Catálogo de libros: Psicología

50443 Catálogo de libros: Psicología

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  • Social Media Generation in Urban China
    Hanyun Huang
    Social media such as instant messaging (IM), social networking sites (SNS), blogs and microblogs are an integral part of adolescents’ lives in China. Anecdotal evidence reported in the news has suggested that the increasing popularity of social media could make adolescents more vulnerable to being addicted. This exploratory study proposes the concept of 'social media addiction'...
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    66,89 €

  • From Stress to Wellbeing Volume 1
    C. Cooper
    A comprehensive collection by Professor Cary Cooper and his colleagues in the field of workplace stress and wellbeing, which draws on research in a number of areas including stress-strain relationships, sources of workplace stress and stressful occupations. Volume 1 of 2. ...
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    132,96 €

  • Handbook of Career Development
    This book is focused on work, occupation and career development: themes that are fundamental to a wide range of human activities and relevant across all cultures. Yet theorizing and model building about this most ubiquitous of human activities from international perspectives have not been vigorous. An examination of the literature pertaining to career development, counseling an...
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    272,69 €

  • Psycho-Oncology
    Ute Goerling
    Psycho-oncology is a thriving discipline in cancer care, and numerous research activities have been undertaken in the endeavour to improve treatment outcomes and to gain a better understanding of the psychosocial consequences of cancer. This book presents and discusses the latest findings from science and practice for a broad range of psychological and social issues related to ...
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    171,51 €

  • Prosopagnosia
    Davide Rivolta
    This book provides readers with a simplified and comprehensive account of the cognitive and neural bases of face perception in humans. Faces are ubiquitous in our environment and we rely on them during social interactions. The human face processing system allows us to extract information about the identity, gender, age, mood, race, attractiveness and approachability of other pe...
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    135,66 €

  • Diagnostic Assessment of Learning Disabilities in Childhood
    Amber E. Brueggemann Taylor
    Diagnosing learning disabilities (LD) in children has never been an easy task. The multiple approaches in use complicate the assessment process, raising the risk of young students getting the wrong services, or none at all. It is clear that more accurate diagnosis and classification methods are needed to advance the prevention and treatment of difficulties in reading and mathem...
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    78,69 €

  • Investigative Interviewing
    Ray Bull
    This edited volume reviews the latest research on investigative interviewing in order to provide insights on the psychological processes of the person being interviewed as well as to offer guidelines for conducting credible and useful interviews. Critical and controversial areas are highlighted (eg. false confessions, child interviewing) in order to bring clarity to how these i...
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    78,70 €

  • The Cognitive Neuroscience of Metacognition
    Metacognition is the capacity to reflect upon and evaluate cognition and behaviour. Long of interest to philosophers and psychologists, metacognition has recently become the target of research in the cognitive neurosciences. By combining brain imaging, computational modeling, neuropsychology and insights from psychiatry, the present book offers a picture of the metacognitive fu...
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    308,83 €

  • Ethnographic Worldviews
    This book discusses ethnography from the three points of view of Emerging Methodologies, Practice and Advocacy, and Social Justice and Transformation, with an over arching emphasis on researchers’ and participants’ worldviews. While these three thematic threads cut across each other, the actual chapters will be located so that the reader understand many of the current issues an...
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    133,98 €

  • Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technology
    Lorenzo Magnani
    This book contains contributions presented during the international conference on Model-Based Reasoning (MBR´012), held on June 21-23 in Sestri Levante, Italy. Interdisciplinary researchers discuss in this volume how scientific cognition and other kinds of cognition make use of models, abduction, and explanatory reasoning in order to produce important or creative changes in th...
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    272,72 €

  • The Phenomenology of Embodied Subjectivity
    The 17 original essays of this volume explore the relevance of the phenomenological approach to contemporary debates concerning the role of embodiment in our cognitive, emotional and practical life. The papers demonstrate the theoretical vitality and critical potential of the phenomenological tradition both through critically engagement with other disciplines (medical anthropol...
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    133,41 €

  • Mental Disorders in Ancient Philosophy
    Marke Ahonen
    This book offers a comprehensive study of the views of ancient philosophers on mental disorders. Relying on the original Greek and Latin textual sources, the author describes and analyses how the ancient philosophers explained mental illness and its symptoms, including hallucinations, delusions, strange fears and inappropriate moods and how they accounted for the respective rol...
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    146,27 €

  • Meditation - Neuroscientific Approaches and Philosophical Implications
    This volume features a collection of essays on consciousness, which has become one of the hot topics at the crossroads between neuroscience, philosophy, and religious studies. Is consciousness something the brain produces? How can we study it? Is there just one type of consciousness or are there different states that can be discriminated? Are so called 'higher states of conscio...
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    210,46 €

  • International Handbook of Adolescent Pregnancy
    The rates are on the decline worldwide. But adolescent pregnancies still occur, placing millions of girls each year at risk for medical complications and social isolation and their babies for severe health problems-especially when prenatal care is inadequate or nonexistent.But as the opportunity for young women and girls increases around the world, adolescent pregnancy will con...
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    272,42 €

