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This inspirational guide, designed to be used alone or with the
book, The Twelve Steps--A Spiritual Journey, shows how prayer is
vital to every step of the 12 Steps program.
A richly written guide which can be used by individuals or groups,
alone or in tandem with The Twelve Steps--A Spiritual Journey. The
authors include approximately ten reflections on each step, each
with a Bible verse, a revealing lesson from their personal
experiences, and a short prayer to affirm the lesson.
This is a textbook introducing selected topics in formal social
choice theory. Social choice theory studies group choices that are
based on information about preferences of members of the group
(voting rules being one important special case). This involves
economics, which provides the method of modelling individual
decision making; political philosophy, which provides criteria
about the allocation of decision-influencing power; and game
theory, which provides a framework for thinking about the
strategies individuals employ in trying to influence the group
choice. The goal of this book is to take basic ideas like
impossibility theorems, rights exercising and strategy proofness
and give the student just enough technical background to be able to
understand these ideas in a logically rigorous way. This is done
through a set of 250 exercises that constitute the heart of the
book and which differentiate this book from all other texts in
social choice theory.
ALOIS ANGLEITNER and JERRY S. WIGGINS The personality questionnaire
has been with us for more than 60 years. It has been, and still is,
the most popular method of personality assessment and it no doubt
will continue to be so. The method has been sharply criticized
since its inception (e. g. , Allport, 1921; Watson, 1933; Ellis,
1946; Janke, 1973), and this criticism is also likely to continue.
The long-standing indifference of test con structors to criticisms
of their craft is brought home by noting the similarities between
objections raised many years ago and those that are offered today
(Gynther & Green, 1982). Within this context, one might well
ask why a book on personality questionnaires should appear at this
time. Despite the centrality of the personality questionnaire to
personality as sessment, there are, to our knowledge, no recent
books on the general topic of personality questionnaires. There are
of course books on specific instru ments (e. g. , Dahlstrom, Welsh
& Dahlstrom, 1972, 1975), books on interpre tation of specific
instruments (e. g. , Comrey, 1980), and books on specific is sues
such as response styles (e. g. , Block, 1965). Although not
specifically focused on personality questionnaires, Bass and Berg's
(1959) Objective Ap proaches to Personality Assessment dealt with a
number of issues that are cen tral to questionnaires.
How should we approach the psychological study of religion, and how
relevant is classical psychoanalysis, identified with the writings
of Sigmund Freud, to the understanding of religion? Freud's
writings on religion have been discussed often and continue to
attract attention and debate. Psychoanalysis and Theism starts with
an essay by Adolf Grunbaum, one of the world's leading philosophers
of science and an incisive critic of Freud's work. Grunbaum looks
at Freud's general claims about the psychological mechanisms
involved in religion and finds them lacking. Then, in a surprising
turn, Grunbaum judges some of Freud's interpretations of concrete
religious ideas and practices to be not only cogent, but
indispensable. When it comes to the case of the belief in Virgin
Birth, Grunbaum finds an Oedipal interpretation to be our only
choice. This remarkable essay is the stimulus for a symposium with
nine senior scholars, coming from the fields of philosophy,
psychology, sociology, and psychoanalysis, who present their
critical reflections on how we should study religion, how we should
treat Freud's ideas, and what the future directions in
psychological research on concrete religious behavior should be.
The contributors bring to this effort their varied fields of
expertise, from analytical philosophy to experimental psychology.
Of special interest are essays which deal with the Virgin Birth
doctrine and its possible psychological sources and with the
potential for future psychoanalytic studies of faith and ritual.
Other essays focus on Freud's conscious and unconscious motivations
for studying religion as well as the hidden biases and lacunae
found in the social science literature on religious practices. This
volume adds a unique combination of critical and knowledgeable
voices to the debate on Sigmund Freud's legacy."
Hardbound. Intelligence is considered in its widest sense,
representing diverse viewpoints and areas of specialization in this
volume. Contributors represent an international network of
intelligence and cognition researchers, coming from a wide range of
countries including Germany, New Zealand, The Netherlands and the
United States.This volume concentrates on a few points of special
importance, that is, the changeability of intelligence and its
relation to cognition. Most of the chapters in this work are
original contributions to the field and were specially commissioned
for this particular volume.
This study focuses on three issues which have been recurrent in the
literature on intelligence during the last century: general
intellectual capacity; the g factor; and how to influence the
development of intelligence. The topics range from neuropsychology
to intelligence, personality and information processing.
Contributions by scholars from Canada, Europe and the United States
are included, representing diverse view points in the field of
research into the g factor and into the possibility of raising a
person's level of intelligence. The first chapter provides an
in-depth summary of research into differences between black and
white performances on psychometric mental ability tests, while the
second chapter provides a review of the research into race and sex
differences in brain size and cognitive ability. Other topics
covered include: the relationship between the g factor and infant
intelligence; the cognitive correlates of intelligence and
personality; an historical overview of the founders of the
scientific study of intelligence, Binet and Galton; and a review of
the mental speed approach. The volume concludes with a discussion
of the effects of intervention programmes on accelerating the
development of intelligence within the context of Piaget's criteria
for the assessment of durable training methods.
This second volume in the series discusses such topics as working
memory in writing, working memory as a source of individual
differences in children's writing and modifying Hayes' and Flowers'
model of skilled writing.
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