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This volume describes classic and contemporary theory and research in social psychology that sheds light on how people think about health and illness, as well as their willingness to engage in health-relevant behaviors. The Editors have selected papers that serve to illustrate the reciprocal relation between advances in theory and advances in practice.
The first two sections of the volume examine people's mental representations of health and health practices, and how these personal construals and implicit theories are linked to behavior. People can react to new health information in different ways - with acceptance, defensiveness, or downright ignorance. Research that can help us to understand these varied reactions is examined in Section 3. The following sections consider how classic social psychological theories and perspectives can be used to understand behavior relevant to health and illness. These include social influence, social comparison, pluralistic ignorance, social support, cognitive dissonance, message framing, and attribution theory. Finally, several articles consider links between personality characteristics and health, such as those between hostility and heart disease, and confiding traumatic experiences and immune function. The volume also contains a introductory chapter by the editors which provides a discussion of why social and personality psychologists should be interested in health and illness.
Together with overviews for each section, discussion questions, and suggestions for further reading, the volume is an ideal text for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses on health psychology. The volume is also appropriate for courses in related disciplines such as public health, nursing, health education, health communication, and other allied health sciences.
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The primary purpose of this book is to provide a state-of-the-art
look at the study of consciousness, which is in the midst of a
great renaissance. While honoring Jerome Singer's impressive career
in psychology, this volume demonstrates the broad and integrative
influence the study of consciousness is having across a variety of
subdisciplines of psychology--experimental, personality,
developmental, social, and clinical. The contributors to this
volume represent both pioneers in the study of consciousness and
contemporary researchers whose work has followed in the spirit of
their predecessors' seminal work. This book will serve as a
landmark end-of-the-century statement about psychology's
understanding of the role of consciousness in affective and
cognitive processes, the development of imagination in children,
and its application to the practice of psychotherapy.
The primary purpose of this book is to provide a state-of-the-art
look at the study of consciousness, which is in the midst of a
great renaissance. While honoring Jerome Singer's impressive career
in psychology, this volume demonstrates the broad and integrative
influence the study of consciousness is having across a variety of
subdisciplines of psychology--experimental, personality,
developmental, social, and clinical. The contributors to this
volume represent both pioneers in the study of consciousness and
contemporary researchers whose work has followed in the spirit of
their predecessors' seminal work. This book will serve as a
landmark end-of-the-century statement about psychology's
understanding of the role of consciousness in affective and
cognitive processes, the development of imagination in children,
and its application to the practice of psychotherapy.
Born in Slutzk, Russia, in 1805, Elijah Zvi Soloveitchik is a
largely forgotten member of the prestigious Soloveitchik rabbinic
dynasty. Before Hayyim Soloveitchik developed the standard Brisker
method of Talmudic study, or Joseph Dov Soloveitchik helped to
found American Modern Orthodox Judaism, Elijah Soloveitchik wrote
Qol Qore, a rabbinic commentary on the Gospels of Matthew and Mark.
Qol Qore drew on classic rabbinic literature, and particularly on
the works of Moses Maimonides, to argue for the compatibility of
Christianity with Judaism. To this day, it remains the only
rabbinic work to embrace the compatibility of Orthodox Judaism and
the Christian Bible. In The Bible, the Talmud, and the New
Testament, Shaul Magid presents the first-ever English translation
of Qol Qore. In his contextualizing introduction, Magid explains
that Qol Qore offers a window onto the turbulent historical context
of nineteenth-century European Jewry. With violent anti-Semitic
activity on the rise in Europe, Elijah Soloveitchik was unique in
believing that the roots of anti-Semitism were theological, based
on a misunderstanding of the New Testament by both Jews and
Christians. His hope was that the Qol Qore, written in Hebrew and
translated into French, German, and Polish, would reach Jewish and
Christian audiences, urging each to consider the validity of the
other's religious principles. In an era characterized by fractious
debates between Jewish communities, Elijah Soloveitchik represents
a voice that called for radical unity amongst Jews and Christians
alike.
