The Psychology of the Internet
This timely volume explores the psychological aspects of cyberspace, a virtual world in which people from around the globe are acting and interacting in many new, unusual, and occasionally alarming ways. Drawing on research in the social sciences, communications, business, and other fields, Patricia Wallace examines how the online environment can influence the way we behave, sometimes for the better, sometimes not. Our own online behavior then becomes part of the Internet's psychological environment for others, creating opportunities for shaping the way this new territory for human interaction is unfolding. Since the Internet--and our experience within it--is still young, we have a rare window of opportunity to influence the course of its development. With a new preface that incorporates many of the changes online and in the field since the hardcover edition was published, the paperback edition of The Psychology of the Internet includes the latest coverage of e-commerce, workplace surveillance and datamining, all areas of recent intense public concern. Patricia M. Wallace is Executive Director of the Center for Knowledge and Information Management at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland. She is author of an interactive psychology CD-ROM called PRISM and of the textbook Introduction to Psychology, Fourth Edition (with Jeffrey Goldstein). Dr. Wallace is also the principal investigator on grants from the Annenberg Projects/Corporation for Public Broadcasting dealing with language learning through CD-ROMs and the Internet.
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Discourse Dynamics: Critical Analysis for Social and Individual Psychology
Discourse Analysis is a family of critical techniques in a politically-aware social psychology. It represents the most effectively radical movement in British psychology, being closely allied with feminist, anti-racist and culture-critique groupings. Ian Parker's new book is an introduction to the theory and practice of Discourse Analysis, and it follows his contribution to the Routledge Critical Psychology series The Crisis in Modern Social Psychology - And How to End it (1989) and his co-edited Deconstructing Social Psychology (1990).
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Handbook of Psychology, 12 Volume Set
The first two volumes cover history and research methods; each of the next ten, a particular area of psychology: biological, experimental, personality and social, developmental, educational, clinical, health, assessment, forensic, and industrial and organizational. The first volume comprises 26 articles by approximately 60 contributors from American associations and academic institutions addressing the history of school, clinical, ethnic, and international psychologies, among other topics. The set's first article is the 20-page "Psychology as a Science," by Alfred Fuchs (Bowdoin) and Katharine S. Milar (Earlham). After a brief table of contents, the article addresses the philosophical and scientific origins of psychology, psychology's first laboratory, and the evolution of the discipline, especially in the US and Germany. The article concludes with a bibliography of about 200 titles. The last volume contains 23 articles by nearly 50 contributors. The last article in the set, the 16-page "Diversity in Organizations" by Clayton Alderfer and Adrienne D. Sims (both at Rutgers), discusses the meanings of diversity before addressing an initially inductive diversity study, individualism-collectivism theory, social identity theory, relation demography, and embedded intergroup relations theory. It ends with a brief conclusion and a 75- item bibliography. Each of the 12 volumes contains its own author and subject indexes.
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Health Psychology: A Textbook, 4th edition
Health Psychology: A Textbook has made a major contribution to the teaching and study of this rapidly expanding discipline. The second edition provides a truly accessible and comprehensive guide to all of the major topics in health psychology. It includes a new chapter on the measurement of health status and new sections on professional issues, recent developments in social cognition models, body dissatisfaction and dieting, causes of obesity and the measurement of pain. In addition, it has been revised and updated throughout to take account of recent research.
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Psychology and Adult Learning
This book examines the role of psychology in informing adult education practice. It acknowledges the psychological dimension of adult education work, and explores this dimension in the context of the concerns of adult educators. The approach is to examine the seminal traditions of some key psychological theories and to discuss the issues and problems in applying them to an understanding of adult learning and development. The text is ideally suited for those who seek a critical understanding of psychological theory and research from the perspective of the adult educator.
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Positive Psychology in Practice
A thorough and up-to-date guide to putting positive psychology into practice
From the Foreword: "This volume is the cutting edge of positive psychology and the emblem of its future."
-Martin E. P. Seligman, Ph.D., Fox Leadership Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, and author of Authentic Happiness
Positive psychology is an exciting new orientation in the field, going beyond psychology's traditional focus on illness and pathology to look at areas like well-being and fulfillment. While the larger question of optimal human functioning is hardly new - Aristotle addressed it in his treatises on eudaimonia - positive psychology offers a common language on this subject to professionals working in a variety of subdisciplines and practices. Applicable in many settings and relevant for individuals, groups, organizations, communities, and societies, positive psychology is a genuinely integrative approach to professional practice.
