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The Profile of Political Leaders 2016 - Archetypes of Ascendancy (Hardcover, 2016 ed.): Jaap Van Ginneken The Profile of Political Leaders 2016 - Archetypes of Ascendancy (Hardcover, 2016 ed.)
Jaap Van Ginneken
R1,506 Discovery Miles 15 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

By analysing a wide range of empirical research into leadership, this book provides a composite portrait of frequent characteristics, such as personality and demeanour, that influence both the success and popularity of political leaders. Through the lenses of mass psychology and collective behaviour sociology, the author offers fascinating observations on political leadership which reveal a coherent pattern. In our choice of and support for leaders, we still seem to be guided by unconscious or instinctive preferences. Evolutionary psychologists have labelled this 'CALP' for 'Cognitive Ancestral Leadership Prototype'. Length, symmetry, face form, voice pitch, eye blinking and more turn out to play a role - even today - alongside personality and style. Each chapter of the book offers a case study to illustrate these observations, including Barack Obama, Ronald Reagan, Nicolas Sarkozy, and Boris Johnson. This book is accessibly written to appeal to students of politics, psychology and sociology, as well as the wider interested reader.

Collective Behavior and Public Opinion - Rapid Shifts in Opinion and Communication (Hardcover): Jaap Van Ginneken Collective Behavior and Public Opinion - Rapid Shifts in Opinion and Communication (Hardcover)
Jaap Van Ginneken
R4,492 Discovery Miles 44 920 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This is a highly innovative and stimulating work with the outline of an entirely new approach to massive and rapid shifts in opinion and communication. It discusses and explains such mysterious phenomena as sudden crazes and crashes, fads and fashion, hypes and manias, moral outrage and protests, gossip and rumors, and scares and panics.
Rich in alternative insights, the book is divided into four parts. Part I discusses the points of departure: the most relevant processes of opinion formation and communication. Part II is about phenomena on three different levels, that have traditionally been studied within the twin fields of mass psychology and collective behavior sociology. Part III focuses on the three prime forms of "emotional coloring" of opinion currents and public moods. Part IV discusses a combination of some of the aforementioned phenomena: successive crazes and crashes in financial markets, and looks at why technological and economic, and social and opinion forecasts often fail so miserably.
The audience for this book includes students of social and mass psychology, social movements and collective behavior sociology, and opinion and communication in general. Professionals in public relations, marketing, health, finance, and politics, as well as the educated lay audience, will also find this book of interest.

Climate, Chaos and Collective Behaviour - A Rising Fickleness (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022): Jaap Van Ginneken Climate, Chaos and Collective Behaviour - A Rising Fickleness (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Jaap Van Ginneken
R4,244 Discovery Miles 42 440 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book introduces principles of Chaos theory (and Complex Adaptive Systems) to social science, in a lively and elegant way. It applies it to the twin disciplines of mass psychology (under social psychology, mostly in Europe) and collective behavior sociology (mostly in North America) that deal with emergent psychosocial phenomena that lie outside conventional approaches. Each of the eleven chapters begins with a topical 'case study' section, on an issue related to climate change and collective behaviour, such as the 'school strike' by Swedish schoolgirl Greta Thunberg, the Hollywood movie The Day After Tomorrow, and more. This book aims to show that there are fundamental reasons why many phenomena cannot be easily 'measured, predicted and controlled', and thus we need to familiarize ourselves with alternative ways of thinking about them.

The Psychology of Power - Temptation at the Top (Hardcover): Jaap Van Ginneken The Psychology of Power - Temptation at the Top (Hardcover)
Jaap Van Ginneken
R2,591 R1,915 Discovery Miles 19 150 Save R676 (26%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The author tests the hypothesis that hubris and the Bathsheba syndrome tend to affect all top leaders, by zooming in on the best known and very highest executives of our own day and age, and examines the psychological forces tugging at the top level of political leadership.

