Bücher der Reihe Explorations in Social Psychology

This book will be of interest to roboticists and HRI researchers, as well as those studying or working in areas of artificial intelligence and interactive technologies more generally.

Over the past twenty five years discursive psychology has become an influential field in its home discipline of psychology, as well as in many other academic disciplines, with national and international impact. This will be the first collection to systematically and critically appraise its foundational, classic studies, exploring central concepts in social psychology such as prejudice, attitudes, gender, cognition, memory, and ideology and discussing how discursive psychology has influenced the development of these fields.

Professor Michael Billig is one of the most significant living figures in social psychology. This book will bring together expert accounts of Billig¿s ideas on a wide range of issues in a single text. Each of the contributors will explain the importance of Billig¿s work for a specific area detailing its application to a particular social psychological problematic.

Drawing primarily on interviews with fifty victims of the Bali bombings, but also other terrorist incidents including the London and Boston bombings, and disasters such as the boxing day tsunami and the Fukusima nuclear disaster, this book provides a comprehensive insight into the multilayered effects experienced by directly affected victims and their indirectly affected family members following terrorist incidents and other world disasters.

This book explores psychological war trauma and society, arguing that the enigmas surrounding war trauma are rooted in culture, collective memory and social norms, which in turn present a lens through which broader aspects of society can be viewed and understood.

Drawing primarily on interviews with fifty victims of the Bali bombings, but also other terrorist incidents including the London and Boston bombings, and disasters such as the boxing day tsunami and the Fukusima nuclear disaster, this book provides a comprehensive insight into the multilayered effects experienced by directly affected victims and their indirectly affected family members following terrorist incidents and other world disasters.

This book explores psychological war trauma and society, arguing that the enigmas surrounding war trauma are rooted in culture, collective memory and social norms, which in turn present a lens through which broader aspects of society can be viewed and understood.

Professor Michael Billig is one of the most significant living figures in social psychology. This book will bring together expert accounts of Billig's ideas on a wide range of issues in a single text. Each of the contributors will explain the importance of Billig's work for a specific area detailing its application to a particular social psychological problematic.

This book will be of interest to roboticists and HRI researchers, as well as those studying or working in areas of artificial intelligence and interactive technologies more generally.