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This course is looks at the role of social psychology to understand our everyday lives from a historical and socio-cultural perspective. It introduces students to key topics, concepts and research within this area to illustrate the contribution that social psychology has made to our understanding of the individual mind and behaviour as well as interpersonal and intergroup relations in relation to a variety of topics e.g. altruism, migration, social justice, media, work, prejudice etc.
This book is aimed at helping undergraduate students develop critical thinking and scientific literacy skills through the analysis of prominent studies and ideas in psychology. It covers a range of psychological topics including consciousness, developmental psychology, learning, memory, social psychology, motivation and emotion, and psychopathology. While classic studies have a tendency to receive less critical attention, leading readers to overlook the limitations and flaws when contradictions or confusions appear, this book directs readers to studies that have addressed the shortcomings of classic studies and offers a more methodologically, theoretically, and in some cases ethically robust examination of the topic.
This book explores the interplay between psychology, science, and pseudoscience. It is organized around three main sections. The opening section comprises four chapters that consider the overall scope of the problem, including the nature of science, the nature of pseudoscience, the nature of psychology, and the nature of reasoning. The second section examines practical examples, containing three chapters that look at the way pseudoscientific reasoning has been applied to psychological subject matter. The final section attempts to locate the overall discussion within a social context, comprising three chapters that examine the biases and influences that lead to pseudoscientific thinking.
This book showcases the approaches that epitomize the development of the psychology of culture across the Asia-Pacific region, focusing on the relationship between local cultures and ways of being, and knowledge production practices, imported theories, and methods from the global discipline. The authors argue that it is the resulting tensions and opportunities for dialogue that are central to the further development of intercultural psychology as a diverse scholarly arena, and that the combination of etic and emic approaches to theory, research, and practice is foundational to the development of intercultural perspectives and more comprehensive understandings of both the universal and local elements of human experience and psychological phenomena today.
This book contains 13 chapters that examine psychology’s development through ancient times, mid-millennium transitions, the age of modernity, and through the 20th century. The main emphasis of the book is psychology’s formative experiences during the past 150 years. Psychological science is presented here as increasingly interdisciplinary. A serious cross-cultural and cross-national focus brings diversity to this book. Besides, the book focuses on the interaction between scientific psychology and society in different periods of history. The book also pays attention to critical thinking, the relevance of yesterday’s knowledge to students’ diverse experience today, and psychology’s progressive mission.
