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  • Toys, Games, and Media

    Edited by Jeffrey Goldstein, David Buckingham, Gilles Brougere ...
    This book is a state-of-the-art look at where toys have come from and where they are likely to go in the years ahead. The focus is on the interplay between traditional toys and play, and toys and play that are mediated by or combined with digital technology. As well as covering the technical aspects of computer mediated play activities, the authors consider how technologically enhanced toys are ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Toys and Communication

    Edited by Luísa Magalhães, Jeffrey Goldstein ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    There are few scholarly books about toys, and even fewer that consider toys within the context of culture and communication. Toys and Communication is an innovative collection that effectively showcases work by specialists who have sought to examine toys throughout history and in many cultures, including 1930’s Europe, Morocco, India, Spanish art of the 16th-19th centuries. Psychologists stress ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Reporting Science

    The Case of Aggression

    Edited by Jeffrey H. Goldstein ...
    Series series Psychology Library Editions: Aggression
    Originally published in 1986, this is a nonscientific book about science. It is concerned with the relationships among social science, journalism, public information, and public policy. Reporting Science: The Case of Aggression explores some of the obstacles – and suggestions for overcoming them – to the mutual exchange of information when that information concerns research and theory on a ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Sports, Games, and Play

    Social and Psychological Viewpoints

    Edited by Jeffrey H. Goldstein ...
    This updated study of sports and recreation utilizes the most current research, introducing the latest innovations and analyses in new chapters while revising and expanding chapters from the previous edition. Presenting diverse methodological and conceptual approaches, this anthology reflects the current view of sports as a "natural laboratory" for ecologically valid research. This collection ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Self-Organizing Complexity in Psychological Systems

    by Stanley R. Palombo, Walter J. Freeman, Jim Grigsby, Jeffrey Goldstein, E Virginia Demos, John Muller ...
    Series series Psychological Issues
    This volume addresses itself to the ways in which the so-called 'new sciences of complexity' can deepen and broaden neurobiological and psychological theories of mind. Complexity theory has gained increasing attention over the past 20 years across diverse areas of inquiry, including mathematics, physics, economics, biology, and the social sciences. Complexity theory concerns itself with how ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

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  • The Person and the Situation: Perspectives of Social Psychology

    by Lee Ross, Richard E Nisbett ...
    How does the situation we're in influence the way we behave and think? Professors Ross and Nisbett eloquently argue that the context we find ourselves in substantially affects our behavior in this timely reissue of one of social psychology's classic textbooks. ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • A Primer in Positive Psychology

    by Christopher Peterson ...
    Series series Oxford Positive Psychology Series
    Positive psychology is the scientific study of what goes right in life, from birth to death and at all stops in between. It is a newly-christened approach within psychology that takes seriously the examination of that which makes life most worth living. Everyone's life has peaks and valleys, and positive psychology does not deny the valleys. Its signature premise is more nuanced, but nonetheless ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Character Strengths and Virtues : A Handbook and Classification

    A Handbook and Classification

    by Christopher Peterson;Martin E. P. Seligman ...
    Character" has become a front-and-center topic in contemporary discourse but this term does not have a fixed meaning. Character may be simply defined by what someone does not do but a more active and thorough definition is necessary one that addresses certain vital questions. Is character a singular characteristic of an individual or is it composed of different aspects? Does character--however we ... Read more

    $99.89 USD

  • The Art and Science of Personality Development

    by Dan P. McAdams, PhD ...
    Drawing on state-of-the-art personality and developmental research, this book presents a new and broadly integrative theory of how people come to be who they are over the life course. Preeminent researcher Dan P. McAdams traces the development of three distinct layers of personality--the social actor who expresses emotional and behavioral traits, the motivated agent who pursues goals and values, ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Theories of Human Development

    A Comparative Approach

    by Michael G. Green, John A. Piel ...
    The authors have grouped the theories into three classical "families" which differ in their views relative to the prime motives underlying human nature. They show how theories are specific examples of more general points of view called paradigms. The theories chosen to represent the three paradigms (the Endogenous Paradigm, Exogenous Paradigm, and the Constructivist Paradigm) were selected because ... Read more

    $224.99 USD

  • Homo Prospectus

    by Martin E. P. Seligman, Peter Railton, Roy F. Baumeister, Chandra Sripada ...
    Our species is misnamed. Though sapiens defines human beings as "wise" what humans do especially well is to prospect the future. We are homo prospectus. In this book, Martin E. P. Seligman, Peter Railton, Roy F. Baumeister, and Chandra Sripada argue it is anticipating and evaluating future possibilities for the guidance of thought and action that is the cornerstone of human success. Much of the ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • The Science of Social Influence

    Advances and Future Progress

    Edited by Anthony R. Pratkanis ...
    Series series Frontiers of Social Psychology
    The contributions to this volume capture the thrill of current work on social influence, as well as providing a tutorial on the scientific and technical aspects of this research. The volume teaches the student to:Learn how to conduct lab, field and case research on social influence through example by leading researchersFind out about the latest discoveries including the status of research on ... Read more

    $80.99 USD