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Summary with the book: Solidarity and social justice in contemporary societies by Yerkes & Bal - 1st edition
Summary with the book: Life-Span Human Development by Sigelman and Rider - 9th edition
Summary with the book: Getting to yes: negotiating an agreement without giving in by Fisher et al. - 3rd edition
Summary with the book: Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Thaler & Sunstein - 1st edition
Summary with the book: Personality Psychology: Domains of Knowledge About Human Nature by Larsen et al. - 3rd edition
Summary with the book: Adolescence and emerging adulthood: A cultural approach by Jeffrey Arnett and Malcolm Hughes (sixth edition)
Summary with the book: The Individual by McLeod (Custom UT Twente) - 1st edition
Summary with the book: Mastery in Coaching by Passmore - 1st edition
Summary with the book: Introduction to Personality, Clinical and Health Psychology by Custom Edition LU (2018) - 1st edition
Summary with the book: Life-Span Human Development by Sigelman and Rider - 9th edition
Summary with the book: A Critical Introduction to Sport Psychology by Moran and Toner - 3rd edition
Summary with the book: Human Resource Management: Functions, Applications, and Skill Development - Lussier & Hendon - 3rd edition
Summary with the book: Intelligence and intelligence tests - Kessels - 2019
Summary with the book: A Life in Error, From Little Slips to Big Disasters by Reason - 1st edition

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Summary per chapter with the 1st edition of Solidarity and social justice in contemporary societies by Yerkes & Bal

Chapter 0: What is this book about?
Chapter 1: Why do the topics of solidarity and social justice still matter today?
Chapter 2: What is the social identity theory about?
Chapter 3: What are triggers and barriers for in- and out-group solidarity?
Chapter 4: How does social justice relate to the justification of social inequalities?
Chapter 5: How is solidarity integrated in the modern welfare state?
Chapter 6: What are the important insights from welfare deservingness theory?
Chapter 7: What are gender stereotypes and how do they relate to social inequality?
Chapter 8: How do perceptions of fairness and justice relate to gender inequality?
Chapter 9: What does modern day ageism look like?
Chapter 10: Is the intergenerational social contract under pressure?
Chapter 11:

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Summaries per chapter with the 9th edition of Life-Span Human Development by Sigelman and Rider

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Chapter 1 - How to understand human development over a life span?
Chapter 2 - What are the different theories of human development?
Chapter 3 - What about genes, the environment and development?
Chapter 4 - How do processes of prenatal development and birth go?
Chapter 5 - What to learn about (interactions between) body, brain and health?
Chapter 6 - What can I learn about sensation, perception, and action throughout the life span?
Chapter 7 - What can I learn about cognition throughout the life span?
Chapter 8 - What can I learn about

How to understand human development over a life span? - Chapter 1

What are the different theories of human development? - Chapter 2

What about genes, the environment and development? - Chapter 3

How do processes of prenatal development and birth go? - Chapter 4

What to learn about (interactions between) body, brain and health? - Chapter 5

What can I learn about sensation, perception, and action throughout the life span? - Chapter 6

What can I learn about cognition throughout the life span? - Chapter 7

What can I learn about memory and information processing throughout the life span? - Chapter 8

What can I learn about intelligence and creativity throughout the life span? - Chapter 9

What can I learn about language and education throughout the life span? - Chapter 10

How do the self and personality develop over the life span? - Chapter 11

What happens to gender roles and sexuality throughout the life span? - Chapter 12

How do social and moral development work throughout the life span? - Chapter 13

What do emotions, attachment and relationships mean to us throughout the life span? - Chapter 14

What can I learn about the family through life? - Chapter 15

What can I learn about developmental psychopathology? - Chapter 16

What to learn about dying? - Chapter 17

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Summaries per chapter with the 3rd edition of Getting to yes: negotiating an agreement without giving in by Fisher et al.

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Chapter 0 - What topics are involved in a succesful negotiation process?
Chapter 1 - What is positional bargaining?
Chapter 2 - How to separate the people from the problem?
Chapter 3 - How to identify and focus on the underlying interests in a negotiation?
Chapter 4 - How to invent options for mutual gain?
Chapter 5 - How to negotiate on the basis of objective criteria?
Chapter 6 - What if the other has a stronger bargaining position?
Chapter 7 - What if the other side does not want to negotiate?

