The Routledge International Handbook of Changes in Human Perceptions and Behaviors

Introduction: Changes in Human Perceptions and Behaviors: Overview and Future Directions
Kanako Taku & Todd K. Shackelford

PART I: What Changes and How

1. ‘All Change is Not Growth, as All Movement is Not Forward’: How, When, and Why Social Movements Change Over Time
Morgana Lizzio-Wilson, Winnifred R. Louis, & Emma F. Thomas

2. Changes in Religious Behaviors
Eric D. Miller

3. Changes in Assessments in Medical Settings
Leah LaLonde

4. Moral Injury and Changes to Perception in Self-Identity
Matt J Gray & MeeSoh Bossard

5. Changes in Voting and Elections
Seth C. McKee

6. Personality Development and Community Characteristics in Childhood and Adolescence
Takahiro Mieda, Shinya Yoshino & Atsushi Oshio

7. Changes in Narrative Identity: Desistance of Antisocial Behavior and Posttraumatic Growth
Taylor Elam, Jamal Madison, & Kanako Taku

8. Fluctuations and Changes in Adolescent Personality: The Tri-Directional Framework of Parent and Offspring Traits and Outcomes
Tayler E. Truhan, Constantine Sedikides, Rhiannon N. Turner, Yulia Kovas, & Kostas A. Papageorgiou

9. Sustainable Lifestyle Change
Lorraine Whitmarsh, Paul Haggar, Kaloyan Mitev, Nick Nash, & Colin Whittle

PART II: When Change Occurs and How

10. Things Change—But When?: A Top-Down Approach to Understanding How People Judge Change Thresholds
Ed O’Brien

11. From Insight to Growth: How the Quiet Ego Facilitates Decision Crystallization and the Transformative Self Turns It into Flourishing
Jack J. Bauer

12. The Aha Moment: Changes in Cognition, Affect, Motivation, and Development
Mathilde H. Prenevost & Rolf Reber

13. Epiphanies and Quantum Change
Jon E. Skalski & Sam A. Hardy

14. Differential Susceptibility to Various Environmental Influences: Theory, Research, and Practice
Shuhei Iimura

15. Catastrophes and Social Change
Stephen J. Guastello

PART III: How Changes are Made in Applied Settings

16. Integrity, Flexibility, and Balance: How Change Works in Psychotherapy
David Pincus

17. Changes in Emotional Disorders
Asle Hoffart, Marieke A. Helmich, Omid V. Ebrahimi, & Sverre Urnes Johnson

18. Why are health persuasive messages not always effective?
Arie Dijkstra

19. Digital Coaching to Promote and Manage Change
Mathias Allemand & Mirjam Stieger

20. Applications of Multilevel Models to Assess Person-Level and Context-Level Influences on Change
Mark Manning, Ji Hyun Lee, Elham Mahmoudi, Marina Armendariz, Sunshine Rote, & Toni C. Antonucci

21. From Ignorance to Action on Climate Change
Vanessa Bowden & Daniel Nyberg

22. Being an Influencer
Chen Lou, Tan Hui Yi, and Amelie Lim Jia Yan

23. Aggressive Behavior as Mental Illness: History and Changing Models
Lissa N. Mandell, Jessica Weiss Utley, Michael S. McCloskey, & Mitchell E. Berman

24. Changes in Perceived Future Time
Patrick L. Hill and Mathias Allemand

25. Changes in Attitudes
Jason K. Clark, Jacob T. Goebel, Kelsey C. Thiem, & Duane T. Wegener

26. Nonlinear Biopsychosocial Resilience: Self-Organization as the Basis for a Common Framework
Adam W. Kiefer & David Pincus

27. Contributions of narrative and emotional change processes in psychotherapy: Implications for clinical practice, training and research
Lynne Angus & Christianne Macaulay

PART IV: What Changes Mean to Humans

28. Should We Change?: The Ethics of Human Enhancement
Jason Adam Wasserman, Parker Crutchfield, & Abram Brummett

29. Change in Religiosity
Graciela Trujillo Hernández & Karl S. Rosengren

30. Deconversion from High-tension Religious Groups
Barbara Keller, Ramona Bullik, & Heinz Streib

31. Changes in Political Beliefs
Danielle Goldwert and Madalina Vlasceanu

32. From Religious to Nonreligious/Areligious
Bethany Gull & Ryan T. Cragun

33. Temporal and Generational Changes in Religions, Politics and Society
Philip Schwadel

Biography

Kanako Taku is Professor in the Department of Psychology and Director of the Free-Form Tipping Point Lab (https://kanakotaku.com/) at Oakland University in Rochester, MI, USA.

Todd K. Shackelford is Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology at Oakland University in Rochester, MI, USA, where he is also a co-director of the Evolutionary Psychology Lab (www.ToddKShackelford.com).