Название: The Psychology of the Peacekeeper: Lessons from the Field
Автор: Thomas W. Britt, Amy B. Adler
Издательство: Praeger
Год: 2003
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 345
Размер: 1 MB
Язык: English

In this remarkable volume, a multinational team of scientists catalogues the stressors and benefits for combat-trained soldiers deployed on missions where they are told to hold their fire and assume the role of peacekeeper. Theory and direct research with peacekeepers is incorporated. Missions covered include, but are not limited to, peacekeeping operations in Haiti, Somalia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq, and Lebanon.

Название: Women Crossing Boundaries: A Psychology of Immigration and Transformations of Sexuality
Автор: Oliva Espin
Издательство: Routledge
Год: 1999
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 208
Размер: 722 kB
Язык: English

This text focuses on the impact that the process of migration has had on women's sexuality and gender roles. Life narratives of the women interviewed are presented against the backdrop of the historical and social context of migration. European, Latin America, Caribbean and Asian women, aging from early-20s to mid-70s discuss the development of their sexuality in the context of their home culture and the acculturation process demanded by their migration.

Название: Involuntary Memory (New Perspectives in Cognitive Psychology)
Автор: John H. Mace
Издательство: Blackwell
Год: 2007
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 240
Размер: 820 kB
Язык: English

Involuntary memory was identified by the pioneering memory researcher Hermann Ebbinghaus more than a century ago, but it was not until very recently that cognitive psychologists began to study this memory phenomenon. This book is the first to examine key topics and cutting-edge research in involuntary memory.Discusses topics such as involuntary memories in everyday life, across the life-span, and in the laboratory; the special ways in which involuntary memories sometimes manifest themselves and a number of theoretical treatments of the topic. Presents innovative research that not only represents the starting point of the study of involuntary memory, but also places it in such broader topics as autobiographical memory, consciousness and memory, aging and memory, implicit and explicit memory, depression, and psychosis.

Название: Functional and Dysfunctional Sexual Behavior: A Synthesis of Neuroscience and Comparative Psychology
Автор: Anders ?…gmo
Издательство: Academic Press
Год: 2007
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 500
Размер: 7 MB
Язык: English

This book explores the full consequences of the dissociation between sexual behaviors and reproduction. Among the themes covered is the difference between the stereotyped sexual behaviors in non-human mammals and the astounding variety of human sexual behaviors. The role of learning in shaping sexual behaviors is explained, and it is shown how particular sexual experiences may be at the origin of common human sexual dysfunctions. Chapters on sexual incentives and a summary of the endocrine and central nervous control of sexual behaviors are included. . Analyzes the origin and foundations of some of the myths surrounding sexual behaviors . Highlights how learning shape human sexual behaviors . Provides an overview of the endocrine and neural regulation of mammalian sexual behaviors . Presents a comprehensive analysis of human sexual desire disorders . Employs many entertaining examples for illustrating main points . Written by a scientist thoroughly familiar with the research literature . Presents examples of translational sex research

Название: Economics and Psychology: A Promising New Cross-Disciplinary Field (CESifo Seminar Series)
Автор: Bruno S. Frey, Alois Stutzer
Издательство: MIT Press
Год: 2007
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 292
Размер: 2 MB
Язык: English

The integration of economics and psychology has created a vibrant and fruitful emerging field of study. The essays in Economics and Psychology take a broad view of the interface between these two disciplines, going beyond the usual focus on "behavioral economics." As documented in this volume, the influence of psychology on economics has been responsible for a view of human behavior that calls into question the assumption of complete rationality (and raises the possibility of altruistic acts), the acceptance of experiments as a valid method of economic research, and the idea that utility or well-being can be measured.The contributors, all leading researchers in the field, offer state-of-the-art discussions of such topics as pro-social behavior and the role of conditional cooperation and trust, happiness research as an empirical tool, the potential of neuroeconomics as a way to deepen understanding of individual decision making, and procedural utility as a concept that captures the well-being people derive directly from the processes and conditions leading to outcomes. Taken together, the essays in Economics and Psychology offer an assessment of where this new interdisciplinary field stands and what directions are most promising for future research, providing a useful guide for economists, psychologists, and social scientists.

