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31. Parenting

    An Ecological Perspective, 2nd Edition

    Series: Monographs in Parenting Series

    Parenting: An Ecological Perspective was originally created in 1993 to answer questions such as: Why do parents differ markedly in the ways in which they care for their children? What factors contribute to individual differences in parenting behavior? The framework used for addressing these...

    Published June 14th 2005 by Routledge
32. Culture and Social Behavior

    The Ontario Symposium, Volume 10

    Edited by Richard M. Sorrentino, Dov Cohen, James M. Olson, Mark P. Zanna

    Series: Ontario Symposia on Personality and Social Psychology Series

    Cross-cultural differences have many important implications for social identity, social cognition, and interpersonal behavior. The 10th volume of the Ontario Symposia on Personality and Social Psychology focuses on East-West cultural differences and similarities and how this research can be applied...

    Published January 2nd 2005 by Psychology Press
33. Relational Models Theory

    A Contemporary Overview

    Edited by Nick Haslam

    Relational models theory, first developed by Alan Page Fiske, an anthropologist, provides a framework for understanding the psychological bases of social behavior that has in recent years attracted the interest of a diverse and growing group of behavioral and social scientists. It proposes that...

    Published July 21st 2004 by Psychology Press
34. Psychology's Grand Theorists

    How Personal Experiences Shaped Professional Ideas

    By Amy P. Demorest

    Psychology's Grand Theorists argues that the three schools in psychology that have been dominant historically--the psychodynamic, behavioral, and phenomenological--have resulted in large part from the personal experiences of their originators. Sigmund Freud, B.F. Skinner, and Carl Rogers each...

    Published July 15th 2004 by Psychology Press
35. Optimal Human Being

    An Integrated Multi-level Perspective

    By Kennon M. Sheldon

    Ken Sheldon's comprehensive new book addresses two questions: how can individuals best integrate the different facets of themselves to achieve "optimal human being", and how can researchers best integrate the different levels of analysis within the human sciences to understand "optimal human being"...

    Published June 30th 2004 by Psychology Press
36. Theory Construction in Social Personality Psychology

    Personal Experiences and Lessons Learned: A Special Issue of personality and Social Psychology Review

    Edited by Arie W. Kruglanski, E. Tory Higgins

    This special issue features papers that offer deeply felt, valuable perspectives on diverse aspects of theory construction in social-personality psychology. The goal is to furnish a basis for starting a discussion about the considerable challenges of theorizing, the ways of meeting those challenges...

    Published June 9th 2004 by Psychology Press
37. Funny Peculiar

    Gershon Legman and the Psychopathology of Humor

    By Mikita Brottman

    Why are jokes funny? Why do we laugh? In Funny Peculiar, Mikita Brottman demurs from recent scholarship that takes laughter-- and the broader domain of humor and the comical--as a liberating social force and an endearing aspect of self-expression. For Brottman, there is nothing funny about laughter...

    Published March 31st 2004 by Routledge
38. The Two of Me

    The Rational Outer Me and the Emotional Inner Me

    By John Birtchnell

    How much of what we do is directed by conscious, deliberate decisions and how much originates in unconscious, automatic directives? This is the question explored in The Two of Me via an engaging combination of phenomenological subjective investigation and objective considerations of mental...

    Published November 19th 2003 by Psychology Press
39. New and Current Directions in Justice Theorizing and Research

    A Special Issue of personality and Social Psychology Review

    Edited by Linda J. Skitka, Faye Crosby

    This special issue fans the flames of interest in social psychological justice theory and research, and showcases the new social psychological developments relating to justice and fairness. It addresses identity; "negative justice"--what happens after wrongs have occurred; contingent models that...

    Published October 31st 2003 by Psychology Press
40. The Psychological Foundations of Culture

    Edited by Mark Schaller, Christian S. Crandall

    How is it that cultures come into existence at all? How do cultures develop particular customs and characteristics rather than others? How do cultures persist and change over time? Most previous attempts to address these questions have been descriptive and historical. The purpose of this book is to...

    Published July 31st 2003 by Psychology Press