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Название: Moral Selves, Evil Selves: The Social Psychology of Conscience
Автор: Steven Hitlin
Издательство: Palgrave
Год: 2008
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 281
Размер: 2 MB
Язык: English

People have strong moral beliefs about right and wrong, yet commonly act contrary to those beliefs.  Most of us, at some time or another, have crossed a moral line and yet still view ourselves as moral and have a clean conscience.  From intimate relationships to national politics, we define ourselves in large part by how we – and our friends, family, and members of our social groups – draw moral lines around our actions, thoughts, and intentions.  While philosophers have weighed in on these issues for thousands of years, social scientists often underplay social life’s moral dimension.  Moral Selves, Evil Selves highlights our individual sense of moral coherence and develops a theory of the development and maintenance of this sense in an ambiguous and complicated social world.  By conceptualizing a social psychology of conscience, this book explains how we can properly include individual and societal notions of morality into understanding the self across time and situation.  

Название: Changing the Subject: Psychology, Social Regulation and Subjectivity
Автор: Julia Henriques
Издательство: Routledge
Год: 1998
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 372
Размер: 2 MB
Язык: English

Changing the Subject is a classic critique of traditional psychology in which the foundations of critical and feminist psychology are laid down. Pioneering and foundational, it is still the groundbreaking text crucial to furthering the new psychology in both teaching and research. Now reissued with a new foreword describing the changes which have taken place over the last few years, Changing the Subject will continue to have a significant impact on thinking about psychology and social theory.

Название: Evolutionary Psychology: A Beginner's Guide (Beginner's Guides)
Автор: Robin Dunbar, Louise Barrett, John Lycett
Издательство: Oneworld Publications
Год: 2005
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 235
Размер: 2 MB
Язык: English

A good overview of the incipient field of evolutionary psychology (inchoate in the 70s, emerging in the 80s, newly born in the 90s, and now in its formative years). For a more indepth anthology of primary sources (peer-reviewed articles and a few introductory passages), I recommend the following.

The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture

Название: Positive Psychology as Social Change
Автор: Christie Napa Scollon, Laura A. King (auth.), Robert Biswas-Diener (eds.)
Издательство: Springer Netherlands
Год: 2011
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 358
Размер: 4 MB
Язык: English

In recent times there has been growing interest in positive psychology. This is evidenced by the swell in positive psychology graduate programs, undergraduate courses, journals related to the topic, popular book titles on the topic and scholarly publications. Within the positive psychology community there has been an increased emphasis on the socially beneficial side of positive psychological science. At the First World Congress of the International Positive Psychology Association there was a major push to look at positive psychology as a social change mechanism. This volume will bring together thoughts of leaders in positive psychology from 8 countries to capitalize on the push toward social change and flourishing. By releasing this title at a critical time Springer has the opportunity to help frame the agenda for positive psychology as a force for social change. This seminal work is meant for anyone interested in happiness, strengths, flourishing or positive institutions It introduces Positive Psychology as an unapplied science that can be used to create positive social transformation and enabling institutions. This is a must-have title for academics, especially psychologists, sociologists, economists, and professionals working in the field of Positive Psychology and Well-Being.

Название: Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment
Автор: Martin Seligman
Издательство: Free Press
Год: 2004
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 93
Размер: 1 MB
Язык: English

I have read about 80 pages and I am enjoying Seligmen's friendly, engaging writing style so far. Also, there are interesting facts about each person's 'range' of happiness being fixed on a spectrum.Great so far. Will attempt to update review when I have completed the book.

Название: Psychology as a Moral Science: Perspectives on Normativity
Автор: Svend Brinkmann (auth.)
Издательство: Springer-Verlag New York
Год: 2011
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 175
Размер: 2 MB
Язык: English

What does morality have to do with psychology in a value-neutral, postmodern world? According to a provocative new book, everything. Taking exception with current ideas in the mainstream (including cultural, evolutionary, and neuropsychology) as straying from the discipline’s ethical foundations, Psychology as a Moral Science argues that psychological phenomena are inherently moral, and that psychology, as prescriptive and interventive practice, reflects specific moral principles. The book cites normative moral standards, as far back as Aristotle, that give human thoughts, feelings, and actions meaning, and posits psychology as one of the critical methods of organizing normative values in society; at the same time it carefully notes the discipline’s history of being sidetracked by overemphasis on theoretical constructs and physical causes—what the author terms “the psychologizing of morality.”

