's behavior and that of other, more contemporary, leaders including Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot and Saddam Hussein.This fascinating and highly original book will be of enormous interest to a broad audience - from students and academics focusing on leadership, political science, and political psychology, to practitioners such as managers, executives, consultants, and leadership coaches.Trade Review'A serious, but readable, study that should be widely read by all concerned with leadership issues.' -- International Journal of Strategic Management'A serious but readable study that should be widely read by all concerned with leadership issues.' -- Long Range Planning'This book is the most up-to-date available investigation of the understanding of tyranny and terror that psychologists, psychoanalysts and experts on group and institutional behaviour can provide. Manfred Kets de Vries has produced a masterpiece. He draws on a wealth of published research in the field and relates it in an academically excellent, yet eminently readable, way to the premier problem of the beginning of the 21st century. I strongly recommend it.' -- Anton Obholzer, formerly Tavistock Centre London, Psychoanalyst and Organizational Consultant'From constructive narcissism to reactive narcissism, we are but one step away from megalomania and terror. Professor Kets de Vries traces the origin of leadership by terror to early childhood in this case study of Shaka Zulu. A gruesome story warns us that terror may be inherent in the human condition.' -- Abraham Zaleznik, Harvard Business School, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface Introduction Part I: The Historical Context 1. A School for Tyranny: Learning from Hardship, Betrayal and Humiliation 2. The Making of a Military State: Honing the Assegai 3. Ruling by Fear: Bringing Enemies and Allies Alike to Submission Part II: The Question of Character 4. The Inner Theatre of the King: Acting Out Personal Concerns on a Public Stage 5. Monte Cristo in Africa: Seeking Revenge for Past Wrongs 6. The Nature of Relationships: Being Unable to Establish Real Intimacy 7. Paranoia – The Disease of Kings: Exercising Caution Beyond the Bounds of Danger 8. The Terrorist Mind: Protecting the Self by Victimizing Others Part III: Leadership by Terror 9. Following the Leader: Colluding in Cruelty 10. Lessons in Leadership: Teaching by Example and Omission Part IV: Deconstructing Totalitarianism 11. A Throne of Blood: Deploying the Tools of Tyranny 12. Dancing with Vampires: Preventing Tyranny through Effective Governance Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIt is an enduring theme of humanity that people are concerned about what others think of them. The notion of face has thus become firmly established as a means of explaining various social phenomena in a range of fields within the social sciences, including anthropology, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, and psychology. Yet face has also become increasingly entrenched in the literature as a kind of pre-existing sociocultural construct. This book offers an alternative in focusing on the ways in which face is both constituted in and constitutive of social interaction, and its relationship to self, identity and broader sociocultural expectations. There are three main themes explored in this volume. Part I, 'Face in interaction', encompasses contributions that deal with face as it emerges in interaction in various institutional and non-institutional settings. In Part II, the relationship between self, identity and face is investigated in the context of interpersonal communication. The final part considers various approaches to establishing links between individual interactions (the so-called micro) and broader sociocultural expectations or 'norms' that interactants bring into interactions (the so-called macro).Table of Contents1. Face and interaction (Michael Haugh) Part I: Face in interaction 2. Face as emergent in interpersonal communication: An alternative to Goffman (Robert B. Arundale, University of Alaska) 3. How to get rid of a telemarking agent? Facework strategies in an intercultural service call (Rosina Marquez-Reiter, University of Surrey) 4. Analysing Japanese 'face-in-interaction': insights from intercultural business meetings (Michael Haugh and Yasuhisa Watanabe, Queensland University of Technology) 5. That's a mythA": Linguistic avoidance as face-saving strategy in broadcast interviews (Eric Anchimbe, University of Bayreuth) 6. Two Sides of the same coin: How the notion of 'face' is encoded in Persian communication (Sofia A. Koutlaki ) Part II: Face, identity and self 7. Face, identity and interactional goals (Helen Spencer-Oatey, University of Warwick) 8. Evoking face in self and other presentation in Turkish (A ukriye Ruhi, Middle East Technical University, Turkey) 9. Face and self in Chinese communication (Gao Ge, San Jose State University) 10. Face, politeness and interpersonal variables: implications for language production and comprehension (Thomas Holtgraves, Ball State University) 11. In the face of the other: Between Goffman and Levinas (Alexander Kozin, Freie Universitat Berlin) Part III: Face, norms and society 12. Facework collision in intercultural communication (Stella Ting-Toomey, California State University at Fullerton) 13. Face in the holistic and relativistic society (Tae-Seop Lim, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) 14. Finding face between gemeinschaft and gesellschaft: Greek perceptions of the in-group (Marina Terkourafi, University of Illinois) 15. Significance of 'face' and politeness in social interaction as revealed through Thai 'face' idioms (Margaret Ukosakul, Payap University, Thailand) 16. Facing the future: some reflections (Francesca Bargiela-Chiappini)

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Book Synopsis'A tour-de-force of trust research methodologies, from surveys methods to critical incidents to hermeneutics. . . will prove invaluable to trust researchers of every stripe.- Aks Zaheer, University of Minnesota, US 'This book fills an important gap. The burgeoning field of trust research has employed a wide variety of definitions and methods, but until the appearance of this Handbook there was no comprehensive overview of them. Its contributions, many written by leading international experts, cover conceptual issues as well as qualitative and quantitative methods. The editors are all working at the frontiers of trust research and in this Handbook they have compiled an indispensable source of reference for years to come.'- John Child, University of Birmingham, UK 'This is the right book at the right time. Central to the advancement of research on trust is the need to address a host of methodological, empirical, and analytical challenges. This Handbook provides a vital resource for doing so and holds the promise of infusing the literature with novel and enhanced approaches for studying and understanding trust. Researchers new to the field as well as established experts will find a wealth of insights contained herein.' Bill McEvily, University of Toronto, CanadaThe Handbook of Research Methods on Trust provides an authoritative in-depth consideration of quantitative and qualitative methods for empirical study of trust in the social sciences. As this topic has matured, a growing number of practical approaches and techniques has been utilized across the broad, multidisciplinary community of trust research, providing both insights and challenges. This unique Handbook draws together a wealth of research methods knowledge gained by trust researchers into one essential volume. The contributors examine different methodological issues and particular methods, as well as share their experiences of what works, what does not work, challenges and innovations. Identifying innovative methods for researching trust, this important Handbook will prove invaluable for students and academics in the social sciences that are interested in trust, particularly postgraduates planning empirical research on trust, undergraduates researching issues of trust, faculty teaching research-based courses on trust and related topics, and experienced trust researchers looking for reflection, discussion and inspiration.Trade ReviewA tour-de-force of trust research methodologies, from surveys methods to critical incidents to hermeneutics. . .will prove invaluable to trust researchers of every stripe. - Aks Zaheer, University of Minnesota, US This book fills an important gap. The burgeoning field of trust research has employed a wide variety of definitions and methods, but until the appearance of this Handbook there was no comprehensive overview of them. Its contributions, many written by leading international experts, cover conceptual issues as well as qualitative and quantitative methods. The editors are all working at the frontiers of trust research and in this Handbook they have compiled an indispensable source of reference for years to come. - John Child, University of Birmingham, UK This is the right book at the right time. Central to the advancement of research on trust is the need to address a host of methodological, empirical, and analytical challenges. This Handbook provides a vital resource for doing so and holds the promise of infusing the literature with novel and enhanced approaches for studying and understanding trust. Researchers new to the field as well as established experts will find a wealth of insights contained herein. - --Bill McEvily, University of Toronto, CanadaTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: The Variety of Methods for the Multi-faceted Phenomenon of Trust Fergus Lyon, Guido Möllering and Mark N.K. Saunders PART I: CONCEPTUAL ISSUES 2. Moving between Laboratory and Field: A Multi-method Approach for Studying Trust Judgments Roderick M. Kramer 3. Measuring Trust Beliefs and Behaviours Roy J. Lewicki and Chad Brinsfield 4. Agent-based Simulation of Trust Bart Nooteboom 5. Researching Trust in Different Cultures Friederike Welter and Nadezhda Alex 6. Trust and Social Capital: Challenges for Studying their Dynamic Relationship Boris F. Blumberg, José M. Peiró and Robert A. Roe 7. Measuring Generalized Trust: In Defense of the ‘Standard’ Question Eric M. Uslaner PART II: QUALITATIVE RESEARCH 8. Access and Non-probability Sampling in Qualitative Research on Trust Fergus Lyon 9. Working with Difficult to Reach Groups: A ‘Building Blocks’ Approach to Researching Trust in Communities Christine Goodall 10. Cross-cultural Comparative Case Studies: A Means to Uncovering Dimensions of Trust Malin Tillmar 11. Combining Card Sorts and In-depth Interviews Mark N.K. Saunders 12. Mixed Method Applications in Trust Research: Simultaneous Hybrid Data Collection in Cross-cultural Settings Using the Board Game Method Miriam Muethel 13. Utilising Repertory Grids in Macro-level Comparative Studies Reinhard Bachmann 14. Deepening the Understanding of Trust: Combining Repertory Grid and Narrative to Explore the Uniqueness of Trust Melanie J. Ashleigh and Edgar Meyer 15. Hermeneutic Methods in Trust Research Gerard Breeman 16. Using Critical Incident Technique in Trust Research Robert Münscher and Torsten M. Kühlmann PART III: QUANTITATIVE APPROACHES 17. Measuring Trust in Organizational Contexts: An Overview of Survey-based Measures Nicole Gillespie 18. The Actor–Partner Interdependence Model: A Method for Studying Trust in Dyadic Relationships Donald L. Ferrin, Michelle C. Bligh and Jeffrey C. Kohles 19. Embedded Trust: The Analytical Approach in Vignettes, Laboratory Experiments and Surveys Davide Barrera, Vincent Buskens and Werner Raub 20. Measuring the Decision to Trust Using Metric Conjoint Analysis Richard L. Priem and Antoinette A. Weibel 21. Diary Methods in Trust Research Rosalind H. Searle 22. Measuring Implicit Trust and Automatic Attitude Activation Calvin Burns and Stacey Conchie 23. A Voice is Worth a Thousand Words: The Implications of the Micro-coding of Social Signals in Speech for Trust Research Benjamin Waber, Michele Williams, John S. Carroll and Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland 24. It Takes a Community to Make a Difference: Evaluating Quality Procedures and Practices in Trust Research Katinka M. Bijlsma-Frankema and Denise M. Rousseau Index

