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Personlighedens positioner
Angst og grænseløshed i person og kultur
The book is written by Henrik Høgh-Olesen
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Deltagerobservation
- En metode til undersøgelse af psykologiske fænomener
The book is made by: Martin Pedersen, Jacob Klitmøller og Klaus Nielsen, James Spradley, Charlotte Jonasson, Lisbeth Grønborg, Thomas Szulevicz, Svend Brinkmann, Lene Tanggaard, Søren Kristiansen, Dorte Kousholt og Charlotte Højholt, Mariane Hedegaard, Carsten Rene Jørgensen og Peter Musaeus.
Description
A Childhood Psychology is a truly unique contribution to the field of childhood psychology. By interrogating the key questions lying at the heart of this rapidly changing field, it provides fresh and bold insights that are accompanied by original analysis and an interdisciplinary approach.
Packed with new developments and delivered with clarity, the book challenges our assumptions about childhood in modern society, scrutinizes contemporary trends in international research, and outlines controversial challenges to traditional paradigms. Sommer's valuable insights into developmental and childhood psychology will be of particular interest to students and researchers of psychology, anthropology, cultural studies and sociology.
Reviews
'Dion Sommer does a great service by localizing children's development and socialization in our rapidly changing times. From a Scandinavian outlook on the world early in the 21st century, the author provides a highly refreshing account. New stimulating conceptual understandings and interdisciplinary research is presented in order to explain young children's 'new realities'. It is a highly well-timed reflective contextual approach proposing a paradigm shift.' – Professor Michael Cole, University of California, San Diego, USA
Contents
- Introduction: Why and How a Childhood Psychology
- A Childhood Psychology - A Paradigm Shift
- A Changing Young Childhood - Beliefs Provoked and Theory Challenged
- Young Children's Culture Acquisition - Competencies and Learning
- Parenting I - Emergent Themes and Trends
- Parenting II - Emergent Father Involvement?
- Early Emergence of the Self - Socioaffective Competencies
- A Childhood Psychology - Conclusions and Future Perspectives
Authors
DION SOMMER is Professor of Developmental Psychology, Department of Psychology and Behavioural Sciences, at the University of Aarhus, Denmark.
Link to publisher Palgrave Macmillian
http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=385025
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Henrik Høgh-Olesen & Thomas Dalsgaard:
“Twenty experiments which changed our view of the human being”
Published at Plurafutura Publishing, 448 pages. Price DKK 295.
1. edition 2011. ISBN 978 87 92644 02 2
A guided tour to the crown jewels of psychology
Can ordinary people be persuaded to send electric shock at 450 volts into the bodies of innocent fellow human beings? Do we all carry the seeds of behaving like the sadistic warders in Philip Zimbardo’s famous jail experiment? Is it possible to place false memories of incest in children? Can positive expectations from others make people perform better? Are mirror neurons capable of making us aware of how other people feel, and can we have conversations with our immune system?
In this book leading, Danish psychologists present some of the twentieth century’s most amazing psychological experiments.
Each chapter is a guided tour through the original experiment, reader-friendly communicated with engagement and elegance from an excited professional, who can still feel the heat and inspiration from the fire which was set long time ago.
As a reader of the book you are given a first-class look in the experimental psychology’s fantastic world and along the way some of the new, disturbing and fascinating pieces of the infinite puzzle called ‘the human mind’ are collected.
The book is written for people who take an interest in the psychological mechanisms of the human mind and how we interact with each other for better or for worse.
The psychological experiment
The psychological experiment is a fascinating dimension uniting qualities from most areas of human existence. Drama, passion and staging, often included with fraud and delusion (the participants do not know what is really going on), and to control all these mechanisms we have scientific method and stringency.
It is a matter of reducing a complex human problem definition to a simple, but vital question, which can be examined, be variable and foremost be answered in the experimental room without the main point being lost. And the chosen experiments manage this completely.
“The 20 experiments demonstrate that research is exciting and filled with great emotions, passion, courage and perseverance. We communicate serious psychology for non-professionals,” says Lene Vase, Associate Professor at Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, and author of one of the chapters of the book. And Professor Henrik Høgh-Olesen continues: “The well carried out experiments are probably in our opinion the best method we have in order to get an insight in the human mind, and therefore this guide to some of the heights within experimental psychology from some of the field’s most passionate practitioners. The book is written to provide the reader with inspiration and reflection”.
Further information:
| Professor Henrik Høgh-Olesen | Director, External Lecturer Thomas Dalsgaard plurafutura publishing Tel.: (+45) 4070 8890 Email: td@plurafutura.dk |
