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Uncertain

Arie W. Kruglanski

How the need for closure has shaped history, determines our future and understanding it can transform your life

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Psychology of the Extreme

Arie W. Kruglanski, Sophia Moskalenko

The Psychology of the Extreme provides an accessible introduction to extremism as a force that can affect all aspects of culture and people's choices in everyday settings.

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Psychology of the Extreme

Arie W. Kruglanski, Sophia Moskalenko

The Psychology of the Extreme provides an accessible introduction to extremism as a force that can affect all aspects of culture and people's choices in everyday settings.

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The Motivated Mind: The Selected Works of Arie W. Kruglanski

Arie Kruglanski

In this volume Arie Kruglanski reflects on the development throughout his distinguished career of his wide-ranging research covering radicalisation, human judgement and belief formation, group and intergroup processes, and motivated…

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The Uncertainty Paradox: How our greatest fear can become our greatest power

Arie Kruglanski

How much do we rely upon certainty? And, how does the way we deal with uncertainty impact our future and our lives?

Uncertainty is one of the defining issues of…

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The Motivated Mind

Arie Kruglanski

In this volume Arie Kruglanski reflects on the development throughout his distinguished career of his wide-ranging research covering radicalisation, human judgement and belief formation, group and intergroup processes, and motivated…

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The Routledge International Handbook of Human Significance and Mattering

This innovative book addresses the need for significance and mattering as a universal human motivation. It examines the impact of significance and mattering, considering how they manifest across our lifespan…

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The psychology of closed mindedness

Arie W. Kruglanski

Far from being restricted to a select group of individuals suffering from an improper socialization, closed-mindedness is something we all experience on a daily basis. This fundamental phenomenon is treated…

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Lay Epistemics and Human Knowledge: Cognitive and Motivational Bases

Arie W. Kruglanski

Its intellectual scope covers 50 years of sodal psychology-from attitudes and attitude change, to balance, disso nance, and the various other cognitive consistency theories, to causal attribution, and to current…

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Lay Epistemics and Human Knowledge: Cognitive and Motivational Bases

Arie W. Kruglanski

Its intellectual scope covers 50 years of sodal psychology-from attitudes and attitude change, to balance, disso nance, and the various other cognitive consistency theories, to causal attribution, and to current…

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The psychology of closed mindedness

Arie W. Kruglanski

Far from being restricted to a select group of individuals suffering from an improper socialization, closed-mindedness is something we all experience on a daily basis. This fundamental phenomenon is treated…

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Social Psychology: A General Reader

This general reader in social psychology takes a nonreductionistic approach to the discipline and is characterized by a multiplicity of perspectives. It is ordered in terms of levels of analysis…

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Social Psychology: A General Reader

This general reader in social psychology takes a nonreductionistic approach to the discipline and is characterized by a multiplicity of perspectives. It is ordered in terms of levels of analysis…

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The Psychology of Extremism: A Motivational Perspective

This ground-breaking book introduces a new model of extremism that emphasizes motivational imbalance among individual needs, offering a unique multidisciplinary exploration of extreme behaviors relating to terrorism, dieting, sports, love…

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The Psychology of Extremism: A Motivational Perspective

This ground-breaking book introduces a new model of extremism that emphasizes motivational imbalance among individual needs, offering a unique multidisciplinary exploration of extreme behaviors relating to terrorism, dieting, sports, love…

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Psychology of Terrorism: Classic and Contemporary Insights

Psychology of Terrorism is a definitive collection of classic and contemporary writings about the mind of the terrorist. Selected by a panel of world-renowned authorities, this collection provides the reader…

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Psychology of Terrorism: Classic and Contemporary Insights

Psychology of Terrorism is a definitive collection of classic and contemporary writings about the mind of the terrorist. Selected by a panel of world-renowned authorities, this collection provides the reader…

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Handbook of the History of Social Psychology

This is the first ever handbook to comprehensively cover the historical development of the field of social psychology, including the main overarching approaches and all the major individual topics. Contributors…