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Book SynopsisThe Elgar Companion to Public Choice, Second Edition brings together leading scholars in the field of political economy to introduce readers to the latest research in public choice.The Companion lays out a comprehensive history of the field and, in five additional parts, it explores public choice contributions to the study of the origins of the state, the organization of political activity, the analysis of decision-making in non-market institutions, the examination of tribal governance, and to modeling and predicting the behavior of international organizations and transnational terrorism.With broad and up-to-date coverage, this second edition will appeal to politicians and policymakers, academics and researchers in public and social choice and political science as well as graduate students in economics, political science and public administration.Contributors include: D.G. Arce M., A. Batinti, F. Bose, G. Brennan, M. Brooks, U. Cantner, R.D. Congleton, C.J. Coyne, N.V. Crain, W.M. Crain, R.B. Ekelund Jr, J.S. Ferris, R.K. Fleck, A. Glazer, A. Hamlin, F.A. Hanssen, A.L. Hillman, R.G. Holcombe, L.W. Kenny, Y. Kim, M.S. Kimenyi, K.M. Larkin-Wong, J.G. Matsusaka, F.S. McChesney, R.R. McGregor, D.C. Mueller, M.C. Munger, F. Padovano, A. Pellillo, R. Pietrantonio, A. Razo, L. Razzolini, M. Reksulak, C.K. Rowley, P.H. Rubin, J.M. Shepherd, W.F. Shughart II, R.S. Sobel, T. Stratmann, O. Taiwo, R.D. Tollison, R. Vaubel, M. WohlgemuthTrade Review‘This is a comprehensive set of essays on myriad facets of public choice by many of the leading contributors in the field. The coverage is excellent and the essays are terrific. I highly recommend this book for researchers and students.’ -- Todd Sandler, University of Texas at Dallas, US‘Co-Editors Michael Reksulak, Laura Razzolini, and William Shughart have assembled a fine extension of the first Elgar Companion to Public Choice that was published in 2003 (Shughart and Razzolini 2003). . . Overall, the 2013 Companion is useful to scholars both as specialists in the specific topics covered and as generalists interested in surveying the field.’ -- Edward J. Lopez, Journal of Public Finance & Public ChoiceTable of ContentsContents: Preface to the Second Edition Preface to the First Edition PART I: THE CHOICE IN PUBLIC CHOICE 1. Individual Choice and Collective Choice: An Overview Michael Reksulak, Laura Razzolini and William F. Shughart II 2. Public Choice: The Origins and Development of a Research Program Charles K. Rowley 3. Political Science and Public Choice Michael C. Munger PART II: THE FRAMEWORK OF GOVERNMENT 4. The Origins of the State Dennis C. Mueller 5. Constitutional Political Economy Alan Hamlin 6. Autocrats and Democrats Armando Razo PART III: SYSTEMS OF COLLECTIVE DECISION-MAKING 7. Expressive Voting Geoffrey Brennan and Michael Brooks 8. Direct Democracy John G. Matsusaka 9. Legislatures Nicole V. Crain and W. Mark Crain 10. Parliaments Fabio Padovano 11. Federal Systems Randall G. Holcombe 12. Tribal Systems Mwangi S. Kimenyi and Olumide Taiwo PART IV: PUBLIC CHOICE ANALYSES OF THE TOOLS OF GOVERNMENT 13. The Politics of Elections and Congressional Oversight Russell S. Sobel and Adam Pellillo 14. Judges: Why do they Matter? Robert K. Fleck and F. Andrew Hanssen 15. Monetary Policy Rob Roy McGregor 16. Fiscal Policy J. Stephen Ferris 17. Regulatory Policy Amihai Glazer 18. The Public Choice Perspective on Antitrust Law Fred S. McChesney and Katherine M. Larkin-Wong PART V: PUBLIC CHOICE PERSPECTIVES ON THE RELATIONS BETWEEN GOVERNMENT AND THE GOVERNED 19. Rent Seeking Arye L. Hillman 20. Campaign Finance Thomas Stratmann 21. Public Choice and the Law Paul H. Rubin and Joanna M. Shepherd 22. Public Choice and the Modern Welfare State Roger D. Congleton with Alberto Batinti, Feler Bose, Youngshin Kim and Rinaldo Pietrantonio 23. Public Choice and Public Education Lawrence W. Kenny 24. Public Choice and Religion Robert B. Ekelund Jr and Robert D. Tollison 25. Experimental Public Choice Laura Razzolini 26. Evolutionary Public Choice Uwe Cantner and Michael Wohlgemuth PART VI: PUBLIC CHOICE PERSPECTIVES ON THE RELATIONS BETWEEN INTERNATIONAL ACTORS 27. International Organizations Roland Vaubel 28. The Political Economy of War and Peace Christopher J. Coyne and Adam Pellillo 29. Collective Action and (Counter) Terrorism Daniel G. Arce M. References Index

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Book SynopsisThis major reference collection presents in three volumes the key articles and papers on social choice theory.Volume One centres attention on key aspects of the debate on Arrow's impossibility theorem, carefully counter-poising differing viewpoints and embracing competing methodologies. In a field prone to the excessive use of mathematics and of arcane high theory, Charles Rowley skilfully presents a literature which is accessible to non-mathematicians and yet which offers full coverage of all the major debates. Volumes two and three extend the coverage of social choice theory to review the attempts of leading scholars to resolve the ageless problems of determining social goals and reconciling apparent inconsistencies among such goals. Professor Rowley carefully guides the reader through a litany of approaches, both methodological individualist and social engineering, ends-related and process-related in nature. Volume two reprints leading contributions to the utilitarian and contractarian ethics while volume three completes this exercise with material on the social justice and contractarian ethics. Professor Rowley's own introductory essay exposes the social choice research programme to his own Virginian critique, while integrating a large, diffuse literature into a unified whole.Trade Review'Charles Rowley has given us an excellent collection of well-chosen papers from different fields in social choice theory. The selections are informed by Professor Rowley's broad command over the discipline. He has put social choice theorists in particular (and economists, political theorists and moral philosophers generally) much in his debt by providing this extremely useful collection.' -- Amartya Sen, Harvard University, US'Public choice researchers will find that the collection of articles provides a magnificent perspective on the on the breadth and scope of formal political economy.'– Michael Cain, Public ChoiceTable of ContentsCONTENTS INTRODUCTION VOLUME I: THE AGGREGATION OF PREFERENCE PART I: FOUNDATIONS A. Bergson (1938), ‘A Reformulation of Certain Aspects of Welfare Economics’ H. R. Bowen (1943), ‘A Reformulation of Voting in the Allocation of Economic Resources’ D. Black (1948), ‘On the Rationale of Group Decision-making’ K. J. Arrow (1950), ‘A Difficulty in the Concept of Social Welfare’ PART II: COLLECTIVE RATIONALITY, VOTING AND STRATEGY-PROOFNESS I. M. D. Little (1952), ‘Social Choice and Individual Values’ J. H. Blau (1957), ‘The Existence of Social Welfare Functions’ K. J. Arrow (1959), ‘Rational Choice Functions and Orderings’ J. de V. Graaff (1962), ‘On Making a Recommendation in a Democracy’ G. Tullock (1964), ‘The Irrationality of Intransitivity’ A. K. Sen (1964), ‘A Possibility Theorem on Majority Decisions’ G. Tullock (1967), ‘The General Irrelevance of the General Impossibility Theorem’ A. K. Sen and P. K. Pattanaik (1969), ‘Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Rational Choice under Majority Decision’ K. J. Arrow (1969), ‘Tullock and an Existence Theorem’ K. J. Arrow (1967), ‘Values and Collective Decision-making’ A. Gibbard (1973), ‘Manipulation of Voting Schemes: A General Result’ C. R. Plott (1973), ‘Path Independence, Rationality and Social Choice’ C. R. Plott (1976), ‘Axiomatic Social Choice Theory: An Overview and Interpretation’ M. A. Satterthwaite (1975), ‘Strategy-proofness and Arrow’s Conditions: Existence and Correspondence Theorems for Voting Procedures and Social Welfare Functions’ A. K. Sen (1977), ‘Social Choice Theory” A Re-examination’ PART II: CRITIQUES OF ‘SOCIAL CHOICE AS SOCIAL ENGINEERING’ L. Von Mises (2944), ‘The Treatment of “Irrationality” in the Social Sciences’ F. A. Hayek (1945), ‘The Use of Knowledge in Society’ J. M. Buchanan (1954), ‘Social Choice, Democracy and Free Markets’ J. M. Buchanan (1954), ‘Individual Choice in Voting and the Market’ J. M. Buchanan (1964), ‘What should Economists Do?’ R. Sugden (1978), ‘Social Choice and Individual Liberty’ A. Sen (1978), ‘Liberty as Control: An Appraisal; PART IV: ATTEMPTS TO ESCAPE FROM THE SOCIAL CHOICE DIFFICULTY J. C. Harsanyi (1955), ‘Cardinal Welfare, Individualistic Ethics and Interpersonal Comparisons of Utility’ T. Grooves and J. Ledyard (1977), ‘Optimal Allocation of Public Goods: A Solution to the “Free-rider” Problem’ T. N. Tideman and G. Tullock (1976), ‘A New and Superior Process for Making Social Choices’ W. H. Riker (1979), ‘Is “A New and Superior Process” Really Superior?’ A. Sen (1977), ‘On weights and Measures: Informational Constraints in Social Welfare Analysis’ VOLUME II: SOCIAL GOALS PART I: UTILITARIAN ETHIC W. Vickrey (1945), ‘Measuring Marginal Utility by Reactions to Risk’ M. Fleming (1952), ‘A Cardinal Concept of Welfare’ J. C. Harsanyi (1953), ‘Cardinal Utility in Welfare Economics and in the Theory of Risk-taking’ W. Vickrey (1960), ‘Utility, Strategy and Social Decision Rules’ P. A. Diamond (1967), ‘Cardinal Welfare, Individualistic Ethics, and Interpersonal comparisons of Utility: Comment’ R. A. Posner (1979), ‘Some Uses and Abuses of Economics in Law’ R. A. Posner (1979), ‘Utilitarianism, Economics and Legal Theory’ R. A. Posner (1979), ‘The Ethical and Political Basis of the Efficiency Norm in Common Law Adjudication’ J. L. Coleman (1980), ‘Efficiency, Utility and Wealth Maximization’ R. A. Posner (1981), ‘A Reply to Recent Criticisms of the Efficiency Theory of the Comment Law’ J. C. Harsanyi (1980), ‘Rule Utilitarianism, Rights, Obligations and the Theory of Rational Behavior’ A. K. Sen (1979), ‘Utilitarianism and Welfarism’ PART II: THE CONTRACTARIAN ETHIC J. M. Buchanan (1975), ‘A Contractarian Paradigm for Applying Economic Theory’ S. Gordon (1976), ‘The New Contractarians’ N. P. Barry (1984), ‘Unanimity, Agreement and Liberalism: A Critique of James Buchanan’s Social Philosophy’ L. B. Yeager (1985), ‘Rights, Contract and Utility in Policy Espousal’ C. K. Rowley (1987), ‘The Economic Philosophy of James McGill Buchanan’ A. Sandmo (1990), ‘Buchanan on Political Economy: A Review Article’ T. M. Scanlon (1982), ‘Contractualism and utilitarianism’ VOLUME III PART I: THE SOCIAL JUSTICE ETHIC J. Rawls (1958), ‘Justice as Fairness’ J. Rawls (1974), ‘Some Reasons for the Maximum Criterion’ J. Rawls (1975), ‘A Kantian Conception of Equality’ J. Rawls (1985), ‘Justice as Fairness: Political not Metaphysical’ J. M. Buchanan (1972), ‘Rawls on Justice as Fairness’ H. L. A. Hart (1973), ‘Rawls on Liberty and Its Priority’ S. Gordon (1973), ‘John Rawls’s Difference Principle, Utilitarianism and the Optimum Degree of Inequality’ T. Nagel (1973), ‘Rawls on Justice’ J. M. Buchanan (1976), ‘A Hobbesian Interpretation of the Rawlsian Difference Principle’ J. C. Harsanyi (1975), ‘Can the Maximum Principle Serve as a Basis for Morality? A Critique of john Rawls’s Theory’ H. R. Varian (1975), ‘Distributive Justice, Welfare Economics and the Theory of Fairness’ C. K. Rowley and A. T. Peacock (1975), ‘Justice’ A. Sen (1990), ‘Justice: Means versus Freedoms’ PART II: THE CLASSICAL LIBERAL ETHIC A. Sen (1970), ‘The Impossibility of a Paretian Liberal’ Y. K. Ng (1971), ‘The possibility of a Paretian Liberal: Impossibility Theorems and Cardinal Utility’ A. T. Peacock and C. K. Rowley (1972), ‘Pareto Optimally and the Political Economy of Liberalism’ R. Nozick (1973), ‘Distributive Justice’ A. Gibbard (1974), ‘A Pareto-Consistent Libertarian Claim’ P. Bernholz (1974), ‘Is a Paretian Liberal Really Impossible?’ J. H.Blau (1975), ‘Liberal Values and Independence’ M. J. Farrell (1976), ‘Liberalism in the Theory of Social Choice’ A. Sen (1976), ‘Liberty, Unanimity and Rights’ C. K. Rowley (1978), ‘Liberalism and Collective Choice: A Return to Reality?’ A. Sen (1979), ‘Personal Utilities and Public Judgements: Or What’s Wrong with Welfare Economics’ P. Bernholz (1980), ‘A General Social Dilemma: Profitable Exchange and Intensitive Group Preferences’ K. Suzumura (1980), ‘Liberal paradox and the Voluntary Exchange of Rights-Excerising’ A. Sen (1983), ‘Liberty and Social Choice’ K. Basu (1984), ‘The Right to Give Up Rights’ R. Sugden (1985), ‘Liberty, Preference and Choice’ J. M. Buchanan (1975), ‘Utopia, the Minimal State, and Entitlement’ K. J. Arrow (1978), ‘Nozick’s Entitlement Theory of Justice’ C. K. Rowley and R. E. Wagner (1990), ‘Choosing Freedom: Public Choice and the l Libertarian Idea’ W. Gaertner, P. K. Pattanaik and K. Suzumura (1992), ‘Individual Rights Revisited’ A. Sen (1992), ‘Minimal Liberty’

