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Title: |
Social Psychology |
| Sub-title: |
New Developments |
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| Edited by: |
Jan M Turner, Andrew D Mitchell |
| ISBN10-13: |
1620811421 : 9781620811429 |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| Size: |
230x155mm |
| Pages: |
0 |
| Weight: |
.400 Kg. |
| Published: |
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US) - September 2012 |
| List Price: |
141.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
In Stock
Qty Available: 2 |
| Subjects: |
Psychology: emotions |
| Social Psychology is the scientific study of how people's thoughts, feelings, and behaviours are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others. Social psychologists typically explain human behaviour as a result of the interaction of mental states and immediate social situations. In this book, the authors present current research on social psychology including the cultural, social and gender influences on casual sex; allostatic load based on a stress physiology model of illness; conceptualising identity within social psychology; psychological characteristics of heart disease and cancer patients; peer victimization, physical activity and social psychological adjustment in obese youth; and antisocial behaviour in children with ADHD. |
| Table of Contents: |
| Preface; Cultural, Social, & Gender Influences on Casual Sex: New Developments; Psychological Assessment in a New Key: Allostatic Load (Stress Age) & Resilience; Emerging Forms of Identity Online: Opportunities for Extending Theorising about Identity through Textual Analysis; Anger, Defense Mechanisms, & Integrative Self-Knowledge in Iranian Coronary Heart Disease & Cancer Patients; A Further Examination of the Relationships among Peer Victimization, Physical Activity, & Social Psychological Adjustment in Obese Youth; Antisocial Behavior in Children with ADHD: Causes & Treatment; Index. |
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