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The Motivation-Cognition Interface: From the Lab to the Real World: A Festschrift in Honor of Arie W. Kruglanski

The chapters are rather diverse and cover a variety of topics from politics, including international terrorism, to health related issues, such as addiction and self-control, to basic psychological principles, such…

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The Motivation-Cognition Interface: From the Lab to the Real World: A Festschrift in Honor of Arie W. Kruglanski

The chapters are rather diverse and cover a variety of topics from politics, including international terrorism, to health related issues, such as addiction and self-control, to basic psychological principles, such…

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Motivational Science: Social and Personality Perspectives: Key Readings

A current collection of articles that define the field of motivational science.

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Theory Construction in Social Personality: Personal Experiences and Lessons Learned: Personal Experiences and Lessons Learned: A Special Issue of personality and Social Psychology Review

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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The Social Psychology of Knowledge

This collection, published in 1988, brings an innovative perspective to research in social cognition. It assembles fifteen chapters by many leading scholars in the field, which together provide an innovative…

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Motivational Science: Social and Personality Perspectives: Key Readings

A current collection of articles that define the field of motivational science.

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Theory Construction in Social Personality: Personal Experiences and Lessons Learned: Personal Experiences and Lessons Learned: A Special Issue of personality and Social Psychology Review

The contributors of this special issue were asked to articulate their own individual philosophies and the lessons they have learned based on their own experience as theoreticians.

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Goal Systems Theory

The book investigates how the mental organization of goals impacts the motivation to pursue them, overcome obstacles to them, experience intrinsic motivation and flow, and even engage in extreme and…

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The Psychology of Social Conflict and Aggression

This book offers an informative, scholarly yet readable overview of recent advances in research on the nature, antecedents, management, and consequences of interpersonal and intergroup conflict and aggression.

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Handbook of Theories of Social Psychology

Volume one of two of this comprehensive exploration of the major developments of social psychological theories.

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Handbook of Theories of Social Psychology

Volume two of two of this comprehensive exploration of the major developments of social psychological theories.

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Handbook of Theories of Social Psychology: Collection

A comprehensive exploration of the major developments of social psychological theories that have taken place over the past half century

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The Social Psychology of Intergroup Conflict: Theory, Research and Applications

The area of intergroup relations and social conflict has once again become a major focus of social psychological theorizing and research. The areas discussed include industrial conflicts, interethnic conflicts and…

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Social Psychology

This definitive work–now extensively revised with many all-new chapters–has introduced generations of researchers to the psychological processes that underlie social behavior.

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Social Psychology

This definitive work–now extensively revised with many all-new chapters–has introduced generations of researchers to the psychological processes that underlie social behavior.

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Uncertainty and Extremism

MA Hogg

Extremism in society is the source of enormous human suffering and represents a significant social problem. This issue of the Journal of Social Issues assembles a set of 11 empirical…

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Stereotyping and Prejudice: Changing Conceptions

The study of stereotyping and prejudice is a study of human nature, group mem bership, and intergroup relationships.

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Racing the Storm: Racial Implications and Lessons Learned from Hurricane Katrina

Racing the Storm addresses how racial stratification continues to be a factor in U.S. society and was exposed by Hurricane Katrina. The continuing significance of race is examined by considering…

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Racing the Storm: Racial Implications and Lessons Learned from Hurricane Katrina

Racing the Storm addresses how racial stratification continues to be a factor in U.S. society and was exposed by Hurricane Katrina. The continuing significance of race is examined by considering…

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The Radical’s Journey: How German Neo-Nazis Voyaged to the Edge and Back

Arie W. Kruglanski (Distinguished University Professor, Distinguished University Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Maryland),David Webber (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs, Virginia Commonwealth University),Daniel Koehler (Director, Director, German Institute of Radicalization and Deradicalization Studies)

This volume offers a crucial examination of right-wing extremism, supported by detailed empirical analyses of right-wing militants’ experiences within and outside their organizations. The authors delve deeply into the motivations…

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