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Book SynopsisPsychoanalytic Sociology presents a careful selection of the most important seminal articles on the inter-relations which have developed between psychoanalysis and sociology.A new introductory chapter, prepared by the editors, reviews the most recent developments clarifying the different influences of psychoanalytical writers such as Freud, Klein and Lacan on sociological thought. A broad definition of 'the sociological' has been adopted, corresponding to the topics and ideas being explored.This comprehensive and authoritative two volume set is an essential reference guide to both the origins and the most recent developments in psychoanalytic sociology.Table of ContentsContents: 1. The Place of Freud in Sociological Theory 2. Psychoanalysis, Critical Theory and Marxism 3. Feminism and the Critique of the Family 4. Interpreting the Social 6. The Sociology of Psychoanalysis

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Book SynopsisThis major reference work is a collection of over 125 of the best, most significant and influential articles in the field of social psychology. The three volume set provides a comprehensive overview of the field of social psychology including such topics as social cognition, attribution, attitudes, self, conformity, persuasion, groups, aggression, attraction, racism and research methods. Each article was selected on the basis of its contribution to the advancement of social psychological knowledge and to provide the reader with a representative sampling of the best articles in each of the major sub-fields (topics) of social psychology.Social Psychology covers over 70 years of social psychological research including articles of great historical significance and contemporary pieces destined to become classics in the field. It will be an essential reference source to those teaching graduate seminars as well as to the generalist seeking primary sources to provide an in-depth overview of the field of social psychology.Trade Review'The International Library of Critical Writings in Psychology, Social Psychology volumes - a carefully selected set of important contributions, which compares favourably to the excellent SPSSI collections produced in the 1950s and 1960s. At the same time, this collection is much more extensive and comprehensive than those valuable earlier collections. The decision to produce the writings in photo-reproduction form makes them especially useful as a scholarly resource.'Table of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements Introduction: What is Social Psychology? Volume I PART I: SOCIAL PERCEPTION AND JUDGEMENT 1. William I. Thomas and Florian Znnaniecki (1947), ‘The Definition of the Situation’ 2. S.E. Asch (1946), ‘Forming Impressions of Personality’ 3. Norman H. Anderson (1965), ‘Primacy Effects in Personality Impression Formation Using a Generalised Order Effect Paradigm’ 4. Carl I. Hovland and Muzafer Sherif (1952), ‘Judgmental Phenomena and Scales of Attitude Measurement: Item Displacement in Thurstone Scales’ 5. Lee Ross, David Greene and Pamela House (1977), ‘The "False Consensus Effect": An Egocentric Bias in Social Perception and Attribution Processes’ 6. Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman (1973), ‘Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases’ 7. David L. Hamilton and Robert K. Gifford (1976), ‘Illusory Correlation in Interpersonal Perception: A Cognitive Basis of Stereotypic Judgments’ 8. Baruch Fischhoff (1975), ‘Hindsight =/ Foresight. The Effect of Outcome Knowledge on Judgment Under Uncertainty’ 9. Paul M. Herr (1986), ‘Consequences of Priming: Judgment and Behavior’ 10. E. Tory Higgins, Gillian A. King and Gregory H. Mavin (1982), ‘Individual Construct Accessibility and Subjective Impressions and Recall’ 11. Elizabeth K. Dreben, Susan T. Fiske and Reid Hastie (1979), ‘The Independence of Evaluative and Item Information: Impression and Recall Order Effects in Behavior-Based Impression Formation’ PART II: SOCIAL COGNITION AND MEMORY 12. Shelley E. Taylor and Jennifer Crocker (1981), ‘Schematic Bases of Social Information Processing’ 13. Reid Hastie and Purohit Anand Kumar (1979), ‘Person Memory: Personality Traits as Organizing Principles in Memory for Behaviors’ 14. John W. Howard and Myron Rothbart (1980), ‘Social Categorization and Memory for In-Group and Out-Group Behavior’ 15. Michael Ross, Cathy McFarland and Garth J.O. Fletcher (1981), ‘The Effect of Attitude on the Recall of Personal Histories’ 16. Robert B. Zajonc (1960), ‘The Process of Cognitive Tuning in Communication’ 17. Renneé Weber and Jennifer Crocker (1983), ‘Cognitive Processes in the Revision of Stereotyping Beliefs’ 18. Murray G. Millar and Abraham Tesser (1986), ‘Thought-Induced Attitude Change: The Effects of Schema Structure and Commitment’ 19. Philip E. Tetlock (1986), ‘A Value Pluralism Model of Ideological Reasoning’ PART III: ATTRIBUTIONS AND EXPLANATIONS 20. Fritz Heider and Marianne Simmel (1944), ‘An Experiment Study of Apparent Behavior’ 21. Daryl J. Bem (1967), ‘Self-Perception Theory: An Alternative Interpretation of Dissonance Phenomena’ 22. Edward E. Jones and Victor A. Harris (1967), ‘The Attribution of Attitudes’ 23. Michael D. Storms (1973), ‘Videotape and the Attribution Process: Reversing Actors' and Observers' Points of View’ 24. Lee Ross, Mark R. Lepper and Michael Hubbard (1975), ‘Perseverance in Self-Perception and Social Perception: Biased Attributional Processes in the Debriefing Paradigm’ 25. Richard E. Nissbett and Eugene Borgida (1975), ‘Attribution and the Psychology of Prediction’ 26. Harold H. Kelley (1973), ‘The Processes of Causal Attribution’ 27. Lee Ross (1977), ‘Shortcomings of the Intuitive Psychologist’ 28. Gifford Weary Bradley (1978), ‘Self-Serving Biases in the Attribution Process: A Reexamination of the Fact or Fiction Question’ 29. Miles Hewstone, Jos Jaspars and Mansur Lalljee (1982), ‘Social Representations, Social Attribution, and Social Identity: The Intergroup Images of "Public" and "Comprehensive" Schoolboys’ PART IV: SOCIAL EXPECTATIONS AND BEHAVIOR 30. N.T. Feather (1961), ‘The Relationship of Persistence at a Task to Expectation of Success and Achievement Related Motives.’ 31. Robert Rosenthal and Lenore Jacobson (1968), ‘Self-Fulfilling Prophecies in the Classroom: Teacher's Expectations as Unintended Determinants of Pupils' Intellectual Competence.’ 32. Carl O. Word, Mark P. Zanna and Joel Cooper (1974), ‘The Nonverbal Mediation of of Self-Fulfilling Prophecies in Interracial Interaction.’ 33. Richard L. Miller, Philip Brickman and Diana Bolen (1975), ‘Attribution Versus Persuasion as a Means for Modifying Behavior.’ 34. Mark Synder, Elizabeth Decker Tanke and Ellen Berscheid (1977), ‘Social Perception and Interpersonal Behavior: On the Self-Fulfilling Nature of Social Stereotypes.’ 35. Carol S. Dweck, William Davidson, Sharon Nelson and Bradley Enna (1978), ‘Sex Differences in Learned Helplessness: II. The Contingencies of Evaluative Feedback in the Classroom and III. An Experimental Analysis.’ 36. John M. Darley and Paget H. Gross (1983), ‘A Hypothesis-Confirming Bias in Labeling Effects.’ PART V ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOR 37. G.W. Allport (1935), ‘Attitudes.’ 38. Richard T. LaPiere (1934), ‘Attitudes vs. Actions.’ 39. Arthur W. Staats and Carolyn K. Staats (1958), ‘Attitudes Established by Classical Conditioning.’ 40. Daniel Katz (1960), ‘The Functional Approach to the Study of Attitudes.’ 41. Steven J. Breckler (1984), ‘Empirical Validation of Affect, Behavior and Cognition as Distinct Components of Attitude.’ 42. I. Ajzen and M. Fishbein (1980), ‘Theoretical Implications.’ 43. Russell H. Fazio and Carol J. Williams (1986), ‘Attitude Accessibility as a Moderator of the Attitude-Perception and Attitude-Behavior Relations: An Investigation of the 1984 Presidential Election.’ Name Index Volume II Acknowledgements PART I THE SELF-CONCEPT 1. Mark Synder (1974), ‘The Self-Monitoring of Expressive Behavior.’ 2. Robert A. Wicklund (1975), ‘Objective Self-Awareness.’ 3. Michael F. Scheier and Charles S. Carver (1980), ‘Private and Public Self-Attention, Resistance to Change, and Dissonance Reduction.’ 4. William J. McGuire and Alice Padawer-Singer (1976), ‘Trait Salience in the Spontaneous Self-Concept.’ 5. T.B. Rogers, N.A. Kuiper and W.S. Kirker (1977), ‘Self-Reference and the Encoding of Personal Information.’ 6. Hazel Markus (1977), ‘Self-Schemata and Processing of Information about the Self.’ 7. Robert W. White (1959), ‘Motivation Reconsidered: The Concept of Competence.’ 8. Anthony G. Greenwald (1980), ‘The Totalitarian Ego: Fabrication and Revision of Personal History.’ PART II SELF-MAINTENANCE AND SELF-ENHANCEMENT 9. Leon Festinger (1954), ‘A Theory of Social Comparison Processes.’ 10. Elliot Aronson and David R. Mettee (1968), ‘Dishonest Behavior as a Function of Differential Levels of Induced Self-Esteem.’ 11. J. Merrill Carlsmith and Alan E. Gross (1969), ‘Some Effects of Guilt on Compliance.’ 12. J. Brehm (1966), A Theory of Psychological Reactance, pp 1-12. 13. Abraham Tesser and Jennifer Campbell (1982), ‘Self-Evaluation Maintenance and the Perception of Friends and Strangers.’ 