Positive Psychology in Practice fills the need for a broad, comprehensive, and state-of-the-art reference for this burgeoning new perspective. Cutting across traditional lines of thinking in psychology, this resource bridges theory, research, and applications to offer valuable information to a wide range of professionals and students in the social and behavioral sciences.
A group of major international contributors covers:
* The applied positive psychology perspective
* Historical and philosophical foundations
* Values and choices in pursuit of the good life
* Lifestyle practices for health and well-being
* Methods and processes for teaching and learning
* Positive psychology at work
The best and most thorough treatment of this cutting-edge discipline, Positive Psychology in Practice is an essential resource for understanding this important new theory and applying its principles to all areas of professional practice.
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Adapting Minds: Evolutionary Psychology and the Persistent Quest for Human Nature
Was human nature designed by natural selection in the Pleistocene epoch? The dominant view in evolutionary psychology holds that it was -- that our psychological adaptations were designed tens of thousands of years ago to solve problems faced by our hunter-gatherer ancestors. In this provocative and lively book, David Buller examines in detail the major claims of evolutionary psychology -- the paradigm popularized by Steven Pinker in The Blank Slate and by David Buss in The Evolution of Desire -- and rejects them all. This does not mean that we cannot apply evolutionary theory to human psychology, says Buller, but that the conventional wisdom in evolutionary psychology is misguided.
Evolutionary psychology employs a kind of reverse engineering to explain the evolved design of the mind, figuring out the adaptive problems our ancestors faced and then inferring the psychological adaptations that evolved to solve them. In the carefully argued central chapters of Adapting Minds, Buller scrutinizes several of evolutionary psychology's most highly publicized "discoveries," including "discriminative parental solicitude" (the idea that stepparents abuse their stepchildren at a higher rate than genetic parents abuse their biological children). Drawing on a wide range of empirical research, including his own large-scale study of child abuse, he shows that none is actually supported by the evidence.
Buller argues that our minds are not adapted to the Pleistocene, but, like the immune system, are continually adapting, over both evolutionary time and individual lifetimes. We must move beyond the reigning orthodoxy of evolutionary psychology to reach an accurate understanding of how human psychology is influenced by evolution. When we do, Buller claims, we will abandon not only the quest for human nature but the very idea of human nature itself.
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Encyclopedia of Multicultural Psychology
During the past 30 years, the study of racial and ethnic minority issues in psychology has evolved to what can be considered a significant and rapidly growing subfield within American psychology. The field encompasses a wide range of subdisciplines within psychology and includes a multitude of populations both within and outside of the United States.
The Encyclopedia of Multicultural Psychology is the first authoritative guide to synthesize the dynamic field of multicultural psychology. This volume includes entries on a broad array of issues and covers the breadth of psychology viewed through the lens of the racial and ethnic minority experience. The Encyclopedia addresses culture across a broad spectrum of psychological perspectives and includes topics that are relevant to social psychology, cognitive psychology, environmental psychology, cross-cultural psychology, and clinical psychology.
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Media Psychology
Media Psychology examines the impact that 21st century media use has on human behavior, from teenage crushes on pop stars to soap fandom in adulthood. It brings together North American communication research with European media research in a variety of disciplines--psychology, sociology, communication and media studies--and in doing so, maps out the territory for media psychology. David Giles argues that psychologists have been guilty of ignoring the influence of the media over the last century, seeing it at best as a minor nuisance that will eventually go away. However, with the increasing prevalence of new electronic forms of mass communication, the media seem to have a greater influence than ever over our daily lives.
In this book, Dr. Giles tackles the traditional topics of media psychology--sex, violence, advertising--along with sections on developmental aspects of media influence and the psychology of the audience. He also examines a number of specific media genres--news, sports, soaps, and the increasingly popular audience participation media, such as "reality" and "lifestyle" television. In addition, he asks what light psychology can shed on the popularity of these genres and the response of their audiences. Finally, there are chapters on the increasing influence of the Internet and on the representation of psychology and psychologists themselves in the media.
