Category: Personality

By Andrew N. Williams

ISBN-10: 0399531580

ISBN-13: 9780399531583

There's a effective line among quirky and out-and-out loopy. With 18 scientifically established quizzes, Andrew N. Williams is helping readers decipher no matter if they're "normal," toeing the road, or a ways prior it.

Developed by way of psychologists to research human habit, the quizzes permit readers to find in the event that they (or their family and friends) are:

- intercourse addicts
- Obsessive-compulsives
- nutrition freaks
- Thrill-seekers
- Hypochondriacs
- Fetishists
- Paranoids
- Imposters

Plus the booklet contains descriptions, in layman's phrases, of greater than eighty particular quirks, illustrated with actual lifestyles examples. Readers will wonder at tales of people that:

- Crave dirt-and devour it by way of the handful
- Are frightened of doughnuts simply because they can't see what's inside
- Lie approximately deaths within the family-to acquire sympathy playing cards

'But Are You Crazy?' is far greater than a celebration video game, delivering beneficial insights for facing different peoples' loopy habit in addition to one's personal insecurities and phobias.

By Joy Lynn E. Shelton, Tia A. Hoffer, Yvonne E. Muirhead

ISBN-10: 3319081497

ISBN-13: 9783319081496

ISBN-10: 3319081500

ISBN-13: 9783319081502

Maternal filicide has been mentioned within the scientific, psychological health and wellbeing, and baby abuse fields, but little study exists with a legal justice/law enforcement standpoint. however, felony justice pros accountable for research and prosecution of those offenders usually needs to deal with designated behavioral, social, and mental dynamics now not thought of in lots of different different types of situations. The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) Behavioral research Unit (BAU) III – Crimes opposed to childrens pointed out, gathered, and reviewed legislation enforcement case records during which a organic mom killed her child(ren). jointly, the situations contain 213 organic moms who killed 265 young ones, and are constructed from neonaticide, infanticide, and filicide circumstances. facts research printed that the offenders ranged in age from 12-46 years, and lots of have been single, unemployed, and had a background of violence. the various sufferers have been 3 years of age or more youthful, didn't dwell with their organic fathers on the time in their deaths, and had a background of maltreatment ordinarily perpetrated by means of their moms. furthermore, conventional guns reminiscent of a firearm or knife have been used much less frequently in comparison to asphyxiants and blunt strength tools. The authors discover the tenets of lady violence, the mother-child dynamic and psychological problems, and tackle the complexities linked to investigating and prosecuting maternal filicide offenders. ​

By Otto Kroeger, Janet M. Thuesen

ISBN-10: 0307833437

ISBN-13: 9780307833433

Ascertain your character utilizing a scientifically verified process in accordance with the paintings of C.G. Jung and achieve perception into why others behave the best way they do, and why you're the individual you're.

By R. BIDDISS KENNETH R. MINOGUE

ISBN-10: 0312009402

ISBN-13: 9780312009403

ISBN-10: 0333447255

ISBN-13: 9780333447253

ISBN-10: 1349186872

ISBN-13: 9781349186877

By Robert F. Bornstein, Joseph M. Masling

ISBN-10: 0805847340

ISBN-13: 9780805847345

ISBN-10: 141061252X

ISBN-13: 9781410612526

By Jan De Vos

ISBN-10: 1137269227

ISBN-13: 9781137269225

ISBN-10: 1349339083

ISBN-13: 9781349339082

Jan De Vos's moment e-book on psychologization argues that psychology IS psychologization, a phenomenon traced again from Late-Modernity to the Enlightenment. attractive with seminal thinkers such l. a. Mettrie, Husserl, Lasch and Agamben, the publication teases out the boundaries of psychoanalysis as a serious software.

