Kategoria BISAC: Psychology >> Developmental - General

In every domain of reasoning-from time and space, to mental states and physical illness-humans deploy an exceedingly diverse range of intuitive 'theories' about how the world works. Children from diverse cultures always seem to arrive at a few, common folk theories as they hone their developing brains against roughly similar interactions with people and objects. The result is an impressive panoply of folk notions that the human species uses to explain, predict, and just plain talk about everything from why the sky is blue, to why we catch a cold when we stand out in the rain. Unquestionably,...

Western and East Asian people hold fundamentally different beliefs about learning that influence how they approach child rearing and education. Reviewing decades of research, Dr. Jin Li presents an important conceptual distinction between the Western mind model and the East Asian virtue model of learning. The former aims to cultivate the mind to understand the world, whereas the latter prioritizes the self to be perfected morally and socially. Tracing the cultural origins of the two large intellectual traditions, Li details how each model manifests itself in the psychology of the learning...

Cyberbullying in the Global Playground provides the first global, in-depth analysis of the emerging phenomenon of cyberbullying.

• Offers the first thorough comparative account of recent research into the emerging global phenomenon of cyberbullying
• Provides an international perspective on the prevalence and nature of cyberbullying
• Presents recent authoritative research within a critical perspective, drawing out theoretical and practical implications for policy and practice
• May be used to help design intervention, evaluation, and policy...

Children and Social Exclusion: Morality, Prejudice, and Group Identity explores the origins of prejudice and the emergence of morality to explain why children include some and exclude others.

• Formulates an original theory about children's experiences with exclusion and how they understand the world of discrimination based on group membership
• Brings together Social Domain Theory and Social Identity Theory to explain how children view exclusion that often results in prejudice, and inclusion that reflects social justice and morality
• Presents new research...

Psychologists explore the reality of cyberbullies

Millions of children are affected by bullies each year. Advances in social media, email, instant messaging, and cell phones, however, have moved bullying from a schoolyard fear to a constant threat. The second edition of Cyberbullying offers the most current information on this constantly-evolving issue and outlines the unique concerns and challenges it raises for children, parents, and educators. Authored by psychologists who are internationally recognized as experts in this field, the text uses the latest research in this...

Psychologists explore the reality of cyberbullies

Millions of children are affected by bullies each year. Advances in social media, email, instant messaging, and cell phones, however, have moved bullying from a schoolyard fear to a constant threat. The second edition of Cyberbullying offers the most current information on this constantly-evolving issue and outlines the unique concerns and challenges it raises for children, parents, and educators. Authored by psychologists who are internationally recognized as experts in this field, the text uses the latest research in this...

This book was created for people to remember why each one of us should have an Attitude of Gratitude. For ages 7 +.

Die Padagogische Psychologie und die Entwicklungspsychologie haben eine bewegte Geschichte. Das Buch prasentiert eine Auswahl von richtungsweisenden Originalarbeiten aus dieser Historie und leistet so eine Einfuhrung in das Theorie- und Anwendungsfeld der Padagogischen Psychologie und der Entwicklungspsychologie. Ziel soll dabei sein, diese Texte so aufzubereiten und zu kommentieren, dass auch heutige Leser problemlos Zugang finden."

Damit Kinder nach Trennung oder Scheidung ihrer Eltern eine gute tragfahige Beziehung zu Mutter und Vater behalten, entscheiden sich immer mehr Eltern fur das sogenannte Wechsel-modell: Die Kinder leben abwechselnd bei Mutter und Vater. Dies wirft sowohl rechtliche als auch psychologische und padagogische Fragen auf. Die Autorin stellt die Rechtslage sowie die Rechtsprechung zum Wechselmodell umfassend dar. Die internationale psychologische For-schung bietet interessante neue Erkenntnisse zu der Frage, ob diese Lebens- und Betreuungs-form fur die kindliche Entwicklung gut ist. Hieraus werden...

This volume of proceedings from the IVth conference of the European Association of psychology and law, held in Barcelona, Spain, in 1994, summarizes the recent advances in the field of the psychology of law, with particular reference to contribution by (increasingly, southern) European researchers and practitioners. methodologies. Most areas of research receive attention, from prison to courtroom to international comparative studies, from victims to offenders to legal operators. reflect the vast expansion in empirical research that this field has witnessed in recent years. practitioners from...

Our suppositions about human nature colour everything from the way we bargain with a used-car dealer to our expectations about further conflict in the Middle East. Our assumptions about human nature underlie our reactions to specific events. Wrightsman designed this second edition of his book to enhance our understanding of many significant issues about human nature, including the relationship of attitudes to behaviour, the unidimensionality of attitudes and the influence of social movements on beliefs.

Our suppositions about human nature colour everything from the way we bargain with a used-car dealer to our expectations about further conflict in the Middle East. Our assumptions about human nature underlie our reactions to specific events. Wrightsman designed this second edition of his book to enhance our understanding of many significant issues about human nature, including the relationship of attitudes to behaviour, the unidimensionality of attitudes and the influence of social movements on beliefs.

The objective of this special issue is to illustrate some of the theoretical, methodological and practical aspects involved in the evidence-based evaluation of family educational programs aimed at supporting positive parenting. The main novelty that this special issue brings is the compilation of studies involving experiences of parent education programs from several countries. The objectives of the papers are to develop theoretically based prevention programs, to evaluate their effectiveness according to standards of evidence, and to examine factors that influence implementation process. The...

An authoritative new work exploring the themes of communication and implementation of research within developmental psychology - a scientific field with extensive real world value in addressing problems faced by individuals, families and services

• Brings together the insights of a stellar group of contributors with personal experience translating developmental psychology research into practice
• Accessibly structured into sections exploring family processes and child rearing practices; educational aspects; and clinical applications
• Goes beyond traditional...

Antisocial behaviors including bullying, violence, and aggression have been an area of intense interest among researchers, clinicians, policy makers, and the general public because of their grievous consequences on individuals and society. Our understanding of the origins and development of these behaviors in individuals has recently progressed with the application of new scientific advancements and technologies such as neuroimaging, genomics, and research methods that capture behavioral changes in the first few years of life.

The Origins of Antisocial Behavior: A Developmental...

How is it possible that in more than one hundred years, the nature-nurture debate has not come to a satisfactory resolution? The problem, Dale Goldhaber argues, lies not with the proposed answers, but with the question itself. In The Nature-Nurture Debates, Goldhaber reviews the four major perspectives on the issue behavior genetics, environment, evolutionary psychology, and developmental systems theory and shows that the classic, reductionist strategies (behavior genetics and environmental approaches) are incapable of resolving the issue because they each offer a false perspective on the...