14. William B. Swann Jr. (1987), ‘Identity Negotiation: Where Two Roads Meet.’ 15. Claude M. Steele and Thomas J. Liu (1983), ‘Dissonance Processes as Self-Affirmation.’ 16. Steven Berglas and Edward E. Jones (1978), ‘Drug Choice as a Self-Handicapping Strategy in Response to Noncontingent Success.’ PART III SELF JUSTIFICATION 17. Leon Festinger and Elliot Aronson (1960), ‘Arousal and Reduction of Dissonance in Social Contexts.’ 18. Leon Festinger and James M. Carlsmith (1959), ‘Cognitive Consequences of Forced Compliance.’ 19. Elliot Aronson and Judson Mills (1959), ‘The Effects of Severity of Initiation on Liking for a Group.’ 20. A.R. Cohen (1962), ‘An Experiment on Small Rewards for Discrepant Compliance and Attitude Change.’ 21. Robert P. Abelson (1959), ‘Modes of Resolution of Belief Dilemmas.’ 22. Jonathan L. Freedman (1965), ‘Long-Term Behavioral Effects of Cognitive Dissonance.’ 23. Mark R. Lepper and David Greene (1975), ‘Turning Play into Work: Effects of Adult Surveillance and Extrinsic Rewards on Children's Intrinsic Motivation.’ 24. Dieter Frey (1982), ‘Different Levels of Cognitive Dissonance, Information Seeking and Information Avoidance.’ PART IV AFFECT AND EMOTION 25. Stanley Schacter and Jerome E. Singer (1962), ‘Cognitive, Social and Physiological Determinants of Emotional State.’ 26. R.B. Zajonc (1980), ‘Feeling and Thinking: Preferences Need no Inferences.’ 27. Paul Ekman, Wallace V. Friesen, Sonia Ancoli (1980), ‘Facial Signs of Emotional Experience.’ 28. Alice M. Isen, Thomas E. Shalker, Margaret Clark and Lynn Karp (1978), ‘Affect Accessibility of Material in Memory, and Behavior: A Cognitive Loop?’ PART V CONFORMITY AND OBEDIENCE 29. Muzafer Sherif (1947), ‘Group Influences upon the Formation of Norms and Attitudes.’ 30. Soloman E. Asch (1955), ‘Opinions and Social Pressure.’ 31. Stanley Milgram (1963), ‘Behavioral Study of Obedience.’ 32. Craig Haney, Curtis Banks and Philip Zimbardo (1973), ‘Interpersonal Dynamics in a Simulated Prison.’ 33. S. Moscovici, E. Lage and M. Naffrechoux (1969), ‘Influence of a Consistent Minority on the Responses of a Majority in a Color Perception Task.’ PART VI INTERPERSONAL INFLUENCE AND COMPLIANCE 34. Morton Deutsch and Harold B. Gerard (1955), ‘A Study of Normative and Informational Social Influences upon Individual Judgment.’ 35. Dominic Abrams, Margaret Wetherell, Sandra Cochrane, Michael A. Hogg and John C. Turner (1990), ‘Knowing What to Think by Knowing Who You Are: Self-Categorization and the Nature of Norm Formation, Conformity and Group Polarization.’ 36. Herbert C. Kelman (1958), ‘Compliance, Identification and Internalization: Three Processes of Attitude Change.’ 37. Jonathan L. Freedman and Scott C. Fraser (1966), ‘Compliance without Pressure: The Foot-in-the-Door Technique.’ 38. Robert B. Cialdini, Joyce E. Vincent, Stephen K. Lewis, José Catalan, Diane Wheeler and Betty Lee Darby (1975), ‘Reciprocal Concessions Procedure for Inducing Compliance: The Door-in-the-Face Technique.’ 39. Robert B. Cialdini, John T. Cacioppo, Rodney Bassett and John A. Miller (1978), ‘Low-Ball Procedure for Producing Compliance: Commitment then Cost.’ PART VII COMMUNICATION AND PERSUASION 40. Carl I. Hovland and Walter Weiss (1951), ‘The Influence of Source Credibility on Communication Effectiveness.’ 41. C. Hovland, O.J. Harvey and M. Sherif (1957), ‘Assimilation and Contrast Effects in Reaction to Communication and Attitude Change.’ 42. Norman Miller and Donald T. Campbell (1959), ‘Recency and Primacy in Persuasion as a Function of the Timing of Speeches and Measurements.’ 43. Elliot Aronson, Judith A. Turner and J. Merrill Carlsmith (1963), ‘Communicator Credibility and Communication Discrepancy as Determinants of Opinion Change.’ 44. William J. McGuire and Demetrios Papageorgis (1961), ‘The Relative Efficacy of Various Types of Prior Belief-Defense in Producing Immunity Against Persuasion,’ 45. Robert B. Zajonc (1968), ‘Attitudinal Effects of Mere Exposure.’ 46. Howard Leventhal, Robert Singer and Susan Jones (1965), ‘Effects of Fear and Specificity of Recommendation Upon Attitudes and Behavior.’ 47. Anthony R. Pratkanis, Anthony G. Greenwald, Michael R. Leippe and Michael H. Baumgardner (1988), ‘In Search of Reliable Persuasion Effects: III. The Sleeper Effect is Dead. Long Live the Sleeper Effect.’ 48. R.E. Petty, J.T. Cacioppo and R. Goldman (1981), ‘Personal Involvement as a Determinant of Argument-Based Persuasion.’ Name Index Volume III Acknowledgments PART I GROUP INFLUENCES AND DYNAMICS 1. Theodore M. Newcombe (1947), ‘Some Patterned Consequences of Membership in a College Community.’ 2. Kurt Lewin (1947), ‘Group Decision and Social Change.’ 3. Ronald Lippitt and Ralph K. White (1947), ‘An Experimental Study of Leadership and Group Life.’ 4. Seymour Lieberman (1956), ‘The Effects of Changes in Roles on the Attitudes of Role Occupants.’ 5. Leon Festinger (1950), ‘Informal Social Communication.’ 6. John W. Thibaut and Harold H. Kelley (1959), ‘Analysis and Concepts.’ 7. Irving L. Janis (1983), Groupthink (2nd edition), pp 2-5, 7-9, 174-177, 310. 8. Eugen Burnstein and Amiram Vinokur (1973), ‘Testing Two Classes of Theories about Group Induced Shifts in Individual Choice.’ 9. Robert B. Zajonc (1965), ‘Social Facilitation.’ 10. Bibb Latané, Kipling Williams and Stephen Harkins (1979), ‘Many Hands Make Light the Work: The Causes and Consequences of Social Loafing.’ PART II AGGRESSION 11. Neal E. Miller et al. (1947), ‘Frustration and Aggression.’ 12. Albert Bandura, Dorothea Ross and Sheila A. Ross (1963), ‘Imitation of Film-Mediated Aggressive Models.’ 13. Leonard Berkowitz (1964), ‘The Effects of Observing Violence.’ 14. Russell G. Geen, David Stonner and Gary L. Shope (1975), ‘The Facilitation of Aggression by Aggression: Evidence against the Catharsis Hypothesis.’ 15. David P. Phillips (1983), ‘The Impact of Mass Media Violence on US Homicides.’ 16. Dane Archer and Rosemary Gartner (1978), ‘Peacetime Casualties: The Effects of War on Violent Behavior of Noncombatants.’ 17. R.A. Baron (1977), ‘Prevention and Control of Human Aggression.’ PART III PROSOCIAL BEHAVIOR 18. James H. Bryan and Mary A. Test (1967), ‘Models and Helping: Naturalistic Studies in Aiding Behavior.’ 19. Bibb Latané and John M. Darley (1970), ‘Social Determinants of Bystander Intervention in Emergencies.’ 20. C. Daniel Batson, Bruce D. Duncan, Paula Ackerman, Terese Buckley and Kimberley Birch (1981), ‘Is Empathic Emotion a Source of Altruistic Motivation?’ 21. Alice M. Isen and Paula F. Levin (1972), ‘The Effect of Feeling Good on Helping: Cookies and Kindness.’ PART IV INTERPERSONAL ATTRACTION 22. Theodore M. Newcomb (1963), ‘Stabilities Underlying Changes in Interpersonal Attraction.’ 23. Elaine Hatfield, G. William Walster, Jane Piliavin and Lynn Schmidt (1973), ‘"Playing Hard to Get: Understanding an Elusive Phenomenon.’ 24. Elaine Hatfield, Vera Aronson, Darcy Abrahams and Leon Rottman (1966), ‘Importance of Physical Attractiveness in Dating Behavior.’ 25. Donn Byrne and Don Nelson (1965), ‘Attraction as a Linear Function of Proportion of Positive Reinforcements.’ 26. Elliot Aronson and Darwyn Linder (1965), ‘Gain and Loss of Esteem as Determinants of Interpersonal Attractiveness.’ 27. Karen Dion, Ellen Berscheid and Elaine Hatfield (1972), ‘What is Beautiful is Good.’ 28. Donald Dutton and Arthur P. Aron (1974), ‘Some Evidence for Heightened Sexual Attraction under Conditions of High Anxiety.’ 29. Douglas T. Kenrick and Robert B. Cialdini (1977), ‘Romantic Attraction: Misattribution Versus Reinforcement Explanations.’ PART V PREJUDICE AND RACISM 30. Daniel Katz and Kenneth W. Braly (1947), ‘Verbal Stereotypes and Racil Prejudice.’ 31. Kenneth B. Clark and Mamie P. Clark (1947), ‘Racial Identification and Preference in Negro Children.’ 32. Else Frenkel-Brunswick, Daniel J. Levinson and R. Nevitt Sanford (1947), ‘The Antidemocratic Personality.’ 33. Thomas F. Pettigrew (1959), ‘Regional Differences in Anti-Negro Prejudice.’ 34. Morton Deutsch and Mary Evans Collins (1958), ‘The Effect of Public Policy in Housing Projects Upon Interracial Attitudes.’ 35. Muzafer Sherif (1956), ‘Experiments in Group Conflict.’ 36. Henri Tajfel (1970), ‘Experiments in Intergroup Discrimination.’ 37. Samuel Gaertner and Leonard Bickman (1971), ‘Effects of Race on the Elicitation of Helping Behavior: The Wrong Number Technique.’ 38. Donald R. Kinder and David O. Sears (1981), ‘Prejudice and Politics: Symbolic Racism Versus Racial Threat to the Good Life.’ 39. Stuart W. Cook (1979), ‘Social Science and School Desegregation: Did We Mislead the Supreme Court?’ 40. Elliot Aronson and Diane Bridgeman (1979), ‘Jigsaw Groups and the Desegregated Classroom: In Pursuit of Common Goals.’ PART VI RESEARCHING SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY 41. Carl I. Hovland (1959), ‘Reconciling Conflicting Results Derived from Experimental and Survey Studies of Attribute Change.’ 42. Philip E. Tetlock and Ariel Levi (1982), ‘Attribution Bias: On the Inconclusiveness of the Cognition-Motivation Debate.’ 43. William J. McGuire (1983), ‘A Contexualist Theory of Knowledge: Its Implications for Innovation and Reform in Psychological Reactance.’ 44. Robert B. Cialdini (1980), ‘Full-Cycle Social Psychology.’ 45. Douglas G. Mook (1983), ‘^n Defense of External Invalidity.’ Name Index

