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Handbook of International Negotiation:Interpersonal, Intercultural, and Diplo…
This book reinforces the foundation of a new field of studies and research in the intersection between social sciences and specifically between political science, international relations, diplomacy, psychotherapy, and social-cognitive psychology. It seeks to promote a coherent and comprehensive approach to international negotiation from a multidisciplinary viewpoint generating a longer term of …
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- 978-1-4899-7583-6
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- XLIX, 438
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- 150
The Neuropsychology of Men
This timely text examines normative and pathological brain/behavior connections across the male lifespan, and how these findings can best inform research, intervention, and prevention. It spotlights possible etiologies for male-dominated pathology, including academic deficits and disorders relating to violence, as well as identifying men's psychological resilience and vulnerabilities throughout…
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- 978-1-4899-7615-4
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- XVI, 236
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- Issues of Diversity in Clinical Neuropsychology
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Youth Resilience and Culture Commonalities and Complexities
Until researchers and theorists account for the complex relationship between resilience and culture, explanations of why some individuals prevail in the face of adversity will remain incomplete. This edited volume addresses this crucial issue by bringing together emerging discussions of the ways in which culture shapes resilience, the theory that informs these various studies, and important con…
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- 978-94-017-9415-2
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Women and Aging An International, Intersectional Power Perspective
These are paradoxical times to be an older woman. As individual older women take the stage as role models in the arts and the public sphere, female elders as a group are marginalized as dependent, declining and unimportant. Women and Aging surveys the evolving sociopolitical landscape in an era still struggling with gender and age discrimination. This insightful volume recasts familiar conce…
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- 978-3-319-09306-2
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Understanding Emotion in Chinese Culture Thinking Through Psychology
This mind-opening take on indigenous psychology presents a multi-level analysis of culture to frame the differences between Chinese and Western cognitive and emotive styles. Eastern and Western cultures are seen here as mirror images in terms of rationality, relational thinking, and symmetry or harmony. Examples from the philosophical texts of Confucianism, Daoism, Buddhism, and classical poetr…
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- 978-3-319-18221-6
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- 1 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
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The Evolution of Sexuality
The Evolution of Sexuality collects stimulating new empirical findings and theoretical concepts regarding both familiar themes and emerging areas of interest. Following earlier titles in this series, an interdisciplinary panel of contributors examines topics specific to the whys of male and female sex-related behavior, here ranging from biological bases for male same-sex attraction to the seemi…
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- 978-3-319-09384-0
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- XX, 280
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- Evolutionary Psychology
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Neuroscience in Intercultural Contexts
This breakthrough volume brings together cultural neuroscience and intercultural relations in an expansive presentation. Its selected topics in reasoning, memory, and other key cognitive areas bridge the neuroscience behind culture-related phenomena with the complex social processes involved in seeing the world through the perspective of others. Coverage ranges beyond the familiar paradigms of …
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- 1
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- 978-1-4939-5500-8
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- XXX
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- International and Cultural Psychology
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Trauma and Migration
This book provides an overview of recent trends in the management of trauma and post-traumatic stress disorders that may ensue from distressing experiences associated with the process of migration. Although the symptoms induced by trauma are common to all cultures, their specific meaning and the strategies used to deal with them may be culture-specific. Consequently, cultural factors can play a…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-17334-4
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- VIII, 257
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Neuroscience in Intercultural Contexts
This breakthrough volume brings together cultural neuroscience and intercultural relations in an expansive presentation. Its selected topics in reasoning, memory, and other key cognitive areas bridge the neuroscience behind culture-related phenomena with the complex social processes involved in seeing the world through the perspective of others. Coverage ranges beyond the familiar paradigms of …
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- 1
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- 1571-5507
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- XXX, 263
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- International and Cultural Psychology
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The World of Bereavement Cultural Perspectives on Death in Families
This visionary work explores the sensitive balance between the personal and private aspects of grief, the social and cultural variables that unite communities in bereavement, and the universal experience of loss. Its global journey takes readers into the processes of coping, ritual, and belief across established and emerging nations, indigenous cultures, and countries undergoing major upheavals…
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- 978-3-319-13945-6
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