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31. Motivated Social Perception

    The Ontario Symposium, Volume 9

    Edited by Steven J. Spencer, Steven Fein, Mark P. Zanna, James M. Olson

    Series: Ontario Symposia on Personality and Social Psychology Series

    This volume highlights state-of-the-art research on motivated social perception by the leaders in the field. Recently a number of researchers developed influential accounts of how motivation affects social perception. Unfortunately, this work was developed without extensive contact between the...

    Published January 10th 2013 by Psychology Press
32. Well-Being

    Positive Development Across the Life Course

    Edited by Marc H. Bornstein, Lucy Davidson, Corey L.M. Keyes, Kristin A. Moore

    Series: Crosscurrents in Contemporary Psychology Series

    This volume derived from original presentations given at a conference in Atlanta, Georgia, under the auspices of the Center for Child Well-Being. Scholars, practitioners, public health professionals, and principals in the child development community convened to address a science-based framework for...

    Published January 10th 2013 by Psychology Press
33. Thriving in the Face of Childhood Adversity

    By Daphne Blunt Bugental

    This book explores the life experiences of children who are born with a variety of medical or physical disorders. It provides an integration of scientific and personal perspectives on such conditions. In accounting for both outcomes, it suggests how the social responses of others (family, friends,...

    Published January 10th 2013 by Psychology Press
34. The Psychology of Work

    Theoretically Based Empirical Research

    Edited by Jeanne M. Brett, Fritz Drasgow

    Series: Series in Organization and Management

    This edited volume is derived from a conference held in honor of Charles Hulin's contribution to the psychology of work. His research has carefully developed and tested theory related to job satisfaction, withdrawal from work, and sexual harassment. Edited by Hulin's students, The Psychology of...

    Published January 10th 2013 by Psychology Press
35. The Regulation of Emotion

    Edited by Pierre Philippot, Robert S. Feldman

    The main goal of this volume is to present, in an integrated framework, the newest, most contemporary perspectives on emotion regulation. The book includes empirically-grounded work and theories that are central to our understanding of the processes that constitute emotion regulation and their...

    Published January 10th 2013 by Psychology Press
36. The Psychology of Conflict and Conflict Management in Organizations

    Edited by Carsten K.W. De Dreu, Michele J. Gelfand

    Series: SIOP Organizational Frontiers Series

    This volume in SIOP's Organizational Frontiers Series is a state-of-the-art overview of contemporary conflict research which aims to place conflict research and theory squarely within the realm of industrial and organizational psychology. This volume brings together and integrates classic and...

    Published January 7th 2013 by Psychology Press
37. Cut Down to Size

    Achieving success with weight loss surgery

    By Jenny Radcliffe

    Cut Down to Size covers everything you need to know about bariatric surgery, from referral through to the challenges you may face after surgery. Most people who seek weight loss surgery have struggled for many years to control their eating, and have experienced increasing health limitations,...

    Published January 6th 2013 by Routledge
38. Out of the Mainstream: Helping the children of parents with a mental illness

    Edited by Rosemary Loshak

    Out of the Mainstream identifies those aspects of mental illness which can compromise parenting and affect children’s development, as well as the efforts of professionals to intervene effectively. With chapters from professionals working primarily with children or adults, in different agencies and...

    Published January 3rd 2013 by Routledge
39. Interpersonal Communication

    Putting Theory into Practice

    By Denise Solomon, Jennifer Theiss

    Some of us may believe that interpersonal communication is a matter of common sense or that skillful communication is an innate ability that you either have or you don’t. In this text, Denise Solomon and Jennifer Theiss demonstrate that interpersonal communication skills are not just common...

    Published January 2nd 2013 by Routledge
40. Feminist Counselling and Domestic Violence in India

    Edited by Padma Bhate-Deosthali, Sangeeta Rege, Padma Prakash

    Mainstream counselling in domestic violence often fails to address critical issues, such as gender socialisation processes and the abuse of power that allows violence against women, and focuses primarily on the intra-psychic nature of individual women. In contrast, feminist counselling is an...

    Published December 30th 2012 by Routledge India