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The Social Psychology of Living Well – eBook

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  • Authors: Roy F. Baumeister, Joseph P. Forgas
  • File Size: 32 MB
  • Format: PDF
  • Length: 362 pages
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • Publication Date: January 29, 2018
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B079K1T55V
  • ISBN-10: 0815369247,  0815369239
  • ISBN-13: 9780815369240, 9780815369233

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Author(s)

Joseph P. Forgas

Roy F. Baumeister

Roy F. Baumeister

Dr. Roy F. Baumeister, a professor of psychology at the University of Queensland, Australia, has taught introductory social psychology to thousands of graduate and undergraduate students. He got his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1978. His research and teaching experience includes appointments at the Florida State University, University of California at Berkeley, Case Western Reserve University, the University of Virginia, the Max Planck Institute in Munich (Germany), the University of Texas at Austin, the VU University, Amsterdam (the Netherlands), the University of Bamberg (Germany), the University of Melbourne (Australia), King Abdulaziz University (Saudi Arabia), and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford. An active researcher whose work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Templeton Foundation, Roy has conducted research on the self (including self-control and self-esteem), the need to belong, aggression, sexuality, and how people find meaning in life.

According to Google Scholar, Dr. Roy Baumeister's works have been cited over 175,000 times in scientific literature. In 2013, he received the William James Award, the highest honor bestowed by the Association for Psychological Science in all of psychology. In his spare time, he likes to play jazz and ski.

How to live well and the search for meaning have long been of intense concern to humans, maybe because Homo sapiens is the only species aware of its own mortality. In the past few decades, empirical psychology made a major contribution to this quest. The Social Psychology of Living Well, (PDF) surveys groundbreaking work by leading international researchers, demonstrating that social psychology is the core discipline for understanding well-being and the search for meaning. Basic conceptual and theoretical principles are discussed, drawing on philosophy, evolutionary theory and psychology, followed by an evaluation of the role of purposeful, motivated activity and self-control in achieving life satisfaction. The role of emotional and cognitive processes and the influence of social, interpersonal and cultural factors in promoting a happy and meaningful life are discussed. The ebook will be of interest to students, researchers and practitioners in the behavioral and social sciences, as well as to laypersons for whom enhancing the quality of human life and understanding the principles of well-being are of interest.

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