Social Psychology Arena

The Psychology of the Social Self

• Edited by Tom R. Tyler, Roderick M. Kramer, Oliver P. John

Leading theoreticians and researchers present current thinking about the role played by group memberships in people's sense of who they are and what they are...

Published December 1st 1998 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Inner Strengths

Contemporary Psychotherapy and Hypnosis for Ego-strengthening

• By Claire Frederick, Shirley A. McNeal

However it is conceived and described by psychotherapists with different orientations, a stronger ego is a universally-acknowledged goal of therapeutic work. Inner Strengths is the...

Published November 1st 1998 by Routledge.

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Personality and Person Perception Across Cultures

• Edited by Yueh-Ting Lee, Clark R. McCauley, Juris G. Draguns

Neither human nature nor personality can be independent of culture. Human beings share certain social norms or rules within their cultural groups. Over 2000 years...

Published October 1st 1998 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Antisocial Behavior and Mental Health Problems

Explanatory Factors in Childhood and Adolescence

• By Rolf Loeber, David P. Farrington, Magda Stouthamer-Loeber, Welmoet B. Van Kammen

Epidemiological surveys have provided key information about the prevalence and degree of seriousness at different ages of a wide array of problem behaviors such as...

Published July 1st 1998 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Parental Descriptions of Child Personality

Developmental Antecedents of the Big Five?

• Edited by Gedolph A. Kohnstamm, Jr., Charles F. Halverson, Ivan Mervielde, Valerie L. Havill, Charles F. Halverson

This book reports the first attempt in the child development literature to examine the structure of early personality based on parents' free-descriptions of their children....

Published May 1st 1998 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Toward A Psychology of Persons

• Edited by William E. Smythe

This closely integrated collection of essays constitutes a wide-ranging and comprehensive attempt to understand persons within psychology--a long-lost enterprise. The volume was inspired by the...

Published May 1st 1998 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Metacognition

A Special Issue of personality and Social Psychology Review

• Edited by Janet Metcalfe

This special issue on the psychology of knowing about knowing bridges the parallels between social and cognitive psychology. It further illustrates the benefits of pursuing...

Published May 1st 1998 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Personality Development In Adolescence

A Cross National and Lifespan Perspective

• Edited by Eva Skoe, Anna von der Lippe

The formation of identity in adolescence is the most central concept in psychological and sociological studies of young people. Most theories to date assume that...

Published April 9th 1998 by Routledge.

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Personality Development

Theoretical, Empirical, and Clinical Investigations of Loevinger's Conception of Ego Development

• Edited by P. Michiel Westenberg, Augusto Blasi, Lawrence D. Cohn

Jane Loevinger's innovative research methodology, psychometric rigor, and theoretical scope have attracted the attention of numerous scholars and researchers. Empirical investigations employing Loevinger's Washington University...

Published February 1st 1998 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Technical Foundations for Measuring Ego Development

The Washington University Sentence Completion Test

• By Le Xuan Hy, Le Xuan HyJane Loevinger
• Edited by Jane Loevinger

This book describes the evolution of the Washington University Sentence Completion Test (SCT), a major measure of ego development, from an intuitive rating scale to...

Published February 1st 1998 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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