What topics are involved in a succesful negotiation process? - Chapter 0

What is positional bargaining? - Chapter 1

How to separate the people from the problem? - Chapter 2

How to identify and focus on the underlying interests in a negotiation? - Chapter 3

How to invent options for mutual gain? - Chapter 4

How to negotiate on the basis of objective criteria? - Chapter 5

What if the other has a stronger bargaining position? - Chapter 6

What if the other side does not want to negotiate? - Chapter 7

How to deal with a hard bargainer? - Chapter 8

Who is winning the negotiation? - Chapter 9

How to deal with different people and different circumstances and what is the role of negotiation power? - Chapter 10

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Summary with the 1st edition of Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Thaler & Sunstein

What are biases and blunders? - Chapter 1
How do we resist temptation? - Chapter 2
How can people be compared to a herd? - Chapter 3
When do we need a nudge? - Chapter 4
What is choice architecture? - Chapter 5
How do people save? - Chapter 6
What is naive investing? - Chapter 7
How do credit markets work? - Chapter 8
How does privatizing social security work? - Chapter 9
What role do prescription drugs play? - Chapter 10
How does one increase organ donations? - Chapter 11
How can we use nudges to save the planet? - Chapter 12
How to improve school choices? - Chapter 13
Should patients be forced to buy lottery tickets? - Chapter

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Summaries per chapter with the 3rd edition of Personality Psychology: Domains of Knowledge About Human Nature by Larsen et al.

What is personality psychology? - Chapter 1

What are a good personality research, measurement and research design made of? - Chapter 2

What are traits and taxonomies? - Chapter 3

What measurement problems are there when measuring traits? - Chapter 4

How does personality change over time? - Chapter 5

What is the link between genetics and personality? - Chapter 6

What physiological theories have arisen regarding personality? - Chapter 7

Which evolutionary perspectives are related to personality? - Chapter 8

What is the psychoanalytic approach of personality? - Chapter 9

What is the link between motives and personality? - Chapter 10

What is the cognitive approach of personality? - Chapter 11

What is the role of intelligence in personality? - Chapter 12

What is the relationship between emotion and personality? - Chapter 13

How does the self-concept arise? - Chapter 14

What is the link between personality and social interaction? - Chapter 15

What is the link between sex, gender and personality? - Chapter 16

Are there major personality differences within different cultures? - Chapter 17

How do stress, coping, adaptation and health affect personality? - Chapter 18

What are personality disorders? - Chapter 19

What can we say about the future? - Chapter 20

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Adolescence and emerging adulthood: A cultural approach by Jeffrey Arnett and Malcolm Hughes (sixth edition) – Book summary

This bundle contains a summary of the book "Adolescence and emerging adulthood: A cultural approach by Jeffrey Arnett and Malcolm Hughes (sixth edition)". The following chapters are included:

1, 3, 6, 8, 10, 13.

Adolescence and emerging adulthood: A cultural approach by Jeffrey Arnett and Malcolm Hughes (sixth edition) – Chapter 1 summary

Adolescence and emerging adulthood: A cultural approach by Jeffrey Arnett and Malcolm Hughes (sixth edition) – Chapter 3 summary

Adolescence and emerging adulthood: A cultural approach by Jeffrey Arnett and Malcolm Hughes (sixth edition) – Chapter 6 summary

Adolescence and emerging adulthood: A cultural approach by Jeffrey Arnett and Malcolm Hughes (sixth edition) – Chapter 8 summary

Adolescence and emerging adulthood: A cultural approach by Jeffrey Arnett and Malcolm Hughes (sixth edition) – Chapter 10 summary

Adolescence and emerging adulthood: A cultural approach by Jeffrey Arnett and Malcolm Hughes (sixth edition) – Chapter 13 summary

Summaries per chapter with the 1st edition of The Individual by McLeod (Custom UT Twente)

Summaries per chapter with The Individual

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Chapter 0 - What is the book 'The Inidvidual by McLeod' about?
Chapter 1 - What different delivery formats can we use to enhance access and effectiveness?
Chapter 2 - How can we use research to inform practice?
Chapter 3 - What is the psychodynamic tradition?
Chapter 4 - What does the cognitive behavioural perspective entail?
Chapter 5 - What is the content of interpersonal therapies?
Chapter 6 - What different person-centred, humanistic and experimental approaches do we distinguish?
Chapter 7 - What narrative approaches to therapy do we distinguish?
Chapter 8 - How do we create a therapeutic relationship of working together?
Chapter 9 - How should therapists

What is the book 'The Inidvidual by McLeod' about? - Chapter 0

What different delivery formats can we use to enhance access and effectiveness? - Chapter 1

How can we use research to inform practice? - Chapter 2

What is the psychodynamic tradition? - Chapter 3

What does the cognitive behavioural perspective entail? - Chapter 4

What is the content of interpersonal therapies? - Chapter 5

What different person-centred, humanistic and experimental approaches do we distinguish? - Chapter 6

