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Download this eBook Dynamic Semiosis
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Dynamic Semiosis


Jaan Valsiner


This book aims to bring to readers the author’s elaborated focus on the dynamic process of sign emergence, use, fixation and un-fixation, and dismissal. Its uniqueness is in its reliance on the organizing limits of irreversible time that renders the meaning construction...

Publication date: 2024-12-13
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Psychological Science


Charles Locurto


This book examines questions of experimental design, in social science principally concerning what happens if shortcuts are allowed in the design, analysis, and interpretation of psychological research. The author argues that shortcuts lead to experimental results...

Publication date: 2024-09-30
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Download this eBook New Perspectives on Inner Speech
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New Perspectives on Inner Speech


Pablo Fossa


Inner speech has been a focus of multidisciplinary interest. It is a long-standing phenomenon of study in philosophy, psychology, and anthropology. Researchers from different disciplines have turned their efforts to understand this inherent experience of being "talking...

Publication date: 2022-08-08
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Psychology in Policy


Kevin R. Carriere


This book takes an insider perspective of the psychological issues of creating policy. Instead of considering what the products of policy are - often the case in psychological and political science work - this book examines the individual processes present in proposing...

Publication date: 2022-07-20
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Download this eBook A Theory of Proculturation
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A Theory of Proculturation


Vladimer Lado Gamsakhurdia


In each connection with new cultural contexts a new hybrid state of cultural adaptation is constructed enabling people to adjust to new conditions by creating innovative solutions for the self. This book aims to provide a brief presentation of innovative cultural...

Publication date: 2022-07-01
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Download this eBook Organizational, Motivational, and Cultural Contexts of Volunteering
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Organizational, Motivational, and Cultural Contexts of Volunteering


Stefan T. Güntert , Harald A. Mieg , Theo Wehner


This open access book offers a comprehensive view of the phenomenon of volunteer work: it examines motivational factors and questions of corporate organization and the social environment. In particular, this is the...

Publication date: 2022-03-31
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Employment of Persons with Autism


Matthew Bennett , Emma Goodall


This scoping review furnishes the reader with a contemporary overview of research about employment conditions related to persons on the autism spectrum. In this book six guiding questions are used to address various aspects of employment for persons on the autism...

Publication date: 2021-09-03
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Download this eBook Reprising Craftsmanship
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Reprising Craftsmanship


Pablo Rojas


Craftsmanship provides an insight into an inherently human dimension of work resulting from our immersion in an occupation or profession. The present book illustrates and defines the vital, social, aesthetic, and ethical dimensions involved in craftsmanship, which...

Publication date: 2021-08-31
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Download this eBook A Pragmatic Perspective of Measurement
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A Pragmatic Perspective of Measurement


David Torres Irribarra


This book aims to address the challenges of defining measurement in social sciences, presenting a conceptualization of the practice of measurement from the perspective of the pragmatic tradition in philosophy. The book reviews key questions regarding the scope and...

Publication date: 2021-05-29
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Download this eBook A Psychobiography of Viktor E. Frankl
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A Psychobiography of Viktor E. Frankl


Nataliya Krasovska , Claude-Hélène Mayer


This book is a psychobiography on the life of Viktor Frankl and a unique exploration of his life from a positive psychology perspective. It uses Paul Wong’s theory of positive psychology wave 2 (PP2.0) and explores the concepts of meaning and virtue throughout Frankl's...

Publication date: 2021-04-27
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Download this eBook Identity at the Borders and Between the Borders
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Identity at the Borders and Between the Borders


Katrin Kullasepp , Giuseppina Marsico


Within the general framework of Cultural Psychology, this book provides different perspectives on the relationship between border and identity by experts from several disciplines (i.e. history, psychology, geography etc.). The book offers an “in- depth” comprehension of...

Publication date: 2021-03-15
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Download this eBook Occupational Stress in South African Work Culture
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Occupational Stress in South African Work Culture


Nasima Mh Carrim , J. Alewyn Nel , Riana Schoeman


This book explores avenues for organisations to better understand the origins of occupational stress so as to enable their managerial employees to effectively manage stress levels. By way of the work locus of control as a personality variable, the book identifies...

Publication date: 2021-01-30
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Download this eBook Between Philosophy and Cultural Psychology
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Between Philosophy and Cultural Psychology


Robert E. Innis


This Brief provides an in-depth discussion of five major points of intersection between philosophy and cultural psychology. The first chapter frames central analytical and normative threads, foregrounding the focal notion of thresholds of sense. The second chapter...

Publication date: 2020-09-24
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Download this eBook Distant Connections: The Memory Basis of Creative Analogy
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Distant Connections: The Memory Basis of Creative Analogy


Ricardo A. Minervino , Máximo Trench


Analogical thinking lies at the core of human cognition, pervading from the most mundane to the most extraordinary forms of creativity. By connecting poorly understood phenomena to learned situations whose structure is well articulated, it allows reasoners to expand the...

Publication date: 2020-09-22
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The Secret Power of Criminal Organizations


Lisbeth Drury , Giovanni A. Travaglino


This Brief presents a social psychological approach to understanding the reaction of communities to organized crime and illegal groups.  Based on a new theoretical framework and the latest empirical evidence, this book explores questions of how criminal...

Publication date: 2020-09-02
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Download this eBook Sensuality in Human Living
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Sensuality in Human Living


Jaan Valsiner


This book is a theoretical account for general psychology of how human beings meaningfully relate with their bodies-- from the basic physiological processes upwards to the highest psychological functions of religiosity, ethical reasoning, and devotional practices. ...

Publication date: 2020-06-23
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Constructing Reality


Piero Mella


This brief presents an overview of Gregory Bateson’s Constructivist method of Cognition. Bateson proposes a theory of cognition that is based on the abstract notion of difference that the mind distinguishes and perceives and represents information that constitutes and...

Publication date: 2020-06-10
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Download this eBook A Theory of Imagining, Knowing, and Understanding
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A Theory of Imagining, Knowing, and Understanding


Luca Tateo


This is a book about imaginative work and its relationship with the construction of knowledge. It is fully acknowledged by epistemologists that imagination is not something opposed to rationality; it is not mere fantasy opposed to intellect. In philosophy and cognitive...

Publication date: 2020-03-09
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Download this eBook Cognitive Evolutionary Therapy for Depression
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Cognitive Evolutionary Therapy for Depression


Cezar Giosan


Evolutionary psychology has recently made inroads in clinical psychology, bringing the understanding that, in some cases, mental symptoms are not manifestations of brain disorders, but rather evolved mechanisms that might function in overdrive or signal fitness...

Publication date: 2020-02-20
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Download this eBook Sociocultural Psychology on the Regional Scale
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Sociocultural Psychology on the Regional Scale


Tania Zittoun


This brief presents the case study of a hill in Czech Republic (Ríp) and its region, and contributes to theorization in sociocultural psychology on three points, along three current debates. First, it contributes to the exploration of the mutual constitution of the...

Publication date: 2019-12-12
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