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Book Effects of Personal Experience on Self protective Behavior

Download or read book Effects of Personal Experience on Self protective Behavior written by Neil D. Weinstein and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Taking Care

    Book Details:
  • Author : Neil D. Weinstein
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 1987-08-13
  • ISBN : 0521324351
  • Pages : 362 pages

Download or read book Taking Care written by Neil D. Weinstein and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1987-08-13 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reasons why people take precautions and why they don't are examined by experts from a wide range of fields, who explore the theoretical and practical issues involved in understanding self-protective behavior.

Book Social and Psychological Consequences of Violent Victimization

Download or read book Social and Psychological Consequences of Violent Victimization written by R. Barry Ruback and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2001-05-23 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher's description: What are the effects that violent crime has on our everyday lives, both in terms of the individual victims and their larger community? This unique text draws from both the fields of criminology and psychology to provide a comprehensive examination of the two major areas that are most significantly effected by violent crime - the crime victims themselves and the larger sphere of their families, friends, neighborhoods, and communities. Beginning with a discussion of the how we measure and study violent victimization, the authors R. Barry Ruback and Martie P. Thompson, look at the immediate and long-term impact violent acts has upon the direct victims. Social and Psychological Consequences of Violent Victimization examines "secondary victims"--Family members, neighbors, friends, and the professional involved with investigating and prosecuting the crime and helping the victim, and also impacts of violent crime on neighborhoods and communities. The authors conclude with recommendations of effective interventions that can be made at the levels of the individual, the community, and the criminal justice and mental health systems. This book's one-of-a kind focus on both the psychological and social impact of crime makes it an invaluable supplementary text for criminal justice and criminology courses dealing with victimization, violent crimes, and the criminal justice process. The book will also interest professionals in victim services, crime prevention, criminal justice, and social work.

Book Self Versus Others

Download or read book Self Versus Others written by Julie L. Andsager and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-03-04 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Self Versus Others explores the third-person effect and its role in media as a means of persuasion. This scholarly work synthesizes more than two decades of research on the third-person effect, the process in which individuals do not perceive themselves to be impacted by particular messages—such as persuaded to engage in risky behaviors or encouraged to be violent—but they believe others will be. Authors Julie L. Andsager and H. Allen White focus their analysis specifically on the role of media and media messages, and assert that the third-person effect functions as a means of persuasion. They explore the underlying concepts and connections this effect shares with established theories of persuasion and mediated communication. The only volume to date focusing on the topic, Self Versus Others demonstrates the significant impact persuasion has on public opinion, behavior, and policy. As such, understanding the means through which persuasion can be accomplished thereby provides a powerful tool. Timely and succinct, this book: *provides thorough synthesis of third-person effect literature; *argues that systematic versus heuristic processing underlies third-person perceptions; and *conceptually links third-person effects with co-orientation. Intended for communication scholars with an interest in persuasion, as well as those in key areas including mass communication, health communication, and political communication, this book is also appropriate for advanced courses in persuasion, communication theory, and campaigns.

Book Social Psychology of Health

Download or read book Social Psychology of Health written by Peter Salovey and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The volume also contains an introductory chapter by the editors providing a history of personality and social psychology's interest in health and illness. Together with overviews for each section, discussion questions, and suggestions for further reading, the volume is an ideal text for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses on health psychology."--BOOK JACKET.

Book Personal Coping

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bruce N. Carpenter
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 1992-10-13
  • ISBN : 0313067163
  • Pages : 279 pages

Download or read book Personal Coping written by Bruce N. Carpenter and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1992-10-13 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents current models of coping, describes the coping process, and relates that process to environmental factors, person variables, and desirable outcomes. Unlike most treatments of coping, which are organized around stress, this volume emphasizes features of the coping process that have broad relevance across many potential stressors. Although each model in the book tends to emphasize different aspects of coping, the organization around models gives each chapter a theoretical focus which will be attractive to researchers and to those applying current research to applied problems such as interventions. The most obvious audience is made up of researchers and scholars in the broad area of stress and coping. With the emerging emphasis within applied programs on more common psychological and health problems, coping theory is well suited to train students in the principles and issues relevant to everyday problems and functioning. This volume is well suited to assist in such training.

