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Deliberative Public Engagement with Science : An Empirical Investigation
This compact open access reference delves beyond popular concepts of educated consumers and an informed public by examining the science behind deliberative engagement. Using data from four longitudinal studies, the authors assess public engagement methods in deliberative discussions of ethical, legal, and social issues concerning innovations in nanotechnology. Coverage includes the theoretical …
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- 978-3-319-78160-0
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- XI, 129
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- SpringerBriefs in Psychology (BRIEFSPSYCHOL)
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Children and Peace : From Research to Action
This open access book brings together discourse on children and peace from the 15th International Symposium on the Contributions of Psychology to Peace, covering issues pertinent to children and peace and approaches to making their world safer, fairer and more sustainable. The book is divided into nine sections that examine traditional themes (social construction and deconstruction of diversit…
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- 978-3-030-22176-8
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- XXXVIII, 381
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- Peace Psychology Book Series (PPBS)
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- 150 CHI
Delusions In Context
This open access book offers an exploration of delusions—unusual beliefs that can significantly disrupt people’s lives. Experts from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, including lived experience, clinical psychiatry, philosophy, clinical psychology, and cognitive neuroscience, discuss how delusions emerge, why it is so difficult to give them up, what their effects are, how they are manage…
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- 9783319972022
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Seeing Ourselves Through Technology
This book is open access under a CC BY license. Selfies, blogs and lifelogging devices help us understand ourselves, building on long histories of written, visual and quantitative modes of self-representations. This book uses examples to explore the balance between using technology to see ourselves and allowing our machines to tell us who we are.
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- 978-1-137-47666-1
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- Palgrave Macmillan London
Altern als Zukunft – eine Studie der VolkswagenStiftung
Deutschland altert – aber was heißt das? Ist das schlimm? Und kann eine Gesellschaft überhaupt als Ganzes altern? In einer Zusammenführung von psychologischen, gerontologischen und soziologischen Erkenntnissen eröffnet dieses Open Access Buch einen bislang einzigartigen, vielseitigen und realistischen Blick auf das Phänomen des Alters und den Prozess des Alterns. Schwerpunkte des Projekt…
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- 978-3-662-63405-9
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- XV, 173
Bullying im Klassenverband – doch nicht nur in der Schule
Das vorliegende Open-Access-Buch befasst sich mit den Fragen, welche Rollen Klassenmitglieder bei Bullying einnehmen und durch welche sozial-kognitiven und affektiven Reaktionen sie sich auszeichnen. Bei Bullying handelt es sich um aggressives Verhalten, das sich über einen längeren Zeitraum hinweg systematisch gegen schwächere Mitglieder einer Gruppe richtet. Bullying ist dementsprechend al…
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- XXIII, 349
Being amoral :psychopathy and moral incapacity
"Psychopathy has been the subject of investigations in both philosophy and psychiatry and yet the conceptual issues remain largely unresolved. This volume approaches psychopathy by considering the question of what psychopaths lack. The contributors investigate specific moral dysfunctions or deficits, shedding light on the capacities people need to be moral by examining cases of real people who …
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- 9780262320382
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- 1 online resource (vi, 335 pages) :1 illustration.
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The Many Faces of Social Attention: Behavioral and Neural Measures
The Many Faces of Social Attention will interest researchers in social neuroscience, social psychology, developmental psychology, social cognition, visual attention and cognition, and clinical psychology, and inspire new advances in this increasingly
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- 978-3-319-21368-2
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- X, 249
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- -
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- 155.26
Handbook of Biobehavioral Approaches to Self-Regulation
How can people master their own thoughts, feelings, and actions? This question is central to the scientific study of self-regulation. The behavioral side of self-regulation has been extensively investigated over the last decades, but the biological machinery that allows people to self-regulate has mostly remained vague and unspecified. Handbook of Biobehavioral Approaches to Self-Regulation …
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- 978-1-4939-1235-3
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- XIV, 421
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- 150 HAN
AiKiDô: The Trinity of Conflict Transformation
In this volume, nine renowned experts delineate their theoretical or methodological approach of Aikidô in potentiating constructive handling of social conflicts. The authors depict the contribution of the Japanese self-defensive art Aikidô to the theory and practice of conflict transformation. The concept of Elicitive Conflict Transformation (Lederach, Dietrich) necessarily calls for a revise…
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- 978-3-658-10166-4
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- VIII, 237
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- Elicitiva – Friedensforschung und Humanistische Psychologie
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- 150 AIK a
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