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Book SynopsisThis unique, up-to-date volume features new essays by prominent economists and psychologists working at the frontiers of the subject. A number of these essays probe beliefs about rationality, consumer behaviour and expectations, while others assess psychological explanations of economic behaviour and the contribution of experimental economics.Trade Review'This book is worth consulting by scholars working in economic psychology, particularly as a number of topics are treated which one might otherwise overlook'. -- Bruno Frey, The Economic JournalTable of ContentsContents: 1. Economic Psychology: A New Sense of Direction (the editors) 2. Socio-Economics: Select Policy Implications (A. Etzioni) 3. Everyday Conceptions of Necessities and Luxuries: Problems of Cultural Relativity and Moral Judgement (S.M. Livingstone and P.K. Lunt) 4. On the Complementarity of Economic Applications of Cognitive Dissonance Theory and Personal Construct (P.E. Earl) 5. Moral Constraints on Strategic Behavior (M. Casson) 6. Experiments in Economics – and Psychology (J.D. Hey) 7. An Endowment Effect in Market Experiments (R. Tietz) 8. Receiving a Gift: Evaluating Who Gives What When (R.G.M. Pieters and H.S.J. Robben) 9. When is a Cobweb Model Stable? (A. Fischer) 10. Distributive Justice Versus Bargaining Power (W. Güth, P. Ockenfels and R. Tietz) 11. Customer Reactions to Automated Teller Machines (ATMs): A Field of Study in a UK Building Society (C.B. Burgoyne, A. Lewis, D.A. Routh and P. Webley) 12. The Fax Machine: A Revolution in Communication (K.E. Wärneryd and P.G. Holmlöv) 13. Entrepreneurial Motivation and the Smaller Business (C. Gray) 14. The Wife's Employment Family Fit (S. James, B. Jordan and M. Redley) 15. A Model of Negotiations for the Sale of a House (G. Antonides)

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Book SynopsisOpen Learning Units offer a very flexible approach to the teaching of psychology. They are designed to be more than sufficient for the purposes of A/S and A-Level psychology, and the applied emphasis will appeal to various vocational courses such as those offered by BTEC and also to mature students on Access courses. Their primary use will be in the classroom with a tutor's guidance, but the interactive style makes them equally appropriate for the purposes of self-study. More advanced students might want to use the Units to learn at their own pace, and in all cases, the careful structure of the writing and the extensive use of Examples, Open Questions and Self-Assessment Questions make them ideal revision guides.Table of Contents1. Altruism and aggression: what are they?. 2. Altruism and relationships. 3. Altruism and emotions. 4. Instrumental theories of aggression. 5. Expressive theories of aggression. 6. The impact of culture. References. Further Reading. Answers to Self-Assessment Questions. Glossary. Acknowledgements

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Book SynopsisIn this major book an internationally acclaimed group of scholars examines theoretical and applied topics of particular relevance to public choice analysis.Current Issues in Public Choice demonstrates the fruitfulness and originality of the Public Choice School. These twelve papers have been prepared by some of the most prominent scholars in economic science, including James M. Buchanan, Amartya K. Sen, Bruno S. Frey, Jon Elster, Geoffrey Brennan and Gordon Tullock. Specific areas covered include the foundations of public choice theory, its scope and method, constitutional economics, game theory, rent-seeking, the European Union, public finance and the theory of societal economics.The pioneering research, theory and analysis brought together in this volume will be widely and profitably used by economists, political scientists and public and social choice scholars seeking insight into fundamental theoretical issues and applied analyses on current affairs.Trade Review'The book is worth reading and can be recommended not only to public choice scholars but also to a broader audience.'Table of ContentsContents: Introduction Part I: Foundation of Public Choice Theory Part II: Scope and Method of Public Choice Theory Part III: Constitutional Economics Part IV: Public Choice and Game Theory Part V: Rent-Seeking Part VI: Constitutional Economics and European Union Part VII: Public Choice and Public Finance Part VIII: Theory of Societal Evolution

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Book SynopsisThe book works from the outside of the home to the inside. It begins by examining what psychological factors are linked to choice of neighbourhood and what types of property are favoured by different types of people. It then moves inside the home to examine what we can learn about occupants from the allocation of space, the use of rooms and the way rooms are decorated and furnished.Table of ContentsThe significance of the home. Finding the right kind of neighbourhood. Finding the right kind of property. Fitting the home to the person. Allocation and use of space. The role of rooms. Interior decor and atmosphere. Furniture arrangements. The home as an extension of its occupier.

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Book SynopsisPsychoanalysis has been applied to the understanding of social groups,organisations and cultures for a very long time, and there have been manydifferent approaches. This book brings together the contributions to afield which could be called "psychoanalytic social psychology", from a verywide-ranging group of authors. The substantial introductory Chapters bythe Editors describe a conceptual map of psychoanalytic ideas on socialgroups that have been formed around the world. These introduce eightChapters from eminent authors on the topic, writing in Europe, the Americasand Britain.Table of Contents1. General Introduction, R D Hinshelwood and Marco Chiesa. Part One, The International Field. 2. Introduction, A Conceptual Overview of International contributions, R D Hinshelwood and Marco Chiesa. 3. Contribution From North america. (1) The Modern Project and The Feminisation of Men, Larry Hirschborn. 4. contribution From North America.. (2) The Couch at Sea, Otto Kemberg. 5. contribution From Italy, Psychoanalytical Approaches to The Study of institutions in Italy, Antonello Correale and Giuseppe Di Leone. 6. Contribution from France, Psychoanalysis and Institutions in I Rance, Rene Kaes. 7. contribution From South America, From The Group-as-jigsaw-puzzle to The incomplete Whole, Janet Puget. Part Two, British Contributions. 8. Introduction to the Span of The British Tradition, R D Hinshelwood and Marco Chiesa. 9. The tavistock Paradigm, Inside, Outside and Beyond, Barry Palmer. 10. Psychoanalysis in The Public Sphere, Some Recent British Developments in Psychoanalytic Social psychology, Karl Figlio and Barry Richards. 11. The Psychosocial Process, R D hinshelwood. 12. Conclusions, The Baby Grew Up, R D Hinshelwood.

