Kategoria BISAC: Psychology >> Developmental - General

Thema's als intieme relaties en seksualiteit van adolescenten krijgen relatief weinig aandacht in de wetenschappelijke literatuur. Dit staat in schril contrast met de aandacht die jongeren er zelf voor hebben. Intieme relaties en seksualiteit geeft de resultaten weer van enkele studies die een uitgebreider licht werpen op het liefdesleven van Nederlandse en Vlaamse adolescenten. De studies maken gebruik van verschillende onderzoeksmethodes zoals cross-sectioneel en longitudinaal kwantitatief onderzoek, kwalitatief onderzoek en experimenten, en zijn uitgevoerd bij verschillende...

Despite all the media attention on recent school tragedies, many of which can be traced to bullied children, there has...

Was human nature designed by natural selection in the Pleistocene epoch? The dominant view in evolutionary psychology holds that it was -- that our psychological adaptations were designed tens of thousands of years ago to solve problems faced by our hunter-gatherer ancestors. In this provocative and lively book, David Buller examines in detail the major claims of evolutionary psychology -- the paradigm popularized by Steven Pinker in The Blank Slate and by David Buss in The Evolution of Desire -- and rejects them all. This does not mean that we cannot apply evolutionary...

In recent years, researchers have begun to focus attention on postformal thought--the development of thought in late adolescence and adulthood--questioning Piaget's early terminus of structural development in adolescence. This volume brings together the works of distinguished authors in the field of postformal-operational cognitive, social, and perceptual development to examine the models and methodology used to investigate postformal thought. The contributors represent the variety of approaches that characterize this body of research, while, at the same time, seeking to unify this diverse...

Walters sets forth an interactive model of lifestyle development, which is divided into three phases. Initiation, the first phase of lifestyle development, is the point at which lifestyle-supporting belief systems evolve from interactions taking place between incentive (existential fear), opportunity (risk factors and learning experiences), and choice (decision-making). Before a pattern becomes a lifestyle, it must proceed through a transitional phase in which lifestyle-promoting outcome expectancies are formed and lifestyle-congruent skills are learned. This is followed by a third phase...

*The New York Times Book Review

Nearly twenty years ago, esteemed Yale psychologist Daniel J. Levinson wrote the groundbreaking classic, The Seasons of a Man's Life, which became the stimulus for a revolution in thinking about life passages, helping thousands of men make sense of their own lives. Now it is womens' turn. Based on exhaustive interviews with a diverse group of forty-five women, The Seasons of a Woman's Life...