By Asher Ben-Arieh, Natalie Hevener Kaufman, Arlene Bowers Andrews, Robert M. George, Bong Joo Lee, L. J. Aber

ISBN-10: 9048156424

ISBN-13: 9789048156429

ISBN-10: 9401722293

ISBN-13: 9789401722292

Today, any commonplace newspaper reader is perhaps uncovered to reviews on manifold types of (physical, emotional, sexual) baby abuse at the one hand, and irregular habit, misconduct or offences of kids and minors nevertheless. sometimes reviews on childrens as sufferers and youngsters as offenders might sound at the similar factor or maybe an analogous web page. relatively seldom the extra complicated and mostly hidden phenomena of structural hostility or indifference of society to be able to kids are being handled within the press. Such fragmentary, ambiguous, incoherent or perhaps contradictory notion of youngsters in modem society exhibits that, to start with, there's a loss of trustworthy details on modem youth, and secondly, kids are nonetheless handled as a relatively inappropriate inhabitants team in society. This end can be astounding particularly whilst drawn on the finish of The Century of the kid proclaimed by means of Ellen Key as early as 1902. really, there exist unclarities and ambiguities concerning the evolution of youth within the final century not just in public opinion, but in addition in clinical literature. whereas De Mause together with his psycho-historic version of the evolution of adolescence, comprising various levels from infanticide, abandonment, ambivalence, intrusion, socialisation to help, underlines the continual development of the of youth all through historical past and therefore fairly confirms secret is expectancies, Aries, along with his social historical past of youth, turns out to carry a extra culturally pessimistic view.

By Sarnoff A. Mednick, Terrie E. Moffitt, Susan A. Stack

ISBN-10: 0521111897

ISBN-13: 9780521111898

ISBN-10: 0521304024

ISBN-13: 9780521304023

During this century, social elements have ruled theories of delinquent behaviour to the near-exclusion of alternative explanatory variables within the learn of criminology. Criminologists are actually coming to grasp that totally knowing the factors of illegal activity calls for attention of either social and organic variables and that their versions needs to take into consideration the interplay of the 2. experiences of the suitable medical paintings have formerly been scattered via journals with various disciplinary and geographical barriers. The ebook provides state of the art research into the organic components that produce illegal activity from experts in 9 nations who're at the vanguard of analysis in behaviour genetics, neurophysiology, biochemistry, neuropsychology, psychophysiology, psychiatry and sociology. The reasons of Crime: New organic methods bargains the 1st complete assessment and integration of this new box of enquiry. will probably be a useful source for everybody concerned about the factors of felony behaviour and interventions to lessen its frequency.

By Dieter Frey

ISBN-10: 3662503808

ISBN-13: 9783662503805

ISBN-10: 3662503816

ISBN-13: 9783662503812

Dieses Buch untersucht gängige Sprichwörter des Volksmunds aus psychologisch-wissenschaftlicher Perspektive: Stimmen die alten Sprichwörter mit den Erkenntnissen der modernen Wissenschaft überein? Weiß die Wissenschaft mehr oder gar weniger als Oma, die sich viele Zusammenhänge des alltäglichen Lebens durch "Lebensweisheiten" erklärte? 33 kompakte Kapitel beleuchten 33 bekannte Sprichwörter und erklären, was once die Wissenschaft dazu weiß, unter welchen Bedingungen ein Sprichwort gilt und wo ggf. die Grenzen seiner Gültigkeit liegen. Ein Buch für Studierende und Dozierende der Psychologie, denn es bietet durch die Breite der Themen eine Übersicht über viele Phänomene und Theorien der Psychologie - gleichzeitig aber auch für interessierte Laien, die für Alltagsphänomene psychologische Erklärungen suchen.

By Marvin Zuckerman

ISBN-10: 1848724691

ISBN-13: 9781848724693

Originally released in 1979, this name represents a precis of 17 years of analysis centring round the Sensation looking Scale (SSS) and the idea from which the try out was once derived. Now an essential component of character checking out, together with diversifications to be used with childrens, this reissue is an opportunity to work out the place all of it began.