What narrative approaches to therapy do we distinguish? - Chapter 7

How do we create a therapeutic relationship of working together? - Chapter 8

How should therapists apply an ethical and moral framework when working in practice? - Chapter 9

What does the field of personality psychology study? - Chapter 10

How can we categorise traits into taxonomies? - Chapter 11

How do personality dispositions change over time? - Chapter 12

What different approaches to the 'self' do we distinguish? - Chapter 13

How do motives and personality relate to one another? - Chapter 14

What different physiological approaches to personality do we distinguish? - Chapter 15

In what way does culture influence personality? - Chapter 16

How does the process of psychological testing and assessment take place? - Chapter 17

What are important historical, cultural, legal and ethical considerations when conducting psychological testing and assessment? - Chapter 18

How do we conduct tests? - Chapter 19

Why and how do we assess reliability? - Chapter 20

How can we measure intelligence? - Chapter 21

How do clinical and counselling assessment take place? - Chapter 22

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Chapter 1 - What is mastery in coaching?
Chapter 2 - What is positive psychology coaching?
Chapter 3 - What is psychodynamic coaching?
Chapter 4 - What is narrative coaching?
Chapter 5 - What is gestalt coaching?
Chapter 6 - How to apply neuroscience research to the development of coaching practice?
Chapter 7 - What is cognitive behavioural coaching?
Chapter 8 - What is mindful coaching?
Chapter 9 - What is compassionate mind coaching?
Chapter 10 - What is acceptance and commitment coaching?
Chapter 11 - What is motivational interviewing?

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What is mastery in coaching? - Chapter 1

What is positive psychology coaching? - Chapter 2

What is psychodynamic coaching? - Chapter 3

What is narrative coaching? - Chapter 4

What is gestalt coaching? - Chapter 5

How to apply neuroscience research to the development of coaching practice? - Chapter 6

What is cognitive behavioural coaching? - Chapter 7

What is mindful coaching? - Chapter 8

What is compassionate mind coaching? - Chapter 9

What is acceptance and commitment coaching? - Chapter 10

What is motivational interviewing? - Chapter 11

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Summaries per chapter with the 1st edition of Introduction to Personality, Clinical and Health Psychology by Custom Edition LU (2018)

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Chapter 1 (Abnormal Psychology) - What does abnormality mean?
Chapter 2 (Abnormal Psychology) - Which theories and treatments of abnormality exist?
Chapter 3 (Abnormal Psychology) - How can you assess and diagnose abnormality?
Chapter 4 (Abnormal Psychology) - What anxiety disorders do we distinguish?
Chapter 5 (Abnormal Psychology) - What types of somatic symptom disorders and dissociative disorders do we distinguish?
Chapter 6 (Abnormal Psychology) - What is the relationship between mood disorders and suicide?
Chapter 7 (Abnormal Psychology) - What do the schizophrenic

What does abnormality mean? - Chapter 1

Which theories and treatments of abnormality exist? - Chapter 2

How can you assess and diagnose abnormality? - Chapter 3

What anxiety disorders do we distinguish? - Chapter 5

What types of somatic symptom disorders and dissociative disorders do we distinguish? - Chapter 6

What is the relationship between mood disorders and suicide? - Chapter 7

What do the schizophrenic spectrum and related psychotic disorders look like? - Chapter 8

What personality disorders do we distinguish? - Chapter 9

What eating disorders do we distinguish? - Chapter 12

What does health psychology entail? - Chapter 15

How can personality traits be described and classified? - Chapter 3

What can we say about personality and genetics? - Chapter 6

Which biological / physiological theories exist with regard to personality? - Chapter 7

What is the psychoanalytic approach to personality? - Chapter 9

How do emotions and personality relate to each other? - Chapter 13

What about stress, coping, adjustment and health? - Chapter 18

What is the influence of behavior on health? - Chapter 3

What is the influence of physical activity, sleep and nutrition on health? - Chapter 4

Which behavior is harmful to health? - Chapter 5

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Summaries per chapter with the 9th edition of Life-Span Human Development by Sigelman and Rider

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Chapter 1 - How to understand human development over a life span?
Chapter 2 - What are the different theories of human development?
Chapter 3 - What about genes, the environment and development?
Chapter 4 - How do processes of prenatal development and birth go?
Chapter 5 - What to learn about (interactions between) body, brain and health?
Chapter 6 - What can I learn about sensation, perception, and action throughout the life span?
Chapter 7 - What can I learn about cognition throughout the life span?
Chapter 8 - What can I learn about