Название: Ethical Practice in Psychology: Reflections from the creators of the APS Code of Ethics
Автор: Alfred Allan, Anthony Love
Издательство: Wiley
Год: 2010
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 224
Размер: 1 MB
Язык: English

Close-up insights on how experts in the field are re-interpreting ethical principles to create workable policies for today and tomorrow, from the creators of the 2007 APS Code of Ethics First cooperative project between Wiley-Blackwell and the APSOffers a close-up view of how enduring ethical principles are reinvented to ensure lasting relevance in times of modernisation and professional changeWill be an accredited option for APS Professional Development – the book will be built into PD workshops and also available for PD credits outside that contextEssential reading for those involved in healthcare ethics internationally

Название: Dictionary of Biological Psychology
Автор: Philip Winn
Издательство: Routledge
Год: 2001
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 1865
Размер: 7 MB
Язык: English

This is the first comprehensive Dictionary to cover the terminology of this rapidly growing field. With this new resource, students and professionals can gain fast access to short, comprehensible definitions - in non-specialist language - of over 4000 terms drawn from a variety of non-psychological sources, with coverage of key areas in clinical medicine, psychiatry and neuroscience as well as specialist areas of psychology such as ethology, learning theory and psychophysics.

Название: Exploring the Psychology of Interest
Автор: Paul J. Silvia
Издательство: Oxford Press
Год: 2006
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 276
Размер: 3 MB
Язык: English

Psychologists have always been interested in interest, and so modern research on interest can be found in nearly every area of the field: Researchers studying emotions, cognition, development, education, aesthetics, personality, motivation, and vocations have developed intriguing ideas about what interest is and how it works. Exploring the Psychology of Interest presents an integrated picture of how interest has been studied in all the wide-ranging areas of psychology. Using modern theories of cognition and emotion as an integrative framework, Paul Silvia examines the nature of interest, what makes things interesting, the role of interest in personality, and the development of peoples idiosyncratic interests, hobbies, and avocations. His examination reveals deep similarities between seemingly different fields of psychology and illustrates the profound importance of interest, curiosity, and intrinsic motivation for understanding why people do what they do. The most comprehensive work of its kind, Exploring the Psychology of Interest will be a valuable resource for student and professional researchers in cognitive, social, and developmental psychology.

Название: Between Stress and Hope: From a Disease-Centered to a Health-Centered Perspective (Praeger Series in Health Psychology)
Автор: Rebecca Jacoby, Giora Keinan
Издательство: Praeger Press
Год: 2003
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 360
Размер: 21 MB
Язык: English

This volume focuses on the concepts of stress and hope, their psychological and physical outcomes. Past research has focused primarily or exclusively on either stress or hope and its effect on health. This work discusses them side by side and highlights their interrelations. Various theoretical approaches dealing with stress and hope are discussed, and a review of the most recent empirical data is presented. Also included are reports on individuals and groups that have been exposed to various stressful situations, such as racial prejudice, life threatening illness, or imprisonment. The role of hope in coping with these sitatuions is emphasized.

Название: Trusting in the University: The Contribution of Temporality and Trust to a Praxis of Higher Learning (PATH in Psychology)
Автор: Paul T. Gibbs
Издательство: Kluwer
Год: 2004
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 229
Размер: 733 kB
Язык: English

The world changes and we are encouraged to change with it, but is all change good? This book asks us to stop and consider whether the higher education we are providing, and engaging in, for ourselves and our societies is what we ought to have, or what commercial interests want us to have. In claiming that there is a place for a higher education of learning, such as the university, amongst our array of tertiary options the book attempts to explore what this might be. Drawing from the existential literature and in particular Heidegger, the book investigates the case for such a form of higher education and settles on existential trust as the ground upon which the community of scholars that ought to be the university can flourish. This book is written for those who are concerned about the trends towards performativity and for those who are not yet so concerned! It offers a controversial and, some might say, idealistic view of what might be but makes no apology for that since the book proposes that higher education is becoming evermore unacceptable for those who value democracy, tolerance and learning.