Behavior Theory

Erik Erikson's Stages of Psychosocial Development: A Complete Guide to Understanding and Applying His Major Ideas in Everyday Life is your essential roadmap to mastering one of the most influential psychological theories of the 20th century. Whether you're a psychology student, educator, therapist, parent, or simply someone interested in personal growth, this comprehensive and reader-friendly guide helps you understand and apply Erikson’s 8 stages of psychosocial development in everyday life. Explore how trust, autonomy, identity, intimacy, and legacy shape who we become—from infancy to...

Erving Goffman effectively extends his argument in favor of a diagnosis of deviant behavior which takes account of the whole social situation.

Tribalism is our most misunderstood buzzword. We’ve all heard pundits bemoan its rise, and it’s been blamed for everything from political polarization to workplace discrimination. But as acclaimed cultural psychologist and Columbia professor Michael Morris argues, our tribal instincts are humanity’s secret weapon. Ours is the only species that lives in tribes: groups glued together by their distinctive cultures that can grow to a scale far beyond clans and bands. Morris argues that our psychology is wired by evolution in three distinctive ways.

This book is great for beginners or those seeking general knowledge. It focuses on employee interaction, motivation, deviance, and attendance. It analyzes communication barriers, motivational theories, sexual harassment, and absenteeism while exploring the effects they have on workers and organizations. The text is written for easy reader understanding, and examples are used throughout for illustration and clarification purposes.

The Choice Theory approach to addictive behavior does not rely on external controlling methods to make someone do something they don't want to do. Instead, the Choice Theory approach is discovering what and how the client really would want his/her life to be; identifying the important people in their life; evaluating the client's choices and how those choices either helped or harmed their relationships; allowing them the freedom and respect to make their own decisions on how to improve their life; and creating a plan on how to get what they want in their life. Clients are more inclined to ...

Now, from the AGI-Goldratt Institute and Jeff Cox, the same creative writer who co-authored The Goal, comes Velocity the book that reveals how to achieve outstanding bottom-line results by integrating the world's three most powerful continuous improvement disciplines: Lean, Six Sigma, and Goldratt's Theory of Constraints.

Tremendous forces for change are radically reshaping the world of work. Disruptive innovations, radical thinking, new business models and resource scarcity are impacting every sector. Although the scale of expected change is not unprecedented, what is unique is the pervasive nature of the change and its accelerating pace which people in organizations have to cope with. Structures, systems, processes and strategies are relatively simple to understand and even fix.

The way most white-collar crime works is by manipulating institutional psychology. That means creating something that looks as much as possible like a normal set of transactions. The drama comes later, when it all unwinds. Financial crime seems horribly complicated, but there are only so many ways you can con someone out of what’s theirs.

Violence and the Sacred is Rene Girard's landmark study of human evil. Here Girard explores violence as it is represented and occurs throughout history, literature, and myth. Girard's forceful and thought-provoking analyses of Biblical narrative, Greek tragedy, and the lynchings and pogroms propagated by contemporary states illustrate his central argument that violence belongs to everyone and is at the heart of the sacred.

ATTENTION COLLEGE STUDENTS: If you need to write a paper on emotionally intelligent leadership or the application of motivational theories to the real world, then this is the perfect reference. It's simple, easy to understand, and right to the point. Emotionally Intelligent Leadership in Organizations Emotional intelligence and listening go hand-in-hand in most aspects of life. This relationship has application in the business world because it helps create the best leaders possible for achieving organizational growth and prosperity. This book focuses on emotionally intelligent leadership in...

Red teaming. It is a practice as old as the Devil's Advocate, the 11th-century Vatican official charged with discrediting candidates for sainthood. Today, red teams - comprised primarily of fearless skeptics and those assuming the role of saboteurs who seek to better understand the interests, intentions, and capabilities of institutions or potential competitors - are used widely in both the public and private sector.

Threads and Luxidoni Light Theory: Revealing the True Structure and Behavior of Light Beyond Waves and Particles — A New Theory of Light and Energy What If Everything You Knew About Light Was Wrong? Forget photons. Forget the paradox of wave-particle duality. This groundbreaking book reveals a bold new model: light is not a wave or particle but a mechanical process built on real structure. In Threads and Luxidoni Light Theory, inventor and independent theorist Samir Hanna Safar introduces a revolutionary scientific framework in which light emerges from Luxidoni—rotating energy units—...

We have entered an age of disruption. Financial collapse, climate change, resource depletion, and a growing gap between rich and poor are but a few of the signs. Otto Scharmer and Katrin Kaufer ask, why do we collectively create results nobody wants? Meeting the challenges of this century requires updating our economic logic and operating system from an obsolete “ego-system” focused entirely on the well-being of oneself to an eco-system awareness that emphasizes the well-being of the whole.

The Psychology of Advertising offers a comprehensive exploration of theory and research in (consumer) psychology on how advertising impacts the thoughts, emotions, and actions of consumers. It links psychological theories and empirical research findings to real-life industry examples, showing how scientific research can inform marketing practice.

The promise of artificial intelligence is automated decision-making at scale, but that means AI also automates risk at scale. In Ethical Machines, Reid Blackman gives you all you need to understand AI ethics as a risk management challenge. He'll help you build, procure, and deploy AI in a way that's not only ethical but also safe in terms of your organization's reputation, regulatory compliance, and legal standing—and do it at scale. And don't worry—the book's purpose is to get work done, not to ponder deep and existential questions about ethics and technology.

Sigmund Freud remains one of the most influential and controversial figures in the history of psychology. His groundbreaking theories on the unconscious mind, psychoanalysis, dream interpretation, and human development transformed the way people understand behavior, personality, and mental health. Freud’s belief that much of human action is driven by unconscious desires challenged conventional wisdom and laid the foundation for modern psychotherapy. His ideas about repression, defense mechanisms, and the structural model of the mind—dividing it into the id, ego, and superego—became ...

The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook for PTSD is a self-help guide to overcoming Post Traumatic Stress Disorder with DBT techniques and practical exercises. It offers an explanation of what Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is, how to use it yourself or with your therapist, and much, much more! DBT teaches you how to identify and acknowledge your emotions so that you can then control them and their associated behaviors. It provides a change in habits and behavior to put an end to self-destructive decisions and choosing healthier actions.

When people are diagnosed with OCD, it doesn’t always come as a surprise. With others, it may be more of a shock. However, when we look at the symptoms and the influences that affect such people, it may not be any wonder that it is more prevalent than many have assumed it to be. OCD is a very real, common disorder that knows variations in severity and randomness. Some people are obsessed with cleaning, while others can’t stop double-checking locks, organizational spaces, or items.

In Systems of Survival, Jane Jacobs identifies two distinct moral syndromes—one governing commerce, the other politics—and explores what happens when these two syndromes collide. She looks at business fraud and criminal enterprise, government’s overextended subsidies to agriculture, and transit police who abuse the system the are supposed to enforce, and asks us to consider instances in which snobbery is a virtue and industry a vice.

Understanding Ivan Pavlov: A Complete Guide to Classical Conditioning, Behavioral Psychology, and the Science of Learning Discover the groundbreaking legacy of Ivan Pavlov, the brilliant Russian physiologist whose accidental discovery changed the course of psychology forever. In this engaging and accessible guide, readers will explore classical conditioning, the famous dog experiments, and how Pavlov's ideas laid the foundation for modern behavioral psychology. Whether you're a psychology student, educator, therapist, or simply curious about how humans learn and adapt, this comprehensive ...