An Introduction To Psychology
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The Beauty
The book explores overcoming past traumas, embracing self-love, and discovering beauty and resilience through challenging experiences. It highlights forgiveness as a transformative tool, guiding readers from a place of victimhood toward self-empowerment.
Research Design and Statistical Analysis
This fully updated fourth edition of Research Design and Statistical Analysis provides comprehensive coverage of the design principles and statistical concepts necessary to make sense of real data.
The Cambridge Handbook of Research Methods and Statistics for the Social and Behavioral Sciences: Volume 2
In a time where new research methods are constantly being developed and science is evolving, researchers must continually educate themselves on cutting-edge methods and best practices related to their field. The second of three volumes, this Handbook provides comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of a variety of issues important in developing, designing, and collecting data to produce high-quality research efforts. First, leading scholars from around the world provide an in depth explanation of various advanced methodological techniques. In section two, chapters cover general important methodological considerations across all types of data collection. In the third section, the chapters cover self-report and behavioral measures and their considerations for use. In the fourth section, various psychological measures are covered. The final section of the handbook covers issues that directly concern qualitative data collection approaches. Throughout the book, examples and real-world research efforts from dozens of different disciplines are discussed.
Neuro-Mastery
Unlock the power of your brain with Neuro-Mastery, the ultimate practical guide to achieving lasting success and fulfillment.Dr. Pamela Seraphine, a trailblazer in neuroscience for high performance and trauma recovery, merges cutting-edge science with a soul-centered approach to help you take charge of your brain, align with your deepest self, and transform your life. Her raw authenticity and tough-love wisdom make this a transformative read for anyone seeking real, actionable change.Whether you're looking to elevate your career, enhance personal growth, or overcome life's toughest obstacles, this book offers practical, brain-based tools grounded in the latest neuroscience while nurturing the soul's inner wisdom. Neuro-Mastery reveals how to unlock your brain's full potential and create lasting change that impacts every aspect of your life.With Dr. Seraphine's unapologetically brilliant approach, you'll learn her unique step-by-step method for taking control of your future and achieving the goals that mean the most to you. Get ready to master your brain-and your life.
Animal-Assisted Counseling and Psychotherapy
Animal-Assisted Counseling and Psychotherapy: A Clinician's Guide is an essential resource for clinical mental health professionals who are considering integrating animals into their work. This unique text provides in-depth information and examples of how to provide treatment with real clients, describing hundreds of interventions, while also addressing essential legal and ethical issues. Written with compassion and consideration for both animals and humans, Animal-Assisted Counseling and Psychotherapy (AACP) explores working with varied and unique therapy animals, the application of training skills, and how animals can be powerfully incorporated into treatment with children, teenagers, adults, couples, and families. A thorough reference on integrating animals into professional practice, this book gives clinicians the tools to spark their creativity as they embark on the amazing journey of AACP.
Animal-Assisted Counseling and Psychotherapy
Animal-Assisted Counseling and Psychotherapy: A Clinician's Guide is an essential resource for clinical mental health professionals who are considering integrating animals into their work. This unique text provides in-depth information and examples of how to provide treatment with real clients, describing hundreds of interventions, while also addressing essential legal and ethical issues. Written with compassion and consideration for both animals and humans, Animal-Assisted Counseling and Psychotherapy (AACP) explores working with varied and unique therapy animals, the application of training skills, and how animals can be powerfully incorporated into treatment with children, teenagers, adults, couples, and families. A thorough reference on integrating animals into professional practice, this book gives clinicians the tools to spark their creativity as they embark on the amazing journey of AACP.
