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      • Humanities & Social Sciences
        October 2020

        The Science of Feelings

        What Psychological Research Tells Us About Our Emotions

        by Eugene Tee

        What are emotions and why do we experience them? In the last 50 years or so, psychological science has shed light on the essence of what makes us human—why we experience a range of feelings from joy to sadness, anger to fear, and compassion to contempt. Yet, the science of emotion remains mostly inaccessible to the curious reader and those outside academic circles.   This book is a story of our emotions; a story of why and how we feel as human beings. It is a tale of our emotions, told by philosophers, biologists, neuroscientists, sociologists, and economists. Drawing on the rich psychological research on emotions, this book invites you to revisit your emotions and to better appreciate and understand how feeling states define us and our humanity.   Click here for more information

      • Humanities & Social Sciences
        June 2011

        Konfliktmanagement und Mediation in Organisationen

        Ein Lehr- und Übungsbuch

        by Rudi Ballreich, Fritz Glasl

        This comprehensive book combines mediation with organisational development and presents numerous concepts, methods and exercises for sustainable conflict management in organisations, which have proven themselves many times over in practice.Part 1 Understanding organisational conflicts:Field and system orientation in conflict diagnosis.Metaphorical methods of conflict diagnosis.Escalation stages of hot and cold conflicts.The conflict dynamics in and between people.Differentiated understanding of organisation as a basis for systemic conflict management.Development crises of the organisation as conflict potential and as an opportunity.The detailed case description together with the film scenes and practical exercises are ideal for training sessions with mediators, supervisors, organisational consultants and managers.Conflict scenes on the accompanying film serve as examples to practice conflict diagnosis. Further scenes show key moments of mediation with the parties to the conflict and for working on organisational conflict potential.Part 2. Dealing with organisational conflicts:Situation-specific approaches to conflict management.Dealing with conflicts between individuals and teams.Solution-focused conflict moderation.Transformative mediation.System-therapeutic mediation.Mediation as organisational development.The design of complex organisational mediation.

      • Society & culture: general
        September 2021

        DARK PERSUASION: The Story of Brainwashing in the 20th Century

        by Joel Dimsdale

        DARK PERSUASION tells the captivating history of brainwashing through a psychological lens. With its beginnings in torture and religious conversion, brainwashing was transformed when Pavlov, in the age of Stalin and Lenin,  introduced a scientific approach to brainwashing. Persuasion techniques became a key part of WWII interrogations and the Cold War, and would expand to the wider culture with the creation of cults. Whether at the hands of governments or cult leaders, brainwashing could be shatteringly destructive. As Dimsdale writes, “History is shaped by individuals acting in the context of vast impersonal forces. Who were the people who molded brainwashing? What did they think they were doing?  And how will brainwashing evolve in the 21st century?”

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