The Psychology of Freedom
Author | : Peter Roger Breggin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : |
"Selected bibliography of the author": pages 240-242.
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Author | : Peter Roger Breggin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : |
"Selected bibliography of the author": pages 240-242.
Author | : Robert A. Wicklund |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 165 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 1461233445 |
In Zero-Variable Theories, Dr. Robert Wicklund invites the reader to consider the psychological perspective of the "explainer". In examining the over-simplifications that have become dominant in modern psychology, the author points to such factors as competition with other explainers and pressure to offer and promulgate a unique explanation. The explainer is characterized as equating theory with simple, fixed categories, and as defending those categories as one would defend a personal territory, fending off competing explainers through mis-use of statistical devices. The end result is the formulation of theories that neglect the perspectives of those whose behaviors are to be explained, and which simultaneously exclude psychological variables.
Author | : Rivka T. Witenberg |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 93 |
Release | : 2019-04-12 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9811337896 |
This book offers a new standpoint to understanding tolerance to human diversity by approaching it from the perspectives of cognitive, developmental and prosocial psychology. Emphasising the positive aspects of social perception and behaviour, it invites readers to re-consider ‘tolerance’ not simply as the opposite of prejudice, but as something that can in fact coexist with prejudice and intolerance. Drawing on original empirical research conducted with children, adolescents and young adults, the book maps the response patterns for tolerant judgement and justification, including psycho-developmental factors. It explains how tolerance regarding differences of colour, creed and culture is based on underlying beliefs that guide the reasoning process to support judgements about human diversity. Showcasing emerging theory and a new methodology of data collection that goes beyond common approaches, this book outlines a unique potential developmental trajectory for tolerance to human diversity based on fairness, empathy and reason. The book challenges students, researchers and general readers across the fields of psychology, human ethics and moral philosophy with its new insights into the character of prosocial beliefs.
Author | : Clive Seligman |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 355 |
Release | : 2013-05-13 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 1134787227 |
The eighth Ontario Symposium brought together an international group of scholars who work in the area of the psychology of values. Among the categories these experts address are the conceptualizations of values, value systems, and value-attitude-behavior relations; methodological issues; the role of values in specific domains, such as prejudice, commitment, and deservingness; and the transmission of values through family, media, and culture. Each chapter in the volume illustrates both the diversity and vitality of research on the psychology of values.
Author | : Lansing Pollock |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Ann E. Cudd |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2006-04-27 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0198040571 |
Analyzing Oppression presents a new, integrated theory of social oppression, which tackles the fundamental question that no theory of oppression has satisfactorily answered: if there is no natural hierarchy among humans, why are some cases of oppression so persistent? Cudd argues that the explanation lies in the coercive co-opting of the oppressed to join in their own oppression. This answer sets the stage for analysis throughout the book, as it explores the questions of how and why the oppressed join in their oppression. Cudd argues that oppression is an institutionally structured harm perpetrated on social groups by other groups using direct and indirect material, economic, and psychological force. Among the most important and insidious of the indirect forces is an economic force that operates through oppressed persons' own rational choices. This force constitutes the central feature of analysis, and the book argues that this force is especially insidious because it conceals the fact of oppression from the oppressed and from others who would be sympathetic to their plight. The oppressed come to believe that they suffer personal failings and this belief appears to absolve society from responsibility. While on Cudd's view oppression is grounded in material exploitation and physical deprivation, it cannot be long sustained without corresponding psychological forces. Cudd examines the direct and indirect psychological forces that generate and sustain oppression. She discusses strategies that groups have used to resist oppression and argues that all persons have a moral responsibility to resist in some way. In the concluding chapter Cudd proposes a concept of freedom that would be possible for humans in a world that is actively opposing oppression, arguing that freedom for each individual is only possible when we achieve freedom for all others.