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In volume 1 of Gandhi and the Psychology of Nonviolence the authors
advanced a scientific psychology of nonviolence, derived from
principles enunciated by Gandhi and supported by current
state-of-the-art research in psychology. In this second volume the
authors demonstrate its potential contribution across a wide range
of applied psychology fields. As we enter the era of the
Anthropocene, they argue, it is imperative to make use of Gandhi's
legacy through our evolving noospheric consciousness to address the
urgent problems of the 21st century. The authors examine Gandhi's
contributions in the context of both established areas such as the
psychology of religion, educational, community and organizational
psychology and newer fields including environmental psychology and
the psychology of technology. They provide a nuanced analysis which
engages with both the latest research and the practical
implications for initiatives like the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change and the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. The book
concludes with an overview of Gandhi's contribution to modern
psychology, which encompasses the history, development, and current
impetus behind emerging work in the field as a whole. It marks an
exciting contribution to studies of both Gandhi and psychology that
will also provide unique insights for scholars of applied
psychology, education, environmental and development studies.
The first of two volumes, this book examines Gandhi's contribution
to an understanding of the scientific and evolutionary basis of the
psychology of nonviolence, through the lens of contemporary
researches on human cognition, empathy, morality and self-control.
While, psychological science has focused on those participants that
delivered electric shocks in Professor Stanley Milgram's famous
experiments, these books begin from the premise that we have
neglected to fully explore why the other participants walked away.
Building on emergent research in the psychology of self control and
wisdom, the authors illustrate what Gandhi's life and work offers
to our understanding of these subjects who disobeyed and defied
Milgram. The authors analyze Gandhi's actions and philosophy, as
well as original interviews with his contemporaries, to elaborate a
modern scientific psychology of nonviolence from the principles he
enunciated and which were followed so successfully in his
Satyagrahas. Gandhi, they argue, was a practical psychologist from
whom we can derive a science of nonviolence which, as Volume 2 will
illustrate, can be applied to almost every subfield of psychology,
but particularly to those addressing the most urgent issues of the
21st century. This book is the result of four decades of
collaborative work between the authors. It marks a unique
contribution to studies of both Gandhi and the current trends in
psychological research that will appeal in particular to scholars
of social change, peace studies and peace psychology, and, serve as
an exemplar in teaching one of modern psychology's hitherto
neglected perspectives.
Reduce low-value care with this practical guide Low-value care
harms patients, overburdens healthcare professionals, threatens
healthcare systems and damages the climate. How to Reduce Overuse
in Healthcare is designed to provide practical guidance and tools
for healthcare providers, their professional societies and policy
makers developing programs to de-implement low-value or unnecessary
care. It provides a five-step evidence- and theory-based framework
for developing and evaluating programs such as Choosing Wisely to
reduce low-value care and improve patient outcomes. How to Reduce
Overuse in Healthcare readers will also find: An author team
involved in the leading Choosing Wisely international network
Detailed analysis of how to identify potential low-value care
areas, select interventions, and more Practical, real-world
examples at the end of each chapter illustrating examples of
overuse and de-implementation How to Reduce Overuse in Healthcare
describes the state of the art in de-implementation for healthcare
professionals, healthcare administrator and policy makers looking
to reduce low-value care in a more effective and evidence-based
way.
This unique treatise expands on the philosophy of technology to
argue for a psychology of technology based on the complex
relationships between psychology, biology and technology,
especially in the light of our relationships with our digital
devices, our online lives, and our human experience. Drawing from
disciplines ranging from philosophy and evolution to cognition and
neuroscience, it examines myriad aspects of the brain's creative
development: the cognitive, sensory, and motor processes that
enable technological progress and its resulting efficiencies and
deficiencies along with our discomforts and pleasures. These
experiences are key to behavioral and affective processes in
technology, manifest in such diverse phenomena as multitasking, the
shift in tech design from ergonomics to hedonomics, and the many
types of online problem behaviors. Through these rich pages,
readers can understand more deeply the history and future of human
adjustment and adaptation in an environment intertwined with
technology-and, with the ascendance of video games and virtual
reality, new conceptions of the human self. Among the topics
covered: Could we have remained a tech-devoid society? Technology,
ergonomics and the non-executive functions of our body. New
directions in brain-computer interface. From avatars and agents to
virtual reality technology.<
On measuring affective responses to objects. Psychology,
technology, ethics, and culture. A timely lens on a field that will
grow in importance as it shapes our existence, Psychology of
Technology will be read and discussed by not only psychologists,
social scientists, and behavioral scientists, but also by
technology designers and developers and those in biotechnology.