Название: Игры, в которые играют люди. Психология человеческих взаимоотношений. (Games People Play. The Psychology of Human Relationships)
Автор: Берн Эрик Леннард
Издательство: Random House
Год: 1964
Формат: doc
Страниц: 216
Размер: 690 kB
Язык: Russian

От автора: Настоящее издание первоначально было задумано как продолжение моей книги «Трансакционный анализ в психотерапии». Однако я предполагаю, что новое издание можно понять независимо от знакомства с предыдущей публикацией. На моих лекциях слушатели часто обращались с просьбой дать им более подробные описания игр, которые позволили бы осмыслить общие принципы трансакционного анализа. Это убедило меня в необходимости написать настоящую книгу [Терминология и точка зрения автора в основном ориентированы на восприятие читателя, знакомого с психологией и психиатрией. Однако я надеюсь, книга будет интересна и полезна представителям различных профессий.]. Я признателен всем студентам и слушателям, обратившим мое внимание на новые игры.

Название: Parenting Stress (Current Perspectives in Psychology)
Автор: Prof Kirby Deater-Deckard
Издательство: Yale University Press
Год: 2004
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 220
Размер: 953 kB
Язык: English

All parents experience stress as they attempt to meet the challenges of caring for their children. This comprehensive book examines the causes and consequences of parenting distress, drawing on a wide array of findings in current empirical research. Kirby Deater-Deckard explores normal and pathological parenting stress, the influences of parents on their children as well as children on their parents, and the effects of biological and environmental factors. Beginning with an overview of theories of stress and coping, Deater-Deckard goes on to describe how parenting stress is linked with problems in adult and child health (emotional problems, developmental disorders, illness); parental behaviors (warmth, harsh discipline); and factors outside the family (marital quality, work roles, cultural influences). The book concludes with a useful review of coping strategies and interventions that have been demonstrated to alleviate parenting stress. Kirby Deater-Deckard is associate professor, Department of Psychology, University of Oregon. He has published extensively in the fields of child development, family psychology, and developmental psychology.

Название: Neo-Piagetian Theories of Cognitive Development: Implications and Applications for Education (International Library of Psychology)
Автор: A. Demetriou
Издательство: Routledge
Год: 1994
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 320
Размер: 2 MB
Язык: English

Educationalists espoused Piaget's theory of cognitive development with enthusiasm in the late 1960's. Since then however, Piaget's models have been widely criticised and have fallen out of favour. The Neo-Piagetians, as they have been dubbed, attempt to preserve the best of traditional Piagetian ideas and combine them with the results of recent empirical research. In this collection, an international array of the world's leading scholars show how new research and diverse research traditions can be reconciled with many of Piaget's models to provide useful insights into many of the problems faced by researchers in educational settings.

Название: Constructing Scientific Psychology: Karl Lashley’s Mind-Brain Debates
Автор: Nadine M. Weidman
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
Год: 2006
Формат: djvu
Страниц: 240
Размер: 2 MB
Язык: English

Constructing Scientific Psychology is the first full-scale interpretation of the life and work of the major American neuropsychologist Karl Lashley. It sets Lashley's research at the heart of two controversies that polarized the American life and human sciences in the first half of the twentieth century. These concerned the relationship between "mind" and "brain" and the relative roles of "nature" and "nurture" in shaping behavior and intelligence. The book explodes the myth of Lashley's neuropsychology as a fact-driven, "pure" science by arguing that a belief in the power of heredity and a nativist and deeply conservative racial ideology informed every aspect of his theory and practice.