Training for Unknowns
Training for Unknowns is a comprehensive guide designed to help organizations master the art of training employees to solve complex, unpredictable problems in today's rapidly evolving world.In the business world characterized by volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) challenges amidst brittle, anxious, non-linear, and incomprehensible (BANI) environments, the ability to prepare your workforce for the "unknowns" has never been more critical to maintaining a competitive edge.This book equips learning and development professionals with the tools, methods, and frameworks necessary to design effective training programs that impart complex problem-solving (CPS) skills-skills that are essential for addressing high-order, multi-dimensional problems. Whether it's advanced analytical thinking, strategic decision-making, technical troubleshooting, or critical thinking, Training for Unknowns covers it all.Divided into 15 insightful chapters, the book begins by exploring the unpredictable nature of today's business landscape. It then introduces powerful, problem-centered learning methodologies, including Problem-Based Learning (PBL), Project-Based Learning (PjBL), Scenario-Based Learning (SBL), Case-Based Learning (CBL), and Simulation-Based Learning (SmBL). Each approach is accompanied by real-world case studies, practical tips, and key considerations for implementation.The book also dives deep into the cognitive science behind CPS, breaking down the mental processes required to solve complex, high-level problems. With advanced frameworks for integrating multiple learning methods, Training for Unknowns provides cutting-edge solutions for instructional designers, educators, and corporate training professionals. It presents actionable strategies for creating contextualized learning experiences that prepare employees to face the unknown challenges of the future.With its focus on innovative training strategies, practical methodologies, and in-depth analysis of CPS, Training for Unknowns is an essential resource for L&D leaders, instructional designers, and organizations seeking to future-proof their workforce, improve decision-making capabilities, and stay ahead in an ever-evolving business environment.
Social Behavioral Statistics
Focusing on practical application, this textbook provides clear and concise explanations of statistical tests and techniques that students can apply in real-world situations. It has a dual emphasis: firstly, on doing statistics, and secondly, on understanding statistics, to do away with the mindset that statistics is difficult. Procedural explanations are provided so students know how to apply particular statistical tests and techniques in practical research situations. Conceptual understanding is encouraged to ensure students know not only when and how to apply appropriate techniques, but also why they are using them. Ancillary resources are available including sample answers to exercises, PowerPoint teaching slides, instructor manual, and a test bank. Illustrative figures, real-world data, practice exercises, and software instruction make this an essential resource for mastering statistics for undergraduate and graduate students in the social and behavioral sciences.
Social Behavioral Statistics
Focusing on practical application, this textbook provides clear and concise explanations of statistical tests and techniques that students can apply in real-world situations. It has a dual emphasis: firstly, on doing statistics, and secondly, on understanding statistics, to do away with the mindset that statistics is difficult. Procedural explanations are provided so students know how to apply particular statistical tests and techniques in practical research situations. Conceptual understanding is encouraged to ensure students know not only when and how to apply appropriate techniques, but also why they are using them. Ancillary resources are available including sample answers to exercises, PowerPoint teaching slides, instructor manual, and a test bank. Illustrative figures, real-world data, practice exercises, and software instruction make this an essential resource for mastering statistics for undergraduate and graduate students in the social and behavioral sciences.
Anatomy of a Train Wreck
A history of "priming" research that analyzes the field's underlying assumptions and experimental protocols to shed new light on a contemporary crisis in social psychology. In 2012, a team of Belgian scientists reported that they had been unable to replicate a canonical experiment in the field of psychology known as "priming." The original experiment, performed by John Bargh in the nineties, had purported to show that words connoting old age unconsciously influenced--or primed--research subjects, causing them to walk more slowly. When subsequent researchers could not replicate these results, Nobel-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman warned of a "train wreck looming" if Bargh and his colleagues could not address doubts about their work. Since then, the inability to replicate other well-known priming experiments has helped precipitate an ongoing debate over what has gone wrong in psychology, raising fundamental questions about the soundness of research practices in the field. Anatomy of a Train Wreck offers the first detailed history of priming research from its origins in the early 1980s to its recent collapse. Ruth Leys places priming experiments in the context of contemporaneous debates over not only the nature of automaticity but also the very foundations of social psychology. While these latest discussions about priming have largely focused on methodology--including sloppy experimental practices, inadequate statistical methods, and publication bias--Leys offers a genealogy of the theoretical expectations and scientific paradigms that have guided and motivated priming research itself. Examining scientists' intellectual strategies, their responses to criticism, and their assumptions about the nature of subjectivity, Anatomy of a Train Wreck raises crucial questions about the evidence surrounding unconscious influence and probes the larger stakes of the replication crisis: psychology's status as a science.
