Social, Group or Collective Psychology

The concept of attitude has long been a central part of social psychological theories. It is important in other disciplines too, such as economics,...

This book introduces psychosocial studies of idol worship in Chinese societies. It reviews how idol worship is perceived in Chinese culture, histor...

In Subjectivity, Language and the Postcolonial, Hannah Botsis draws on theoretical work that exists at the intersection of critical social psycholo...

Psychology, the study of mind and behaviour, has developed as a unique discipline in its brief history. Whether as it currently takes place, or how...

What can we do to help those who struggle to develop effective social skills?Social Skills: Developing Effective Interpersonal Communication is a d...

The question of motivation in psychology is the fundamental problem of why organisms behave. In this book, originally published in 1975, various th...

What makes us trust people? How is trust developed and maintained? Is Western society facing a crisis of trust?The Psychology of Trust addresses tr...

Asia and the Pacific have become the growth engine of the world economy with the contribution of two-third of the global growth. The book discusses...

Discrimination impacts most youth at some point. Almost all children and adolescents belong to at least one stigmatized group, whether they are a B...

Originally published in 1981, this volume presents the domain of personality as a fuzzy set that includes features previously identified with cogni...

Drawing on psychological and sociological perspectives as well as quantitative and qualitative data, Identity and Interethnic Marriage in the Unite...

As lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex identities increasingly secure legal recognition across the globe, these formal equality gains ...

Çiğdem Kağıtçıbaşı's influential volume was a work of masterful scholarship and field-defining thought that challenged the existing assumptions in ...

This volume provides a fast and efficient way for undergraduate and graduate students to gain a solid understanding of the social psychology litera...

Communication, Management and Information Technology contains the contributions presented at the International Conference on Communication, Managem...

This book concentrates on argumentation as it emerges in ordinary discourse, whether the discourse is institutionalized or strictly informal. Cruci...

The book contains essays on current issues in Social and Political Sciences, such as the issues of governance and social order; social development ...

Female-Perpetrated Sex Abuse is a groundbreaking study into gender, sexuality and victimhood. It examines the cultural conditions of possibility fo...

This book showcases 28 intriguing social psychological experiments that have significantly advanced our understanding of human social thinking and ...

Discrimination impacts most youth at some point. Almost all children and adolescents belong to at least one stigmatized group, whether they are a B...

The research literature on causal attribution and social cognition generally consists of many fascinating but fragmented and superficial phenomena....

The tenth annual Advertising and Consumer Psychology Conference held in San Francisco focused on branding -- a subject generating intense interest ...

Trends and Issues in Interdisciplinary Behavior and Social Science contains papers presented at the 5th International Congress on Interdisciplinary...

How is it possible to understand society and the problems it faces? What sense can be made of the behaviour of markets and government interventions...

Signs of Identity presents an interdisciplinary introduction to collective identity, using insights from social psychology, anthropology, sociology...

The fields of social behaviour and personality had for the most part been studied separately, originally published in 1986, this title was one of t...

What’s missing from your teacher education program? According to research studies, one glaring omission is gender. Tomorrow’s teachers receive litt...

Female-Perpetrated Sex Abuse is a groundbreaking study into gender, sexuality and victimhood. It examines the cultural conditions of possibility fo...

Violence is a growing problem in American society, and hardly a day goes by that we don’t hear about yet another heart-wrenching episode of mass vi...

Why do people act the way they do? How do their desires and fears become known to us? When are our opinions of others correct, and when are they li...

This book considers how the personal and the professional dimensions are related, and how they matter for aid work. The contributions to this edite...

Çiğdem Kağıtçıbaşı's influential volume was a work of masterful scholarship and field-defining thought that challenged the existing assumptions in ...

Early Socialisation looks at sociability and attachment and how they relate to emotional and cognitive development. Topics covered include: bonding...

Social cognition is a key area of social psychology, which focuses on cognitive processes that are involved when individuals make sense of, and nav...

In recent decades, research in political psychology has illuminated the psychological processes underlying important political action, both by ordi...

Intergroup contact theory has been one of the most influential theories in social psychology since it was first formulated by Gordon Allport in 195...

Personal Relationships Across the Lifespan presents a comprehensive and up-to-date account of the role of personal relationships in people's lives....

Know Thyself: The Value and Limits of Self-Knowledge takes the reader on tour of the nature, value, and limits of self-knowledge. Mitchell S. Green...

Return migration is a topic of growing interest among academics and policy makers. Nonetheless, issues of psychosocial wellbeing are rarely discuss...

Originally published in 1983 and written in the tradition of the British School of Psychology, Spearman, Burt, Eysenck, Cattell, this book from a w...

Bringing a social justice lens to daily interpersonal relationships, Just Relationships offers a perspective on existing social science theory that...

What is prejudice in the 21st Century and how can education help to reduce it?This original text discusses prejudice in detail, offering a clear an...

First published in 1985, this book is designed to help professionals in caring professions understand and deal with the problem of violent behaviou...

Conflicts between the "head" and the "heart" are very common in everyday life. Over the past decade, research on such self-regulatory conflicts has...

Intergroup contact theory has been one of the most influential theories in social psychology since it was first formulated by Gordon Allport in 195...

Social cognition is a key area of social psychology, which focuses on cognitive processes that are involved when individuals make sense of, and nav...

These essays examine the importance of historical consicousness and the role of historiography in ‘ethnic’ situations, exploring the many ways in w...