The MIT Press, 2022. — 216 p. — ISBN: 9780262046596. How the way we perceive our bodies plays a critical role in the way we perceive ourselves: stories of phantom limbs, rubber hands, anorexia, and other phenomena. The body is central to our sense of identity. It can be a canvas for self-expression, decorated with clothing, jewelry, cosmetics, tattoos, and piercings. But the...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 1114 p. Moral psychology is the study of how human minds make and are made by human morality. This state-of-the-art volume covers contemporary philosophical and psychological work on moral psychology, as well as notable historical theories and figures in the field of moral psychology, such as Aristotle, Kant, Nietzsche, and the Buddha. The...
The Guilford Press, 2018. — 608 p. — ISBN: 146253256X. This comprehensive and cutting-edge volume maps out the terrain of moral psychology, a dynamic and evolving area of research. In 57 concise chapters, leading authorities and up-and-coming scholars explore fundamental issues and current controversies. The volume systematically reviews the empirical evidence base and presents...
Seventieth Anniversary Edition. Foreword by Dan McAdams. — Oxford University Press, 2008. — 802 p. Explorations in Personality, published by Oxford University Press in 1938, set forth a provocative and comprehensive agenda for the scientific study of human personality. Blending no-nonsense empiricism with the humanistic desire to understand the whole person, the book is as...
Harvard University Press, 2002. — 262 p. "Know thyself," a precept as old as Socrates, is still good advice. But is introspection the best path to self-knowledge? What are we trying to discover, anyway? In an eye-opening tour of the unconscious, as contemporary psychological science has redefined it, Timothy D. Wilson introduces us to a hidden mental world of judgments,...
Duke University Press, 2017. — 177 p. — ISBN: 0822372398, 9780822372394. In A Theory of Regret Brian Price contends that regret is better understood as an important political emotion than as a form of weakness. Price shows how regret allows us to see that our convictions are more often the products of our perceptual habits than the authentic signs of moral courage that we more...
New York: D. Appleton-century company Inc., 1937. — 302 p. Cultural patterning of belief theories of the past beginning at the beginning - physical needs social needs egoistic needs The destiny of needs Growing into a social individual The integration of the personality Anxiety, insecurity, inferiority and guilt Escapes The return of the repressed We look back We loock ahead
2nd edition. — Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 493 p. This second edition of the bestselling textbook Personality Traits is an essential text for students doing courses in personality psychology and individual differences. The authors have updated the volume throughout, incorporating the latest research in the field, and added three new chapters on personality across the...
3rd edition. — Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 568 p. Now in its third edition, this dynamic textbook analyses the traits fundamental to human personality: what they are, why they matter, their biological and social foundations, how they play out in human life and their consequences for cognition, stress and physical and mental health. The text also considers the...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 288 p. — ISBN10: 0198768737, ISBN13: 978-0198768739. Philosophers and psychologists have been hard at work trying to unlock the mysteries of our characters. Unfortunately, their answers have been all over the map. According to one position, every single person has all of the moral virtues, such as modesty and compassion, although to varying...
Oxford University Press, 2011. — 760 p. Research on the topic of self has increased significantly in recent years across a number of disciplines, including philosophy, psychology, psychopathology, and neuroscience. "The Oxford Handbook of the Self" is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that address questions in all of these areas. In philosophy and some areas of...
Seal Press, 2017. — 240 p. — ISBN10: 1580056377, ISBN13: 978-1580056373. The greatest creators in human history--from Mozart to Meryl Streep, Jackson Pollock to Jay-Z--don't just have talent--they also understand their motivations for pursuing art. What's Your Creative Type? helps artists do the same in a fun and witty way. Stepping away from the hyper-focus on how people...
Seal Press, 2017. — 240 p. — ISBN10: 1580056377,ISBN13: 978-1580056373. The greatest creators in human history--from Mozart to Meryl Streep, Jackson Pollock to Jay-Z--don't just have talent--they also understand their motivations for pursuing art. What's Your Creative Type? helps artists do the same in a fun and witty way. Stepping away from the hyper-focus on how people...
Traducción de Ricardo Malfé. — Editorial Universitaria de Buenos Aires, 1971. — 575 p. — (Temas de Eudeba). Es éste un verdadero tratado sobre el prejuicio. La multiplicidad de perspectivas, la consideración detenida de cada uno de los aspectos, causas y consecuencias de esa "enfermedad social" y la sabia síntesis lograda recomiendan a esta obra como la más completa que se ha...
Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature, 2017. — 290 p. — ISBN: 331940426. This book provides a persuasive account of how identity and difference factor in the debate on the self in the humanities. It explores this topic by applying the question to fields such as philosophy, cultural studies, politics and race studies. Key themes discussed in this collection...
Oxford University Press, UK, 2016. — 144 p. — (Very Short Introduction) — ISBN: 0198747233 Thoughts and feelings about home traditionally provided people of all cultures with a firm sense of where they belonged, and why. But with the world rapidly changing, many of our basic notions are becoming problematic. Both internationally and within countries, populations are constantly...