Imagination and Arts-Based Practices for Integration in Research
Imagination and Arts-Based Practices for Integration in Research explores the philosophical assumptions, defining concepts, and methodological issues related to the introduction of intentional imaginative mental processes and arts-based practices into some or all phases of investigation, and data integration of particular research approaches.Although typically central to mixed, multi-method, and arts-based research, the practice of integrating diverse forms of data might be applied to other research traditions. The integration of data diversity represents a deviation from traditional scientific thinking demanding a dramatic paradigm shift inclusive of multi-dimensional, nondiscursive, aesthetic, rhizomatic, and imaginative mental processes. In this book, imaginative mental processes and arts-based practices are described and illustrated as approaches to investigating, revealing, and understanding the elusive yet essential meanings hidden in the crevices, shadows, and liminal spaces in between diverse data sets leading to integration, illumination, and synthesis.The book will appeal to arts-based, mixed methods, and adventurous researchers. It walks the reader through the revisionist philosophical assumptions and offers aligned methodological suggestions to the induction of imaginative mental processes and arts-based practices into research.
Mathematical Psychology
A drawback of standard approaches to try and understand the world of feelings such as love, hate, fear, and anger plus consciousness via quantum concepts results from the old problem that Quantum Theory does not appear to be fully compatible with Einstein's General Theory of Relativity.To overcome these difficulties, we explicitly tried to avoid "pushing" any existing theory into the comprehension of the human mind and all its derivatives. On the assumption that everything, including consciousness, may consist of attributes or properties and subjecting them to a general Hamilton extremal principle, we surprisingly ended up in generalized Einstein field equations with the whole ensemble having the characteristics of a Quantum Gravity Theory.The field of psychology has lacked a unified theory to support phenomenological observations until now, and it took a mathematical physicist to find it. With example concepts of group-think and quantum-gravity-based human thought processes given among many more, it provides a basis for understanding and mitigating and potentially even preventing socioeconomic debt cycles and war......and it shows why love can become the black hole in a universe of feelings.
Anatomy of a Train Wreck
A history of "priming" research that analyzes the field's underlying assumptions and experimental protocols to shed new light on a contemporary crisis in social psychology. In 2012, a team of Belgian scientists reported that they had been unable to replicate a canonical experiment in the field of psychology known as "priming." The original experiment, performed by John Bargh in the nineties, had purported to show that words connoting old age unconsciously influenced--or primed--research subjects, causing them to walk more slowly. When subsequent researchers could not replicate these results, Nobel-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman warned of a "train wreck looming" if Bargh and his colleagues could not address doubts about their work. Since then, the inability to replicate other well-known priming experiments has helped precipitate an ongoing debate over what has gone wrong in psychology, raising fundamental questions about the soundness of research practices in the field. Anatomy of a Train Wreck offers the first detailed history of priming research from its origins in the early 1980s to its recent collapse. Ruth Leys places priming experiments in the context of contemporaneous debates over not only the nature of automaticity but also the very foundations of social psychology. While these latest discussions about priming have largely focused on methodology--including sloppy experimental practices, inadequate statistical methods, and publication bias--Leys offers a genealogy of the theoretical expectations and scientific paradigms that have guided and motivated priming research itself. Examining scientists' intellectual strategies, their responses to criticism, and their assumptions about the nature of subjectivity, Anatomy of a Train Wreck raises crucial questions about the evidence surrounding unconscious influence and probes the larger stakes of the replication crisis: psychology's status as a science.
Writing Literature Reviews
Writing Literature Reviews: A Guide for Students of the Social and Behavioral Sciences provides students with practical guidelines for the complex process of writing literature reviews for course projects, theses or dissertations, and research manuscripts for publication.
Heuristic Enquiries
Heuristic Enquiries provides an illuminating exploration of heuristic research by offering case studies of heurism in theory and practice across a number of disciplines, including art and design, psychology, psychotherapy, social care, social geography and indigenous studies.
