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Books > Social sciences > Psychology > The self, ego, identity, personality
Humans have a unique ability to understand the beliefs, emotions,
and intentions of others-a capacity often referred to as
mentalizing. Much research in psychology and neuroscience has
focused on delineating the mechanisms of mentalizing, and examining
the role of mentalizing processes in other domains of cognitive and
affective functioning. The purpose of the book is to provide a
comprehensive overview of the current research on the mechanisms of
mentalizing at the neural, algorithmic, and computational levels of
analysis. The book includes contributions from prominent
researchers in the field of social-cognitive and affective
neuroscience, as well as from related disciplines (e.g., cognitive,
social, developmental and clinical psychology, psychiatry,
philosophy, primatology). The contributors review their latest
research in order to compile an authoritative source of knowledge
on the psychological and brain bases of the unique human capacity
to think about the mental states of others. The intended audience
is researchers and students in the fields of social-cognitive and
affective neuroscience and related disciplines such as
neuroeconomics, cognitive neuroscience, developmental neuroscience,
social cognition, social psychology, developmental psychology,
cognitive psychology, and affective science. Secondary audiences
include researchers in decision science (economics, judgment and
decision-making), philosophy of mind, and psychiatry.
This book on business psychology-particularly organizational
leadership-crosses industries, continents, and business
environments: it includes 45 precis on emerging theories of
leadership; ethical and cultural considerations; group and team
leadership; leadership self-development; management philosophy and
practice; organizational diagnosis and cultural dynamics;
personality and lifespan in the workplace; professional
development; qualitative research methods; psychological,
socio-cultural, and political dimensions of organizations; the role
of technology in organizations; strategic change management; and
systems theory. The material ranges widely but is pithy: each
precis offers in easy bites the latest "take" on the subject,
drawing from popular textbooks, recommended readings, case studies,
group exercises, personal experience, and self-reflection; each was
written as a key to understanding and change with an eye to
re-imagining leadership in the 21st century. Both rigorously
researched and entertaining, this book addresses the fast-changing
realities of organizational leadership in domestic and
international settings across the private, public, and nonprofit
sectors: it will serve as a valuable quick-access resource for
practitioners and students.
This book reviews the latest research from psychology,
neuroscience, and behavioral economics evaluating how people make
financial choices in real-life circumstances. The volume is divided
into three sections investigating financial decision making at the
level of the brain, the level of an individual decision maker, and
the level of the society, concluding with a discussion of the
implications for further research. Among the topics discussed:
Neural and hormonal bases of financial decision making Personality,
cognitive abilities, emotions, and financial decisions Aging and
financial decision making Coping methods for making financial
choices under uncertainty Stock market crashes and market bubbles
Psychological perspectives on borrowing, paying taxes, gambling,
and charitable giving Psychological Perspectives on Financial
Decision Making is a useful reference for researchers both in and
outside of psychology, including decision-making experts, consumer
psychologists, and behavioral economists.
Liminality has become a key concept within the social sciences,
with a growing number of publications devoted to it in recent
years. The concept is needed to address those aspects of human
experience and social life that fall outside of ordered structures.
In contrast to the clearly defined roles and routines that define
so much of industrial work and economic life, it highlights spaces
of transition, indefiniteness, ambiguity, play and creativity.
Thus, it is an indispensable concept and a necessary counterweight
to the overemphasis on structural influences on human behavior.
This book aims to use the concept of liminality to develop a
culturally and experientially sensitive psychology. This is
accomplished by first setting out an original theoretical framework
focused on understanding the 'liminal sources of cultural
experience,' and second an application of concept to a number of
different domains, such as tourism, pilgrimage, aesthetics,
children's play, art therapy, and medical diagnosis. Finally, all
these domains are then brought together in a concluding commentary
chapter that puts them in relation to an overarching theoretical
framework. This book will be useful for graduate students and
researchers in cultural psychology, critical psychology,
psychosocial psychology, developmental psychology, health
psychology, anthropology and the social sciences, cultural studies
among others.
Young people are very often the driving forces of political
participation that aims to change societies and political systems.
Rather than being depoliticized, young people in different national
contexts are giving rise to alternative politics. Drawing on
original survey data collected in 2018, this edited volume provides
a detailed analysis of youth participation in nine European
countries by focusing on socialization processes, different modes
of participation and the mobilization of youth politics. "This
volume is an indispensable guide to understanding young European's
experience and engagement of politics, the inequalities that shape
young people's political engagement and are sometimes replicated
through them, and young people's commitment to saving the
environment and spreading democratic ideals. Based on compelling
and extensive research across nine nations, this volume makes
important advances in key debates on youth politics and provides
critical empirical insights into which young people engage,
influences on young people's politics, how young people engage, why
some young people don't engage, and trends across nations. The
volume succeeds in the herculean task of focusing on specific
national contexts while also rendering a comprehensive picture of
youth politics and inequality in Europe today." -Jennifer Earl,
Professor of Sociology, University of Arizona, USA "Forecasts by
social scientists of young people's increasingly apathetic stance
towards political participation appear to have been misplaced. This
text, drawing data and analysis across and between nine European
countries, captures the changing nature of political 'activism' by
young people. It indicates how this is strongly nuanced by factors
such as social class and gender identity. It also highlights
important distinctions between young people's approaches towards
more traditional (electoral) and more contemporary
(non-institutional) forms of participation. Critically, it
illuminates the many ways in which youth political participation
has evolved and transformed in recent years. Wider social
circumstances and experiences are identified as highly significant
in preparing young people for, and influencing their levels of
participation in, both protest-oriented action and electoral
politics." -Howard Williamson, Professor of European Youth Policy,
University of South Wales, UK "This book is an incredible guide to
understanding the role and sources of inequalities on young
people's political involvement. Country specific chapters allow the
authors to integrate a large number of the key and most pressing
issues regarding young people's relationship to politics in a
single volume. Topics range from social mobility and the influence
of socioeconomic (parental) resources and class; young people's
practice in the social sphere; the intersection of gender with
other sources of inequalities; online participation and its
relationship with social inequalities; the impact of harsh economic
conditions; the mobilization potential of the environmental cause;
to the role of political organizations. Integrating all these
pressing dimensions in a common framework and accompanying it with
extensive novel empirical evidence is a great achievement and the
result is a must read piece for researchers and practitioners
aiming to understand the challenges young people face in developing
their relationship to politics." -Gema Garcia-Albacete, Associate
Professor of Political Science, University Carlos III Madrid, Spain
Changing Habits of Mind presents a theory of personality that
integrates homeostatic dynamics of the brain with self-processes,
emotionality, cultural adaptation, and personal reality. Informed
by the author's brain-based, relational psychotherapeutic practice,
the book discusses the brain's evolutionary growth, the four
information-processing areas of the brain, and the cortex in
relationship to the limbic system. Integrating the different
experiences of sensory and non-sensory processes in the brain, the
text introduces a theory of personality currently lacking in
psychotherapy research that integrates neurobiology and psychology
for the first time. Readers will learn how to integrate
psychodynamic processes with cognitive behavioral techniques, while
clinical vignettes exemplify the interaction of neurophysiological
process with a range of psychological variables including
homeostasis, developmental family dynamics, and culture. Changing
Habits of Mind expands the psychotherapist's perspective, exploring
the important links between an integrated theory of personality and
effective clinical practice.
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