Published April, 2013
By Robin M. Kowalski
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: The Springer Series in Social Clinical Psychology
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Aversive behaviors have greater influence on social interactions than is generally acknowledged, determining personal satisfaction, interpersonal attraction, choice of partners, and the course of relationships.

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Published April, 2013
By Jerry M. Burger
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Series: The Springer Series in Social Clinical Psychology
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What started as a graduate student' s curiosity about individual differ ences in need for personal control led to a personality scale, a few pub lications, some additional questions, and additional research.

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Published March, 2013
By Gail M. Williamson, David R. Shaffer and Patricia A. Parmelee
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Series: The Springer Series in Social Clinical Psychology
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With people living longer, often with chronic illnesses and disabilities, it is becoming increasingly important to understand how depression, disability, and physical illnesses are interrelated, the mechanisms underlying these interrelationships, and their implications for diagnosis and treatment.

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Published March, 2013
By Joop de Jong
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This volume describes a variety of public mental health and psychosocial programs in conflict and post-conflict situations in Africa and Asia. This volume will be of great interest to psychologists, social workers, anthropologists, historians, human rights experts, and psychiatrists working or interested in the field of psychotrauma.

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Published January, 2013
By James E. Maddux
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Series: The Springer Series in Social Clinical Psychology
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Covering over fifteen years of research, this compilation offers the first comprehensive review of the relationships between self-efficacy, adaptation, and adjustment.

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Published October, 2012
By Herbert M. Lefcourt
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In this new book he places humor firmly within the literatures of coping processes, the moderation of stressful experiences, and health by showing how humor can help create and encourage feelings of community, closeness, and control.

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Published October, 2012
By Jerry Suls and Ladd Wheeler
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After four decades of research, the topic of social comparison is more popular than ever. In this timely handbook a distinguished roster of researchers and theoreticians describe where the field has been since its development in the early 1950s and where it is likely to go next.

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Published September, 2012
By June Rathbone
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Believing that sadomasochism is becoming an ever more obtrusive phenomenon in developed countries, the author surveyed 48 self-declared sadomasochists (43 male, 5 female) and 35 controls (26 male, 9 female) in an effort to elicit information on early family relationships, morale, and sexual behavior and fantasy;

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Published September, 2012
By Adrian T. Fisher, Christopher C. Sonn and Brian J. Bishop
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In this book, the authors have explored a series of different types of communities - moving from the basic idea of those based at a specific location all the way to virtual communities of the internet.

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Published September, 2012
By Anita E. Kelly
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On an MTV special aired in 2000, young interviewees were asked to confess the worse thing they were ever told during a romantic breakup. The question these examples bring to mind is, "Why do people so often reveal potentially stigmatizing personal information to others?"

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