Placing Adaptation Among Elderly Holocaust Survivors in a Theoretical Context -- The Holocaust Years Survivors Share Their Wartime Experiences -- From Destruction To Search For New Lives -- Cumulative Stress Experiences of Holocaust Survivors and the Immigrant Comparison Group -- Physical Health of Holocaust Survivors and Immigrants in the U.S. and Israel -- Mental Health of Older Holocaust Sur…
Social Constructionism as a Metatheory of Psychological Science -- Relativism and Self-Refutation -- Non-Factualism -- The Received View of Logical Positivism and Its Relationship to Social Constructionism -- Conventionalism -- Meaning as Use -- Phenomenalism and Its Analogue -- Conclusions and Speculations.This book examines social constructionism as a metatheory of psychology. It does not con…
Introduction: New Directions in Cognitive Information Retrieval -- CIR Concepts -- Interactive Information Retrieval: Bringing the User to a Selection State -- Cognitive Overlaps along the Polyrepresentation Continuum -- Integration Approaches to Relevance -- New Cognitive Directions -- CIR Processes -- A Multitasking Framework for Cognitive Information Retrieval -- Explanation in Information S…
Social Connections -- Conceptions of Community: Past and Present -- Common Ties: Immigrant and Ethnic Communities -- Fragmented Ties: The Poor and The Homeless -- Communities in Crisis: Reconnecting Frayed Social Ties -- Communities of Exclusion and Excluded Communities: Barriers to Neighboring -- Connections of Faith: Religion as Community -- Vital Bonds: Social Support, Social Networks and He…
Toward a New Science of Simulation and Gaming: ISAGA and the Identity Problem of Simulation and Gaming as an Academic Discipline -- Social Sciences and Simulation and Gaming -- The Game of “Forming a Coalition Government” -- Environmental Commons Game: Is the Free Rider a “Bad Apple”? -- Use of Gaming for Training Emergency Headquarters in Responding to Earthquake Damage: VEQRES/SAITAI…
Introduction: A Life with a Purpose -- The Creative Person as a Whole -- The Case Study That Started It All: Charles Darwin -- Facets of the Creative Process: Insight, Point of View and Repetition -- Modalities -- Tracking The Ordinary Course of Development -- Coping with the Extraordinary -- Creativity in the Moral Domain -- Peace and Further Conditions for Human Welfare.‘Creativity, Psychol…
Citation Classics: The Idea and the Collection -- Social Indicators Research: A Case Study of the Development of a Journal -- Developing Measures of Perceived Life Quality: Results from Several National Surveys -- The Quality of Life in Large American Cities: Objective and Subjective Social Indicators -- Quality of Life -- Does Money Buy Satisfaction? -- On the Multivariate Structure of Wellbei…
Barriers, Biases and Opportunities of Communication and Cooperation with Computers: Introduction and Overview -- Facilitating Collaborative Knowledge Construction in Computer-Mediated Learning Environments with Cooperation Scripts -- How to Support Synchronous Net-Based Learning Discourses: Principles and Perspectives -- Instructional Support for Collaboration in Desktop Videoconference Setting…
Agent-Based Modeling Meets Gaming Simulation: Perspective on Future Collaborations -- A Horizon of Simulation and Gaming: Difficulties and Expectations of Facilitating Science, Technology, and Practice -- The U-Mart Project: New Research and Education Program for Market Mechanism -- The Gaming of Firm Strategy in High-Tech Industry: Human Agents and Artificial Intelligence Agents Intermingled i…
Perspectives on Emotional Development -- A Preliminary Summary -- The Design of this Book -- The Structuralist Paradigm: Emotion as a Specific Psychological State -- The Functionalist Paradigm: Emotion as a Psychological Function -- The Dynamic-Systems Paradigm: Emotion as an Evolving System -- The Sociocultural Paradigm: Emotion as a Co-Constructed Psychological Function -- Emotion as a Functi…