We have long been taught that emotions should be felt and expressed
in carefully controlled ways, and then only in certain environments
and at certain times. This is especially true when at work,
particularly when managing others. It is considered terribly
unprofessional to express emotion while on the job, and many of us
believe that our biggest mistakes and regrets are due to our
reactions at those times when our emotions get the better of us.
David R. Caruso and Peter Salovey believe that this view of
emotion is not correct. The emotion centers of the brain, they
argue, are not relegated to a secondary place in our thinking and
reasoning, but instead are an integral part of what it means to
think, reason, and to be intelligent. In "The Emotionally
Intelligent Manager," they show that emotion is not just important,
but absolutely necessary for us to make good decisions, take action
to solve problems, cope with change, and succeed. The authors
detail a practical four-part hierarchy of emotional skills:
identifying emotions, using emotions to facilitate thinking,
understanding emotions, and managing emotions 212;and show how we
can measure, learn, and develop each skill and employ them in an
integrated way to solve our most difficult work-related
problems.
After decades of banishment to popular magazines and advice
columns, jealousy and envy have emerged as legitimate topics of
scientific inquiry. This volume includes chapters from nearly every
major contributor to the psychological literature in this area.
From emotional, and cognitive processes that underlie jealousy and
envy; to the ways these emotions are experienced and expressed
within close relationships; to family, societal, and cultural
contexts, the volume offers a definitive statement of current
theory and research.
In recent years, innovative schools have developed courses in what
has been termed emotional literacy, emotional intelligence, or
emotional competence. This volume evaluates these developments
scientifically, pairing the perspectives of psychologists with
those of educators who offer valuable commentary on the latest
research. It is an authoritative study that describes the
scientific basis for our knowledge about emotion as it relates
specifically to children, the classroom environment, and emotional
literacy.Key topics include: historical perspectives on emotional
intelligence neurological bases for emotional development the
development of social skills and childhood socialization of
emotion. Experts in psychology and education have long viewed
thinking and feeling as polar opposites reason on the one hand, and
passion on the other. And emotion, often labeled as chaotic,
haphazard, and immature, has not traditionally been seen as
assisting reason.All that changed in 1990, when Peter Salovey and
John D. Mayer coined the term emotional intelligence as a challenge
to the belief that intelligence is not based on processing
emotion-laden information. Salovey and Mayer defined emotional
intelligence as the ability to monitor one's own and others'
feelings and emotions, to discriminate among them, and to use
motivated scientists, educators, parents, and many others to
consider the ways in which emotions themselves comprise an
intelligent system.With this ground-breaking volume, invited
contributors present cutting-edge research on emotions and
emotional development in a manner useful to educators,
psychologists, and anyone interested in the unfolding of emotions
during childhood. In recent years, innovative schools have
developed courses in emotional literacy" that making these classes
teach children how to understand and manage their feelings and how
to get along with one another. Many such programs have achieved
national prominence, and preliminary scientific evaluations have
shown promising results.Until recently, however, there has been
little contact between educators developing these types of programs
and psychologists studying the neurological underpinnings and
development of human emotions. This unique book links theory and
practice by juxtaposing scientific explanations of emotion with
short commentaries from educators who elabourate on how these
advances can be put to use in the classroom.Accessible and
enlightening, Emotional Development and Emotional Intelligence
provides ample evidence about emotional intelligence as well as
sound information on the potential efficacy of educational programs
based on this idea.
Emotional intelligence has emerged as an area of intense interest
in both scientific and lay circles. Yet while much attention has
been given to the measurement of an "EQ," little has been written
about the psychological underpinnings of emotional intelligence.
This book fills an important gap in the literature, linking the
ideas embodied in the emotional intelligence concept to ongoing
research and theoretical work in the field of affect science.
Chapters by foremost investigators illuminate the basic processes
by which people perceive and appraise emotion, use emotion to
facilitate thought, understand and communicate emotion concepts,
and manage their own and others' emotions. Incorporating many
levels of analysis, from neuroscience to culture, the volume
develops a broader scientific basis for the idea of emotional
intelligence. It also raises stimulating new questions about the
role of emotion in adaptive personal and social functioning.
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