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Book SynopsisHuman Nature is the fuel of violent conflict. The War Hotel looks at how we get aroused and how we get silenced into violent conflict. We are pulled apart in the name of justice and loyalty. Past trauma is triggered into a replay. Out of love and longing to step beyond the ordinary world, we sacrifice ourselves and others. Dehumanizing the enemy, disinformation, torture, stirring fear in order to crack down - these terror tactics, too, are based in psychology. The manipulation of psychological dynamics to create violent conflict is distressing. But, if our emotions and behaviour are the fuel, then our awareness can impact world events. There is something truly hopeful here. Awareness makes a difference. Examples draw particularly from the author's work in the Balkans. Other examples include Nazi Germany, Rwanda, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Communism and its fall in Europe, South Africa, the treatment of Native Americans and African Americans in the USA, Vietnam and the 'war on terror'.Table of ContentsPreface. About the author. Acknowledgements. Introduction: Welcome to 'The War Hotel'. Part 1: Justice and the Wheels of History. Chapter 1.In the name of justice. Chapter 2. Suffering, privilege and being right. Chapter 3. Tribunals, Truth Commissions, lustration and community forums. Chapter 4. Accountability and return to the Ganges. Part 2: Terror and the Spirit that Survives. Chapter 5. Terror. Chapter 6. Terror tactic: chaos and crackdown. Chapter 7. Terror tactic: the Bogeyman and demonizing. Chapter 8. Terror tactic: dehumanization. Chapter 9. Terror tactic: desensitization and normalization. Chapter 10. Terror tactic: targeting leaders. Chapter 11. Terror tactic: torture, breaking body and spirit. Chapter 12. Terror tactic: targeting the soul of community. Chapter 13. Terror tactic: disinformation. Chapter 14. Beyond Terror. Part 3: Trauma - The Nightmare of History. Chapter 15. Our story - the dynamics of trauma. Chapter 16. Trauma and refuge. Chapter 17. Replays of violent conflict and breaking the cycle. Part 4: The Warrior's Call - Altered States of War. Chapter 18. Beyond the ordinary. Chapter 19. With the field. Chapter 20. Over the edge. Chapter 21. Cutting through. Part 5: Wareness at the Hot Spot. Chapter 22. Wake up. Chapter 23. Chaos, warfare and conflict resolution. Chapter 24. Getter back in bed together - an awareness revolution. Chapter 25. Hot spots and the difference that makes a difference. Appendix. Endnotes. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis text explains the language of touch and how to use it. It focuses on topics including: the 18 different meanings that can be conveyed by touch in this culture; the seven ""taboos"" of touch; the ten rules of touch in the workplace; and the numerous ways people use touch to influence others.

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Book SynopsisA bystander is someone who does not become involved when someone else needs help. This book investigates the meaning of bystanding behaviour in ordinary life as well as in counselling psychology and psychotherapeutic practice, its supervision and organization. It is about helping and not helping, giving and getting help, and some ways of thinking and acting in our increasingly complex moral world. Bystanding is seen as a major way in which people disempower themselves and others. It works at the juncture of the individual and the collective, the person and the group, the citizen and the state, the patient and the psychotherapist. This book provides an exploration of the psychological and social costs of convenience-neutrality, non-involvement or avoidance of responsibility and gives some guidelines on dealing with the difficult issues of bystanding in ourselves and others.Table of ContentsPreface. Acknowledgements. Part I - What and Who is a Bystander? Chapter 1 Bystanding - What Is It? Chapter 2 Bystanding - Cultural and Historical Context. Chapter 3 The Dramatic Structure of Human Life. Part II - Bystander Patterns. Chapter 4 'And Washed His Hands'. Chapter 5 'And I did not speak out'. Chapter 6 'Look behind you'. Part III - The Retrieval of Human Relationship. Chapter 7 From 'Bystanding' to 'Standing by'. Chapter 8 Bystanding in Counselling, Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. Chapter 9 Beyond Bystanding. Appendix I A Socio-cultural Context for Psychotherapy. Appendix II Bystanding: A Block to Empowerment. Appendix III About Protective Behaviours. References. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book is about talent, strengths and positive psychology. Everyone is naturally talented in certain areas and if we get the opportunity to use our talents at work and develop them into strengths then we can work better, faster and far more productively. Bees search for pollen and they find it in the beautiful, successful, growing things around us: flowers. Flies search for rotting trash, bacteria and ugliness. Do you want to go through life like a fly or like a bee? These pages present the overwhelming scientific evidence that strengths-based leadership and collaboration lead to more productivity, more innovation, better well-being at work, lower absenteeism, and better health. Learning to recognize your talents, leverage them into strengths and, mitigate your weaknesses will change the way you and your colleagues work.

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Book SynopsisThis book investigates the psycho-social phenomenon which is society’s failure to respond to climate change. It analyses the non-rational dimensions of our collective paralysis in the face of worsening climate change and environmental destruction, exploring the emotional, ethical, social, organizational and cultural dynamics to blame for this global lack of action. The book features eleven research projects from four different countries and is divided in two parts, the first highlighting novel methodologies, the second presenting new findings. Contributors to the first part show how a ‘deep listening’ approach to research can reveal the anxieties, tensions, contradictions, frames and narratives that contribute to people’s experiences, and the many ways climate change and other environmental risks are imagined through metaphor, imagery and dreams. Using detailed interview extracts drawn from politicians, scientists and activists as well as ordinary people, the second part of the book examines the many different ways in which we both avoid and square up to this gathering disaster, and the many faces of alarm, outrage, denial and indifference this involves. Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction; Paul Hoggett.- Part I: Mostly Methods.- Chapter 2: New Methods for Investigating New Dangers; Renee Lertzman.- Chapter 3: Children & Climate Change: Exploring Children’s Feelings about Climate Change using Free Association Narrative Interview Methodology; Caroline Hickman.- Chapter 4: An Integrative Methodology for Investigating Lived Experience and the Psychosocial Factors Influencing Environmental Cognition and Behaviour; Nadine Andrews.- Chapter 5: Emotional Work as a Necessity: A Psychosocial Analysis of Low-Carbon Energy Collaboration Stories; Rosie Robison.- Chapter 6: Climate Change, Social Dreaming and Art: Thinking the Unthinkable; Julian Manley & Wendy Hollway.- Chapter 7: Researching Climate Engagement: Collaborative Conversations and Consciousness Change; Sally Gillespie.- Part II: Mostly Findings.- Chapter 8: Emotions, Reflexivity and the Long Haul: What we do About how we Feel About Climate Change; Jo Hamilton.- Chapter 9: Leading with Nature in Mind; Rembrandt Zegers.- Chapter 10: Attitudes to Climate Change in some English Local Authorities: Varying Sense of Agency in Denial and Hope; Gill Westcott.- Chapter 11:We Have to Talk About….Climate Change; Robert Tollemache.- Chapter 12: Engaging with Climate Change: Comparing the Cultures of Science and Activism; Ro Randall & Paul Hoggett.- Chapter 13: Conclusion; Paul Hoggett.

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Book SynopsisThis book presents perspectives from world experts in the field of wisdom studies to propose how wisdom can provide the foundation upon which solutions to social and global problems can be grounded. The authors argue that where society has come to rely on leaders with skills relating to knowledge and intelligence; instead we should focus on wisdom-based acumen for our leaders in government, business, and the military.In this book the authors offer evidence-based definitions of wisdom and apply these to world problems they believe could potentially be solved using wise solutions. Among the case studies confronted are terrorism and war, poverty and economic disparity, climate change, increasing antibiotic resistance and political corruption.Focusing on the cognitive, social and emotional processes involved in everyday decision-making, this book presents a compelling argument for the application of wise problem-solving to complex world issues that will appeal in particular to those in leadership, teaching and policy roles, and open new pathways in the fields of wisdom-studies, psychology, sociology and political theory.Table of Contents1. Where Have All the Flowers of Wisdom Gone? -- An Analysis of Teaching for Wisdom Over the Years; Robert J. Sternberg.- 2. The Erosion of Democracy: Can We Muster Enough Wisdom to Stop It?; Don Ambrose.- 3. Wise Reasoning in an Uncertain World; Igor Grossmann & Anna Dorfman.- 4. Wisdom vs. Populism and Polarization: Learning to Regulate Our Evolved Intuitions; Judith Glück.- 5. The Breakdown of Civic Virtues and the Problem of Hate Speech: Is There Wisdom in Freedom of Speech?; Howard C. Nusbaum.- 6. “Hate Begets Hate; Violence Begets Violence”: A Wisdom-based Analysis of Contemporary Social Activism; Nic M. Weststrate.- 7. Wisdom and Moral Exemplars; Megan Mischinski & Eranda Jayawickreme.- 8. Practical Wisdom in Islamic law: From the Local to the Global; Tom Woerner-Powell & Ricca Edmondson.- 9. Can Wisdom be Helpful?; Ursula M. Staudinger.- 10. Wisdom in the Workplace; Hannes Zacher & Ute Kunzmann.- 11. The Practical Applications of Self-Transcendent Wisdom; Carolyn M. Aldwin & Michael R. Levenson.- 12. Vedanta Philosophy’s Contribution to Wisdom Development for Leadership: Grounding Indian Practical Wisdom in Higher Knowledge and Purpose; Surya Tahora, Snehal Shah, & David Rooney.- 13. How Wisdom Can Help Solve Global Problems; Nicholas Maxwell.- 14. Practical Wisdom and Health Care; Barry Schwartz & Kenneth E. Sharpe.- 15. Seeking Wisdom: A Physician’s Journey in the Wake of ‘Charlottesville’; Margaret Plews-Ogan.- 16. Not Today, and Probably Not Tomorrow Either: Obstacles to Wisdom and How We May Overcome Them; Judith Glück, Robert J. Sternberg, & Howard C. Nusbaum.

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Book SynopsisThis interdisciplinary book explores design theories, combining research from a range of fields including architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, urban design, industrial design, software engineering, environmental psychology, geography, anthropology, and sociology. Following an extensive review of the current literature, the author reveals eight major types of theory in design processes. The theories are classified as follows: Rational vs. Empiricist Theories, Procedural vs. Substantive Theories, Normative vs. Positive Theories, Design Scopes, Designers vs. People, Form and Space Creation Paradigms, Efficient Tools and Sources in the Design Process, and Place vs. Non-Place Theories. The respective design theories are illustrated with diagrams, tables and figures, condensing the content of over 140 essential theoretical texts that address various aspects of design processes. Given its scope, the book will appeal to undergraduate and graduate students, and to researchers and practitioners in design, urban planning, urban design, architecture, art, etc.Table of ContentsDesign Process Theories and Concepts.- Rational versus Empirical Theories.- Procedural versus Substantive Theories.- Normative versus Positive Theories.- Design Scopes.- Design Participation (Designers versus People Theories).- Paradigms in Form and Space Creation.- Efficient Tools and Sources in Design Process.- Place versus Non-Place Theories.