Collective Behavior and Public Opinion - Rapid Shifts in Opinion and Communication (Paperback): Jaap Van Ginneken Collective Behavior and Public Opinion - Rapid Shifts in Opinion and Communication (Paperback)
Jaap Van Ginneken
R1,315 Discovery Miles 13 150 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This is a highly innovative and stimulating work with the outline of an entirely new approach to massive and rapid shifts in opinion and communication. It discusses and explains such mysterious phenomena as sudden crazes and crashes, fads and fashion, hypes and manias, moral outrage and protests, gossip and rumors, and scares and panics.
Rich in alternative insights, the book is divided into four parts. Part I discusses the points of departure: the most relevant processes of opinion formation and communication. Part II is about phenomena on three different levels, that have traditionally been studied within the twin fields of mass psychology and collective behavior sociology. Part III focuses on the three prime forms of emotional coloring of opinion currents and public moods. Part IV discusses a combination of some of the aforementioned phenomena: successive crazes and crashes in financial markets, and looks at why technological and economic, and social and opinion forecasts often fail so miserably.
The audience for this book includes students of social and mass psychology, social movements and collective behavior sociology, and opinion and communication in general. Professionals in public relations, marketing, health, finance, and politics, as well as the educated lay audience, will also find this book of interest.

Understanding Global News - A Critical Introduction (Hardcover): Jaap Van Ginneken Understanding Global News - A Critical Introduction (Hardcover)
Jaap Van Ginneken
R4,717 Discovery Miles 47 170 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A lively and critical introduction to the news media, this book has been written specifically for media students and trainee journalists. Understanding Global News invites the reader to explore contemporary journalistic practice, and questions the assumption that the media provide a mere window on the world.

Challenging the often unquestioned notions of media objectivity, the author turns the classic questions: Who? What? When? and Why? onto the news media. By employing a range of theoretical perspectives and a large variety of examples, the author demonstrates the way in which our perceptions of the world are constructed by the news media.

The Psychology of Power - Temptation at the Top (Paperback, 1st ed. 2014): Jaap Van Ginneken The Psychology of Power - Temptation at the Top (Paperback, 1st ed. 2014)
Jaap Van Ginneken
R1,978 Discovery Miles 19 780 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The author tests the hypothesis that hubris and the Bathsheba syndrome tend to affect all top leaders, by zooming in on the best known and very highest executives of our own day and age, and examines the psychological forces tugging at the top level of political leadership.

The Profile of Political Leaders - Archetypes of Ascendancy (Paperback, Softcover Reprint of the Original 1st 2016 ed.): Jaap... The Profile of Political Leaders - Archetypes of Ascendancy (Paperback, Softcover Reprint of the Original 1st 2016 ed.)
Jaap Van Ginneken
R1,477 Discovery Miles 14 770 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Crowds, Psychology, and Politics, 1871-1899 (Paperback): Jaap Van Ginneken Crowds, Psychology, and Politics, 1871-1899 (Paperback)
Jaap Van Ginneken
R1,635 Discovery Miles 16 350 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Jaap van Ginneken's study explores the social and intellectual history of the emergence of the field of crowd psychology in the late nineteenth century in France and Italy. Both the popular work of the French physician LeBon, considered the "father" of this field, and his predecessors are shown to be influenced and closely connected with the dramatic events and academic debates of their day. Although LeBon is generally thought of as the creator of the field of crowd psychology, this study demonstrates how he derived most of his key concepts from immediate predecessors, without acknowledging his debt to them. Professor van Ginneken traces the descendants and heirs of the original authors throughout Europe, using unpublished correspondence to shed light on their mutual relations. Recognizing that LeBon's work was by far the most popular, the success of his work is shown to have had a decisive influence on many major political leaders of the twentieth century--including Theodore Roosevelt, Charles de Gaulle, Benito Mussolini, and Adolf Hitler. The work provides an international and historiographical account of the early history of crowd psychology, emphasizing the community of better and lesser known authors in this field and placing it in the context of the major scientific debates of the day.

Understanding Global News - A Critical Introduction (Paperback): Jaap Van Ginneken Understanding Global News - A Critical Introduction (Paperback)
Jaap Van Ginneken
R2,574 Discovery Miles 25 740 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Understanding Global News provides a lively and critical introduction to the news media. Written specifically for media students and training journalists, this book invites the reader to explore contemporary journalistic practice, as well as the assumption that the media provide a mere window on the world. Challenging the often unquestioned notions of media objectivity, the author turns the classic questionsùWho, Why, What, When, and Whereùonto the news media themselves. By employing a range of theoretical perspectives and a large variety of examples, the author demonstrates the way in which our perceptions of the world are constructed by the news media. Understanding Global News will be an essential text for all students of journalism and media studies.

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