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Книжная премия Уильяма Джеймса (William James Book Award) предназначена для награждения и популяризации книг, посвящённых различным разделам психологии и других смежных дисциплин.

Номинируемая работа должна иметь высокий научный уровень, обеспечивать творческий синтез теории, фактов и тем, которые служат для объединения или интеграции психологии с другими областями знаний.
Отредактированные книги, учебники, аналитические обзоры и биографии к рассмотрению не принимаются. Иных ограничений для номинантов нет, поощряются самовыдвижения, а также номинации других лиц.

Вручение премии происходит на ежегодном конгрессе членов Американской психологической ассоциации. Лауреаты премии получают сертификат и гонорар в размере 1500 долларов на оплату дорожных расходов, связанных с посещением конгресса.

Жанры: Книги по психологии, Общая психология, Практическая психология, Социальная психология Страны: США Язык: Английский Первое вручение: 1986 г. Последнее вручение: 2023 г. Официальный сайт: https://apadiv1.org/awards-grants/apply/pkpasvh205rojlc5lwwnl/

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Книжная премия Уильяма Джеймса
William James Book Award
Признание
Recognition Award
Поощрительная премия
Honorable Mention
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Mortals: How the Fear of Death Changed Human Society
Rachel E. Menzies, Ross G. Menzies 0.0
Human society is shaped by many things, but underlying them all is one fundamental force - our fear of death. This is the ground-breaking theory explored in Mortals.

The ground-breaking book that uncovers how our fear of death is the hidden driver of most of humankind's endeavours.

The human mind can grapple with the future, visualising and calculating solutions to complex problems, giving us tremendous advantages over other species throughout our evolution. However, this capability comes with a curse. By five to ten years of age, all humans know where they are heading: to the grave.

In Mortals, Rachel Menzies and Ross Menzies, both acclaimed psychologists whose life's work has focused on death anxiety, examine all the major human responses to death across history. From the development of religious systems denying the finality of death, to 'immortality projects' involving enduring art, architecture and literature, some of the consequences of our fear of death have been glorious while others have been destructive, leading to global conflicts and genocide.

Looking forward, Mortals hypothesises that worse could be to come-our unconscious dread of death has led to rampant consumerism and overpopulation, driving the global warming and pandemic crises that now threaten our very existence. In a terrible irony, Homo sapiens may ultimately be destroyed by our knowledge of our own mortality.
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What Are the Chances? Why We Believe in Luck
Barbara Blatchley 0.0
Most of us, no matter how rational we think we are, have a lucky charm, a good-luck ritual, or some other custom we follow in the hope that it will lead to a good result. Is the idea of luckiness just a way in which we try to impose order on chaos? Do we live in a world of flukes and coincidences, good and bad breaks, with outcomes as random as a roll of the dice--or can our beliefs help change our luck?

What Are the Chances? reveals how psychology and neuroscience explain the significance of the idea of luck. Barbara Blatchley explores how people react to random events in a range of circumstances, examining the evidence that the belief in luck helps us cope with a lack of control. She tells the stories of lucky and unlucky people--who won the lottery multiple times, survived seven brushes with death, or found an apparently cursed Neanderthal mummy--as well as the accidental discoveries that fundamentally changed what we know about the brain. Blatchley considers our frequent misunderstanding of randomness, the history of luckiness in different cultures and religions, the surprising benefits of magical thinking, and many other topics. Offering a new view of how the brain handles the unexpected, What Are the Chances? shows why an arguably irrational belief can--fingers crossed--help us as we struggle with an unpredictable world.
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