Preparing Literature Reviews
This book is an accessible guide on how to prepare qualitative and quantitative literature reviews. The 6th edition of this bestselling book retains its original lauded features of clear style and organization while bringing new chapters into the fold to address mixed-methods and theoretical frameworks in conducting reviews of literature.
Statistics Explained
Statistics Explained, now in its fully revised Fourth Edition, is for students and researchers who wish to understand the statistical analyses used to analyse quantitative (numerical) research data in a wide range of academic disciplines, in particular, the behavioural, human and social sciences.This book explains, in a clear and informative manner, the logic of statistical analysis, in particular the null hypothesis significance testing (NHST) method. Using this method, a range of statistical tests have been devised for different types of data. Each of these tests is explained in the book by adopting a step-by-step ("walkthrough") approach with a specific illustrative example. Crucially, these explanations do not require the reader to have an advanced knowledge of mathematics or statistics, but only assumes the basic mathematics which most readers will have learnt at high school. The book also examines the criticisms of NHST and introduces the reader to Bayesian statistics. As a result the reader will be able to critically evaluate the outcomes of statistical analysis both of their own work and that of others.Statistics Explained will be of great interest to students and researchers in the behavioural, human and social sciences in understanding both the outcomes of their own research and also the research reports in the academic journals.
Python for Experimental Psychologists
Python for Experimental Psychologists equips researchers who have no prior programming experience with the essential knowledge to independently script experiments and analyses in the programming language Python. It offers an excellent introduction, whether you are an undergraduate, a PhD candidate or an established researcher.
Corporation You
Introduction to Corporation YouCorporation You outlines a transformative journey to reclaim your personal and professional life. By following the principles in Corporation You, you start to own and control your work life and define your terms of engagement. Corporation You is written to highlight concepts, methods, and approaches that both constrain and liberate black individuals or people of colour in the workplace. The material covers a broad range of topics, focusing on elements critical to understanding the issues and processes that Corporation You must address to succeed in the corporate world. Organisations are designed to achieve their goals, often requiring high compliance from employees, and legal and policy practices ensure your compliance throughout your tenure. By adopting the Corporation You mindset, you become conscious of your choices in your job and career. This isn't about being a difficult or challenging employee; it's about understanding the transactions you make daily with your time and future. Ultimately, this will make you a better employee and careerist, helping you understand what you bring to the table, what is required of you, and what you want from the organisation you work for. OverviewThis book will take you to places you may never have considered, prompting you to question your sense of belonging, self-definition, and behaviour in relation to power. While the primary audience is black individuals or people of colour, reflecting their common experiences of disadvantage based on visible racial identity, all readers are welcome. Discrimination and racism are, unfortunately, still prevalent. This book moves forward from that reality, outlining key workplace dynamics and what individuals can do to navigate them.
Photography, Photographic Arts, and the Visual Research Process in Qualitative Inquiry
A book that introduces doctoral students and early career researchers to photography as a significant dimension of visual qualitative methods.
Guidelines to Thesis and Dissertation Writing
Have you ever been captivated by fascinating research findings or a thought-provoking argument? Academic writing is the gateway to sharing and understanding these ideas. It is a structured and formal way of communicating knowledge in a specific field. While it may seem complex at first glance, this guide will equip you with the tools to navigate its intricacies and become a confident academic writer. The world of academic research can seem daunting at first glance. But fear not, fellow scholars! This guide is your compass, navigating you through the evolving landscape of crafting impactful research papers, theses, and dissertations. This book is a great companion to help you collaborate with your supervisors and impress your thesis and dissertation examiners. I am sure that you will not regret following the guidelines provided in this book to accomplish your research work.
Research Design Simplified
Are you overwhelmed by the complexities of research design?Do you struggle to decide between qualitative, quantitative, or mixed methods? You're not alone. Many new (and even experienced) researchers feel lost in the maze of conceptual, methodological, and practical decisions.This comprehensive guide demystifies research design by breaking down complex concepts into easy-to-follow steps. Whether you're working on your first thesis or refining a more advanced project, you'll gain the confidence to create an effective study from start to finish.What's Inside: Clear, Step-by-Step ApproachNavigate the research process with a beginner-friendly roadmap, perfect for those new to academic research or needing a refresher.Practical Tips & Real-World ExamplesLearn from expert advice and case studies that show exactly how to apply each concept in real research scenarios.Comprehensive CoverageFrom identifying research topics to presenting your findings, you'll cover every phase of designing a study-no matter the discipline or complexity.Essential Checklists & ToolsStay organized and ensure you've covered all the crucial steps, including data collection, analysis, and ethical considerations.Key Takeaways: Choosing the Right MethodologyDecide whether qualitative, quantitative, or mixed methods best fit your project goals.Formulating Research QuestionsDevelop clear, focused questions that guide your study effectively.Conducting Literature ReviewsMaster the art of finding and analyzing relevant literature to strengthen your research design.Ensuring Validity & ReliabilityLearn how to guarantee the trustworthiness of your data, from pilot testing to final evaluation.Communicating Your FindingsPresent your research with clarity-through writing, presentations, or publication.Who Is This Book For?Beginners & Early-Career ResearchersIf you're new to research design, this guide lays out everything in plain language.Seasoned AcademicsRefresh your knowledge and explore updated tips for qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods.Anyone Seeking a Streamlined ProcessTackle conceptual, methodological, and practical hurdles with confidence-saving time and stress.Stop letting research design hold you back. Equip yourself with a straightforward, proven roadmap that transforms your ideas into successful studies. Whether you're a student embarking on your first dissertation or a professional aiming to sharpen your research skills, Research Design Simplified is your all-in-one companion for confident, efficient, and impactful research.Grab your copy now and take the first step toward a more streamlined, successful research journey!
Social Constructionism
The fourth edition of this seminal work introduces students to social constructionism. Using a variety of examples from everyday experience and from existing research in areas such as personality, sexuality and health, it clearly explains the basic theoretical assumptions of social constructionism.
Crafting Phenomenological Research
Now in its third edition, Crafting Phenomenological Research continues to be the leading resource for those interested in a concise introduction to phenomenological research in education and social sciences.
Phenomenological Perspectives on Place, Lifeworlds, and Lived Emplacement
Phenomenological Perspectives on Place, Lifeworlds and Lived Emplacement is a compilation of eighteen previously published articles and chapters by David Seamon, one of the foremost researchers in environmental, architectural, and place phenomenology.
Autoethnographies in Psychology and Mental Health
This autoethnographic volume gathers a multiplicity of different voices in autoethnographic research from across psychology and mental health disciplines to address topics ranging from selfhood, trauma, emotional understanding, clinical psychology, and the experience of grief.
Centering Diverse Bodyminds in Critical Qualitative Inquiry
This book advances qualitative methods and methodological discussions from the ways in which "disabled people" are viewed primarily as research subjects without input of their own, to a place where disability embodiment and the lived experience of disability are potential sources of method and methodological advancement.
Evocative Qualitative Inquiry
Evocative Qualitative Inquiry explores academic research that evokes vitality and life. It provides a road map into integrating the personal with professional to engage in intrinsically meaningful forms of inquiry. It relays how pleasurable, sensory and rhythmic forms of inquiry can engender a sense of timelessness and growth.
Studying Complex Interactions and Outcomes Through Qualitative Comparative Analysis
Studying Complex Interactions and Outcomes Through Qualitative Comparative Analysis: A Practical Guide to Comparative Case Studies and Ethnographic Data Analysis offers methodological and theoretically robust guidelines to systematically study the causalities, dynamics and outcomes of complex social interactions in source data sets.
Insider-Outsider Research in Qualitative Inquiry
This book presents the history of the discussion of insider-outsider research, and methodological advancements in these types of research partnership throughout the decades. The authors present and define key concepts, terms and terminology in an attempt to cut through some of the dense language that has invaded the discourse.
On Being a Mentor
This third edition of a classic, On Being a Mentor, is the definitive guide to the art and science of engaging students and faculty in effective mentoring relationships in all academic disciplines. This book is the ideal guidebook for faculty and training tool for mentoring workshops.
