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Author: Dick Pountain
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 2000-08
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9781861890719
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPountain and Robins offer a serious, systematic analysis of the attitude known in the vernacular as cool. They examine the history, psychology and importance of cool, situating it in a new cultural category.
Author: David Brown
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2007-08
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 0595461093
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book contains a collection of writings by Dr. David Brown for his students, patients and family. The unifying purpose to the collection is in turning self-defeating attitudes into those more in one's best interest. Dr. Brown holds a Master's Degree in Counseling and a Ph.D. in Human Behavior. He is board certified by the National Academy of Certified Mental Health Counselors and the National Board of Certified Counselors. Having previously been a private practice family psychologist, and director of an adolescent drug rehab center, Dr. Brown is currently a Professor of Psychology at Hodges University in Fort Myers, Florida. His experience stems from more than forty years of successful encounters with troubled teens, couples with marital problems, managers 'unable to cope', and individuals with substance addiction, anxiety and depression. He has lectured nationally on topics such as stress management, Rational Emotional Behavior Therapy (REBT), and the rational use of hypnosis. He has presented workshops on rational living, stress management, conflict resolution and problem solving to industrial managers, school psychologists, college students, counselors and administrators with exciting success. This book is meant to cause human beings to think seriously about themselves and the world around them. The stories, students' comments and Doc's responses are reasons to consider the anatomy of our attitudes.
Author: Anthony R. Pratkanis
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2014-03-18
Total Pages: 480
ISBN-13: 1317766571
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUtilizing "new wave" research including new psychological theories, new statistical techniques, and a stronger methodology, this collection unites a diversity of recent research perspectives on attitudes and the psychological functions of an attitude. The objective of the editors was to bring together the bits and pieces of validated data into one systematic and adequate set of general principles leading to the view of attitudes as predictions. As the volume reformulates old concepts, explores new angles, and seeks a relationship among various sub-areas, it also shows improvements in the sophistication of research designs and methodologies, the specifications of variables, and the precision in defining concepts.
Author: Jerome Groopman
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Published: 2005-01-11
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 0375757759
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy do some people find and sustain hope during difficult circumstances, while others do not? What can we learn from those who do, and how is their example applicable to our own lives? The Anatomy of Hope is a journey of inspiring discovery, spanning some thirty years of Dr. Jerome Groopman’s practice, during which he encountered many extraordinary people and sought to answer these questions. This profound exploration begins when Groopman was a medical student, ignorant of the vital role of hope in patients’ lives–and it culminates in his remarkable quest to delineate a biology of hope. With appreciation for the human elements and the science, Groopman explains how to distinguish true hope from false hope–and how to gain an honest understanding of the reach and limits of this essential emotion.
Author: Norman Cousins
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2005-07-12
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780393326840
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe story of a recovery from a crippling disease and the physician patient partnership that beat the odds by using the patient's own capabilities.
Author: Robert Whitaker
Publisher: Crown
Published: 2010-04-13
Total Pages: 418
ISBN-13: 0307452433
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUpdated with bonus material, including a new foreword and afterword with new research, this New York Times bestseller is essential reading for a time when mental health is constantly in the news. In this astonishing and startling book, award-winning science and history writer Robert Whitaker investigates a medical mystery: Why has the number of disabled mentally ill in the United States tripled over the past two decades? Interwoven with Whitaker’s groundbreaking analysis of the merits of psychiatric medications are the personal stories of children and adults swept up in this epidemic. As Anatomy of an Epidemic reveals, other societies have begun to alter their use of psychiatric medications and are now reporting much improved outcomes . . . so why can’t such change happen here in the United States? Why have the results from these long-term studies—all of which point to the same startling conclusion—been kept from the public? Our nation has been hit by an epidemic of disabling mental illness, and yet, as Anatomy of an Epidemic reveals, the medical blueprints for curbing that epidemic have already been drawn up. Praise for Anatomy of an Epidemic “The timing of Robert Whitaker’s Anatomy of an Epidemic, a comprehensive and highly readable history of psychiatry in the United States, couldn’t be better.”—Salon “Anatomy of an Epidemic offers some answers, charting controversial ground with mystery-novel pacing.”—TIME “Lucid, pointed and important, Anatomy of an Epidemic should be required reading for anyone considering extended use of psychiatric medicine. Whitaker is at the height of his powers.” —Greg Critser, author of Generation Rx
Author: Dolores Albarracin
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-10-10
Total Pages: 942
ISBN-13: 135171239X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAttitudes are evaluations of people, places, things, and ideas. They help us to navigate through a complex world. They provide guidance for decisions about which products to buy, how to travel to work, or where to go on vacation. They color our perceptions of others. Carefully crafted interventions can change attitudes and behavior. Yet, attitudes, beliefs, and behavior are often formed and changed in casual social exchanges. The mere perception that other people favor something, say, rich people, may be sufficient to make another person favor it. People’s own actions also influence their attitudes, such that they adjust to be more supportive of the actions. People’s belief systems even change to align with and support their preferences, which at its extreme is a form of denial for which people lack awareness. These two volumes provide authoritative, critical surveys of theory and research about attitudes, beliefs, persuasion, and behavior from key authors in these areas. The first volume covers theoretical notions about attitudes, the beliefs and behaviors to which they are linked, and the degree to which they are held outside of awareness. It also discusses motivational and cultural determinants of attitudes, influences of attitudes on behavior, and communication and persuasion. The second volume covers applications to measurement, behavior prediction, and interventions in the areas of cancer, HIV, substance use, diet, and exercise, as well as in politics, intergroup relations, aggression, migrations, advertising, accounting, education, and the environment.