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Psychology and Human Nature
Psychology and Human Nature problematizes what psychology usually takes for granted-the meaning of the psyche or 'human nature'. The author provides a coherent account of many of the major schools of thought in psychology and its related disciplines, including: sociobiology and evolutionary psychology, psychoanalysis, cognitive psychology, radical behaviourism, existentialism, discursive psychology and postmodernism. For each approach he considers the claims or assumptions being made about 'human nature', especially regarding issues of consciousness, the self, the body, other people and the physical world.
Psychology and Human Nature will be essential reading for all students of psychology.
The Psychology Focus series provides students with a new focus on key topic areas in psychology. Each short book presents clear, in-depth coverage of a discrete area with many applied examples: Assumes no prior knowledge of psychology; Has been written by an experienced teacher; Has chapter summaries, annotated further reading and a glossary of key terms.
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Psychology and Religion : An Introduction
Should psychology try to explain religion or try to understand it? Pioneers in psychology like Sigmund Freud and William James took opposing views on the matter, and it has been a hotly debated issue ever since. While psychology has been used in the past to attack religion, recent psychological findings have been more sympathetic to matters of faith. How should we understand their relationship today?
In Psychology and Religion, Michael Argyle, one of the world's most famous experimental psychologists, provides a comprehensive and accessible survey of what psychologists know about religion--and what they don't. Offering fascinating and surprising insights into people and their religious worlds, Argyle examines the results of psychology's study of religion--including those of his own important experiments--and explores a wide range of topics such as: the importance of religion in the works of Freud, Jung and James; the proven effects of religion on the behavior of individuals and groups; how psychologists study religious activities like prayer, worship and ritual; and how psychologists have revealed the significance of change in religion, particularly in understanding the impact of new religious movements.
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Psychology and Buddhism: From Individual to Global Community
This book is notable in that it relates Buddhism (mostly trying to show its efficacy/applicability) to "Community Psychology," but is oriented to Nicheren & Zen Buddhism & overlooks Social Psychology & Sociology. Its purpose is "to inform, stimulate, & broaden the thinking of psychologists & others interested in the interface between psychology & Buddhism" but recognizes that p. 65: "As therapists we must also be mindful of the potential hazards of applying Eastern practices outside of their cultural & spiritual contexts. Numerous sources have warned of the dangers of applying Eastern techniques in the West without great care...Transcendental Meditation & even deep relaxation have been noted to have a powerful potential for adverse psychiatric effects in some types of patients...the potential for disruptive psychological & emotional disregulation &/or regression in the wake of Eastern practices from too powerful an encounter with the self. In such cases it appears that the power of Eastern techniques overwhelms the self-structure of some psychotherapy patients, precipitating what are known in the literature as psychiatric casualties."
The book has 12 essays of incredibly wide variety with interesting topics: Ragsdale relates "Gestalt Psychology & Mahayana Buddhism" noting a need for context & the nature of synergy; Dudley-Grant addresses "Buddhism, Psychology, & Addiction Theory" noting commonalities of Buddhism & various psychologies-even behavioral modification; Young-Eisendrath decries "Biobabble" saying "Science is the spiritual adventure of our age & we have to engage its methods in order to bring validity to our pursuits" without overemphasis on biological explanations for human behavior; Khong, describes Daseinsanalysis & Buddhism; Dockett argues for Buddhists pushing social change (somewhat propagandistic toward Nicheren Buddhism; Jason & Moritsugu describe 3 community psychology models; Yamamoto describes the 8 consciousness levels of the Consciousness-Only/Yogacara School & relates them to Jungian theory. IMHO while Nicheren Buddhism has been underrepresented in many Buddhist anthologies, several essays are propagandistic/doctrinaire, lacking critical analysis & discriminating wisdom. Some arguments don't support conclusions (i.e. are invalid)-e.g. ancient Buddhist animism doesn't prove the equality of inanimate, vegetative, animal, & human entities. A potential is not the same as an actuality. Interestingly, there are Buddhist arguments that could be used to justify such an equality (at a high level of abstraction), but they are from other Buddhist traditions. Also, exceptions to the contrary, IMHO Buddhist social activism is a modern Western-oriented phenomenon, a valid contribution to Buddhism-mostly ignored in this book. In addition, the book seems politically far left rather than scientifically neutral, with an appearance of Buddhists applying religion to psychology & something of an apologetic. In short, there is some good information on unusual topics but a dearth of knowledge or wisdom herein.
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