scholarly journals Review: Abnormal Psychology in a Changing World (5th Edition), Biopsychology (5th Edition), Consciousness: An Introduction, Learning and Memory: An Integrative Approach, Motivation: Theories and Principles (5th Edition), Motivation: Theories and Principles (5th Edition), Psychodynamic Psychology: Classical Theory and Contemporary Research, the Psychology of Language: From Data to Theory (2nd Edition), Statistics without Maths for Psychology (2nd Edition), Statistics without Maths for Psychology (2nd Edition), Understanding Social Psychology: Experimental and Critical Approaches, Work and Organizational Psychology: An Introduction with Attitude

2005 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-69
Author(s):  
Simon Easton ◽  
Richard Stephens ◽  
Guy Saunders ◽  
Nigel Hunt ◽  
Frederick Toates ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Learning And Memory ◽  
Classical Theory ◽  
Organizational Psychology ◽  
Integrative Approach ◽  
Approach Motivation ◽  
Abnormal Psychology ◽  
Contemporary Research ◽  
Critical Approaches ◽  
Changing World

Personality, Social Psychology, and Psychopathology

2012 ◽  
pp. 572-596
Author(s):  
Philip R. Costanzo ◽  
Rick H. Hoyle ◽  
Mark R. Leary
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Life Experience ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Abnormal Behavior ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
Abnormal Psychology ◽  
Life Space ◽  
Personality Psychology ◽  
Domains Of Life ◽  
Lewinian Field Theory

In this chapter, we first consider the historical and conceptual roots of the tripartite, but at times rocky, marriage of the fields of personality, social, and abnormal psychology. After briefly describing the hopes of early 20th-century scholars to array the study of normal and abnormal behavior, thought, and feeling on the same conceptual continua, we call for the rekindling of these conjunctive hopes. Indeed, we argue that with the advent of current cross-cutting developments in cognitive, socioemotional, and biological perspectives in the broader domain of the behavioral sciences, that the time is ripe for rearranging the marriage among these fields. In order to provide a conceptual frame for such a conjunctive effort, we return to Lewinian field theory and its definition of forces of locomotion in the life space as a particularly notable way to put the examination of normal and abnormal psychology in the same theoretical space. By addressing some critical ideational themes in the domains of personality and social psychology, we attempt to illustrate the overlap of these themes with the ideas and questions of scholars of abnormal behavior. Of course, in deploying a Lewinian model our analyses turn to the dynamics of person x environment interactions in the regions of the life space. In doing so we define the phenomena of meaning-making and the multiple “worldview” existential models in social and personality psychology as the forces constituting the primary dynamics defining the permeability of adaptive regions of the “life space” or phenomenal field. We illustrate these dynamics by detailed consideration of human adaptation in two critical regions or domains of life experience in the behavioral field: the domain of regulatory transactions and the domain of acceptance, social affection, and relationships. While these domains certainly do not exhaust all regions of the life space, we argue that they are particularly pertinent for parsing continua of normal-to-abnormal adaptation and conjoining the nature of psychopathology with the everyday struggles of personal and social significance to all humans. We conclude our analysis by rather unabashed advocacy, not specifically for the model we explore, but for scholarship that is aimed at developing models that link the normal to what we refer to as the abnormal or psychopathological. As humans, the cloths of our selves and our environments are made from common as well as individually unique fibers. We conclude that to disambiguate how such fibers are woven together to frame the forces driving our travels from blissful adaptation to painful maladjustment should be a primary agenda for our interconnected sciences of human behavior.

THE IMPERIALISM OF IN A NONWESTERN CULTURE

1997 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-69
Author(s):  
Omar H. Khaleefa
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Developmental Psychology ◽  
American Psychological Association ◽  
General Psychology ◽  
Specific Topic ◽  
Abnormal Psychology ◽  
The West ◽  
American Psychological ◽  
Study Behavior ◽  
Occupational Psychology

General psychology includes many areas of investigation: biologicalbases of behavior, sensation and perception, consciousness andattention, motivation and emotion, conditioning, learning, cognition,language, thinking, remembering and forgetting, intelligence, and personality.During the first half of the twentieth century, psychologistsclassified themselves as structuralists, functionalists, behaviorists,gestaltists, psychoanalysts, existentialists, humanists, or cognitivists.Today, such classifications are little used in the West. If one looks at thepublications of the American Psychological Association and the BritishPsychological Society, psychologists classify themselves according totheir fields or specific topic of hterest, such as social psychology,developmental psychology, abnormal psychology, psychotherapy,counseling, occupational psychology, psychometrics, media, women,and so on. Several tools are used in psychology to study behavior,among them surveys, questionnaires, interviews, observations, experiments,and tests.Psychology is defined as the scientific study of human behavior, andits theories and methods are considered scientific and universal.According to this understanding, there are four important terms that need ...

