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“jon wright”

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  • Flow Experience

    Empirical Research and Applications

    Edited by Fredrik Ullén, Frans Ørsted Andersen, Jon Wright, László Harmat, Gaynor Sadlo ...
    This volume provides updates and informs the reader about the development of the current empirical research on the flow experience. It opens up some new research questions at the frontiers of the field. The book offers an overview on the latest findings in flow research in several fields such as social psychology, neuropsychology, performing arts and sport, education, work and everyday experiences ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

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  • Right and Wrong

    How to decide for yourself, make wiser moral choices and build a better society

    by Hugh Mackay ...
    How can you be sure you're doing the right thing? Can some actions be legally right, yet morally wrong? What are the rights and wrongs of leaving a relationship? Are the rules different for sex? Is it always wrong to tell a lie? Why be good?No one pretends that making moral choices is easy. In this updated edition, which includes a new prologue on the moral minefields of power and wealth, Hugh ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Sedated Society

    The Causes and Harms of our Psychiatric Drug Epidemic

    Edited by James Davies ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This edited volume provides an answer to a rising public health concern: what drives the over prescription of psychiatric medication epidemic? Over 15% of the UK public takes a psychiatric medication on any given day, and the numbers are only set to increase. Placing this figure alongside the emerging clinical and scientific data revealing their poor outcomes and the harms these medications often ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • The Experience of Meaning in Life

    Classical Perspectives, Emerging Themes, and Controversies

    Edited by Joshua A. Hicks, Clay Routledge ...
    This edited volume takes an in depth exploration into the burgeoning field of meaning in life in the psychological sciences. Each chapter features leading scholars who describes current empirical findings in a thorough and accessible manner, highlighting important issues and controversies facing the scientific study of meaning in life. The book covers an exhaustive range of topics including ... Read more

    $188.99 USD

  • Intrinsic Motivation and Self-Determination in Human Behavior

    by Richard M. Ryan, Edward L. Deci ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    Early in this century, most empirically oriented psychologists believed that all motivation was based in the physiology of a set of non-nervous system tissue needs. The theories of that era reflected this belief and used it in an attempt to explain an increasing number of phenomena. It was not until the 1950s that it became irrefutably clear that much of human motivation is based not in these ... Read more

    $296.99 USD

  • Orgasmic Bodies

    The Orgasm in Contemporary Western Culture

    by Hannah Frith ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Orgasmic Bodies explores how bodily experiences of orgasm are worked up as present/absent, complicated/straightforward, too slow/too fast, fake or real, in the doing of masculinities and femininities. Engaging with both science and popular culture it examines the meanings given to orgasmic bodies in contemporary heterosex. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Human Autonomy in Cross-Cultural Context

    Perspectives on the Psychology of Agency, Freedom, and Well-Being

    Edited by Valery I. Chirkov, Kennon M. Sheldon, Richard Ryan ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This volume presents the reader with a stimulating tapestry of essays exploring the nature of personal autonomy, self-determination, and agency, and their role in human optimal functioning at multiple levels of analysis from personal to societal and cross-cultural. The starting point for these explorations is self-determination theory, an integrated theory of human motivation and healthy ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

  • Frontiers of Motivational Psychology

    Essays in Honor of John W. Atkinson

    Edited by Donald R. Brown, Joseph Veroff ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)

    $89.99 USD

  • The Complexity of Workplace Humour

    Laughter, Jokers and the Dark Side of Humour

    by Barbara Plester ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This book discusses boundaries for organizational humour as well as the jokers and jesters that enliven modern workplaces. It has long been accepted that humour and tragedy can occupy the same space and that is eloquently demonstrated in this book. Using ethnographic research techniques, a selection of stories, ruminations, cartoons, and narratives of events is combined with theoretical ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Rethinking Youth Wellbeing

    Critical Perspectives

    Edited by Katie Wright, Julie McLeod ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This volume offers a critical rethinking of the construct of youth wellbeing, stepping back from taken-for-granted and psychologically inflected understandings. Wellbeing has become a catchphrase in educational, health and social care policies internationally, informing a range of school programs and social interventions and increasingly shaping everyday understandings of young people. Drawing on ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Development and Evaluation of Positive Adolescent Training through Holistic Social Programs (P.A.T.H.S.)

    Edited by Daniel T.L. SHEK, Rachel C. F. Sun ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This book outlines the development, implementation and evaluation of a project entitled “P.A.T.H.S. to Adulthood: A Jockey Club Youth Enhancement Scheme," with P.A.T.H.S. denoting Positive Adolescent Training through Holistic Social programmes.This pioneer project was conducted in Hong Kong between 2005 and 2012 with more than 210,000 participants. Its goal was to help students meet various ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Self-Concept Clarity

    Perspectives on Assessment, Research, and Applications

    Edited by Jennifer Lodi-Smith, Kenneth G. DeMarree ...
    This welcome resource traces the evolution of self-concept clarity and brings together diverse strands of research on this important and still-developing construct. Locating self-concept clarity within current models of personality, identity, and the self, expert contributors define the construct and its critical roles in both individual and collective identity and functioning. The book examines ... Read more

    $143.99 USD