This book focuses on the studies of humour in Chinese societies from a psychological approach. While humour is considered an important aspect of life in the western culture for the past century, it seems to have no importance in the Chinese contexts until recent decades. This book addresses how humo..
Drawing on psychological and sociological perspectives as well as quantitative and qualitative data, Identity and Interethnic Marriage in the United States considers the ways the self and social identity are linked to the dynamics of interethnic marriage...
Imagination has long been a subject of interest and debate, this book considers imagination as a core process in our daily lives and explores how we use it in psychological development as well as in societal change. Tania Zittoun brings together findings from various fields of psychology and the soc..
Imagination has long been a subject of interest and debate, this book considers imagination as a core process in our daily lives and explores how we use it in psychological development as well as in societal change. Tania Zittoun brings together findings from various fields of psychology and the soc..
This volume examines the phenomena--long questioned by memory researchers--of directed forgetting in humans and animals, and in contexts that are both basic and applied (social, forensic, and clinical). For all psychologists interested in memory...
This volume focuses not on a specific theory but rather on an approach. This approach is the interface between intergroup cognition and intergroup behavior. The various contributors are leading investigators in these areas and share the belief that the field has reached a level of maturity where it ..
This important new book explores Russian peoples' identity, examining the mutually held perceptions, fears and resulting nationalism of both the ethnic Russians living outside the Russian Federation and the indigenous, or 'titular', populations...