Exploring the Links Between Inflammation, Stress, and Illness
Explores the ways physical and psychological stressors such as poor sleep, PTSD, and depression, trigger the inflammatory response and increase the risk of disease. This book presents evidence of connections between mind and body, and emphasizes the need for improved communication between physicians and mental health care providers.
Brings together research from different subdisciplines across psychology to address the ways in which technology and Big Data are changing how psychological research is conducted. The book also examines how technology allows us to better understand human psychology.
This work covers the psychosocial and physiological influences affecting spinal surgery - from evaluation to preparation and post-operative rehabilitation. It should be useful for psychologists, orthopaedists, neurosurgeons, physicians and nurses, as well as students.
Empirical Contributions and Normative Commentaries
This cross-disciplinary book investigates how morality translates into action by presenting original psychological research on our understanding of rights and duties. This topical focus is especially timely in the post 9/11 world, where relative rights and duties of citizens and our government are foremost in our minds.
Given the weaponization of difference in politics, education, and social media today, the need to understand and fight prejudice is urgent. The Psychology of Prejudice presents a comprehensive and nuanced review of the psychological underpinnings of prejudicial thoughts and behaviours.
This book aims to break the cultural silence surrounding polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) by weaving together stories of personal experiences with the condition, alongside cutting-edge psychological and social science research.
The psychology of men and masculinities is a thriving, growing field illuminating the impact of sex and gender on the lives of men. This highly anticipated volume shows how far the field has advanced and what directions it is taking. It explains and evaluates major theories, research, and applications, with an emphasis on the gender role strain ......
Explores the multifaceted nature of this highly subjective construct. Contributors to this groundbreaking edited volume examine the phenomenological, empirical, and clinical aspects of people's reactions to the loss of meaning, to uncertainty, and to meaning violations. The book concludes with a scholarly, clinical chapter on how psychotherapy can ......
Despite notable contributions in eyewitness identification and jury selection, most legal research done by psychologists has had a minimal impact upon law and public policy in the US. In this carefully-reasoned and compelling text, the authors explain how psychologists have failed to understand the law and the context in which it operates.
