...Facing Climate Change explains why people refuse to accept evidence of a warming planet and shows how to move past partisanship to reach a consensus for action. A climate scientist and licensed Jungian analyst, Jeffrey T. Kiehl examines the psychological phenomena that twist our...

...Surveys of crowd psychology tend to dwell first on its French and Italian origins, usually establishing Gustave Le Bon's La psychologie des foules (1895) as the doxa of the discourse. The historical reviews then jump to Freud's reinterpretation of Le Bon...

... angels metaphor archetypes Jung “Dying Is a Transition” Renz et al methodology in meadow metaphor metaphors symbols Well depth psychology Jung C G nakedness nothingness metaphor and feeling Rohr R Drewermann E formative influences cultural imprinting flowers metaphor Lommel P van death time...

... evolutionary perspective on human nature. Barker Roger G ecological psychology environments feedback loops processes systems niche construction plasticity active plasticity direct impression genotypes impression malleability metaphors passive plasticity phenotypic plasticity response metaphor...

... metaphor of Churchland Patricia discontinuous plasticity human response functions malleability stability switches averages population trait evolutionary psychology human possibilities individual variation trait averages utopia utopians Cosmides Leda diversity optimism optimists species...

...This chapter first discusses early efforts to develop a social psychology based on psychoanalytic categories. It details how Wilhelm Reich, Otto Fenichel, and Siegfried Bernfeld, who were among Freud's more politically minded students and followers, insisted that psychoanalysis, fused with Marxism...

... of psychology and theology, along with the work of Danish existentialist Søren Kierkegaard. Our world of the twenty-first century is pock marked by meaninglessness, absurdity, and violence masked by the languages of certitude and obfuscation. Americans, perhaps more than ever, cling to certainty...

... of Kierkegaard’s psychology from his corpus and the secularization of its meaning from his originally theistic framework. The chapter begins with a review of the byways and stages of the percolation of Kierkegaard’s texts and themes in European and then American thought. It then traces the history of the fate...

...In this chapter, the author talks about the relationship between Vladimir Nabokov's imagination, as seen in his writing, and his ethics, metaphysics, and psychology. Don Barton Johnson, the leading American Nabokovian of his day, felt that the metaphysics was almost superfluous icing...

... Liberalism Regression Toynbee Arnold Weber Alfred African Americans Ben Gurion David Memory Freud Freudianism Totalitarianism Holocaust mass psychology the unconscious Texts that are inertly of their time stay there: those which brush up unstintingly against historical constraints are the ones we...

... Fromm Fromm Erich Maruyama Masao Narcissism Platt Gerald Weinstein Fred Freud Freudianism Totalitarianism Consumerism mass psychology the unconscious Like capitalism, racism, and anti-Semitism, the problem of war has spawned a substantial body of political Freudian reflection. The main reason...

... Norman O Ego psychology Eros and Civilization Marcuse Life Against Death Brown N O Marcuse Herbert Maturity ethic Oceanic feeling Rieff Philip Antinomianism Keynesianism Penis envy Protestant ethic Radical feminists Sexism Capitalism Puritanism Rationalization America Arminianism...

... the perceived role of expectations in human psychology, expectations models liable to be confronted with empirical data, and the REH's proposal that economic agents form their expectations rationally, that is, by using “the” one and only correct (neoclassical) model of the economy. It also explores...

... short-term fluctuations determined primarily—by two other factors: psychology and technicals. Whereas the key to ascertaining value is skilled financial analysis, the key to understanding the price/value relationship—and the outlook for it—lies largely in insight into other investors' minds. Investor...

... things will prove to be cyclical, and second, some of the greatest opportunities for gain and loss come when other people forget the first rule. Objective factors play a large part in cycles, but it is the application of psychology to these factors that causes investors to overreact or underreact...

... will be affected at least as much—and its short-term fluctuations determined primarily—by two other factors: psychology and technicals. The key to understanding the price/value relationship lies primarily in insight into other investors’ minds. The chapter presents comments and insights from four well-known...

... overpriced and underpriced. The pendulum also swings with regard to risk tolerance versus risk aversion. This oscillation is one of the most dependable features of the investment world, and investor psychology seems to spend much more time at the extremes than it does at a “happy medium.” One thing of which...

... the former can be done more often and more dependably—and with consequences that are more tolerable when it fails. To avoid losses, the investor needs to understand and avoid the pitfalls that create them. This chapter examines some of the pitfalls attributable to psychology that every investor needs...

...This updated second edition explores basic and fundamental investing concepts in a range of fields outside of economics, including physics, biology, sociology, psychology, philosophy, and literature. It discusses how the theory of evolution disrupts the notion of the efficient market and how...