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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “michael b salzman”
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  • A Psychology of Culture

    by Michael B. Salzman ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This thought-provoking treatise explores the essential functions that culture fulfills in human life in response to core psychological, physiological, and existential needs. It synthesizes diverse strands of empirical and theoretical knowledge to trace the development of culture as a source of morality, self-esteem, identity, and meaning as well as a driver of domination and upheaval. Extended ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Fragments of Trauma and the Social Production of Suffering

    Trauma, History, and Memory

    by Michael O'Loughlin, Marilyn Charles, Judy Atkinson, Claude Barbre, Avigail Gordon, Marie C. Hansen, Richard T. Johnson, Karen L. Lombardi, Barbara Ann McLeod0, Jeff Moore1, Cate Osborn2, Michael B. Salzman3, Annie Stopford4, Christine Thornton5, Janice A. Walters6, Ingo Lambrecht7, Trisha Ready8, Cora Smith9, Kirkland C. Vaughans0 ...
    Series series New Imago
    Fragments of Trauma and the Social Production of Suffering: Trauma, History, and Memory offers a kaleidoscope of perspectives that highlight the problem of traumatic memory. Because trauma fragments memory, storytelling is impeded by what is unknowable and what is unspeakable. Each of the contributors tackles the problem of narrativizing memory that is constructed from fragments that have been ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

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  • Minds Make Societies

    How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create

    by Pascal Boyer ...
    A scientist integrates evolutionary biology, genetics, psychology, economics, and more to explore the development and workings of human societies."There is no good reason why human societies should not be described and explained with the same precision and success as the rest of nature." Thus argues evolutionary psychologist Pascal Boyer in this uniquely innovative book.Integrating recent ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Learning Self

    Understanding the Potential for Transformation

    by Mark Tennant ...
    The Learning SelfThis new book from the award-winning author of Psychology and Adult Learning puts the spotlight on the kind of learning that brings about significant personal change. Tennant explores the techniques, processes, and practices educators can use to promote learning that leads to change and examines assumptions about self and identity, how we are formed, and our capacity for change ... Read more

    $35.00 USD

  • Anti-Discriminatory Practice in Counselling & Psychotherapy

    Edited by Barbara Smith, Colin Lago ...
    Series series Professional Skills for Counsellors Series
    Anti-Discriminatory Practice in Counselling and Psychotherapy is a groundbreaking text which identifies the ease with which individuals can be disadvantaged merely on the basis of their gender, race, culture, age, sexuality or ability. Examining these and other areas of discrimination, leading experts highlight how vital it is for counsellors, psychotherapists - and others in the helping ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Atlas of Moral Psychology

    Edited by Kurt Gray, PhD, Jesse Graham, PhD ...
    This comprehensive and cutting-edge volume maps out the terrain of moral psychology, a dynamic and evolving area of research. In 57 concise chapters, leading authorities and up-and-coming scholars explore fundamental issues and current controversies. The volume systematically reviews the empirical evidence base and presents influential theories of moral judgment and behavior. It is organized ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Psychology of Human Values

    by Gregory R Maio ...
    Series series European Monographs in Social Psychology
    This original and engaging book advocates an unabashedly empirical approach to understanding human values: abstract ideals that we consider important, such as freedom, equality, achievement, helpfulness, security, tradition, and peace. Our values are relevant to everything we do, helping us choose between careers, schools, romantic partners, places to live, things to buy, who to vote for, and much ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Evolution, Culture, and the Human Mind

    Edited by Mark Schaller, Ara Norenzayan, Steven J. Heine, Toshio Yamagishi, Tatsuya Kameda ...
    An enormous amount of scientific research compels two fundamental conclusions about the human mind: The mind is the product of evolution; and the mind is shaped by culture. These two perspectives on the human mind are not incompatible, but, until recently, their compatibility has resisted rigorous scholarly inquiry. Evolutionary psychology documents many ways in which genetic adaptations govern ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Great Ideas in Psychology

    A Cultural and Historical Introduction

    by Fathali M. Moghaddam ...
    This book focuses on the key ideas of the most important modern psychologists. Nineteen classic "great ideas" in psychology are critically assessed in their cultural and historical context, with topics ranging from neuroscience to personality, development to socio-cultural issues. The simple narrative style and chapter structure, combined with "critical thinking questions" and a shortlist of ... Read more

    $27.00 USD

  • Society in the Self

    A Theory of Identity in Democracy

    by Hubert J. M. Hermans ...
    Instead of considering society as a social environment, Society in the Self begins from the assumption that society works in the deepest regions of self and identity, as expressed in phenomena like self-sabotage, self-radicalization, self-cure, self-government, self-nationalization, and self-internationalization. This leads to the central thesis that a democratic society can only function properly ... Read more

    $99.89 USD

  • The Ritual Animal

    Imitation and Cohesion in the Evolution of Social Complexity

    by Harvey Whitehouse ...
    A radical exploration of how rituals have influenced history over thousands of years. From infancy, we copy those around us in order to be like others, to be one with the tribe. Other primates will copy behaviour that leads to transparent benefits, such as access to food, but only humans promiscuously copy actions that have no obvious instrumental purpose. The copying of causally opaque behaviour ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Confronting Dogmatism in Gifted Education

    Edited by Don Ambrose, Robert Sternberg, Bharath Sriraman ...
    This title looks at the dogmatism that limits the perspectives of professionals, policymakers, and other stakeholders in gifted education. In a field where concepts and definitions surrounding high ability have been contested for many years, there is increasing interest in clarifying these notions today. This book offers such clarity, searching outside of the predominant conceptual frameworks that ... Read more

    $70.99 USD