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Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Social, group or collective psychology
Overworked and Undervalued: Black Women and Successin America is a
collection of essays written by Black female scholars, educators,
and students as well as public policy, behavioral, and mental
health professionals. The contributors' share their experiences and
frustrations with White America which continues to demand excessive
labor and one-sided relationships of Black women while it
simultaneously diminishes them. The book describes the ongoing
struggle for women of color in general, but Black women in
particular, which derives from the experience that only certain
parts of our identities are deemed acceptable. The essays reflect
on the events of the last few years and the toll the related stress
has taken on each author. As a whole, the book offers its readers
an opportunity to gain insight into these women's experiences and
to find their place in supporting the Black women in their lives.
The Advances in Experimental Social Psychology series is the
premier outlet for reviews of mature, high-impact research programs
in social psychology. Contributions to the series provide defining
pieces of established research programs, reviewing and integrating
thematically related findings by individual scholars or research
groups. Topics discussed in Volume 64 include Moral Inference,
Coalitional Cognition, Motivated Perception and Self-Regulation,
Morality in Impression Development, and Self-Uncertainty and Group
Identification.
Measuring and Modeling Persons and Situations presents major
innovations and contributions on the topic, promoting deeper
integration, cross-pollination of ideas across diverse academic
disciplines, and the facilitation of the development of practical
applications such as matching people to jobs, understanding
decision making, and predicting how a group of individuals will
interact with one another. The book is organized around two
overarching and interrelated themes, with the first focusing on
assessing the person and the situation, covering methodological
advances and techniques for inferring and measuring
characteristics, and showing how they can be instantiated for
measurement and predictive purposes. The book's second theme
presents theoretical models, conceptualizing how factors of the
person and situation can help us understand the psychological
dynamics which underlie behavior, the psychological experience of
fit or congruence with one's environment, and changes in
personality traits over time.
Advances in Motivation Science, Volume Eight, the latest release in
Elsevier's serial on the topic of motivation science, contains
interesting articles that cover topics such as The functional
architecture of human motivation: Personality systems interactions
theory, Teacher motivational messages used prior to examinations:
What are they, how are they evaluated, and what are their
educational outcomes?, Understanding peer relationships during
childhood and adolescence through the lens of social motivation,
Self-efficacy and human motivation, The creation and curation of
all things worthy: Inspiration as vital force in persons and
cultures, and Motivational decision-making in achievement settings:
A competence-in-context approach.
'In a time when too many minds seem closed, this is a masterful
analysis of what it takes to open them' Adam Grant, author of the
bestselling Think Again 'Optimistic, illuminating and even
inspiring' Guardian As the world is increasingly polarised, it
feels impossible to change the mind of someone with a conflicting
view. But this book shows that you could be one conversation away
from changing someone's mind about something, maybe a lot of
things. Self-delusion expert and psychology nerd David McRaney sets
out to discover not just what it takes to influence others, but why
we believe in the first place. Along the way he meets a former
Westboro Baptist Church member who was deradicalised on Twitter,
goes deep canvassing to see how quickly people will surrender their
character-defining views, finds a 9/11 Truther who turns his back
on it all, and reveals how, within a few years, half a country can
go from opposing the 'gay agenda' to happily attending same-sex
weddings. Distilling the latest research in psychology and
neuroscience, How Minds Change reveals how beliefs take hold, not
over hundreds of years, but in less than a generation, in less than
a decade, and sometimes in an instant.
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