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Books > Social sciences > Psychology > The self, ego, identity, personality
Expand your learning on some of the fundamental aspects surrounding
human personality and intelligence with this accessible, revised
edition. Personality, Individual Differences and Intelligence 5th
edition follows the previous market-leading editions, offering a
complete, reader-friendly, and up-to-date introduction to the
field. The text offers a significant discussion on the fundamental
issues surrounding personality, individual differences, and
intelligence on a biological, physiological, and psychological
level and how their integration applies to the United Kingdom and
European curriculum. Following a thoughtful pedagogical approach,
the edition develops the subject from its foundation to more
advanced topics, making it highly accessible to students. It also
employs a range of updated and new features, encouraging individual
reflection and group discussion for a deeper understanding of the
topics introduced The text presents historical material and
viewpoints, which along with debates of new and contemporary
issues, make the content engaging to read and discuss. Equipped
with features such as the established series of 'Stop and Think'
boxes, it aims at helping students consolidate their understanding
of the topics reviewed and develop their critical thinking skills.
Updated with 150 new research studies and introducing new topics
(such as the Dark Triad of Personality, Entity Theory and
Incremental Theories of Intelligence, Work on Trait Emotional
Intelligence, Internet Dating, Personality, and Social Media Use),
this edition is a must-have book!
This book integrates the findings of group research emphasizing
"Madness of the Crowd" versus collective intelligence that
highlights "Wisdom of the Crowd." Thus it provides an overview of
psychological research on group processes and collective
intelligence, analyzing cognitive, social, and structural factors.
Chapters address applications of this research to contexts such as
organizations and online behavior, and offer guidelines and
hands-on demonstrations of psychological principles. The book is
highly relevant to students and instructors in personality and
social psychology.
Charting a genealogy of the modern idea of the self, Felix O
Murchadha explores the accounts of self-identity expounded by key
Early Modern philosophers, Montaigne, Descartes, Pascal, Spinoza,
Hume and Kant. The question of the self as we would discuss it
today only came to the forefront of philosophical concern with
Modernity, beginning with an appeal to the inherited models of the
self found in Stoicism, Scepticism, Augustinianism and Pelagianism,
before continuing to develop as a subject of philosophical debate.
Exploring this trajectory, The Formation of the Modern Self pursues
a number of themes central to the Early Modern development of
selfhood, including, amongst others, grace and passion. It examines
on the one hand the deep-rooted dependence on the divine and the
longing for happiness and salvation and, on the other hand, the
distancing from the Stoic ideal of apatheia, as philosophers from
Descartes to Spinoza recognised the passions as essential to human
agency. Fundamental to the new question of the self was the
relation of faith and reason. Uncovering commonalities and
differences amongst Early Modern philosophers, O Murchadha traces
how the voluntarism of Modernity led to the sceptical approach to
the self in Montaigne and Hume and how this sceptical strand, in
turn, culminated in Kant's rational faith. More than a history of
the self in philosophy, The Formation of the Modern Self inspires a
fresh look at self-identity, uncovering not only how our modern
idea of selfhood developed but just how embedded the concept of
self is in external considerations: from ethics, to reason, to
religion.
Significant progress has been made in the study of human psychology
in recent years. However, certain aspects of personality, such as
electrophysiological attributes, have yet to be fully examined.
Measuring the Psychological and Electrophysiological Attributes of
Human Personality: Emerging Research and Opportunities is a
detailed scholarly resource that presents the latest findings in
psychology as in relation to electrophysiology. Featuring coverage
on relevant topics including personality theories, temperament
analysis, and evoked brain potentials, this is an important
reference publication that would be useful to psychologists,
medical professionals, academicians, graduate students, and
researchers that must keep abreast of the latest personality
research in the psychological field.
In this book, Hong Kong is seen as a labyrinth, a postmodern site
of capitalist desires, and a panoptic space both homely and
unhomely. The author maps out various specific locations of the
city through the intertwined disciplines of street photography,
autoethnography and psychogeography. By meandering through the
urban landscape and taking street photographs, this form of
practice is open to the various metaphors, atmospheres and visual
discourses offered up by the street scenes. The result is a
practice-led research project informed by both documentary and
creative writing that seeks to articulate thinking via the process
of art-making. As a research project on the affective mapping of
places in the city, the book examines what Hong Kong is, as thought
and felt by the person on the street. It explores the everyday
experiences afforded by the city through the figure of the flaneur
wandering in shopping districts and street markets. Through his own
street photographs and drawing from the writings of Byung-Chul Han,
Walter Benjamin and Michel de Certeau, the author explores
feelings, affects, and states of mind as he explores the city and
its social life.
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