Book User Psychology and Behavior Regarding Healthcare IT

Download or read book User Psychology and Behavior Regarding Healthcare IT written by Xiaofei Zhang and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2022-12-06 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Advances in Experimental Social Psychology

Download or read book Advances in Experimental Social Psychology written by and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 1991-09-25 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advances in Experimental Social Psychology

Book Frameworks of IT Prosumption for Business Development

Download or read book Frameworks of IT Prosumption for Business Development written by Pa?kowska, Ma?gorzata and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2013-07-31 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Separation distinction between the roles of the producer and consumer has become blurred with the development of new science and technologies enabling the emergence of the prosumer, or the active consumer. In the IT sector, the role of the end-user has broadened to include innovation and development practices in addition to the traditional consumer activities. As such, businesses must create opportunities for product development and innovation by the consumers. Frameworks of IT Prosumption for Business Development investigates the latest empirical research on active use of information technology resources, enabling users with new methodologies, tools, and opportunities to impact application development processes. The objective of this reference book is to mobilize end-users to take a more active role in their own IT solutions, which will in turn assist in the development of best practices in IT at all levels.

Book The Making of Women Entrepreneurs in Hong Kong

Download or read book The Making of Women Entrepreneurs in Hong Kong written by Priscilla Pue Ho Chu and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2003-12-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a detailed account of Chinese industrial entrepreneurs, and describes and explains the phenomena of women entrepreneurship in Hong Kong. It addresses two main issues: first, the characteristics of Chinese entrepreneurship and women entrepreneurs; second, the factors that constitute the making of Chinese women entrepreneurs in Hong Kong. From in-depth personal interviews, Priscilla Chu examines the entrepreneur as a person, and as a member of family, organization and society. Having thus established the characteristic features of Chinese entrepreneurship in general, and female entrepreneurship in particular, the author builds a model to summarize the making of female entrepreneurs in Hong Kong, a model which is significantly different from that for male and Western counterparts. The study analyses the distinct Chinese entrepreneurship in relation to familism, Chinese work ethics, family and organizational conditions, and societal and cultural contexts.

Book Shattered Assumptions

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  • Author : Ronnie Janoff-Bulman
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2010-06-15
  • ISBN : 145160372X
  • Pages : 278 pages

Download or read book Shattered Assumptions written by Ronnie Janoff-Bulman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the psychology of victimization. It shows how fundamental assumptions about the world's meaningfulness and benevolence are shattered by traumatic events, and how victims become subject to self-blame in an attempt to accommodate brutality. The book is aimed at all those who for personal or professional reasons seek to understand what psychological trauma is and how to recover from it.

Book Planning Health Promotion Programs

Download or read book Planning Health Promotion Programs written by L. Kay Bartholomew Eldredge and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-01-25 with total page 795 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide to the planning of health promotion programs uses the increasingly popular Intervention Mapping approach, a theory- and evidence-based interactive process that links needs assessment with program planning in a way that adds efficiency and improves outcomes. Students, researchers, faculty, and professionals will appreciate the authors’ approach to applying theories of behavior and social change to the design of coherent, practical health education interventions. Written by internationally recognized authorities in Intervention Mapping, the book explains foundations in Intervention Mapping, provides an overview of the role of behavioral science theory in program planning3⁄4including a review of theories and how to assess theories and evidence3⁄4and a step-by-step guide to Intervention Mapping, along with detailed case examples of its application to public health programs. Planning Health Promotion Programs is the second and substantially revised edition of the bestselling resource Intervention Mapping.