Strong and Free
Ted Morton has spent 30 years in Alberta politics. He was elected as a Reform Party senator-in-waiting in the 1998 Alberta Senate election. In 2001, Stockwell Day appointed him as Parliamentary Director of Policy and Research for the federal Canadian Alliance Party in Ottawa. From 2004-2012, Ted represented Foothills-Rocky View in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party. During these years, he also served in cabinet as Minister of Finance, Minister of Energy, and Minister of Sustainable Resources Development. In 2006 and again in 2011, Morton ran unsuccessfully as a candidate for the leadership of the Progressive Conservatives.In Strong and Free, Ted Morton shares the lessons learned from this journey, both his successes and his disappointments. Informed by his background as professor of political science, Morton recounts his early involvement with Preston Manning and the Reform Party, his friendship with Stephen Harper, and the infamous Alberta Agenda or Firewall Letter of 2001. He explains how the Progressive Conservative Party's flawed leadership selection process eroded party support, and how the PC's refusal to acknowledge and accommodate the growth of Albertans' support for the federal Reform Party led to vote splitting with the Wild Rose Party and the end of the PC dynasty in 2015.Openly discussing his conservative ideological principles and goals, Morton provides an account of thirty years of Alberta politics as seen from the inside by someone who reached for the top--and almost made it. Strong and Free argues that an independent, prosperous Alberta makes a strong and prosperous Canada. Ted Morton has spent thirty years fighting for both.
Doorknob Bombshells in Therapy
It's a near-universal experience among mental health practitioners: a patient drops a bombshell--a critical disclosure that moves the treatment forward--on their way out, with a hand on the doorknob. This "doorknob moment" creates a stressful dilemma for clinicians, especially when the patient is distraught. Should the clinician end the session on time, or run over and be late for the next patient?Here, seasoned psychiatrist Daniela V. Gitlin provides clinicians with a clear, evidence-based answer. By conceptualizing the functional differences between patient and therapist in the treatment relationship as a metaphor for the functional differences between right and left cerebral hemispheres, Gitlin's argument yields a comprehensive explanation for why doorknob moments occur, why they are necessary to prevent treatment stagnation, and why ending on time makes patients feel safer to deliver them.
Postdigital Play and Global Education
This book puts into practice Karen Barad's agential realism, but also a range of postdevelopmental and posthumanist writings from diverse fields. It will be of particular interest to researchers looking for guidance to enact agential realist and posthumanist philosophies in research involving young children.
Regression Basics
Using an accessible, non-technical approach, the third edition of Regression Basics introduces readers to the fundamentals of statistical regression. Accessible to anyone with an introductory statistics background, the book draws on engaging examples using real-world data and software programs.
Constructivism and the Metaphysics of Qualitative Research
This book re-examines the philosophically-based, ontological and epistemological foundations that underlie all qualitative research principles.
Lessons in Teletherapy
Lessons in Teletherapy provides composite case studies and a treatment framework for clinicians exploring virtual therapy with clients. Louis Propp, a seasoned clinical psychologist specializing in child, adolescent, and family therapy, draws from his experience rapidly transitioning to telehealth during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. These stories mirror the real patient and provider challenges and progression, in monthly segments, addressing such issues as family domestic violence, behavioral issues, neurodivergence, substance abuse, social discrimination, grief, and psychopathology. Using a cognitive behavioral therapy-based treatment intervention--developed from ideas common to both in-person and virtual therapy--Dr. Propp demonstrates and explains how this framework may be applied to each client's unique situation.
