Trousson, Raymond / Vercruysse, Jeroom (dir.), Dictionnaire general de Voltaire. (Champion classiques, references et dictionnaires 18) 1272 p. 2020:10 (Champion, FR) <670-9>
ISBN 978-2-38096-016-7 paper ¥7,064.- (税込) EUR 38.00

Haefner, Alexander / Hofmann, Sophie, Listening for Managers: How to Lead More Effectively Through Good Listening Skills. (essentials) 55 pp. 2023:8 (Springer, GW) <706-448>
ISBN 978-3-662-67623-3 paper ¥3,527.- (税込) EUR 14.99

Managers who listen well thus create trusting relationships with their employees. They promote job satisfaction, employee loyalty and performance. Good listening reduces the risk of burnout. The book provides tips for managers to improve their listening skills and thus lead more effectively.Unfortunately, self-perception and the image of others often diverge greatly: those who believe themselves to be good listeners are often perceived quite differently by others. This makes critical self-reflection, external feedback and practice all the more important. The book provides a variety of suggestions for this.

Joiner, Thomas, The Varieties of Suicidal Experience: A New Theory of Suicidal Violence. (Psychology and Crime) 224 pp. 2024:2 (New York U. Pr., US) <706-640>
ISBN 978-1-4798-2346-8 hard ¥19,188.- (税込) US$ 89.00 *
ISBN 978-1-4798-2347-5 paper ¥6,468.- (税込) US$ 30.00 *

Argues that a range of behaviors such as murder-suicide, terrorism, and mass shootings are better understood as motivated by suicidal impulses than by homicidal ones Mass shooters often display behaviors that strongly mirror the warning signs for suicide: lives led in isolation, intense personal suffering, disaffection, and struggle. Letters detailing why they did what they did paint pictures of intense misery and loneliness. As this book makes clear, private despair sometimes leads to social violence. In this groundbreaking work, Thomas Joiner offers a unified theory of suicide, making the case that many acts that appear homicidal are best understood primarily as suicidal. We must recognize that there are several forms of suicidal violence, some of which masquerade as other types of acts, including terrorism and murder. These include suicide-by-cop, suicide terrorism, murder-suicide, and running amok. Though there are obvious differences among these acts, Joiner argues that framing them as stemming from a common ideology of suicide is a crucial step in preventing these atrocities. By recognizing the desire to die-not to kill-as being at the heart of many of the acts of those who choose to kill their partner, shoot up their school, or terrorize their community, we can offer more effective measures of intervention. At a time when our nation is scrambling for solutions in the fight to end gun violence, this book presents a crucial component in the detection and treatment of unwell individuals.

Chetri, Saamdu / Dutta, Tanusree / Mandal, M. K. (eds.), Understanding Happiness: An Explorative View. 467 pp. 2023:8 (Springer, GW) <706-351>
ISBN 978-981-9934-92-8 hard ¥32,952.- (税込) EUR 139.99 *

This book provides a comprehensive and enriching understanding of the construct of happiness from diverse perspectives. It provides readers with an overview of the issues, problems, and challenges related to well-being and happiness. The book is divided into three sections. It brings together researchers and practitioners from various disciplines, including psychology, sociology, and development studies. Each section includes chapters from leading academicians from across the world. The first section helps the reader understand happiness from a neuroscientific perspective and explores the relationship between happiness and subjective well-being. The second section of the book discusses the importance of building personal resources for happiness from a positive psychology point of view. The last section examines the importance of happiness in the workplace and suggests a sustainable development plan for happiness. It is a must-buy book for individuals nurturing critical thought and searching for a quintessential understanding of happiness. It presents a unique contribution to the literature with its multidisciplinary focus on specific topics.

Shenk, Chad E. (ed.), Innovative Methods in Child Maltreatment Research and Practice: Advances in Detection, Causal Estimation, and Intervention. (Child Maltreatment Solutions Network) 287 pp. 2023:7 (Springer, GW) <706-370>
ISBN 978-3-031-33738-3 hard ¥42,368.- (税込) EUR 179.99

This book examines the latest methodological advancements in child maltreatment research and practice. It addresses long-standing challenges when working with and serving the child maltreatment population, while offering pragmatic solutions for scientists, caseworkers, and providers. Chapters explore methodological innovations in such areas as screening and detecting child maltreatment, collecting objective data in longitudinal research, causal modeling of adverse health effects, and advancements in both preventive and clinical interventions.Key areas of coverage include methods for: Screening for child maltreatment at the point of contact.Reducing bias and promoting causal inference when examining health effects and etiological processes.Promoting representative samples, objective data collection, and integration of child welfare and medical records to enhance equitable access to care.Intervening with children and families at risk for and exposed to maltreatment. Innovative Methods in Child Maltreatment Research and Practice is a must-have reference for researchers, professors, and graduate students as well as clinicians, therapists, and other professionals in developmental, clinical child, and school psychology.

