Psychology and work

Psychology at Work

The Social Psychology of Work

For the majority, work is mainly a source of income. And although a surprisingly high proportion are satisfied, or even very satisfied, with jobs which provide little intrinsic reward; most, in fact, expect little beyond the pay-packet. The minddeadening tedium of the assemblyline, the dull monotony of machineminding, the lack of any opportunity to use more than a part of potential skill and ab...

Empirical Work in Moral Psychology

How do we form our moral judgments, and how do they influence behavior? What ultimately motivates kind versus malicious action? Moral psychology is the interdisciplinary study of such questions about the mental lives of moral agents, including moral thought, feeling, reasoning, and motivation. While these questions can be studied solely from the armchair or using only empirical tools, researche...

in translation: translators on their work and what it means

کتاب در باب ترجمه، اثر استر آلن و سوزان برنوفسکی منتشر شده در ماه می 2013 توسط نشریه کلمبیا است. نویسندگان در این کتاب به بررسی 18 مترجم با در نظر گرفتن نقش آثاری که این مترجمان ترجمه کرده اند میپردازند. کتاب به دو بخش تقسیم میشود: " مترجم در جهان" و " کار مترجم" این دو بخش مقالات همیشگی ترجمه و موقعیت خاص ادبیات بیگانه در جهان وسیع امروزی را مورد خطاب قرار میدهد. در این کتاب مقالات متعددی از ن...

Developmental Psychology Managing Work and Family: Do Control Strategies Help?