| Validation in Psychology Contributor(s): Ellis, Hadyn (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0765806479 ISBN-13: 9780765806475 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $54.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2001 Annotation: Why do we respond to others? What are the social influences on face perception? Current research perspectives on physical appearance by distinguished behavioral scientists from around the world were brought together in a special issue of Current Psychology and are offered here in a useful compendium. Validation in Psychology will benefit students, researchers, and practitioners of psychology, criminology, sociology, and experts in organization behavior who are concerned with the impact of physical appearance on health psychology, crime, safety, and person perception. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Social Psychology - Psychology | Cognitive Psychology & Cognition |
| Dewey: 153.75 |
| LCCN: 00064816 |
| Physical Information: 0.49" H x 6.07" W x 9.02" (0.69 lbs) 196 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Why do we respond to others-both to their physical appearances and to their personalities? What are the social influences on face perception? Current research perspectives on physical appearance by distinguished behavioral scientists from around the world were brought together in a special issue of Current Psychology and are offered here in a useful compendium. Chapters and contributors include: "Assessing the State of Organizational Safety-Culture or Climate?" Kathryn J. Mearns and Rhona Flin; "Why Did It Happen to Me? Social Cognition Processes in Adjustment and Recovery from Criminal Victimization and Illness" by Malcolm D. MacLeod; "What's in a Name, What's in a Place? The Role of Verbal Labels in Distinct Cognitive Tasks" by J.B. Deegowski, D.M. Parker, and P. George; "On Disregarding Deviants: Exemplar Typicality and Person Perception" by C. Neil Macrae, Galen V. Bodenhausen, Alan B. Milne, and Luigi Castelli; "Mood in Chronic Disease: Questioning the Answers" by Marie Johnston; "The Emotional Impact of Faces (but not Names): Face Specific Changes in Skin Conductance Responses to Familiar and Unfamiliar People" by Hadyn D. Ellis, Angela H. Quayle, and Andrew W. Young; "Average Faces are Average Faces" by Jim Pollard, John Shepard, and Jean Shepard; "Computer Graphic Studies of the Role of Facial Similarity in Judgments of Attractiveness" by I.S. Penton-Voak, D.I. Perrett, and J.W. Peirce; "One Extreme or the Other, or Perhaps the Golden Mean? Issues of Spatial Resolution in Face Processing" by Dennis M. Parker and Nicholas P. Costen; "The Impact of Character Attribution on Composite Production: A Real World Effect?" by Graham Davies and Heidi Oldman; "Repetition Priming of Face Gender Judgments: An Instance Based Explanation" by Dennis C. Hay. Validation in Psychology will benefit students, researchers, and practitioners of psychology, criminology, sociology, and experts in organizational behavior who are concerned with the impact of physical appearance on health psychology, crime, organizational safety, and above all, person perception. |
Contributor Bio(s): Ellis, Hadyn: - Hadyn Ellis is Head of the School of Psychology at Cardiff University. MacRae, Neil: - Neil Macrae is professor of experimental psychology at the University of Bristol. |