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The role of positive emotions in positive psychology: The broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions.
American Psychologist
In this article, the author describes a new theoretical perspective on positive emotions and situates this new perspective within the emerging field of positive psychology. The broaden-and-build theory posits that experiences of positive emotions bro...
Positive psychologyPsychologySocial psychologyCognitive psychologyEpistemology
Very Difficult (19.2)
DOI: 10.1037/0003-066x.56.3.218
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Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Design Issues
Flow (mathematics)PsychologyComputer scienceCognitive psychologyManagement science
DOI: 10.2307/1511458
Book
An approach to environmental psychology
Environmental psychology, though a fast-growing field, is one of the most difficult to fit into the confines of scientific inquiry. Measuring such subjective data as reactions to color, heat, light, and sound would seem to be an almost impossible tas...
PsychologyPleasureCognitive psychologyEnvironmental psychologyModalities
Very Difficult (15.6)
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The Psychology of Attitudes
Journal of Marketing Research
This is the only truly comprehensive advanced level textbook in the past 20 years designed for courses in the pscyhology of attitudes and related studies in attitude measurement, social cognition. Written by two of the most distinguished scholars in ...
PsychologySocial psychologyApplied psychology
Very Difficult (15.5)
DOI: 10.2307/3151869
Book
Toward a Psychology of Being
D Van Nostrand eBooks
A LARGER JURISDICTION FOR PSYCHOLOGY. Introduction: Toward a Psychology of Health. What Psychology Can Learn from the Existentialists. GROWTH AND MOTIVATION. Deficiency Motivation and Growth Motivation. Defense and Growth. The Need to Know and the Fe...
PsychologyCreativityCognitionTranscendence (philosophy)Identity (music)
Difficult (12.0)
DOI: 10.1037/10793-000
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On the psychology of prediction.
Psychological Review
Intuitive predictions follow a judgmental heuristic—representativeness. By this heuristic, people predict the outcome that appears most representative of the evidence. Consequently, intuitive predictions are insensitive to the reliability of the evid...
PsychologyCognitive psychologyExperimental psychologyCognitive scienceCognition
Very Difficult (15.2)
DOI: 10.1037/h0034747
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Mindset: the new psychology of success
Choice Reviews Online
Every so often a truly groundbreaking idea comes along. This is one. Mindset explains:
Why brains and talent don’t bring success
How they can stand in the way of it
Why praising brains and talent doesn’t foster self-esteem and accomplishment, but ...
MindsetPsychologyApplied psychologyPsychotherapistCognitive psychology
Very Difficult (14.5)
DOI: 10.5860/choice.44-2397
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Social Psychology of Intergroup Relations
Annual Review of Psychology
A revolution in the science of emotion has emerged in recent decades, with the potential to create a paradigm shift in decision theories. The research reveals that emotions constitute potent, pervasive, predictable, sometimes harmful and sometimes .....
PsychologySocial psychologyCognitive psychologyCognitive scienceEpistemology
Difficult (13.6)
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ps.33.020182.0
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False-Positive Psychology
Psychological Science
In this article, we accomplish two things. First, we show that despite empirical psychologists' nominal endorsement of a low rate of false-positive findings (≤ .05), flexibility in data collection, analysis, and reporting dramatically increases actua...
PsychologyFlexibility (engineering)Empirical evidenceProcess (computing)Simple (philosophy)
Difficult (12.8)
DOI: 10.1177/0956797611417632
Journal Article
Social psychology: handbook of basic principles
Choice Reviews Online
Part I: Biological System. Caporael, Evolutionary Theory for Social and Cultural Psychology. Blascovich, Seery, Visceral and Somatic Indexes of Social Psychological Constructs: History, Principles, Propositions, and Case Studies. Ochsner, Social Cogn...
PsychologyEpistemologySociologyCognitive sciencePsychoanalysis
Very Difficult (14.5)
DOI: 10.5860/choice.45-3496
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Handbook of social psychology
Choice Reviews Online
Preface John DeLamater and Amanda Ward.- Part I. Theoretical Perspectives.- Chapter 1. Interactionist Perspectives in Social Psychology George J. McCall.- Chapter 2. Identity Theory Jan E. Stets and Richard T. Serpe.- Chapter 3. Social Exchange Theor...
PsychologySociologyPsychoanalysis
Moderate (10.6)
DOI: 10.5860/choice.41-3182
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The Social Psychology of Groups
The American Catholic Sociological Review
This landmark theory of interpersonal relations and group functioning argues that the starting point for understanding social behavior is the analysis of dyadic interdependence. Such an analysis portrays the ways in which the separate and joint actio...
PsychologySocial psychologyApplied psychology
Very Difficult (14.8)
DOI: 10.2307/3709294
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The Psychology of Survey Response
Cambridge University Press eBooks
This valuable book examines the complex psychological processes involved in answering different types of survey questions. Drawing on both classic and modern research from cognitive psychology, social psychology, and survey methodology, the authors e...
RecallComprehensionPsychologyPublic opinionAffect (linguistics)
Very Difficult (16.5)
DOI: 10.1017/cbo9780511819322
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The Psychology of Learning and Motivation: Advances in Research and Theory
The Psychology of learning and motivation/The psychology of learning and motivation
PsychologyCognitive scienceLearning theoryCognitive psychologyMathematics education
Difficult (12.3)
DOI: 10.1016/c2009-0-62209-1
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Engineering Psychology and Human Performance
Psychology Press eBooks
Forming connections between human performance and design Engineering Psychology and Human Performance, 4e examines human-machine interaction. The book is organized directly from the psychological perspective of human information processing. The chapt...
PsychologyCognitive science
Very Difficult (14.3)
DOI: 10.4324/9781315665177
Book
Well-being : the foundations of hedonic psychology
PsychologyPsychoanalysisEpistemologyPhilosophy
Very Difficult (16.2)
Book
The Social Psychology of Procedural Justice
Critical issues in social justice
PsychologyEconomic JusticeSocial justicePsychoanalysisSocial psychology
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4899-2115-4
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The psychology of sex differences
Behavior Therapy
PsychologyApplied psychologyClinical psychologyCognitive psychology
DOI: 10.1016/s0005-7894(75)80031-1
Book
Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention
Creativity is about capturing those moments that make life worth living. The author's objective is to offer an understanding of what leads to these moments, be it the excitement of the artist at the easel or the scientist in the lab, so that knowledg...
CreativityGeniusMythologySubject (documents)Reading (process)
Very Difficult (14.3)