Author: Gregory R. Maio
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 141292975X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWritten by two world-leading academics in the field of attitudes research, is a brand new textbook that gets to the very heart of this fascinating and far-reaching field. Greg Maio and Geoffrey Haddock describe how scientific methods have been used to better understand attitudes and how they change. With the aid of a few helpful metaphors, the text provides readers with a grasp of the fundamental concepts for understanding attitudes and an appreciation of the scientific challenges that lay ahead.
Author: Tatiana Igorevna Bondarenko
Publisher:
Published: 2022
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis thesis investigates syntax and semantics of attitude and speech reports. It is concerned with three questions: (i) what kinds of meanings can tensed embedded clauses have? (ii) how are they integrated into the argument structure of verbs? (ii) why does their distribution sometimes depend not only on the argument structure, but on the embedding environment as well? Chapter 1 provides a brief summary of my proposal and outlines the assumed framework. Chapter 2 examines clauses that combine with nouns like 'claim' and 'situation' in Buryat, Korean and Russian. It argues that displacement in attitude and speech reports comes from a projection ContP in the left periphery of embedded clauses (cf. Kratzer 2006, Bogal-Allbritten 2016, a.o.), and clauses differ in whether they have ContP and thus displacement. I also argue for equality semantics of displacement (Moulton 2009, Elliott 2017): clausal embedding does not involve semantics of a universal modal. Chapter 3 examines conjunction and disjunction of embedded CPs, and shows that interpretations of these structures, as well as the impossibility of true CP conjunction follow from my proposal. Chapter 4 investigates how nominalized and bare CPs are integrated with verbs in Buryat, Korean and Russian, and shows that they systematically receive different interpretations. I argue that this difference emerges because while nominalized CPs are arguments of verbs, bare CPs are always modifiers. I show that the integration path of an embedded CP, as well as its internal structure, matter for whether it is transparent for extraction or behaves like an island. Chapter 5 examines two types of polarity subjunctives in Russian: embedded subjunctive clauses whose ability to occur with certain verbs depends on the entailment properties of the environment. I argue that the subjunctive particle activates alternatives which have to be acted upon by a higher focus operator, and intervening projections, including ContP, can change the set of alternatives that the operator receives, making the sentence L-analytic and thus ungrammatical (Gajewski 2002, a.o.) in some cases but not in others. Chapter 6 summarizes the findings of the thesis, and the typology of tensed embedded clauses that it gives rise to.
Author: Bruce Chatwin
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1997-08-01
Total Pages: 175
ISBN-13: 110150319X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlthough he is best known for his luminous reports from the farthest-flung corners of the earth, Bruce Chatwin possessed a literary sensibility that reached beyond the travel narrative to span a world of topics—from art and antiques to archaeology and architecture. This spirited collection of previously neglected or unpublished essays, articles, short stories, travel sketches, and criticism represents every aspect and period of Chatwin’s career as it reveals an abiding theme in his work: his fascination with, and hunger for, the peripatetic existence. While Chatwin’s poignant search for a suitable place to “hang his hat,” his compelling arguments for the nomadic “alternative,” his revealing fictional accounts of exile and the exotic, and his wickedly en pointe social history of Capri prove him to be an excellent observer of social and cultural mores, Chatwin’s own restlessness, his yearning to be on the move, glimmers beneath every surface of this dazzling body of work.