Burns, Robert B., The Human Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Review of International Research. 355 pp. 2023:7 (Springer, GW) <706-387>
ISBN 978-981-9917-09-9 hard ¥35,306.- (税込) EUR 149.99

This book is about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on human society. The current global pandemic has thrown a diverse set of entwined social, psychological, and economic disruptive impacts of human suffering on societies, groups, and individuals due to the flow on effects of not only the disease itself but massive dislocations of the everyday routines of life driven by mandated restrictions imposed by national governments. This intersecting set of experiences has evoked considerable human distress particularly in the fields of employment, education, healthcare work, and bereavement rituals. This text reviews, from existing knowledge and the research emanating in the last two years from around the world, the issues and problems faced by people and their governments.

Chhabra, Gunjan / Kumar, Sunil / Gupta, Sunil et al., Artificial Intelligence to Analyze Psychophysical and Human Lifestyle. 186 pp. 2023:10 (Springer, GW) <706-1413>
ISBN 978-981-9930-38-8 hard ¥30,598.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book is about the use of technology/artificial intelligence in the areas of human behavior and psychology, health and nutrition, and fitness and sports. Everybody has his/her own lifestyle but may not necessarily be aware of what constitutes a healthy lifestyle. Knowledge gained from the Internet may be scattered and inaccurate and, if adhered to, may lead to loss of life. The COVID-19 pandemic increased people's awareness of the need for a healthy lifestyle but how to adopt a healthy lifestyle is something to be clarified since every individual is different (body type, situation, etc.), and hence, their needs will be different as well. This book addresses such questions and explores how the use of technology in the areas mentioned above can enable each individual to easily achieve a healthy lifestyle.

Eidelson, Roy J., Doing Harm: How the World's Largest Psychological Association Lost Its Way in the War on Terror. 272 pp. 2023:9 (McGill-Queen's U. Pr., CN) <706-1414>
ISBN 978-0-228-01861-2 hard ¥7,103.- (税込) US$ 32.95 *

Doing Harm pries open the black box on a critical chapter in the recent history of psychology: the field's enmeshment in the so-called war on terror and the ensuing reckoning over do-no-harm ethics during times of threat. Focusing on developments within the American Psychological Association (APA) over two tumultuous decades, Roy Eidelson exposes the challenges that professional organizations face whenever powerful government agencies turn to them for contributions to ethically fraught endeavours.In the months after 9/11 it became clear that the White House, the Department of Defense, and the Central Intelligence Agency were prepared to ignore well-established international law and human rights standards in prosecuting the war on terror. It was less clear, however, that some of Eidelson's fellow psychologists would become part of the abusive and torturous operations at overseas CIA black sites and Guantanamo Bay. Nor was it initially clear that this ruthless enterprise would garner acquiescence and support from the APA's leadership.Doing Harm examines how and why the APA failed to join human rights groups in efforts to constrain the US government's unbridled pursuit of security and retribution. It recounts an ongoing struggle - one that has pitted APA leaders set on preserving strong ties to the military-intelligence establishment against dissident voices committed to prioritizing do-no-harm principles.

Helfrich, Hede, Cross-Cultural Psychology. 207 pp. 2023:9 (Springer, GW) <706-1415>
ISBN 978-3-662-67557-1 paper ¥7,058.- (税込) EUR 29.99

Was ist Kultur? Sind die Menschen in Indien anders als in Deutschland - und wenn ja, warum? Worauf begruenden sich diese Unterschiede und lassen sie sich messen? Mit diesen Fragen befasst sich innerhalb der Psychologie eine ganze Teildisziplin, die sich zur Aufgabe gemacht hat, das Verhaeltnis von Mensch und Kultur zu beforschen. Schon die Unschaerfe des Kulturbegriffs laesst dabei Schwierigkeiten erahnen. Dieses Buch fuehrt in klarer, verstaendlicher Form in die Themen der Kulturpsychologie bzw. kulturvergleichenden Psychologie ein. Dabei werden die unterschiedlichen Ansichten des Faches verdeutlicht, erlaeutert und ausfuehrlich diskutiert, so dass dem Leser die eigene Meinungsbildung ermoeglicht wird.