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Book SynopsisThis volume is comprised of contributions to the 67th Nebraska Symposium on Motivation, which brought together various research disciplines such as psychology, education, health sciences, natural resources, environmental studies to investigate the ways in which nature influences cognition, health, human behavior, and well-being. The symposium is positioned to explore two proposed mechanisms in the most depth: 1) the psycho-evolutionary theory of stress recovery and 2) Attention Restoration Theory. The contributions in the volume represent research guided by both of these posited mechanisms, rigorously examine these theories and processes, and share methodological innovations that can be utilized across programs of research. This volume will be of great interest to researchers on natural environments, practitioners and clinicians working with an environmental lens at the intersection of psychology, social work, education and the health sciences, as well as researchers and students in environmental and conservation psychology. Chapter 5 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Nature and Attention.- Chapter 3. The Natural-Built Distinction in Environmental Preference and Restoration: Bottom-Up and Top-Down Explanations.- Chapter 4. An Environmental Neuroscience Perspective on the Benefits of Nature.- Chapter 5. Nature and Restoration: Beyond the Conventional Narrative.- Chapter 6. Knowing Nature in Childhood: Learning and Wellbeing through Engagement with the Natural World.- Chapter 7. The natural environment as a resilience factor: Nature’s role as a buffer of the effects of risk and adversity.- Chapter 8. Perceiving ‘Natural’ Environments: An Ecological Perspective with Reflections on the Chapters.

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Book SynopsisThis book brings together a selection of theoretical reflections, empirical researches and professional experiences to showcase the increasing production of psychological studies in rural contexts developed in Latin America in recent years. Psychology’s tradition of science and eminently urban profession has produced a void of reflections and approaches on important actors of the societies that constitute their existence in rural contexts and in relation – whether of integration, conflicts and contradictions – with urban agents. But a new generation of psychologists are turning their attention to rural contexts, especially in Latin America. This volume aims to present a selection of these psychological studies and interventions developed in rural contexts from a psychosocial and interdisciplinary perspective, developed together with various social actors who live and work in rural spaces, that have an important relationship with land and nature both in terms of the elaboration of their history, the production of their subjectivities and identity ties with the territory, and the engagement in struggles for the right to land and for public policies that guarantee access to education and health services, technical assistance and infrastructure for its working activities. The book is divided in five parts, each one dedicated to a dimension of psychosocial studies and interventions in rural contexts: theoretical approaches; mental health and rural populations; social movements, communities and resistance practices; gender relations and subjectivation processes; and environment and sustainability. Chapters in each axis prioritize reports of experiences and research conducted with participatory approaches, producing new perspectives and reflections that contribute to the advancement of knowledge in the field of psychology, both regionally and globally.Table of ContentsPART I - INTRODUCTION 1. Psychology and Rural Contexts: Psychosocial Dialogues 2. Rural Psychology: Literature Review, Reasons for its Need, and Challenges PART II - MENTAL HEALTH AND RURAL POPULATIONS 3. Working with Use of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs in Rural Communities 4. Racially Stigmatized Populations, Necropolitics and Mental Health in Rural Contexts 5. Psychology in Rural Contexts: An Experience of Mental Health Specialized Support to Family Health Teams 6. Suicide in The Inỹ Population: Between the Spell and The Disarrangement of "Desire" 7. Alcohol, Drugs and Indigenous Communities: Report of a Psychosocial Intervention 8. For a Non-Parasitic Life: Resistance and Creation in Rural Communities of Rio Grande do Sul – Brazil PART III - SOCIAL MOVEMENTS, COMMUNITIES AND RESISTANCE PRACTICES 9. Sense of Us in the Face of the Pandemic: A Psychosocial and Community Approach 10. Quilombola Communities in Brazil: Advances and Struggles in The Face of Setbacks Experienced in The Current Neoliberal Scenario 11. Artisanal Fishing Work: The Aesthetics of Art and Ethics of The Common 12. Urban and Rural Articulations in an Agro-Ecological Space in the Brazilian Northeast 13. ‘The Work That Makes One Live Alive’: The Meanings of Work for Rural Settlers PART IV - GENDER RELATIONS AND SUBJECTIVATION PROCESSES 14. Poverty and Social Support: An Analysis of Women Living in Rural Communities 15. Women in Movement and The Reinvention of Existence: Political Action, Agency and Subjectivation Processes 16. Indigenous Women as Political Subjects in Brazil 17. Decolonial Understandings of Young Homosexual Rural Men’s Ways of Life: Insurgencies and Disobediences PART V - ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY 18. Rural Territories and Life Production: approaches from Environmental Psychology 19. Assembly of the Knowledge Landscape: A Social Technology for Health Care and The Enhancement of The Way of Life in Amazonian Riverine Communities 20. Human-Wildlife Interactions and Rural Environmental Psychology in Mexico 21. Transitioning Ruralities: Migration Processes and Emerging Socioenvironmental Spaces

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Book SynopsisThis Open Access book presents a multidisciplinary perspective to increase our understanding of climate policies that are rooted in the natural moral inclinations of people, families and firms. Which policies prevent a widening gap between higher and lower educated people? Which policy instruments are there, and how could they be used? What is the role of free entrepreneurship?In this book, academics from different fields have brought together their knowledge and expertise to reflect on the following three questions: How are the polarised positions on climate change of different groups related to their moral outlook, world view, tradition, cultural norms and values? What is a good distribution of responsibilities between firms, households and the government relating to climate change? What are possible avenues where the climate policies are a natural extension of moral inclinations of families and firms, such as the stewardship for the natural environment and the climate? This book will be of interest to policy and decision-makers, students of social and behavioural sciences, and those interested climate change policies and how this effects our livesTable of ContentsIntroduction into the project with the Martens Centre (policy institute of the European People’s Party) about climate change. 1. Policing or policies: Warming the middle class to the climate (Introduction) Arjen Siegmann, VU Amsterdam, NL 2. Perceptions of catastrophic risks Wouter Botzen, VU Amsterdam, NL 3. Determinants of belief in climate change. David Leiser, Ben-Gurion University of Negev, Israel & Pascal Wagner-Egger, University of Fribourg, Germany 4. Apollo projects as amplification strategies Hans von Storch, University of Hamburg, Germany 5. Redefining the concept of profit in view of the circular economy Jan Gooijer, VU Amsterdam, NL 6. Follow the Joy. Looking for a better opponent to face greed in the fight for the Earth Karl Kepler 7. Sharing the waste: Shared responsibility of firms and government in recycling Sytske Wijnsma, University of Cambridge, UK 8. The green challenge for central banks and households Dirk Schoenmaker, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, NL 9. The long and dark shadow of (some) white swans Francisco Estrada, Boston University, USA

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Book SynopsisThis book uncovers the current knowledge on entrepreneurial cultures and the development of entrepreneurial ecosystems between Asia and Europe. Broadening the scope spatially and conceptually, the book discusses the entrepreneurial ecosystems as a system and mediator in their cultural, political, and socio-economic settings in an interdisciplinary approach. This allows a clearer perspective on stakeholders' interaction, international collaboration and competition, power relations, and political influence. The various chapters in this edited volume cover the peculiarities and differences in Asia, Europe, and Eurasia with the New Silk Road (or Belt and Road Initiative) as the bridging component. The chapters, written for researchers and policy makers interested in Asian-European cooperation, also include discussions on economic systems, globalization, and regionalization, politics, cultures, and digitalization. Table of ContentsIntroducing Central Questions in Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Across Cultures and Regions.- Entrepreneurship in China: Autoethnographic Insights into a Pulsating Entrepreneurial Society.- Institutional Differences and Opportunity Exploitation: A Comparison of Managerial Ties Utilization in Asia and Europe.- Total Incomprehension: Why Entrepreneurs from Europe Do Not Understand China: And It Is Getting Worse.- Economic Reactions to Global Development Strategies: Mapping Public Discourse in Germany on China’s Belt and Road Initiative.- A Comparison of Entrepreneurial Culture in Germany and China.- South Korea’s Startup Ecosystem.- Peculiarities of Entrepreneurial Ecosystems in the Caucasus Countries: The Case of Georgia.- Connecting Asia and Europe: Opportunities and Barriers for Knowledge-Oriented Regional Development in Central Asia.- Vietnam and Thailand: Southeast Asian Prospects for Corporate Cultures and Ecosystems in an Asian Century.- The Role of Strategic Alliances in Developing the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem of ICV Industry: The Case of NIO Inc.- Agile at Scale Adoption: New Perspectives from a Solely Remote Environment.- Why and How Place Matters.

