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Book Attraction and Hostility

Download or read book Attraction and Hostility written by Anton Pelinka and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attraction and hostility find expression in almost every variety of human relationship, and have consequently provided a central theme for social psychology since its beginnings. Yet attempts to conceptualize the diverse phenomena embraced in these terms have produced theories of such wide generality that they have little explanatory or predictive force. The object of the present study is to bring precision to a vast and sprawling area by setting limits and dimensions to the phenomena and investigating them experimentally on the basis of a series of hypotheses derived from a critical analysis of current conceptual approaches, including frustration, need-satisfaction, and dissonance models. The programme of experimental studies focuses on cognitive validation-a motivation to form and maintain subjectively valid evaluations of the self and the social environment-which is shown to be a common denominator of a number of attraction and hostility measures. The results throw light on reactions to boastfulness and to self-debasement; impressions of persons who are described by biased informants; effects of self-evaluation on competitiveness, and the projection of unfavourable characteristics. The interest of the study for social psychologists derives both from its theoretical integration of a wide range of behaviour and from its contribution to experimental design.

Book Attraction and Hostility

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  • Author : Albert Pepitone
  • Publisher : Transaction Publishers
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 0202364240
  • Pages : 258 pages

Download or read book Attraction and Hostility written by Albert Pepitone and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Attraction   Hostility

Download or read book Attraction Hostility written by Albert Pepitone and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Spiritual Friendship

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  • Author : Wesley Hill
  • Publisher : Brazos Press
  • Release : 2015-04-14
  • ISBN : 1441227512
  • Pages : 155 pages

Download or read book Spiritual Friendship written by Wesley Hill and published by Brazos Press. This book was released on 2015-04-14 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christianity Today Book Award Winner Friendship is a relationship like no other. Unlike the relationships we are born into, we choose our friends. It is also tenuous--we can end a friendship at any time. But should friendship be so free and unconstrained? Although our culture tends to pay more attention to romantic love, marriage, family, and other forms of community, friendship is a genuine love in its own right. This eloquent book reminds us that Scripture and tradition have a high view of friendship. Single Christians, particularly those who are gay and celibate, may find it is a form of love to which they are especially called. Writing with deep empathy and with fidelity to historic Christian teaching, Wesley Hill retrieves a rich understanding of friendship as a spiritual vocation and explains how the church can foster friendship as a basic component of Christian discipleship. He helps us reimagine friendship as a robust form of love that is worthy of honor and attention in communities of faith. This book sets forth a positive calling for celibate gay Christians and suggests practical ways for all Christians to cultivate stronger friendships.

Book Joy  Guilt  Anger  Love

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  • Author : Giovanni Frazzetto
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2014-02-25
  • ISBN : 1101595590
  • Pages : 322 pages

Download or read book Joy Guilt Anger Love written by Giovanni Frazzetto and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Neuroscientist Giovanni Frazzetto enters the restless realm of human emotion through the portals of physiology, genetics, history, art and philosophy. Anger, guilt, anxiety, grief, empathy, joy and love are anatomized in turn, enlivened with research on everything from the role of monoamine oxidase A in anger to the engagement of opioid receptors as we thrill to music. And who knew that surrealist Salvador Dali created an art installation in the shape of a giant caterpillar to explore the process of sedation?” —Nature Is science ever enough to explain why we feel the way we feel? In this engaging account, renowned neuroscientist Giovanni Frazzetto blends cutting-edge scientific research with personal stories to reveal how our brains generate our emotions. He demonstrates that while modern science has expanded our knowledge, investigating art, literature, and philosophy is equally crucial to unraveling the brain’s secrets. What can a brain scan, or our reaction to a Caravaggio painting, reveal about the deep seat of guilt? Can ancient remedies fight sadness more effectively than antidepressants? What can writing poetry tell us about how joy works? Structured in seven chapters encompassing common human emotions—anger, guilt, anxiety, grief, empathy, joy, and love—Joy, Guilt, Anger, Love offers a way of thinking about science and art that will help us to more fully understand ourselves and how we feel.

Book Lacan on Love

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  • Author : Bruce Fink
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release : 2017-09-05
  • ISBN : 1509500510
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book Lacan on Love written by Bruce Fink and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quintessentially fascinating, love intrigues and perplexes us, and drives much of what we do in life. As wary as we may be of its illusions and disappointments, many of us fall blindly into its traps and become ensnared time and again. Deliriously mad excitement turns to disenchantment, if not deadening repetition, and we wonder how we shall ever break out of this vicious cycle. Can psychoanalysis – with ample assistance from philosophers, poets, novelists, and songwriters – give us a new perspective on the wellsprings and course of love? Can it help us fathom how and why we are often looking for love in all the wrong places, and are fundamentally confused about “what love really is”? In this lively and wide-ranging exploration of love throughout the ages, Fink argues that it can. Taking within his compass a vast array of traditions – from Antiquity to the courtly love poets, Christian love, and Romanticism – and providing an in-depth examination of Freud and Lacan on love and libido, Fink unpacks Lacan’s paradoxical claim that “love is giving what you don’t have.” He shows how the emptiness or lack we feel within ourselves gets covered over or entwined in love, and how it is possible and indeed vital to give something to another that we feel we ourselves don’t have. This first-ever commentary on Lacan’s Seminar VIII, Transference, provides readers with a clear and systematic introduction to Lacan’s views on love. It will be of great value to students and scholars of psychology and of the humanities generally, and to analysts of all persuasions.