Book Contemporary Perspectives on the Psychology of Attitudes

Download or read book Contemporary Perspectives on the Psychology of Attitudes written by Geoffrey Haddock and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004-09-01 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is an attitude? How do different research approaches characterise 'attitude' and its applications in social psychology? The Attitude concept has long formed an indispensable construct in social psychology. In this volume, internationally renowned contributors review contemporary developments in research and theory to capture the current metamorphosis of this central concept. This book draws together the latest developments in the field to provide a scholarly and accessible overview of the study of attitudes, examining the implications for its position as a paradigm of social psychological understanding. Dividing the subject into two main parts, this book first addresses the structural and behavioural properties of attitudes, including the affective-cognitive structure of attitudes, the nature of attitude ambivalence and intention-behaviour relations. The second section focuses on representational and transformational processes, such as meta-cognitive attitudinal processes, the role of implicit and explicit attitudinal processes, cultural influences and attitude change. In a third, concluding section, the editors draw together these contemporary perspectives and elaborate on their impact for future theorising and research into attitudes. Empirically supported throughout, this collection represents a timely integration of the burgeoning range of approaches to attitude research. It will be of interest to social psychologists, sociologists, political scientists and researchers with an interest in attitudinal phenomena.

Book Earthquake Insurance

Download or read book Earthquake Insurance written by Risa Palm and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-07 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the nature of the earthquake hazard and the availability of insurance and reports on a longitudinal study of homeowners in four California counties to chart their growing concern with earthquakes.

Book Communication and Catastrophic Events

Download or read book Communication and Catastrophic Events written by H. Dan O'Hair and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-12-13 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative compendium of new research findings and case studies in the application of communication theory during catastrophic events Communicating Science in Times of Crisis: Communication and Catastrophic Events addresses the practical application and research implications of communication theory in the context of man-made and natural catastrophes. Bringing together contributions by leading experts in crisis management and strategic communication, this timely collection of resources links scientific issues with public policy while discussing the challenges and opportunities for using communication to manage extreme events in the evolving media landscape of the 21st century. In this second volume of the Wiley-Blackwell Communicating Science in Times of Crises series, 15 substantial chapters explore a varied range of catastrophic conditions, such as mass violence incidents, disease outbreaks, catastrophic mudslides, cascading and simultaneous disasters, extreme weather events, diffusion of misinformation during crises, students traveling internationally during a global health crisis, and more. Each chapter focuses on a particular issue or concern, revealing the difficult choices that confront academics and practitioners across communication disciplines and presenting original frameworks and models alongside ongoing research programs. Discusses approaches for balancing scientific findings with social and cultural issues Highlights the ability of legacy and digital media to facilitate science in mitigating the effects of adverse events Examines the ethical repercussions of communication during unfolding and unpredictable events Addresses the use of social media communication during a crisis and navigating an increasingly media-savvy society with multiple levels of science literacy Covers key theoretical and practical aspects of the associated fields of risk management and crisis management Available as a standalone book or as part of a two-volume set, Communicating Science in Times of Crisis: Communication and Catastrophic Events is essential reading for scholars, researchers, practitioners, and advanced students in the fields of crisis communication, risk and emergency management, disaster studies, policy management, social media communication, and healthcare communication.

Book Bounded Rationality and Economic Diplomacy

Download or read book Bounded Rationality and Economic Diplomacy written by Lauge N. Skovgaard Poulsen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-21 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how developing countries often sign up to highly potent rules underwriting economic globalisation without even realising it.

Book Mobility in the Face of Extreme Hydrometeorological Events 1

Download or read book Mobility in the Face of Extreme Hydrometeorological Events 1 written by Celine Lutoff and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2018-07-25 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mobilities Facing Hydrometeorological Extreme Events 1: Defining the Relevant Scales of Analysis provides a summary of the interdisciplinary work done over the past ten years on the exposure of daily mobility. Residential mobility, the way in which the occupation of the flood zones evolves with time, and the resulting immobile exposure are also at the heart of this work. In the face of recrudescence and the intensification of fast floods, the book seeks to understand how the interaction of hydro-meteorological, social and development dynamics combine to bring about an improvement or, on the contrary, a worsening of both mobile and immobile exposure. The book relies on different fields and studies conducted in the South East of France and more broadly on the Mediterranean basin to answer these questions and verify these hypotheses, with a forward challenge to better understand how population movements are exposed to these phenomena. Provides a synthesis of interdisciplinary work on the exposure of daily mobilities Establishes a diagram of the evolution of the flood zones and the immobile exposure Finds the cause and effect of these phenomena Conducts studies to answer these questions and verify these hypotheses