Paddock has referred to societies as "anti-violent" that Inhibit
the expressIon of aggresSion. In his book Violence and Aggression,
KE. Moyer nas made a brief but interesting comparison of several
violent and nonviolent cultures. Whereas studies of violence have
ranged from genetic, cultural to Situation effects, and have been
pursued through empirical and nonempirical methods over the past
several decades, nonviolence did not become a favorite area of
study among social scientists. Although it is impossible to make a
complete list of the various reasons for the lack of interest among
social scientists on this subject, it is generally believed that a
lack of understanding of the concept and a failure to either
develop or apply adequate methods are to Olame. Therefore we are
not surprized that nonviolence has remained, by and large, a
favorite topic among religious thinkers and leaders only. A good
example of how people have difficulty understanding the concept of
nonviolence came to me when I delivered a lecture to a group of
political science students several years ago. I experienced similar
problems when I spoke to the history and political science
professors. Subsequent dialogues with faculty members in other
disciplines convinced me that our perspectives on nonVIolence were
not commonly clear to all of us. or course, most of us did agree on
one thing--that Is, there Is a distinct difference separating
Eastern from Western views of nonviolence.
How can people master their own thoughts, feelings, and actions?
This question is central to the scientific study of
self-regulation. The behavioral side of self-regulation has been
extensively investigated over the last decades, but the biological
machinery that allows people to self-regulate has mostly remained
vague and unspecified. "Handbook of Biobehavioral Approaches to
Self-Regulation "corrects this imbalance. Moving beyond traditional
mind-body dualities, the various contributions in the book examine
how self-regulation becomes established in cardiovascular,
hormonal, and central nervous systems. Particular attention is
given to the dynamic interplay between affect and cognition in
self-regulation. The book also addresses the psychobiology of
effort, the impact of depression on self-regulation, the
development of self-regulation, and the question what causes
self-regulation to succeed or fail. These novel perspectives
provide readers with a new, biologically informed understanding of
self-awareness and self-agency. Among the topics being covered are:
Self-regulation in an evolutionary perspective.The muscle metaphor
in self-regulation in the light of current theorizing on muscle
physiology.From distraction to mindfulness: psychological and
neural mechanisms of attention strategies in
self-regulation.Self-regulation in social decision-making: a
neurobiological perspective.Mental effort: brain and autonomic
correlates in health and disease.A basic and applied model of the
body-mind system.
"Handbook of Biobehavioral Approaches to Self-Regulation
"provides a wealth of theoretical insights into self-regulation,
with great potential for future applications for improving
self-regulation in everyday life settings, including education,
work, health, and interpersonal relationships. The book highlights
a host of exciting new ideas and directions and is sure to provoke
a great deal of thought and discussion among researchers,
practitioners, and graduate-level students in psychology,
education, neuroscience, medicine, and behavioral economics."
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Progress in Plant Protoplast Research - Proceedings of the 7th International Protoplast Symposium, Wageningen, the Netherlands, December 6-11, 1987 (Hardcover, Partly reprinted from PLANT, CELL, TISSUE, AND ORGAN CULTURE, 12:2, 1988)
K.J. Puite, J.J.M. Dons, H.J. Huizing, A.J. Kool, M. Koornneef, …
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In the series of International Protoplast Symposia the Symposium of
1987 was held in Wageningen (The Netherlands). Earlier Symposia
took place in Jena (DDR) 1963, Brno (CSSR) 1967, Salamanca (Spain)
1971, Nottingham (UK) 1975, Szeged (Hungary) 1979 and Basel
(Switzerland) 1983. This 7th International Protoplast Symposium was
organized by K.J. Puite (Secretary), J.J.M. Dons (Treasurer),
H.J.Huizing and E.J.L. Hotke-Staal (Local Organizers), the first
three persons being scientists, respectively, from the Research
Institute Ital, the Institute for horticultural plant breeding IVT
and the Foundation for agricultural plant breeding SVP at
Wageningen. Scientific Advisers of the Symposium were A. J. Kool,
M. Koornneef and F.A. Krens. The International Agricultural Centre
lAC served as the Symposium location. The Organizing Committee
decided that the scientific programme of the Symposium should be
mainly focussed on protoplast technology of relevance to plant
breeding. Therefore research on microbial protoplasts and on
secondary metabolites was not included. About 250 scientists from
27 different countries were welcomed at the meeting. Speakers at
Symposium Sessions and authors of Poster contributions were asked
to hand over their manuscripts for the Symposium Proceedings
already at the meeting, permit ting early publication of the
Proceedings. These manuscripts give the state of the art of the
protoplast research and illustrate the progress since the last
Protoplast Symposium.
Essays on Money, Banking and Regulation honors the interests and
achievements of the Dutch economist Conrad Oort. The book is
divided into four parts. Part 1 - Fiscal and monetary policy -
reviews a variety of topics ranging from the measurement of money
to the control and management of government expenditures. Part 2 -
International institutions and international economic policy -
looks at the international dimension of monetary and fiscal policy,
with extensive discussion of the International Monetary Fund and
the European Monetary Union. Part 3 - The future of international
banking and the financial sector in the Netherlands - is an
insider's view of the strategic choices facing financial
institutions in the near future. Finally, Part 4 - Taxation and
reforms in the Dutch tax system - is closest to Oort's research and
practice since he has become known as an architect of the 1990
Dutch tax reform; this part is dedicated in particular to the tax
reforms suggested by Oort.
Monetary Policy in a Converging Europe covers the most important
monetary issues in the transition towards an Economic and Monetary
Union in Europe, containing contributions from renowned experts in
relevant research and policy areas. Among other things, the
contributions discuss the scope for inflation targeting, monetary
interdependencies within the core' ERM countries, money demand
within the European Union, the difference between the monetary
transmission mechanisms in the various European countries, and the
preferred exchange rate policy in Stage Two of EMU. The book
provides an excellent overview of current issues for anyone
interested in monetary policy in a converging Europe.
This book examines what Gandhian thought contributes to the
conceptualisation of wisdom and its application in the 21st
Century. It draws together leading international researchers and
practitioners to combine an in-depth understanding of Gandhi's
philosophy with the latest research from psychology and allied
social sciences. Beginning with an overview of wisdom in the domain
of scientific research and as it is understood in our everyday
life, the book's editors further call attention to key cross
cultural issues limiting its current scope. Amongst the topics
explored are Gandhi's silence, fasting, vows, self-efficacy,
self-control, and more, illustrating what he offers not only to the
study of wisdom within psychology, but across a broad range of
disciplines and professional enterprises. It is invaluable to
students and scholars of Gandhian studies, the psychology of
wisdom, management and peace psychology; as well to readers with a
general interest in the application of Gandhi's wisdom today.
Emotion regulation has traditionally been conceived as a
deliberative process, but there is growing evidence that many
emotion-regulation processes operate at implicit levels. Implicit
emotion regulation is initiated automatically, without conscious
intention, and aims at modifying the quality of emotional
responding.
This special issue showcases recent advances in theorizing and
empirical research on implicit emotion regulation. Implicit emotion
regulation is pervasive in everyday life and contributes
considerably to the effectiveness of emotion regulation. The
contributions to this special issue highlight the significance of
implicit emotion regulation in psychological adaptation,
goal-directed behavior, interpersonal behavior, personality
functioning, and mental health.
Parliamentary party groups are central actors in most European
democracies. This volume analyzes the manifestations and operations
of these actors across thirteen different countries and in the
European parliament. The partisan groups in parliament form the
link between mass suffrage, parties and parliaments, and are
generally accepted today as necessary instruments of parliamentary
business. The study of parliamentary party groups (PPGs) is
connected with our understanding of liberal, representative
democracy. Moreover, debates about the contempt and apathy towards
contemporary politics and politicians, in which the alleged gap
between voters and representatives, a decline in trust in the
political elite, and complaints about partitocrazia prominently
figure, have put PPGs in the limelight. How do MPs deal with the
tension between being a representative of the people and a member
of a political party? And how do they fulful their task to control
government when fellow partisans are participating in that
government? This book reveals that PPGs have increasing importance.
The "parliamentary party complexes", resulting from the growing
generosity of the state, and the
The first of two volumes, this book examines Gandhi's contribution
to an understanding of the scientific and evolutionary basis of the
psychology of nonviolence, through the lens of contemporary
researches on human cognition, empathy, morality and self-control.
While, psychological science has focused on those participants that
delivered electric shocks in Professor Stanley Milgram's famous
experiments, these books begin from the premise that we have
neglected to fully explore why the other participants walked away.
Building on emergent research in the psychology of self control and
wisdom, the authors illustrate what Gandhi's life and work offers
to our understanding of these subjects who disobeyed and defied
Milgram. The authors analyze Gandhi's actions and philosophy, as
well as original interviews with his contemporaries, to elaborate a
modern scientific psychology of nonviolence from the principles he
enunciated and which were followed so successfully in his
Satyagrahas. Gandhi, they argue, was a practical psychologist from
whom we can derive a science of nonviolence which, as Volume 2 will
illustrate, can be applied to almost every subfield of psychology,
but particularly to those addressing the most urgent issues of the
21st century. This book is the result of four decades of
collaborative work between the authors. It marks a unique
contribution to studies of both Gandhi and the current trends in
psychological research that will appeal in particular to scholars
of social change, peace studies and peace psychology, and, serve as
an exemplar in teaching one of modern psychology's hitherto
neglected perspectives.