Book The Christian Quarterly

Download or read book The Christian Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sinful Attraction

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  • Author : Ann Christopher
  • Publisher : Kimani Press
  • Release : 2013-06-18
  • ISBN : 0373863136
  • Pages : 217 pages

Download or read book Sinful Attraction written by Ann Christopher and published by Kimani Press. This book was released on 2013-06-18 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attraction this strong can lead to only one thing… Co-owner of New York's most successful auction house, Marcus Davies meets the woman of his dreams on a flight to Wyoming. The attraction is instant and overwhelming. After they narrowly escape a crash landing, Claudia Montgomery disappears at the airport, and Marcus fears he'll never see the sexy, headstrong Brit again. So he's stunned when their paths cross at a rock star's ranch and he discovers that he and Claudia are vying for the same glittering prize. Ever since their fateful encounter on a storm-tossed plane, Claudia hasn't been able to get Marcus out of her mind. Now, as fierce rivals, they have no chance of a future together…until fate steps in once more. From a sprawling Western estate to a magnificent Hamptons mansion, Claudia and Marcus soon realize they have no choice but to join forces in business—and in pleasure. But will it lead to lasting passion…and a love worth fighting for?

Book The Concise Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology and Behavioral Science

Download or read book The Concise Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology and Behavioral Science written by W. Edward Craighead and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2004-04-12 with total page 1122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited by high caliber experts, and contributed to by quality researchers and practitioners in psychology and related fields. Includes over 500 topical entries Each entry features suggested readings and extensive cross-referencing Accessible to students and general readers Edited by two outstanding scholars and clinicians

Book Sexual Attraction and Love

Download or read book Sexual Attraction and Love written by Richard Centers and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Funny Philosophers  Or Wags and Sweethearts

Download or read book The Funny Philosophers Or Wags and Sweethearts written by George Yellott and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Angry Therapist

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  • Author : John Kim
  • Publisher : Parallax Press
  • Release : 2017-04-18
  • ISBN : 1941529623
  • Pages : 168 pages

Download or read book The Angry Therapist written by John Kim and published by Parallax Press. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tackling relationships, career, and family issues, John Kim, LMFT, thinks of himself as a life-styledesigner, not a therapist. His radical new approach, that he sometimes calls “self-help in a shot glass” is easy, real, and to the point. He helps people make changes to their lives so that personal growth happens organically, just by living. Let’s face it, therapy is a luxury. Few of us have the time or money to devote to going to an office every week. With anecdotes illustrating principles in action (in relatable and sometimes irreverent fashion) and stand-alone practices and exercises, Kim gives readers the tools and directions to focus on what's right with them instead of what's wrong. When John Kim was going through the end of a relationship, he began blogging as The Angry Therapist, documenting his personal journey post-divorce. Traditional therapists avoid transparency, but Kim preferred the language of "me too" as opposed to "you should." He blogged about his own shortcomings, revelations, views on relationships, and the world. He spoke a different therapeutic language —open, raw, and at times subversive — and people responded. The Angry Therapist blog, that inspired this book, has been featured in The Atlantic Monthly and on NPR.

Book Falling in Love

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  • Author : Ayala Malakh-Pines
  • Publisher : Taylor & Francis
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 0415951879
  • Pages : 291 pages

Download or read book Falling in Love written by Ayala Malakh-Pines and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2005 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Falling in Love, best-selling author Ayala Malach Pines unlocks the mysteries of the most profound and thrilling of human experiences with a comprehensive analysis of the factors that lead to attraction and to romantic love. This fully updated second edition expands upon the previous wisdom and insight of her guide with new research and personal case illustrations, bringing further topics to light in the vast process of deciphering how and with whom we fall in love. This engrossing work is a rich practical guide on how to increase the likelihood of falling in love, both for those in search of it and those who hope to reawaken it, and an enlightening read for all who wish to understand the elements of their attraction without losing appreciation for its divine madness."--BOOK JACKET.

Book Crystal s Journey

Download or read book Crystal s Journey written by Crystal L. Shank and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-05-27 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an autobiography of my life story. It entails my early birth, and introduction into my family. It gives details of my childhood, and overcoming milestones. Its the story of my struggles in school with bullies, and my self-image. Its a story of my lifes trails, and triumphs. It leads you down the road of my Brain Tumor, and overcoming the odds. From dealing with the loss of loved ones, and friends, to fi nding my new found faith. It takes you on the journey of my life. This book teaches you many life lessons along this powering journey.

Book The Psychology of Aggression

Download or read book The Psychology of Aggression written by Arnold H. Buss and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: