3rd ed. — John Wiley & Sons, 2020. — 344 p. — ISBN: 1118719425, 9781118719428. The Reality of Groups. Group Formation and Other Elementary Group Processes. Reaching Agreement in Groups. Innovation and Change in Groups. The Effectiveness of Groups. The Morality of Groups. Conflict and Inequality. Rebellion and Social Change. Bringing Groups Together.
Information Science Reference, 2021. — 375 p. Social psychology is the scientific study of how the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of individuals are influenced by the actual, imagined, and implied presence of others. In this definition, scientific refers to the empirical investigation using the scientific method, while the terms thoughts, feelings, and behaviors refer to the...
Academic Press, 2018. — 480 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-805371-3. The Handbook summarizes findings from nearly 4000 studies on traits associated with variations in socioeconomic status. Much of the information is presented in roughly 300 tables, each one providing a visual snapshot of what research has indicated regarding how a specific human trait appears to be correlated with...
7th ed. — Cengage Learning, 2018. — 752 p. — ISBN: 1337408859, 9781337408851. This book combines an emphasis on research, empirical studies supporting theoretical understanding of groups, and extended case studies to illustrate the application of concepts to actual groups. Author Donelson R. Forsyth builds each chapter around a real-life case, drawing on examples from a range...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. — 344 p. — ISBN: 0195136225. Where do new ideas come from? What is social intelligence? Why do social scientists perform mindless statistical rituals? This vital book is about rethinking rationality as adaptive thinking: to understand how minds cope with their environments, both ecological and social. Gerd Gigerenzer proposes and...
3rd ed. — SAGE Publications, 2016. — 616 p. — ISBN: 978-1483369730. This student-friendly introduction to the field focuses on understanding social and practical problems and developing intervention strategies to address them. Offering a balance of theory, research, and application, the updated Third Edition includes the latest research, as well as new, detailed examples of...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2002. — 711 p. — ISBN: 0631208658, 9780631208655. This handbook provides an authoritative, up-to-date overview of the social psychology of group processes. The topics covered include group decisions, juries, group remembering, roles, status, leadership, social identity and group membership, socialization, group performance, negotiation and bargaining, emotion...
Springer, 2019. — 204 p. — ISBN: 981139671X. This book primarily focuses on the domain conditions under which a number of important classes of binary social decision rules give rise to rational social preferences. One implication of the Arrow and Gibbard theorems is that every non-oligarchic social decision rule that satisfies the condition of independence of irrelevant...
Oxford University Press, 2008. - 481 p. Adolescents are eager consumers of mass media entertainment and are particularly susceptible to various forms of media influence, such as modeling, desensitization, and contagion. These once controversial phenomena are now widely accepted along with the recognition that th media are a major socializer of youth During the economic boom of...
Springer International Publishing AG, 2017. — 172 p. — (Springer Series on Cultural Computing) — ISBN: 9783319619606. This state of the art monograph presents a unique introduction to thinking about cuteness and its incorporation into modern, especially computer-based, products and services. Cuteness is defined and explored in relation to user-centered design concepts and...
12th edition. — Routledge, 2024. — 409 p. — ISBN: 978-1-032-23314-7. Behavior Modification is a comprehensive, practical presentation of the principles of behavior modification and guidelines for their application. It introduces forms of behavior modification ranging from helping children learn necessary life skills, to training pets, to solving personal behavior problems. It...
Thomson, 2008. — 658 p. — 4th ed. — ISBN: 0495091537, 9780495091530 Behavior Modification, Principles and Procedures is a text that uses a precise, step by step, scientific approach to explain human behavior. Key case studies and examples are used to illustrate key principles.
6th ed. — Cengage Learning, 2016. — 690 p. — ISBN: 1305109392, 9781305109391 Behavior Modification: Principles and Procedures , Sixth Edition, uses a precise, step-by-step, scientific approach to explain human behavior. Case studies and examples illustrate key principles. Introduction to Behavior Modification Measurement of Behavior and Behavior Change Observing and Recording...
7th Edition. — Cengage Learning, 2023. — 688 p. — ISBN: 978-0-357-79637-5. Gain an understanding of human behavior, the factors that influence behavior, and the strategies to change behavior with Miltenberger’s Behavior Modification: Principles and Procedures, 7E. This precise, step-by-step, scientific approach introduces the underlying principles and then the procedures behind...
Kluwer Academic Publishers, New York, 2003. 749 p. — (Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research) — ISBN: 0-306-48247-9 This comprehensive handbook provides an overview of key theoretical perspectives, concepts, and methodological approaches that, while applied to diverse phenomena, are united in their general approach to the study of lives across age phases. In surveying the...
University of Chicago Press, 2017. — 669 p. Darwin’s concept of natural selection has been exhaustively studied, but his secondary evolutionary principle of sexual selection remains largely unexplored and misunderstood. Yet sexual selection was of great strategic importance to Darwin because it explained things that natural selection could not and offered a naturalistic, as...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2017. — 528 p. — (Wiley Blackwell Handbooks of Developmental Psychology). — ISBN10: 1118773160. — ISBN13: 978-1118773161. A definitive reference on intra- and inter-group processes across a range of age and cultural contexts Children from infancy develop attachments to significant others in their immediate social environment, and over time become aware of other...
Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, 2016. — 709 p. — (Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research) — ISBN: 978-3-319-20879-4 The Handbook of the Life Course was published in 2003 (“ Handbook I ”) and aspired to provide “an overview of key theoretical perspectives, concepts, and methodological approaches that, while applied to diverse phenomena, are united in their...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. — xix, 279 p. — (Language and Globalization). — ISBN-13: 978–0–230–57633–9. Citizenship in Australia: From Empire to Multicultural State and Back Shifting Landscapes of Citizenship Citizenship and Language Tests in Australia: Issues of Law and History Australian Citizenship in the Twenty-First Century: Historical Perspectives From Virtues to Values:...
Jack Steel, 2016. 37 p. Do you struggle to strike up a conversation in social situations? Does it make you anxious, fearful, awkward, and afraid you'll make a bad impression? Or do you feel like you have trouble making friends because you feel you come off as insecure when you meet people? What if I told you i could make you a master of small talk to think faster on your feet,...
Routledge, 2016. — 235 p. Healthy and successful organizations require the people who work within them to be happy, resilient, and creative. Just as a human body is undermined if it suffers from sickness, an organization can only function fully if the people who work within it feel engagement and well-being, and any toxic influences which shape or burden their working lives are...
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