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The Psychology of Advertising
- By Bob M. Fennis, and Wolfgang Stroebe.
Published May 2010
Advertising is a ubiquitous and powerful force, seducing us into buying wanted and sometimes unwanted products and services, donating to charity (even to causes we have not heard of before), voting for political candidates (even of questionable reputation), and changing our health-related…
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An Introduction to Theories of Personality
7th Edition
- By Robert B. Ewen.
Published October 2009
This 7th Edition helps students unravel the mysteries of human behavior through its highly readable introduction to the ideas of the most significant personality theorists.
Engaging biographical sketches begin each chapter, and unique capsule summaries help students review key concepts. …
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Predicting and Changing Behavior
The Reasoned Action Approach
- By Martin Fishbein, and Icek Ajzen.
Published July 2009
This book describes the reasoned action approach, an integrative framework for the prediction and change of human social behavior. It provides an up-to-date review of relevant research, discusses critical issues related to the reasoned action framework, and provides methodological and conceptual…
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Journeys in Social Psychology
Looking Back to Inspire the Future
- Edited by Robert Levine, Aroldo Rodrigues and Lynnette Zelezny.
Published January 2008
This volume consists of personal narrative accounts of the career journeys of some of the world's most eminent social psychologists. Each contributing psychologist is an esteemed scholar, an excellent writer, and has a story to tell. Together, the contributions cover a time…
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Sport Psychology
Performance Enhancement, Performance Inhibition, Individuals, and Teams
- By Nicholas T. Gallucci.
Published December 2007
Sport Psychology is a senior undergraduate textbook that provides a synthesis of the major topics in sport psychology with an applied focus and an emphasis on achieving optimal performance.
After the introductory chapters, there are three main sections to the text: Performance Enhancement covers…
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Applying Emotional Intelligence
A Practitioner's Guide
- Edited by Joseph Ciarrochi, and John D. Mayer.
Published January 2007
The explosion of research on emotional intelligence (EI) in the past decade has provided increasing evidence that EI can be measured reliably and can be useful in predicting important outcomes, such as managerial effectiveness and relationship quality.
Naturally, people are now asking, "So, how…
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The Scope of Social Psychology
Theory and Applications
- Edited by Miles Hewstone, Henk Schut, John de Wit, Kees Van Den Bos and Margaret Stroebe.
Published January 2007
Social psychology attempts to understand, explain, predict and, when needed, change people's thoughts, feelings and behaviours. For a relatively young discipline it has already made great strides toward this awe-inspiring goal. Pioneers such as Lewin, Asch, Kelley and Festinger began…
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Indigenous Psychologies
A Special Issue of the International Journal of Psychology
- Edited by Carl Martin Allwood, and John Berry.
Published June 2006
Indigenous psychologies are attempts to portray the concepts, and to present the evidence, about human behaviour and experience from a point of view within the cultural traditions of the group. It takes a position that distances itself from a uniform (usually Western) psychology, and explores human…
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Social Psychology and Economics
- Edited by David De Cremer, Marcel Zeelenberg and J. Keith Murnighan.
Published June 2006
This book combines chapters written by leading social psychologists and economists, illuminating the developing trends in explaining and understanding economic behavior in a social world.
It provides insights from both fields, communicated by eloquent scholars, and demonstrates through recent…
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Children's Understanding of Society
- Edited by Martyn Barrett, and Eithne Buchanan-Barrow.
Published December 2004
A state-of-the-art review of the research in this area, this collection covers children's understanding of family, school, economics, race, politics and gender roles. Recent changes and trends in research are summarised. This is explained in terms of a progression from the Piagetian stages model of…
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