Kulesza, Wojciech / Dolinski, Dariusz, Social Biases During Covid 19: Managing the Anxiety of Uncertainty. (SpringerBriefs in Psychology) 94 pp. 2023:6 (Springer, GW) <706-1419>
ISBN 978-3-031-34705-4 paper ¥11,766.- (税込) EUR 49.99

This open acess book focuses on a critical aspect of pandemic behavior, which is how important information is communicated. It examines how the press and other entities may bias the dissemination of this information, and what may be done to counteract this tendency. Covering theory and research in this area, the book applies these to practical considerations that may be utilized in times of health crisis. It lays the groundwork for understanding how irrationality becomes a factor. It explores the positive and negative aspects of illusion creating and provides tools for moving more quickly to resolution.

Niemiec, Ryan M. / Tomasulo, Dan, Character Strengths and Abilities Within Disabilities: Advances in Science and Practice. (Positive Psychology and Disability Series) 210 pp. 2023:9 (Springer, GW) <706-1421>
ISBN 978-3-031-36293-4 hard ¥32,952.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This book examines the science and practice of character strengths as the backbone for understanding, studying, and applying positive interventions across a wide range of disabilities. It explores character strengths as positive personality qualities most central to an individual's identity that create positive outcomes for building well-being and managing adversities and contribute to the collective good. The book recognizes disability as a part of the human experience that can emerge for anyone and the necessity for examining and applying strengths-based approaches. It explores what is known about character strengths and various disabilities from a science and practice perspective. The book reviews research on the assessment, correlations, concepts, populations, and applications of character strengths across disabilities. It disseminates disparate research and little-known best practices and hypothetical practices, along with multiple case examples, in the effort to advance the science and practice, bring a balanced approach to the field, and contribute to human flourishing. Key topics of coverage include: Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and character strengths.Intellectual and physical disabilities, medical illness and character strengths.Mental and emotional disorders (e.g., trauma) and character strengths.Character strengths and disability across special issues including justice, inclusion, dual-diagnosis, and spirituality.Understanding character strengths as internal capacities and abilities across disabilities, problems, and suffering. Character Strengths - the Abilities Within Disabilities is an essential and valuable resource for researchers, professors, clinicians, practitioners, and therapists as well as graduate students in the fields of developmental and positive psychology, rehabilitation, social work, special education, occupational, speech and language therapy, public health, and healthcare policy.

Kothambikar, Ashwini (ed.), Mediating Role of Social Media on Youth's Psychological Well-Being: A Machine-Generated Literature Overview. 165 pp. 2023:6 (Springer, GW) <706-1197>
ISBN 978-3-031-34381-0 hard ¥30,598.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book is the result of a collaboration between a human editor and an artificial intelligence algorithm to create a machine-generated literature overview of research articles analyzing the mediating role of social media on the psychological wellbeing of youth. It's a new publication format in which state-of-the-art computer algorithms are applied to select the most relevant articles published in Springer Nature journals and create machine-generated literature reviews by arranging the selected articles in a topical order and creating short summaries of these articles. In this volume, a human counsellor psychologist used the algorithm to explore articles that present results of research about the impacts of social media on the psychological wellbeing of youth. The Internet has always been popular among youth, but during the pandemic it has attracted even more attention since many aspects of life further migrated to the digital world, thus adding substantially to Internet's ever-increasing popularity. Today, youth spend a majority portion of their time on the Internet and an increasing amount on social media. In such digitally dependent times, this book attempts to provide insights on the positive and negative impact of the Internet and social media on youth mental health, and also provides specific observations on personality traits.

Mujica, Christin A. / Bridges, Ana J., Horizontal and Vertical Racial/Ethnic Discrimination: Attributions and Impact. (SpringerBriefs in Psychology) 84 pp. 2023:6 (Springer, GW) <706-1254>
ISBN 978-3-031-33057-5 paper ¥10,589.- (税込) EUR 44.99

This book explores the nuances of how discriminatory events are viewed by people of color. Based on the authors' research, it seeks to illuminate the contextual and relational variables that influence perception of discrimination. The research suggests that: Ingroup members can perpetuate racist discrimination;Consistent with attribution theory, discrimination by White people is more often attributed to trait rather than situational causes;Consistent with cultural betrayal trauma theory, perceived racist discrimination by ingroup members can be more acutely distressing because it is unexpected. Filling a gap in the microaggression literature, this book provides an in-depth picture of discrimination and what individuals can do to offset the insidious effects of White supremacy. It highlights the importance of centering the experiences of people of color in describing ambiguous social interactions, with greater attention to the context, background, and relationships between perpetrators and targets of racist discrimination. It presents a clear next step in advancing our understanding of the attributes of discrimination. The benefits of comprehensive education and critical consciousness development are emphasized.