1st Edition
The Routledge International Handbook of Changes in Human Perceptions and Behaviors
The Routledge International Handbook of Changes in Human Perceptions and Behaviors is the first edited volume to present multidisciplinary perspectives on various aspects of changes that humans experience.
The handbook is designed to highlight the different contents, types, ways, meanings, applications, and moments of changes that have been recognized by experts in various fields within the life and social sciences. Comprised of four sections, the chapters address changes in a variety of contexts related to human perceptions and behaviors; the moment of change and fluctuations; changes in applied settings; and the meaning of changes, including resistance to change. Written by a range of expert international contributors, the book brings together discussions and insights about how different levels and types of changes in human perceptions, attitudes, beliefs, values, and behaviors have been studied and considered in diverse fields. It also explores the various mechanisms that account for changes, exploring how and when changes occur and what changes mean to humans.
Relevant for empirical and theoretical work, the handbook will be of great interest to researchers, academics, and postgraduate students across psychology, behavioral sciences, and social sciences.
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).
