Books by SPSSI Members

Deconstructing Privilege: Teaching and Learning as Allies in the Classroom

by Kim Case
2013: Routledge

Deconstructing Privilege: Teaching and Learning as Allies in the Classroom explores best practices for teaching and learning about various forms of systemic group privilege by laying the theoretical foundation for a model of privilege studies pedagogy and also provides scholarship and practical applications to aid faculty in becoming effective allies to students in the classroom. Three sections of the volume address: 1) transformation privilege studies pedagogy; 2) intersectional approaches to teaching and learning about privilege; and 3) classroom strategies and applications for teaching about privilege. 

This collection:

• provides a model of privilege studies pedagogy for effective teaching and learning about privilege;
• develops an inclusive privilege studies that incorporates multiple forms of privilege (rather than only white privilege);
• encourages an intersectional approach to teaching and learning about privilege; and
• promotes an interdisciplinary privilege studies that calls for “privilege studies across the curriculum.” 

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Us Plus Them: Tapping the Positive Power of Difference

by Todd L. Pittinski
2012: Harvard Business Press Books

Moving beyond mere tolerance... Us-versus-them is the costly mind-set in which organizations, communities, and whole nations too often find themselves trapped. In fact, recognizing difference as a positive force can bring astonishing value to even the most diverse organizations. In "Us Plus Them," leadership scholar Todd Pittinsky introduces a groundbreaking new science of diversity that: (1) Debunks the assumption that wherever there is difference there will be inherent tension and animosity, (2) Challenges the effectiveness of our standard attempts to fight prejudice and combat hate in our schools and workplaces, our civic and religious lives, and (3) Reveals how we benefit from the mixing of different ethnic, racial, national, social, and religious groups in a globalized world.

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The Psychological Weath of Nations: Do Happy People Make a Happy Society?

by Shigehiro Oishi
2012: Wiley-Blackwell

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Situations Matter: Understanding How Context Transforms Your World
by Sam Sommers
2011: Riverhead

Sommers investigates the notion that "when surrounded by others, we become different people than when we're on our own." 

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tes the notion that “when surrounded by others, we become different people than when we’re on our own.”  Sommers investigates the notion that “when surrounded by others, we become different people than when we’re on our own.”  Sommers investigates the notion that “when surrounded by others, we become different people than when we’re on our own.”  22201 Handbook of Social Psychology, Fifth Edition, vols 1&2
Edited by Susan T. Fiske, Daniel T. Gilbert, Gardner Lindzey
2010: Wiley

This two-volume Fifth Edition reflects the tremendous changes in the field has experienced in the last decade and continues to be an indispensable resource for students and scholars, with all-new chapters written by the world's foremost authorities on each topic.  

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Applied Power Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences
by Christopher L. Aberson
2010: Psychology Press, Taylor and Francis Group

This practical guide for conducting power analyzes using SPSS covers how to increase power without increasing sample size, how to report findings and run an analyses, how to derive effect size expectations, and how to support null hypotheses. Reviewing both power analysis techniques and tools for conducting analyzes, examples, summaries, and key statistics sections aid in understanding the material. The book reviews significance testing, power analysis strategies for common designs, how to report power analyses, and power analysis software options. Intended as a supplementary text for graduate-level research methods, experimental design, quasi-experimental methods, psychometrics, statistics, advanced statistics, and/or multivariate statistics taught in the behavioral, social, and medical sciences, researchers in these fields will also appreciate this book’s practical emphasis.

Learn more about this book. The publisher offers a 20% SPSSI member discount for online purchases. Go to our SPSSI Member Discounts page to find a promotion code for a 20% publisher's discount on this and other online purchases from the Taylor & Francis Group.

The Analyst in the Inner City: Race, Class, and Culture Through a Psychoanalytic Lens
Second Edition
by Neil Altman
2009 Routledge Relational Perspectives Book Series

In 1995, Neil Altman did what few psychoanalysts did or even dared to do: He brought the theory and practice of psychoanalysis out of the cozy confines of the consulting room and into the realms of the marginalized, to the very individuals whom this theory and practice often overlooked. In doing so, he brought
together psychoanalytic and social theory, and examined how divisions of race, class and culture reflect and influence splits in the developing self, more often than not leading to a negative self image of the “other” in an increasingly polarized society.

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Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility
by Ellen Langer
2009: Ballantine Press

Examining the hidden decisions and vocabulary that shape the medical world (“chronic” versus “acute,” “cure” versus “remission”), the powerful physical effects of placebos, and the intricate but often defeatist ways we define our physical health, Langer challenges the idea that the limits we assume and impose on ourselves are real.

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Toward Positive Youth Development: Transforming Schools and Community Programs
by Marybeth Shinn and Hirokazu Yoshikawa
2008: Oxford University Press

This book provides detailed strategies for transforming social settings to harness their power to promote positive youth development. Learn more about this book.

For a limited time, Oxford University Press is offering a 20% discount to SPSSI members ordering this book.  Enter discount code 26987 on your order form at the link above to take advantage of this special price. 

The Social Psychology of Gender: How Power and Intimacy Shape Gender Relations

by Laurie Rudman and Peter Glick
2008: Guilford Press

Exploring the full range of gender issues, this book offers students and researchers a fresh perspective on everyday experiences of gender; the explicit and implicit attitudes that underlie beliefs about gender differences; and the consequences for our thoughts, feelings, and behavior.

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The Education-Drug Use Connection: How Successes and Failures in School Relate to Adolescent Smoking, Drinking, Drug Use, and Delinquency

by Jerald G Bachman, Patrick M O'Malley, John E Schulenberg, Lloyd D Johnston, Peter Freedman-Doan, and Emily E Messersmith
2007: Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates)

The authors examine the links and likely causal connections between educational experiences, delinquent behavior, and adolescent use of tobacco, alcohol, marijuana, and cocaine. Learn more about this book.

The publisher offers 10% discounts on both the hardcover and paperback editions to online customers.

 Psychology and Economic Injustice: Personal, Professional and Political Intersections
by Bernice Lott and Heather Bullock
2007: American Psychological Association Press

This book argues persuasively for examining the relationship between economic disparity and gender, and for the need to propose and support policies to ensure positive social change. Learn more about this book.

Rationality and Social Responsibility: Essays in Honor of Robyn Mason Dawes
Edited by Joachim I. Krueger
2008: Psychology Press, Taylor and Francis Group

This festschrift is a collection of essays from a diverse group of authors who have been associated with Prof. Dawes (Charles J. Queenan, Jr. University Professor, Carnegie Mellon University),throughout his career. Topics include Prof. Dawes’ wide-ranging impact on psychological theory and empirical practice. The book addresses the issue of how far psychological science has progressed in its effort to reconcile what is true with what is good. Learn more about this book.

The publisher offers a 10% discount for online purchase. A 20% SPSSI member discount can be obtained by calling the publisher's customer service department at (800) 634-7064 and using discount code JYH80.
 

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