Self & Social Identity

People cope with threats to their identities in many different ways. Until the original publication of this title in 1986, there had been no theoretical framework within which to analyse their strategies for doing this, or to examine the nature and impact of the threatening experiences themselves. I..

People cope with threats to their identities in many different ways. Until the original publication of this title in 1986, there had been no theoretical framework within which to analyse their strategies for doing this, or to examine the nature and impact of the threatening experiences themselves. I..

Cultural Realities of Being offers a dialogue between academic activity and everyday lives by providing an interface between several perspectives on human conduct. Very often, academic pursuits are arcane and obscure for ordinary people, this book will attempt to disentangle these dialogues, lifting..

This timely book offers an interdisciplinary exploration of key developmental processes, combining psychological and sociological approaches with crosscultural research to examine phenomena such as the transfer of culture between generations and the universality of attachment theory...

Identity, Attachment and Resilience provides a timely foray into the new field of psychology and genealogy, exploring the relationship between family history and identity...

_x000D_ This book analyses recent developments in intergroup research. It diverges from classical approaches that looked at diverse needs and motives, focussing not on what motivates intergroup behaviour, but on how intergroup behavior functions...

This book examines the very basic human need to belong. It looks at the intimacy that is a cornerstone of such belonging and closeness, romantic relationships, which signify belonging in the Western world, and loneliness and love, which are inextricably linked to the subject. This book is based on p..

Once viewed as a disease, nostalgia has recently been the subject of social scientific research that has revealed it to be an important psychological resource that promotes positive psychological states. This book explains in detail what nostalgia is and how it has been studied by social scientists...

This book contains a series of essays on topics where a transactional analysis of the person and situation has proved most fruitful. Contributions span the personality and social psychology spectrum and include such topics as new units in personality; neuroscience perspectives on interpersonal perso..

This volume tackles the critical question of whether people change or remain relatively constant across the lifespan. Much existing literature in psychology had largely endorsed the concept of stability, but recent scientific developments in theory and research, showcased in the chapters of this boo..

The ability to regulate and control our behaviors is a key accomplishment of the human species, yet the psychological mechanisms involved in self-regulation remain incompletely understood. This book presents contributions from leading international researchers who survey the most recent developments..

This book contains the original papers that founded the twin theories of social identity and self-categorization, supplemented with new contributions reflecting on past, current, and future developments in social identity...