In volume 1 of Gandhi and the Psychology of Nonviolence the authors
advanced a scientific psychology of nonviolence, derived from
principles enunciated by Gandhi and supported by current
state-of-the-art research in psychology. In this second volume the
authors demonstrate its potential contribution across a wide range
of applied psychology fields. As we enter the era of the
Anthropocene, they argue, it is imperative to make use of Gandhi's
legacy through our evolving noospheric consciousness to address the
urgent problems of the 21st century. The authors examine Gandhi's
contributions in the context of both established areas such as the
psychology of religion, educational, community and organizational
psychology and newer fields including environmental psychology and
the psychology of technology. They provide a nuanced analysis which
engages with both the latest research and the practical
implications for initiatives like the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change and the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. The book
concludes with an overview of Gandhi's contribution to modern
psychology, which encompasses the history, development, and current
impetus behind emerging work in the field as a whole. It marks an
exciting contribution to studies of both Gandhi and psychology that
will also provide unique insights for scholars of applied
psychology, education, environmental and development studies.
This unique treatise expands on the philosophy of technology to
argue for a psychology of technology based on the complex
relationships between psychology, biology and technology,
especially in the light of our relationships with our digital
devices, our online lives, and our human experience. Drawing from
disciplines ranging from philosophy and evolution to cognition and
neuroscience, it examines myriad aspects of the brain's creative
development: the cognitive, sensory, and motor processes that
enable technological progress and its resulting efficiencies and
deficiencies along with our discomforts and pleasures. These
experiences are key to behavioral and affective processes in
technology, manifest in such diverse phenomena as multitasking, the
shift in tech design from ergonomics to hedonomics, and the many
types of online problem behaviors. Through these rich pages,
readers can understand more deeply the history and future of human
adjustment and adaptation in an environment intertwined with
technology-and, with the ascendance of video games and virtual
reality, new conceptions of the human self. Among the topics
covered: Could we have remained a tech-devoid society? Technology,
ergonomics and the non-executive functions of our body. New
directions in brain-computer interface. From avatars and agents to
virtual reality technology.<
On measuring affective responses to objects. Psychology,
technology, ethics, and culture. A timely lens on a field that will
grow in importance as it shapes our existence, Psychology of
Technology will be read and discussed by not only psychologists,
social scientists, and behavioral scientists, but also by
technology designers and developers and those in biotechnology.
This book summarizes the NGO Master Plan that provides a
comprehensive program to rehabilitate the Lower Jordan River and
its tributaries in Jordan, Israel and Palestine. It is a regional
and civil society effort designed to promote the restoration of the
valley's environmental and ecological values within a realistic
financial and economic framework. The plan identifies 127 specific
regional and national "interventions"(projects) until the year
2050, based on seven strategic planning objectives: pollution
control, sustainable water management and river rehabilitation,
sustainable agriculture, Jordan River basin governance, ecological
rehabilitation, sustainable tourism and cultural heritage
development, and urban and infrastructure development. The total
investment value is 4.58 billion USD, the plan ranks the
interventions and identifies their feasibility in a short, medium
and long term investment cycles considering the political
environment.
How can people master their own thoughts, feelings, and actions?
This question is central to the scientific study of
self-regulation. The behavioral side of self-regulation has been
extensively investigated over the last decades, but the biological
machinery that allows people to self-regulate has mostly remained
vague and unspecified. Handbook of Biobehavioral Approaches to
Self-Regulation corrects this imbalance. Moving beyond traditional
mind-body dualities, the various contributions in the book examine
how self-regulation becomes established in cardiovascular,
hormonal, and central nervous systems. Particular attention is
given to the dynamic interplay between affect and cognition in
self-regulation. The book also addresses the psychobiology of
effort, the impact of depression on self-regulation, the
development of self-regulation, and the question what causes
self-regulation to succeed or fail. These novel perspectives
provide readers with a new, biologically informed understanding of
self-awareness and self-agency. Among the topics being covered are:
Self-regulation in an evolutionary perspective. The muscle metaphor
in self-regulation in the light of current theorizing on muscle
physiology. From distraction to mindfulness: psychological and
neural mechanisms of attention strategies in self-regulation.
