Understanding The Self PDF Download

Author : Richard Stevens
Release Date : 17 August 1996
Publisher : SAGE Publications Limited
Genre : Psychology
Pages : 388
ISBN 13 : UCSC:32106016418490

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Book Description: This authoritative textbook introduces a broad range of theoretical perspectives that treat the self as a central concern of social psychology.

Understanding the Self

Author : Richard Stevens
Publisher : SAGE Publications Limited
Genre : Psychology
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This authoritative textbook introduces a broad range of theoretical perspectives that treat the self as a central concern of social psychology....

Understanding the Self and Others

Author : Gordon Sammut,Paul Daanen,Fathali M. Moghaddam
Publisher : Routledge
Genre : Psychology
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"How do we, as human beings, come to understand ourselves and others around us? This question couldn't be more timely or pertinent to the issues facing humanity today. At the heart of most of our world's most troubling political and social problems lies a divergence in perspectives between nations and/...

The Power of Understanding Yourself

Author : Dave Mitchell
Publisher : Wiley
Genre : Business & Economics
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Discover your true self and align your life journey around your core beliefs, values and perspective. Designed as both a companion piece to the author's previous book, The Power of Understanding People, and a stand-alone work, The Power of Understanding Yourself provides readers with a blueprint for examining their true ...

Why We Do what We Do

Author : Edward L. Deci,Richard Flaste
Publisher : Putnam Adult
Genre : Psychology
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Argues that human motivation is driven more by autonomy than a system of rewards and punishments, and offers insight into how to promote learning by instilling freedom-based practices...

The Learning Self

Author : Mark Tennant
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Genre : Education
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PRAISE FOR THE LEARNING SELF "In this age of self-help, the 'self' is a term thrown around with abandon. For educators, the notion of self-directed learning is a key concept. Yet the notion of self is deeply problematic, even contentious. The world has needed a book that deftly and accessibly ...

Rethinking the Western Understanding of the Self

Author : Ulrich Steinvorth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Genre : History
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In this book, Ulrich Steinvorth offers a fresh analysis and critique of rationality as a defining element in Western thinking. Steinvorth argues that Descartes' understanding of the self offers a more plausible and realistic alternative to the prevailing understanding of the self formed by the Lockean conception and utilitarianism. When ...

Narrative and Self Understanding

Author : Garry L. Hagberg
Publisher : Springer Nature
Genre : Philosophy
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This exciting new edited collection bridges the gap between narrative and self-understanding. The problem of self-knowledge is of universal interest; the nature or character of its achievement has been one continuing thread in our philosophical tradition for millennia. Likewise the nature of storytelling, the assembly of individual parts of a ...

Social Cognition

Author : Gordon B. Moskowitz
Publisher : Guilford Publications
Genre : Psychology
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An ideal text for undergraduate- and graduate-level courses, this accessible yet authoritative volume examines how people come to know themselves and understand the behavior of others. Core social-psychological questions are addressed as students gain an understanding of the mental processes involved in perceiving, attending to, remembering, thinking about, and responding ...