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...

This text offers a readable and friendly presentation of the important methods, findings, and theories of human aging, while actively involving the reader in meaningful exercises and critical thinking. Students are repeatedly challenged to apply information in the text to the older adults in their own lives. Specifically, suggestions for enhancing the lives of their older relatives are offered and encouraged. These include guidelines for discussions they might have regarding social, emotional, and environmental changes as well encouraging intellectual and social interaction.

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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...