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Book SynopsisThis timely collection of chapters written by international experts bridges the gap between peace psychology and restorative justice. The Editors combined their respective fields of expertise to start a much-needed debate on the potential but also risks that are associated when implementing restorative justice in the peace psychology field. The volume highlights how psychological theory and research can inform and evaluate the potential of restorative practices in formal and informal educational settings as well as the criminal justice space. The chapters cover both negative and positive peace across levels while introducing the reader to various case studies from across the world. All in all, the book explores how restorative justice can promote positive peace through its connection fostering dialogue, empathy, forgiveness, and other key psychological elements of peace. Table of ContentsSection 1: Intrapersonal PeaceChapter 1: Developing Peaceful Self-Identities Through Restorative PracticesAdolescence and emerging adulthood are key times in the formation of values, identities, and life trajectories. This chapter would focus on how young people’s participation in restorative justice in schools or courtrooms can promote the development of values associated with peace and identities connected to being a peaceful person.Chapter 2: Restorative Practices as Peace PedagogyAs restorative justice implementation has grown and expanded its reach, it has required much thought and development about how to teach it. This chapter would focus on how training and practice of restorative justice can be understood as peace education related to conflict resolution and response regulation. The focus will be on how pedagogical approaches to restorative justice can foster internal peace.Chapter 3: Promoting Coping and Resilience Through ReparationWhen harm is committed, individuals suffer psychosocial consequences that can range in intensity and severity. These impacts touch on all those involved—victims, offenders, community members, families. This chapter would focus on the potential for restorative practices to support mental health of victims, ex-combatants and others. Specifically, the chapter would address how restorative justice can promote forgiveness and reconciliation, thus fostering individuals’ psychosocial wellbeing.Section 2: Interpersonal, Intergroup, and Intercommunity PeaceChapter 4: Bridging the Unbridgeable DividesIntractable conflict by definition is deeply rooted attitudes, histories, and identities that perpetuate violence across generations. This chapter would focus on how in these contexts, restorative justice can open up spaces for dialogue and recognition of the perspectives of others that lay a groundwork for peace.Chapter 5: Preventing and Healing Community ViolenceCommunity violence—homicide, violent crime, etc.—impacts individuals, communities, and the futures of both (e.g., through the reverberations of the trauma it can cause). While increasing policing and harsher sentencing are often approaches taken to intervening in these situations, this chapter would focus on how restorative justice can be used to promote interpersonal peace as an alternative way to address violence within communities.Chapter 6: Addressing Systemic Injustice and OppressionRestorative justice is predicated on a value of inclusivity both through community building elements and in responding to acts of harm. This chapter would focus on howrestorative practices within communities can create greating equity and inclusion, particularly by raising up the voices of groups that have been historically marginalized or oppressed.Chapter 7: Peace and Harmony in Post-Conflict SocietiesHealing and reconciliation are fundamental processes for post-conflict socities looking to build peaceful futures. Transitional justice must address past injustices and violence that have left marks between different groups within a society, such as in Rwanda, Cyprus, Ireland or South Africa, where “post-conflict” often still involves tension and discord. This chapter would focus on how restorative justice as part of transitional justice can promote peaceful coexistence after intergroup violence.Chapter 8: Restoring from Non-Western LensesSocial representations and practices of peace are embedded within cultural, historical, and political contexts. This chapter would focus on how restorative justice emerges from and intersects with non-Western ideas about justice and reparation, thus allowing for greater focus on harmony and local approaches to peace.Chapter 9: Bridging Racial/Ethnic DividesBias and prejudice are tied to deeply ingrained psychological frameworks for how people view the world, as well as identities and social context. But, these lens often create interpersonal conflict or can lead to violence between groups. This chapter would explore how engagement with a restorative framework and the inclusive dialogue involved can serve to bridge these barriers to peaceful intergroup relations that create psychosocial divides between different ethnic and racial groups.Section 3: Institutional, International and Non-state ActorsChapter 9: Changing School CulturesSchool cultures have traditionally been set by adults with vertical alignment of authority and discipline. Within the United States, the environment these structures promote has further structural and cultural violence against groups that are marginalized due to race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, ability, and more. This chapter would focus on how restorative justice can change the institutional climate at schools, promoting a sense of belonging, inclusion, and agency for all students.Chapter 10: Reshaping Discipline: Ending Inequities of Retributive Measures in SchoolsIn the United States, the 1990s and 2000s saw an increasing adoption of zero tolerance policies to discipline in schools. These punitive and harsh policies have created a “school-to-prison” pipeline in which Black, Brown, and Indigenous youth are more likely to be suspended, expelled, and end up in the juvenile and adult justice systems. This chapter would focus on how restorative justice in schools provides an equity-focused framework to responding to harm, as opposed to inequality, racial and gender disparities and the school-to-prison pipeline.Chapter 11: Forgiving and Repairing: Restorative Justice and the Criminal Justice SystemMany criminal justice systems are set up on punitive foundations that provide minimal sense of justice or healing for victims, their families, and communities. This chapter would focus on how restorative justice in the criminal justice system can be an effective means to true forgiveness and reconciliation, thus promoting psychosocial wellbeing of the victims, perpetrators, and communities.Chapter 12: Former Combatants and ReintegrationA challenge with members of communities and socieities who have been deeply involved in violent groups is their reintegration into society. The psychological and social obstacles are even more significant when these individuals belonged to groups whose particular aims were violent overthrow or change of the systems they are being reintegrated into. This chapter would focus on how restorative justice intersects with reconciliation and successful reintegration for armed actors such as revolutionary forces, terrorists, and paramiliatary groups.Chapter 13: Reparations and Addressing State AtrocitiesIn socities across the globe, addressing questions of equity and justice in order to build a culture of peace involves states’ roles in atrocities and injustice in the past. Reparations and restitution integrally involve healing and humanizing discourses, as well as recognition and redress of complicity in structural and cultural violence. This chapter would focus on how restorative justice can be integrated into processes of reparation in order to further these goals.

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Book SynopsisThis book provides an overview of Pacific-Indigenous knowledge as insights of Oceanic citizen-science to inform culturally-safe practice for psychology. It profiles contemporary Pacific needs in areas of crisis such as family violence, education disparities and health inequities, and points to ancient Pacific-indigenous knowledges as tools of healing for global diasporic communities in need. The historical evolution of psychology’s knowledge base and practice illustrates a fundamental crisis in the method of producing knowledge for psychology - the absence of Pacific-indigenous cultural knowledge. It suggests more effective research methodologies grounded in Pacific-Indigenous epistemologies and ontologies for psychology and overall community capability. It fosters practice perspectives and strategies based on NIU-psychology (New Indigenous Understandings) for innovative solutions to modern-day crises of humanity. Table of ContentsPart I. Context: Changing tides in knowledge construction for re-informing psychology1) Fa’asinomaga – Introducing the Pacific diaspora2) The crisis of ‘importing’ psychology for practice in Oceania3) New problems need NIU method - the birth of Pacific-Indigenous psychology4) Saili Matagi: example of Pacific-indigenous psychology through offender rehabilitation Part II. Rediscovery: Impact of culture through language with Samoa’s collective houses of wisdom 5) Fa’afaletui: the process of collective wisdom-searching with NIU-method6) Collaborators for Change - Notable cultural authorities7) Collaborators for Change - Community-village leaders8) Collaborators for Change - Church leadersPart III. NIU-psychology: Reducing inequalities through cultural innovation 9) Suli vs Tagata Noa - The psyche of being ‘others-centred’ 10) Tofā Sa’ili – NIU metrics for measuring change11) Va’ai, Fa’alogo ma Tautala: NIU-Ideology reducing inequalities in human development12) NIU-Psychology for sustainable wellbeing

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Book SynopsisDie psychosozialen Studien im Vereinigten Königreich sind ein vielfältiger Arbeitsbereich, der sich durch Innovation in Theorie und empirischer Forschung auszeichnet. Die außerordentliche Lebendigkeit dieses Bereichs zeigt sich in diesem Buch, das die Forschungsarbeiten der Abteilung für psychosoziale Studien an der Birkbeck University of London, UK, vorstellt und drei zentrale Bereiche der Disziplin beleuchtet: Psychoanalyse, Ethik und Reflexivität sowie Widerstand. Das Buch befasst sich auf psychosoziale Weise mit einer Vielzahl von Themen, von der Sozialkritik der Psychoanalyse über postkoloniale und Queer-Theorie bis hin zu Studien über psychische Gesundheit und Widerstand gegen Diskriminierung. Diese "New Voices in Psychosocial Studies" bieten eine kohärente und doch weitreichende Darstellung der Forschung, die in einem "Dialekt" des neuen Terrains der psychosozialen Studien stattgefunden hat, und ein Agenda-setzendes Manifest für einige der Arten von Arbeit, die die fortgesetzte Kreativität der psychosozialen Studien in der nächsten Generation sicherstellen könnten. Dieses Buch zeigt die kontinuierliche Entwicklung der psychosozialen Studien als innovative, kritische Kraft und wird sowohl neue als auch etablierte Forscher aus allen Bereichen inspirieren, die ihren transdisziplinären Ansatz beeinflussen, einschließlich: kritische Psychologie und radikale Soziologie, feministische, queere und postkoloniale Theorie, kritische Anthropologie und Ethnographie und Phänomenologie. Table of ContentsKapitel 1: Neue Stimmen in den psychosozialen Studien: Einführung; Stephen Frosh.- Teil 1: Psychoanalyse.- Kapitel 2: In den Wandschränken von Fanon und Riviere: Psychoanalyse, postkoloniale Theorie und das Psychosoziale; Marita Vyrgioti.- Kapitel 3: Eins, zwei, zu viele; Felipe Massao Kuzuhara.- Kapitel 4: Über das Subjektwerden; Iulia Minulescu.- Kapitel 5: Die Zeit folgt einem Wunsch; Kelly Noel-Smith.- Teil 2: Ethik und Reflexivität.- Kapitel 6: Allein mit dem Gesetz: Ethik und Subjektivität; Javier Taillefer.- Kapitel 7: Der Signifikant des Begehrens und das Begehren nach Signifikation: eine psychosoziale Neuinterpretation meiner Forschungsbegegnung mit einem älteren schwulen Chinesen; Chenyang Wang.- Kapitel 8: Das Soziale mit dem verbinden, was sich in der Psyche entfaltet: Das Psychosoziale in der ethnographischen Forschung; Erol Saglam.- Kapitel 9: Die "Wohlfühl"-Ökonomie: Angst und hegemoniale Psy-Kulturen; Ana Carolina Minozzo.- Teil 3: Widerstand.- Kapitel 10: Laing im 21. Jahrhundert: Psychisches Leiden in der neoliberalen Landschaft; Matt Oakes.- Kapitel 11: "Gay Culture Rampant in Hyderabad": Analyse der politischen und libidinösen Ökonomie der Homophobie; Jordan Osserman.- Kapitel 12: Adoptierte Töchter und biologische Väter: Trauma, Verlust und die Fantasie der Rückkehr; Elizabeth Hughes.- Kapitel 13: Überdenken der Bewältigungsperspektive im Kontext von Diskriminierung: Junge religiöse Minderheiten in der Türkei; Bahar Tanyas.

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Book SynopsisThis book contains contributions presented at the 13th International Conference on Complex Networks (CompleNet), April 19–22, 2022. CompleNet is an international conference on complex networks that brings together researchers and practitioners from diverse disciplines—from sociology, biology, physics, and computer science—who share a passion to better understand the interdependencies within and across systems. CompleNet is a venue to discuss ideas and findings about all types of networks, from biological to technological and to informational and social. It is this interdisciplinary nature of complex networks that CompleNet aims to explore and celebrate.Table of ContentsThis cannot be provided at this point because the editors have not yet finished the selection of the works. However, we can expect at least a theoretical part and an applied part for the table of contents. Specific topics of interest include (but are not limited to):​​Applications of Network Science Human Behaviour & Social Influence Community Structure Social Cohesion and Group Dynamics Biological Systems Dynamics on and of Networks Ecological Networks Urban Systems and Networks Networks in Politics Online Social Network Sensing Network Topology and Geometry Infrastructure Networks (Power grids, water systems, etc.) Impact Performance and Success Prediction Human Mobility and Networks Social Media Social Networks Disease Spread in Populations and Social Networks Algorithms Network Metrics Brain Networks Multiplex and Temporal Networks Network Controllability and Resilience Science of Science Networked Medicine Network Visualisation Generative Network Models Financial Networks Criminal Networks

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