How understanding the evolution of the human brain can help you re-connect with the world
Our civilisation relies on the human capacity to connect and cooperate. Yet this drive accentuates group frictions, worsened by overcrowding and media. Mark advocates reconnecting to overcome divisions, exploring brain evolution and practical connection. He envisions leveraging this drive to foster multicultural societies for global betterment.
Basic Psychological Needs in Motivation, Development, and Wellness
Self-determination theory (SDT) provides a framework for understanding the factors that promote motivation and healthy psychological and behavioral functioning. In this authoritative work, the codevelopers of the theory comprehensively examine SDT's conceptual underpinnings (including its six mini-theories), empirical evidence base, and practical ......
A looming health crisis faces men who find themselves stuck in today’s changing world. Slowly, more and more men are learning the positives that come from talking openly about their struggles with mental and physical health. In this incisive and insightful guide to male mental health, popular clinical psychologist Stephan B. Poulter, Ph.D., ......
Featuring cutting-edge research and in-depth reporting, this paradigm-shifting book shows us how to skillfully confront the unexpected and unknown, and how to seek not-knowing in the service of curiosity, wisdom, and discovery.
Psychological research can provide constructive explanations of key problems in the criminal justice system--and can help generate solutions. This state-of-the-art text dissects the psychological processes associated with fundamental legal questions: Is a suspect lying? Will an incarcerated individual be dangerous in the future? Is an eyewitness ......
Synthesizing a vast body of empirical research and organizing it around a comprehensive conceptual model, this book is recognized as the definitive reference on adult attachment. The authors explain how what began as a theory of child development is now used to conceptualize and study nearly all aspects of social functioning across the lifespan, ......
Presenting innovative ways to infuse self-compassion into psychotherapy, this book shares insights and tools from foremost experts in the field. Clinicians from any orientation are guided to cultivate self-compassion themselves and incorporate it into interventions with clients. Rich case material throughout the chapters illustrates applications ......
Provides a step-by-step guide to writing autoethnography, illustrating its essential features and practices with excerpts from his own and others' work. Autoethnography is an approach to research and writing that describes and analyses one's personal experience in various contexts to understand its cultural, social, and emotional meaning.
Does God exist? This straightforward question has spawned endless debate, ranging from apologists’ supposed proofs of God’s existence to New Atheist manifestos declaring belief in God a harmful delusion. In Disbelief, Will M. Gervais, Phd., a global leader in the psychological study of atheism, shows that the ubiquity of religious ......