Strong and Free
Ted Morton has spent 30 years in Alberta politics. He was elected as a Reform Party senator-in-waiting in the 1998 Alberta Senate election. In 2001, Stockwell Day appointed him as Parliamentary Director of Policy and Research for the federal Canadian Alliance Party in Ottawa. From 2004-2012, Ted represented Foothills-Rocky View in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party. During these years, he also served in cabinet as Minister of Finance, Minister of Energy, and Minister of Sustainable Resources Development. In 2006 and again in 2011, Morton ran unsuccessfully as a candidate for the leadership of the Progressive Conservatives.In Strong and Free, Ted Morton shares the lessons learned from this journey, both his successes and his disappointments. Informed by his background as professor of political science, Morton recounts his early involvement with Preston Manning and the Reform Party, his friendship with Stephen Harper, and the infamous Alberta Agenda or Firewall Letter of 2001. He explains how the Progressive Conservative Party's flawed leadership selection process eroded party support, and how the PC's refusal to acknowledge and accommodate the growth of Albertans' support for the federal Reform Party led to vote splitting with the Wild Rose Party and the end of the PC dynasty in 2015.Openly discussing his conservative ideological principles and goals, Morton provides an account of thirty years of Alberta politics as seen from the inside by someone who reached for the top--and almost made it. Strong and Free argues that an independent, prosperous Alberta makes a strong and prosperous Canada. Ted Morton has spent thirty years fighting for both.
The Implications of Hegemonic Gender Standards on the Self-Esteem of Hispanic Adolescents
Scientific Study from the year 2024 in the subject Psychology - Cognition, language: English, abstract: In this study, the extent to which the self-esteem and self-efficacy of Hispanic high school girls has been affected by their respective expectations will be measured, recorded, and analyzed in respect to impact and how much this impact differs from that of Hispanic high school boys. Additionally, by incorporating and narrowing the ethnicity of participants to Hispanics, the extent to which perceived expectations and standards are prevalent amongst them can be contrasted with that of the general population and utilized for future research. Nuances between the aforementioned factors will lead towards discernment between self-esteem and self-efficacy levels of Hispanic high school girls compared to those of Hispanic high school boys. This study holds value and significance as results could indicate a difference in the extremity of the standards held for women and those held for men. It could also provide insight pertaining to the way that each gender thinks about the standards they are expected to uphold and explain why they think that way.
Advanced Research Methods for Applied Psychology
This book provides a comprehensive discussion of 21 key topics for the completion of an applied psychology (or similar) research thesis/project. This book is an important reference text for applied psychology research thesis/project students and researchers, including both under-graduate students and post-graduate.
An Introduction to Metascience
This book delves into core metascientific concepts, offering a critical examination of current knowledge creation processes and scrutinizing researchers and their methodologies across disciplines. Designed for scientists and researchers, it caters to those interested in understanding how research evolves over time.
A Practical Guide to Trauma-Sensitive Research
A Practical Guide to Trauma-Sensitive Research showcases the novel idea of trauma-informed interventions for researchers, proposing clinical supervision as the standard rather than the exception. This framework not only aids in managing the aftermath of trauma but also opens new opportunities for both clinicians and researchers.
Comparative Psychology and Educational Outcomes
Comparative Psychology and Educational Outcomes is designed to empower educators to lead with wisdom, strengthen their belief that all students can learn at high standards, and create a vision of excellence that becomes actionable, allowing us to be difference makers in the lives of all learners.
Assessing Autoethnography
Assessing Autoethnography provides readers with multiple ways to analyze autoethnographies and other forms of personal narrative writing. Given the proliferation of such forms across academic contexts, the book offers a guide of what autoethnography is, why it matters, and how to do it.
Early Psychological Research Contributions from Women of Color, Volume 2
This volume serves as a companion to Early Psychological Research Contributions from Women of Color Volume I (Grahe, Ceynar, & Mason, 2023). It focuses on the dissertations of 20 builders-women of color who earned their doctoral degrees in psychology prior to 1990 and who were builders in the field through her leadership or innovation.
Advances in Motivation Science
Advances in Motivation Science, Volume Eleven, the latest release in the Motivation Science series, contains interesting articles that cover topics such as An Ecology of Meaning: An Integrative Framework for Understanding Human Motivations, Beer AMS Quest for Self Knowledge, Boundary conditions of the rational model Finding the limits of rationality, Growth goals: A review of the construct Predictors, Consequences, and Intervention, Pragmatic Prospection Theory, Research, and Practice, and The Quest for Self-Knowledge What Do We Want to Know (and not Know) About Ourselves.
