This lively and accessible book offers an introduction to sociological social psychology through the lens of symbolic interactionism. It provides students with an accessible understanding of this ...

Writing my recent book on the self attuned me to how vastly different the human self is from other animal versions. A particular feature of the human self is that it knows and experiences life as ...

Normal age-related changes in how we think, perceive and reason may increase the risk of older people viewing themselves through a negative and ageist lens, research suggests. The study led by ...

Between 0.7% and 1.5% of people in developed countries are estimated to suffer from intellectual disability (ID). In Spain, ...

For most of human history, the world has been a zero-sum game. Your neighbor’s gain meant your loss. If he had more land, it meant that you had less land, and thus less resources. But after the ...

Psychological self-help and how-to information is everywhere—in blogs, articles, podcasts, radio shows, books, and magazine articles. Self-help is a big business. The quick-fix, how-to-do-it approach ...

This fact sheet explores the size, demographics, and key features of the self-employed population in the United States. Andrea R. Lacy, owner of Luv's Brownies, places fudge on a brownie sundae at her ...