Self-regulation in social decision-making: a neurobiological
perspective. Mental effort: brain and autonomic correlates in
health and disease. A basic and applied model of the body-mind
system. Handbook of Biobehavioral Approaches to Self-Regulation
provides a wealth of theoretical insights into self-regulation,
with great potential for future applications for improving
self-regulation in everyday life settings, including education,
work, health, and interpersonal relationships. The book highlights
a host of exciting new ideas and directions and is sure to provoke
a great deal of thought and discussion among researchers,
practitioners, and graduate-level students in psychology,
education, neuroscience, medicine, and behavioral economics.
Paddock has referred to societies as "anti-violent" that Inhibit
the expressIon of aggresSion. In his book Violence and Aggression,
KE. Moyer nas made a brief but interesting comparison of several
violent and nonviolent cultures. Whereas studies of violence have
ranged from genetic, cultural to Situation effects, and have been
pursued through empirical and nonempirical methods over the past
several decades, nonviolence did not become a favorite area of
study among social scientists. Although it is impossible to make a
complete list of the various reasons for the lack of interest among
social scientists on this subject, it is generally believed that a
lack of understanding of the concept and a failure to either
develop or apply adequate methods are to Olame. Therefore we are
not surprized that nonviolence has remained, by and large, a
favorite topic among religious thinkers and leaders only. A good
example of how people have difficulty understanding the concept of
nonviolence came to me when I delivered a lecture to a group of
political science students several years ago. I experienced similar
problems when I spoke to the history and political science
professors. Subsequent dialogues with faculty members in other
disciplines convinced me that our perspectives on nonVIolence were
not commonly clear to all of us. or course, most of us did agree on
one thing--that Is, there Is a distinct difference separating
Eastern from Western views of nonviolence.
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Progress in Plant Protoplast Research - Proceedings of the 7th International Protoplast Symposium, Wageningen, the Netherlands, December 6-11, 1987 (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1988)
K.J. Puite, J.J.M. Dons, H.J. Huizing, A.J. Kool, M. Koornneef, …
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R5,553
Discovery Miles 55 530
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In the series of International Protoplast Symposia the Symposium of
1987 was held in Wageningen (The Netherlands). Earlier Symposia
took place in Jena (DDR) 1963, Brno (CSSR) 1967, Salamanca (Spain)
1971, Nottingham (UK) 1975, Szeged (Hungary) 1979 and Basel
(Switzerland) 1983. This 7th International Protoplast Symposium was
organized by K.J. Puite (Secretary), J.J.M. Dons (Treasurer),
H.J.Huizing and E.J.L. Hotke-Staal (Local Organizers), the first
three persons being scientists, respectively, from the Research
Institute Ital, the Institute for horticultural plant breeding IVT
and the Foundation for agricultural plant breeding SVP at
Wageningen. Scientific Advisers of the Symposium were A. J. Kool,
M. Koornneef and F.A. Krens. The International Agricultural Centre
lAC served as the Symposium location. The Organizing Committee
decided that the scientific programme of the Symposium should be
mainly focussed on protoplast technology of relevance to plant
breeding. Therefore research on microbial protoplasts and on
secondary metabolites was not included. About 250 scientists from
27 different countries were welcomed at the meeting. Speakers at
Symposium Sessions and authors of Poster contributions were asked
to hand over their manuscripts for the Symposium Proceedings
already at the meeting, permit ting early publication of the
Proceedings. These manuscripts give the state of the art of the
protoplast research and illustrate the progress since the last
Protoplast Symposium.
Essays on Money, Banking and Regulation honors the interests and
achievements of the Dutch economist Conrad Oort. The book is
divided into four parts. Part 1 - Fiscal and monetary policy -
reviews a variety of topics ranging from the measurement of money
to the control and management of government expenditures. Part 2 -
International institutions and international economic policy -
looks at the international dimension of monetary and fiscal policy,
with extensive discussion of the International Monetary Fund and
the European Monetary Union. Part 3 - The future of international
banking and the financial sector in the Netherlands - is an
insider's view of the strategic choices facing financial
institutions in the near future. Finally, Part 4 - Taxation and
reforms in the Dutch tax system - is closest to Oort's research and
practice since he has become known as an architect of the 1990
Dutch tax reform; this part is dedicated in particular to the tax
reforms suggested by Oort.
Monetary Policy in a Converging Europe covers the most important
monetary issues in the transition towards an Economic and Monetary
Union in Europe, containing contributions from renowned experts in
relevant research and policy areas. Among other things, the
contributions discuss the scope for inflation targeting, monetary
interdependencies within the core' ERM countries, money demand
within the European Union, the difference between the monetary
transmission mechanisms in the various European countries, and the
preferred exchange rate policy in Stage Two of EMU. The book
provides an excellent overview of current issues for anyone
interested in monetary policy in a converging Europe.
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