Exploring the theme of unconscious biases, the book utilizes innovative technology and experimental methods to reveal how deeply ingrained attitudes toward race shape our daily behaviors and thoughts. The author's personal encounters with prejudice enrich the narrative, while historical context and social psychological theories provide a comprehensive framework for understanding race and racism. Through these insights, readers are encouraged to reflect on their own biases and the societal structures that perpetuate them.
Selfless is a memoir, reflecting on identity, social class, mobility, education, and on psychology itself; how psychology as a discipline is conducted, how it prioritises objects of study, how it uncovers psychological truths about the world. Geoffrey Beattie takes the reader on a journey through his early life in working-class Belfast, his Ph.D. at Trinity College Cambridge and subsequent academic and professional career, to explore fundamental issues within psychology about social class and social identity. Beattie discusses the difficulties inherent in this process of education and change, and how social background affects how you view academic work and the subject matter of one's discipline. This book movingly details a life and how it is changed by the processes of education, the psychological pressures when abandoning those close to you, the dissonance within and how it feels and operates. The book takes a critical look at psychology from the other side, and examines the process of becoming 'selfless', meaning having little sense of self rather than being overly concerned with the wishes and needs of others. Showing how our early experiences and their influence continues throughout life, Beattie's emotionally engaging, entertaining, and witty text offers general readers, students, and academics fresh insights into psychology, adaptation and personal change.
Explores the evidence for our changing environment, and suggests that there are significant cognitive biases in how we think about, and act on climate change
'Global' warming is a global problem. We already know that we need to start
making better choices for the sake of our natural world. So why aren't we
already saving the planet? This book follows one psychologist's mission to
find some answers to this question.
The book delves into the intriguing paradox of human behavior, highlighting the disconnect between our self-perception and actual actions. It posits that we possess two distinct mental systems: a conscious, rational self and an unconscious, instinct-driven self. These systems often lead to conflicting judgments across various aspects of life, such as love and politics, revealing hidden biases. By examining the workings of these systems, the work aims to provide insights into fostering positive behavioral change.
In this new edition of the highly successful Visible Thought, Geoffrey Beattie revisits the question of what our everyday gestures mean and how they affect our relationships with other people. With a unique blend of popular examples and scientific research, and presented in language that everybody can understand, Rethinking Body Language will appeal to students of social psychology and also to anyone who wants to delve beneath the surface of human interaction.
The first book of its kind to examine critically current research to determine whether there really is an evolutionary argument for trophy hunting, and what range of motivations and personality traits may be linked to this activity, this is essential reading for students, academics, policy makers and charities in related areas.
Blending the latest academic research with case studies of famous figures,
this highly insightful book presents 'doubt' as a central concept for
psychology. It is a concept which has been oddly neglected in the past,
despite its ubiquitous nature and far-reaching influence.
Lies, Lying, and Liars delves into the psychology of lies, exploring the
processes of lying and its far-reaching consequences. Drawing from a rich
tapestry of psychology and sociobiology, the book discusses the role of lying
and liars in day-to-day life.