scholarly journals Thinking about Change: An Integrative Approach for Examining Cognition in a Changing World

2015 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 347-353 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy C. Roth ◽  
Aaron R. Krochmal ◽  
Zoltán Németh
Keyword(s):  
Integrative Approach ◽  
Changing World

Social and Abnormal Psychology Textbooks: An Objective Analysis

2000 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 180-189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew N. Christopher ◽  
Richard A. Griggs ◽  
Chad L. Hagans
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Selection Process ◽  
Introductory Psychology ◽  
Objective Analysis ◽  
Abnormal Psychology ◽  
Text Selection ◽  
Content Analyses ◽  
Psychology Courses ◽  
Undergraduate Psychology ◽  
Advanced Courses

Given the increased demand for undergraduate psychology courses beyond the introductory level, research on textbooks for such courses is surprisingly sparse. This study partially rectifies this problem. Because social and abnormal psychology are the two most frequently listed advanced courses in college catalogs (Perlman & McCann, 1999), we provide feature and content analyses of the 14 social psychology and 17 abnormal psychology survey texts published from 1995 to 1998. We also furnish comparisons between these two types of tesxts and introductory psychology texts. These analyses and comparisons should greatly facilitate the text selection process for teachers of social and abnormal psychology courses.

scholarly journals A dynamic reframing of the social/personal identity dichotomy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Walker
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Personal Identity ◽  
Organizational Psychology ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Plain Language ◽  
Psychological Experience ◽  
Single Person ◽  
The Social ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Race And Culture

For decades, scholars in organizational and social psychology have distinguished between two types of identity: social and personal. To what extent, though, is this dichotomy useful for understanding identities and their dynamics, and might a different approach facilitate deeper insight? Such are the guiding questions of this article. I begin by reviewing framings of the social/personal identity dichotomy in organizational psychology, and tracing its origins and evolution in social psychology. I then evaluate the strengths and limitations of this dichotomy as a tool for understanding identities. In an attempt to retain the dichotomy’s strengths and overcome its limitations, I present a modified conceptualization of the social and personal dimensions of identity, one that defines these dimensions based on psychological experience (not identity content), and treats them as two independent continua (not two levels of a dichotomy, or opposing ends of a continuum) that any given identity varies along across contexts. Plain language summary A single person can identify with lots of different aspects of their life: their family, community, job, and hobbies, to name but a few. In the same way it helps to group different items in a shop into sections, it can be helpful to group the different identities available to people into categories. And for a long time, this is what researchers have done: calling certain identities “social identities” if based on things like race and culture, and “personal identities” if based on things like traits and habits. In this paper, I explain that for various reasons, this might not be the most accurate way of mapping identities. Instead of categorizing them based on where they come from, I suggest it’s more helpful to focus on how identities actually make people feel, and how these feelings change from one moment to the next. I also point out that many identities can make someone feel like a unique person and part of a broader group at the same time. For this reason, it’s best to think of the “social” and “personal” parts of an identity not as opposites—but simply different aspects of the same thing.

scholarly journals A dynamic reframing of the social/personal identity dichotomy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Walker
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Personal Identity ◽  
Organizational Psychology ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Plain Language ◽  
Psychological Experience ◽  
Single Person ◽  
The Social ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Race And Culture

For decades, scholars in organizational and social psychology have distinguished between two types of identity: social and personal. To what extent, though, is this dichotomy useful for understanding identities and their dynamics, and might a different approach facilitate deeper insight? Such are the guiding questions of this article. I begin by reviewing framings of the social/personal identity dichotomy in organizational psychology, and tracing its origins and evolution in social psychology. I then evaluate the strengths and limitations of this dichotomy as a tool for understanding identities. In an attempt to retain the dichotomy’s strengths and overcome its limitations, I present a modified conceptualization of the social and personal dimensions of identity, one that defines these dimensions based on psychological experience (not identity content), and treats them as two independent continua (not two levels of a dichotomy, or opposing ends of a continuum) that any given identity varies along across contexts. Plain language summary A single person can identify with lots of different aspects of their life: their family, community, job, and hobbies, to name but a few. In the same way it helps to group different items in a shop into sections, it can be helpful to group the different identities available to people into categories. And for a long time, this is what researchers have done: calling certain identities “social identities” if based on things like race and culture, and “personal identities” if based on things like traits and habits. In this paper, I explain that for various reasons, this might not be the most accurate way of mapping identities. Instead of categorizing them based on where they come from, I suggest it’s more helpful to focus on how identities actually make people feel, and how these feelings change from one moment to the next. I also point out that many identities can make someone feel like a unique person and part of a broader group at the same time. For this reason, it’s best to think of the “social” and “personal” parts of an identity not as opposites—but simply different aspects of the same thing.

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