Psychology (500)

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This book addresses an intriguing question: are our decisions rational? It explains seemingly irrational human decision-making behavior by taking into account our limited ability to process information. It also shows with several examples that optimi...

publisher: Springer
year: 2016
description:Neu über das Denken nachdenken – das Geheimnis der Metakognition Der erfolgreiche Wissenschaftsautor David DiSalvo legt mit diesem ungewöhnlichen Buch einen nützlichen Leitfaden für ein verändertes, besseres Denken vor. In gewohnt zugänglicher und na...

publisher: Springer
year: 2014
description:Philosophy has long puzzled over the relation between mind and brain. This volume presents some of the state-of-the-art reflections on philosophical efforts to 'make sense' of neuroscience, as regards issue including neuroaesthetics, brain science an...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:Jennie Helene Sandstad brings together theoretical concepts and personal stories in an exploration of trauma, and studies how breathing meditation can be a tool for peace work. Through the lenses of Humanistic and Transpersonal Psychology as well as ...

publisher: Springer
year: 2014
description:Through compelling analysis of popular culture, high culture and elite designs in the years following the end of the Second World War, this book explores how Britain and its people have come to terms with the loss of prestige stemming from the declin...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This book provides a much-needed account of informal community-based approaches to working with mental distress. It starts from the premise that contemporary mainstream psychiatry and psychology struggle to capture how distress results from complex e...

publisher: Springer
year: 2015
description:The toughness model proposed in this book incorporates psychological research and neuroscience to explain how a variety of toughening activities - ranging from confronting mental and physical challenges to meditation - sustain our brains and bodies, ...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This book posits that multiple perspectives of key school staff (such as teachers, principals, school resource officers, school psychologists and counselors, nurses, and coaches) can provide a deeper understanding of bullying, which remains an immedi...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This interdisciplinary book explores both the connections and the tensions between sociological, psychological, and biological theories of exhaustion. It examines how the prevalence of exhaustion – both as an individual experience and as a broader so...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This Brief presents the argument for the need to re-establish the theoretical focus of general psychology in contemporary psychological research. It begins with a detailed account of the current “crisis” of psychology and our modern disconnect from g...

publisher: Springer
year: 2014
description:Challenging Global Gender Violence provides a qualitative and comparative analysis of women's experiences of violence, healing, and action across cultures. Gender violence is the most pervasive human rights violation affecting women and children acro...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This book offers a comprehensive analysis of character focalization in ten contemporary realistic children’s novels. The author argues that character focalization, defined as the location of fictional world perception in the mind of a character, is a...