Psychology and Industry

The Social Psychology of Industry

BOOKS. Z/O. This Pelican book is the latest in the excellent Pelican Psychology series and the Editor, Professor G. F. Mace, is to be congratulated on the selection of his authors. Dr. Brown has produced a survey of the vast amount of work written on this subject and manages to distil from it a clear and readable account of the important progress made and the trends which exist to further chang...

The Psychology of Unethical Behavior in the Finance Industry

Chapter overview The finance industry has been singled out as a case of rampant unethical behavior and corporate greed. Drawing on scientific research on unethical behavior from the disciplines of psychology, behavioral ethics, behavioral economics, and organizational behavior, I discuss three characteristics of the finance industry that might explain the high level of unethical behavior in thi...

Health psychology and health promotion

Health psychology is the defined as studying of psychological and behavioral processes in health, illness, and healthcare. It contributes to is concerned with the understanding of how psychological, behavioral, and cultural factors contribute role to in physical health and illness. Psychological factors can affect health directly. For example, health is hurt by the chronically occurring environ...

Psychology, Social Psychology and Risk

Gestalt Psychology and Cognitive Psychology

The aim of this paper is to sketch the major aspects of Gestaltpsychologie: Wertheimer‘s factors, global v. local factors, isomorphism, auto-organisation, Prägnanz as singularity and as a tendency towards stability. While Gestaltpsychologie as a school no longer exists, its lesson is yet seminal and can inspire many developments of contemporary cognitive psychology. Few examples are here illust...