Social Psychology Arena

The Development of Emotional Intelligence

A Case Study

Published November 2010

How do children learn about the expression and meaning of emotions – both happy and sad? This book answers questions on the foundation of emotional intelligence and examines how children become emotionally literate as they are socialised into their family environment from birth to two years of age.…
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Working with Immigrant Families

A Practical Guide for Counselors

• Edited by Adam Zagelbaum, and Jon Carlson.

Published November 2010

Working with Immigrant Families examines the theoretical and practice-based issues that must be considered by counseling professionals when performing family therapy with immigrant clients. It provides practitioners with insights into why immigrant families come to the United States,…
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Social Justice and the Experience of Emotion

• By Russell Cropanzano, Jordan H. Stein and Thierry Nadisic.

Published November 2010

This book will seek to integrate the scholarship on justice and affect. The authors focus on empirical social scientific theories pertaining to fairness, mood and emotion. Most of the literature in this book is drawn from social and organizational psychology. Other areas included will be management…
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Intergroup Conflicts and Their Resolution

A Social Psychological Perspective

• Edited by Daniel Bar-Tal.

Published October 2010

This book provides a framework that sheds an illuminating light into the psyche of people involved in macro-level destructive intergroup conflicts, involving societies and ethnic groups, that take place continuously in various parts of the globe. It focuses on the socio-psychological repertoire…
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The Psychology of Counter-Terrorism

• Edited by Andrew Silke.

Published October 2010

This edited book explores how psychology can be used to improve our understanding of terrorism and counterterrorism. This work firstly aims to provide balanced and objective insight into the psychology of terrorists; what their motivations are, what keeps them involved in terrorist groups, and…
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Social Motivation

• Edited by David Dunning.

Published October 2010

Motivational science is one of the fastest-growing areas of research in social psychology, incorporating multiple perspectives from social-personality research. This volume provides students and researchers with a comprehensive overview of all the major topics in social motivation. All contributors…
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Grounding Sociality

Neurons, Mind, and Culture

• Edited by Gün R. Semin, and Gerald Echterhoff.

Published October 2010

This volume concerns the longstanding intellectual puzzle of how individuals overcome their biological, neural, and mental finitude to achieve sociality. It explores how humans take each other into account, coordinate their actions, and are able to share their inner states and to communicate.…
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The New Psychology of Leadership

Identity, Influence and Power

• By S. Alexander Haslam, Stephen D. Reicher and Michael J. Platow.

Published September 2010

According to John Adair, the most important word in the leader's vocabulary is "we" and the least important word is "I". But if this is true, it raises one important question: Why do psychological analyses of leadership always focus on the leader as an individual — as the great "I"? One answer…
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Handbook of Emotions and Mass Media

• Edited by Katrin Doveling, Christian von Scheve and Elly A. Konijn.

Published September 2010

The impact of mass media on individuals and society is to a great extent based on human emotions. Emotions, in turn, are essential in understanding how media messages are processed as well as media’s impact on individual and social behavior and public social life. Adopting an interdisciplinary…
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Consumer Culture, Identity and Well-Being

The Search for the 'Good Life' and the 'Body Perfect'

• By Helga Dittmar.
• Series Edited by Professor Rupert Brown.

Published September 2010

Advertising, materialism and consumption are central aspects of contemporary Western culture. We are bombarded with idealised images of the perfect body, desirable consumer goods, and affluent lifestyles, yet psychology is only just beginning to take account of the profound influence these consumer…
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