Description

This volume is a collection of work spanning the last 20 years, broken down into ten sections, each focusing on a specific domain of psychology. Part I: The Psychology of Zombies includes a new essay examining society’s current love affair with the undead. Part II: Violence on the Internet explores types of violence on the internet and how to behaviorally assess the risk/threat they pose. Part III of the book focuses on topics such as what it is like to work as a Police Psychologist, outcome vs. process thinking, and hostage negotiation. Stress, trauma, & crisis intervention is the domain of psychology examined next. Part V: Criminology, includes a review of gangs in the United States, the relationship of criminal justice system to poverty, and an introduction to the fundamentals of wound ballistics. Part VI: Divorce & Family Conflict explores the impact of divorce and family conflict on the adjustment of college students. Part VII: Theories of Personality, examines personality from a variety of theoretical perspectives using several famous characters from popular culture to illustrate those theories. The next section of the book explores Memory & Intelligence and examines topics such as the self-reference effect and the accuracy of early childhood memory. Part IX: Psychological Treatment focuses on issues relevant to the therapeutic practice of psychology. The final part of this book, tackles issues from the perspective of Sociology reviewing areas such as Freud’s view of religion and the growing importance of cross-cultural psychology. Ten parts, forty chapters, a collection of disquisitions.

Author: Axelrod, Evan M

Topic: Psychology
Media: Book
ISBN: 1493639242
Language: English
Pages: 638