How to understand human development over a life span? - Chapter 1

What are the different theories of human development? - Chapter 2

What about genes, the environment and development? - Chapter 3

How do processes of prenatal development and birth go? - Chapter 4

What to learn about (interactions between) body, brain and health? - Chapter 5

What can I learn about sensation, perception, and action throughout the life span? - Chapter 6

What can I learn about cognition throughout the life span? - Chapter 7

What can I learn about memory and information processing throughout the life span? - Chapter 8

What can I learn about intelligence and creativity throughout the life span? - Chapter 9

What can I learn about language and education throughout the life span? - Chapter 10

How do the self and personality develop over the life span? - Chapter 11

What happens to gender roles and sexuality throughout the life span? - Chapter 12

How do social and moral development work throughout the life span? - Chapter 13

What do emotions, attachment and relationships mean to us throughout the life span? - Chapter 14

What can I learn about the family through life? - Chapter 15

What can I learn about developmental psychopathology? - Chapter 16

What to learn about dying? - Chapter 17

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Chapter 1 - What are the basics of sport psychology?
Chapter 2 - What is the relationship between motivation and goals-setting in sport?
Chapter 3 - How do psyching up, calming down and anxiety relate to sport?
Chapter 4 - Hoe verloopt de herkenning van objecten?
Chapter 5 - How do athletes stay focused and concentrated?
Chapter 6 - How do athletes use imagination in sport, like mental imagery, motor imagery and mental practice?
Chapter 7 - What makes someone an expert athlete?
Chapter 8 - How does one research team cohesion in sport?
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What are the basics of sport psychology? - Chapter 1

What is the relationship between motivation and goals-setting in sport? - Chapter 2

How do psyching up, calming down and anxiety relate to sport? - Chapter 3

How can athletes cope with emotion? - Chapter 4

How do athletes stay focused and concentrated? - Chapter 5

How do athletes use imagination in sport, like mental imagery, motor imagery and mental practice? - Chapter 6

What makes someone an expert athlete? - Chapter 7

How does one research team cohesion in sport? - Chapter 8

What do embodied cognition and cultural sport psychology entail? - Chapter 9

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Summary with Human Resource Management: Functions, Applications, and Skill Development - Lussier & Hendon - 3rd edition

What does the New Human Resource Management Process entail? - Chapter 1
What is Strategy-Driven Human Resource Management? - Chapter 2
What is Legal Environment and Diversity Management? - Chapter 3
What is the essence of Workforce Planning? - Chapter 4
How is the recruiting of job candidates done? - Chapter 5
Which steps lead to selecting new employees? - Chapter 6
Why is there a need for training and development of new employees?- Chapter 7
What are performance management systems and why appraisal? - Chapter 8
What are commonly accepted employee rights and how can employees best be managed? - Chapter 9
Why are labor relations important for employees? - Chapter 10
What is compensation management? - Chapter 11
Why is incentive compensation

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Summary of Intelligence and intelligence tests - Kessels - 2019

What are the theories?
What is the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-IV?
What is the Groninger Intelligence Test-2?
What is the Kaufman Adolescent and Adult Intelligence Test?
What is the Raven's progressive matrices?
What is the Dutch reading test for adolocents?
How do intelligence tests work in actual practice?
What has intelligence to do with level of education?

At the end of the nineteenth century, researchers became interested in mapping out the individual differences in people when it comes to their intellectual functioning. This also came with a new interest in experimental tradition.

What are the theories?

The first theory about intelligence came from Spearman who worked

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Summaries per chapter with A Life in Error, From Little Slips to Big Disasters

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Chapter 1 - What are the nature and varieties of human error?
Chapter 2 - Plans lead to Actions and Consequences
Chapter 3 - Skill-based, Rule-based and Knowledge-based performances
Chapter 4 - Slips and Lapses when Absent-Minded
Chapter 5 - Individual Differences
Chapter 6 - SIML in the Courtroom
Chapter 7- The New Freudian Slip
Chapter 8 - Failures in planning
Chapter 9 - Violations
Chapter 10 - Organizational Accidents
Chapter 11 - Resisting Change in Organizational Culture
Chapter 12 - Medical Error
Chapter 13

What are the nature and varieties of human error? - Chapter 1

Plans lead to Actions and Consequences - Chapter 2

Skill-based, Rule-based and Knowledge-based performances - Chapter 3

Slips and Lapses when Absent-Minded - Chapter 4

Individual Differences - Chapter 5

SIML in the Courtroom - Chapter 6

The New Freudian Slip - Chapter 7

Failures in planning - Chapter 8

Violations - Chapter 9

Organizational Accidents - Chapter 10

Resisting Change in Organizational Culture - Chapter 11

Medical Error - Chapter 12

Disclosing Error - Chapter 13

Looking back - Chapter 14

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