Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: joseph p forgas

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  • THE TRIBAL MIND AND THE PSYCHOLOGY OF COLLECTIVISM
    JOSEPH P. FORGAS
    Tribalism is a key evolutionary feature of humans, and the recent growth in tribal polarisation presents a serious challenge to our highly individualistic civilisation. This fascinating book examines the psychological origins and consequences of tribalism both in our private and in our public lives. The chapters explore how social, evolutionary, biological, and cognitive factor...

    $1,320.00

  • THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SOCIABILITY
    JOSEPH P. FORGAS
    This edited volume brings together the latest research in understanding the nature, origins, and evolution of human sociability, one of the most intriguing aspects of human psychology. Sociability—our sophisticated ability to interact with others, imagine, plan, and execute interdependent behaviours—lies at the heart of our evolutionary success, and is the most important prereq...

    $1,340.00

  • APPLICATIONS OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
    JOSEPH P. FORGAS
    This book explores what social psychology can contribute to our understanding of real-life problems and how it can inform rational interventions in any area of social life. By reviewing some of the most recent achievements in applying social psychology to pressing contemporary problems, Forgas, Crano, and Fiedler convey a fundamentally optimistic message about social psychology...

    $1,160.00

  • SOCIAL INFLUENCE
    JOSEPH P. FORGAS / KIPLING D. WILLIAMS
    Social influence processes play a key role in human behavior. Arguably our extraordinary evolutionary success has much to do with our subtle and highly developed ability to interact with and influence each other. In this volume, leading international researchers review and integrate contemporary theory and research on the many ways people influence each other, considering both ...

    $1,600.00

  • THE SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY OF MORALITY
    JOSEPH P. FORGAS
    Ever since Plato’s ‘Republic’ was written over two thousand years ago, one of the main concerns of social philosophy and later empirical social science was to understand the moral nature of human beings. The faculty to think and act in terms of overarching moral values is as much a defining hallmark of our species as is our intelligence, so homo moralis is no less an appropriat...

    $1,800.00

  • SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY AND POLITICS
    JOSEPH P. FORGAS
    Social psychology and politics are intricately related, and understanding how humans manage power and govern themselves is one of the key issues in psychology. This volume surveys the latest theoretical and empirical work on the social psychology of politics, featuring cutting-edge research from a stellar group of international researchers. It is organized into four main sectio...

    $1,800.00

  • MOTIVATION AND ITS REGULATION
    JOSEPH P. FORGAS
    It is motivation that drives all our daily endeavors, and it is motivation, or the lack of it, that accounts for most of our successes and failures. Motivation, however, needs to be carefully controlled and regulated to be effective. This book surveys the most recent psychological research on how motivational processes are regulated in daily life to achieve desired outcomes. Co...

    $1,760.00

  • THE SOCIAL SELF
    JOSEPH P. FORGAS
    What is the nature of the 'self', how do everyday experiences shape it, and how does it influence our thinking, judgements and behaviors? Such questions constitute enduring puzzles in psychology, and are also of critical practical importance for applied domains such as clinical, counseling, educational and organizational psychology. In this book a select group of eminent inter...

    $1,600.00

  • SOCIAL COGNITION AND COMMUNICATION
    JOSEPH P. FORGAS
    Language is the essence of interpersonal behavior and social relationships, and it is social cognitive processes that determine how we produce and understand language. However, there has been surprisingly little interest in the past linking social cognition and communication. This book presents the latest cutting-edge research from a select group of leading international schola...

    $1,760.00

  • AFFECT IN SOCIAL THINKING AND BEHAVIOR
    JOSEPH P. FORGAS
    The role of affect in how people think and behave in social situations has been a source of fascination to laymen and philosophers since time immemorial. Surprisingly, most of what we know about the role of feelings in social thinking and behavior has been discovered only during the last two decades. Affect in Social Thinking and Behavior reviews and integrates the most recent ...

    $1,560.00

  • HANDBOOK OF AFFECT AND SOCIAL COGNITION
    FORGAS, JOSEPH P.
    This book offers a comprehensive review and integration of the most recent research and theories on the role of affect in social cognition and features original contributions from leading researchers in the field. The applications of this work to areas such as clinical, organizational, forensic, health, marketing, and advertising psychology receive special emphasis throughout. ...

    $1,940.00

  • THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SOCIAL CONFLICT AND AGGRESSION
    JOSEPH P. FORGAS
    This book provides an up-to-date integration of some of the most recent developments in social psychological research on social conflict and aggression, one of the most perennial and puzzling topics in all of psychology. It offers an informative, scholarly yet readable overview of recent advances in research on the nature, antecedents, management, and consequences of interperso...

    $1,240.00

  • EVOLUTION AND THE SOCIAL MIND
    JOSEPH P. FORGAS
    This book seeks to combine the study of human social cognition - the way we think, decide, plan and analyze social situations - with an evolutionary framework that considers these activities in light of evolutionary adaptations for solving problems of survival faced by our ancestors over thousands of generations. The chapters report recent research and theories illustrating how...

    $1,560.00

  • PSYCHOLOGY OF SELF-REGULATION
    JOSEPH P. FORGAS
    The ability to regulate and control our behaviors is a key accomplishment of the human species, yet the psychological mechanisms involved in self-regulation remain incompletely understood. This book presents contributions from leading international researchers who survey the most recent developments in this fascinating area. The chapters shed new light on the subtle and often s...

    $1,360.00

  • THE PSYCHOLOGY OF ATTITUDES AND ATTITUDE CHANGE
    JOSEPH P. FORGAS
    Human beings have a unique ability to create elaborate predispositions and evaluations based on their social experiences. The concept of attitudes is central to understanding how experience gives rise to these predispositions, and psychologists have spent the best part of the past 100 years trying to understand the intricacies of this process. Yet, despite decades of research, ...

    $1,360.00

  • SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS
    JOSEPH P. FORGAS
    Human beings are an intrinsically gregarious species - our personal relationships are of immense interest to us and are a key factor in achieving happiness and well being. From the moment of birth, humans crave love and intimacy and we devote much energy to creating and maintaining successful personal relationships throughout our personal and our working lives. However, modern ...

    $1,600.00