  • Advertising to Children
    This important source for students, researchers, advertisers and parents reviews the debates and presents new research about advertising to children. Chapters cover food and alcohol advertising, the effects of product placement and new media advertising, and the role of parents and teachers in helping children to learn more about advertising. ...
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    134,04 €

  • The DNA of Customer Experience
    C. Shaw
    As the World Thought Leaders on Customer Experience, Colin Shaw and the team at Beyond Philosophy have undertaken more than 18 months of groundbreaking research to discover the emotions that drive and destroy value in an organization, and can now disclose the empirical link between evoking these emotions and substantial financial returns. ...
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    72,94 €

  • Community-Based Interventions
    John W. Murphy
    For decades, community-centered social services have been promoted as an admirable ideal. Yet the concept of decentralized services delivered where people live has proved to be an elusive ideal as well, with the promise of empowerment often giving way to disinterest and apathy.Community-Based Interventions examines the reasons community programs tend to founder and proposes a r...
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    159,04 €

  • Reframing the Transitional Justice Paradigm
    Jill Stockwell
    This volume explores the evolving and complex memorial consequences of state-sponsored violence in post-dictatorial Argentina. Specifically, it looks at the power and significance of personal emotions and affects in shaping memorial culture. This volume contends that we need to look beyond political and ideological contestations to a deeper level of how memorial cultures are fo...
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    135,91 €

  • Leadership, Coaching and Followership
    Ann M. Brewer
    This volume presents evidence-based ideas on all three converging forces to suit an array of individuals and their organisations. The volume is thick with evidence, detail and case studies that the reader can draw upon and apply to their own situations. ​Defining exactly what is leadership has been a persistent problem for researchers and theorists. Discovering how to create o...
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    109,56 €

  • Genesis Extinction
    Tien Kai
    Tien Kai, a self-proclaimed 'sensory-oriented intellectual' of the most peculiar kind, considers himself to be what he calls 'a counter-academic.' Kai shoulders a strong conviction to provide an inventive approach to understanding feminine and masculine modalities of being against what he describes as 'western civilization’s sacrosanct single species scholastic dogmas embodying...
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    27,26 €

  • Encouraging Children to Learn
    Don Sr. Dinkmeyer / Rudolf Dreikurs
    Encouragement is the basis for development of human potential in children and adults. It is the source of motivation for effective actions, goals and interpersonal relationships. Encouragement permits individuals to overcome setbacks and adversities, to have respect for self and for others, to be optimistic and to meet life’s challenges. In an era that has witnessed high rates ...
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    227,80 €

  • Conflict
    J. Burton
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    133,47 €

  • Corporate Social Responsibility and Alcohol
    Increased scrutiny on the part of the general public, media, and government has warranted a reexamination of corporate responsibilities, standards of accountability, the company’s role in its local and extended community, and its ethical position in our society and culture. ...
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    73,26 €

  • Behavioral Medicine Approaches to Cardiovascular Disease Prevention
    Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the number one killer of men and women in industrialized countries. In older age groups, CVD is also the most important cause for hospitalization, and, in many countries, it is the basis of early retirement from work. Thus, CVD is associated with enormous costs for care and loss of productivity, as well as for disabilities, pensions, etc. All thi...
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    85,01 €

  • Cognitive Appraisal, Emotion, and Empathy
    Becky Lynn Omdahl
    In a wide array of social sciences, interest in emotion is flourishing. Psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists, communication scholars, and cognitive scientists are exploring human emotions in a variety of contexts. This book speaks to central issues raised by scholars in these disciplines through its review of leading cognitive appraisal theories of emotion, clarificatio...
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    85,25 €

  • School Psychology
    This impressive volume reintroduces the importance of -- and the contributions made by -- social psychology to school psychology. It provides an overview of the basic areas of social psychology (history, attitudes, attribution, attraction, and research methods) as well as the traditional school psychology functions (assessment, therapy, and consultation). To unite these two cru...
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    78,70 €

  • Separate Social Worlds of Siblings
    One of the most notable findings in contemporary behavior genetics is that children growing up in the same family are not very comparable. Findings suggest that in order to understand individual differences between siblings it is necessary to examine not only the shared experiences but also the differences in experiences of children growing up in the same family. In the past de...
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    38,06 €

  • Psychology and Policing
    Psychological theory and research have much to contribute to the knowledge and skill bases underlying effective policing. Much of the relevant information, however, is dispersed across a variety of different psychological and criminal justice/policing journals and seldom integrated for those applied psychologists interested in policing issues or for police policymakers/administ...
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    84,44 €

  • Theoretical Frameworks for Personal Relationships
    The past two decades have seen a tremendous increase in research and scholarship devoted to personal relationships. From rather scattered beginnings a recognizable and recognized field has emerged, whose strength and health is reflected in a wide array of indicators. The editors contend that while the vigor of the field is often shown in the diversity and innovation of its rese...
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    85,26 €

  • AIDS and Intravenous Drug Use
    C. G. Leukefeld / Robert J. Battjes / Z. Amsel
    Suggests that the intervention to help intravenous drug users to modify their behaviour to reduce the risk of AIDS infection should be community- based - this being the best way to affect the behaviour of people who decide not to avail themselves of the services of drug treatment centres. ...
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    35,03 €


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