As a result of the epiphany of giant multinational media conglomerates, transnational trade networks and the politics of globalization, it is tempting to believe that individual and national identities have morphed. This article argues that such homogenization in relation to individuation is tedious to accept. It draws from theories of symbolic interactionism, social psychology, Foucauldian, an...

ANNETTE BROSE*, MANUEL C. VOELKLE, MARTIN LÖVDÉN, ULMAN LINDENBERGER and FLORIAN SCHMIEDEK Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany Research Group of Quantitative Psychology and Individual Differences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium Aging Research Center, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden German Institute for International Educational Researc...

Please cite this article in press as: De las Cuevas, C., et al. Predictive validity of the Sidorkiewicz instrument in Spanish: Assessing individual drug adherence in psychiatric patients. International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology (2017), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijchp.2017.11.003 ARTICLE IN PRESS +Model IJCHP 112 1--10 International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology (2017...

The psychology of suicide terrorism involves more than simply the psychology of suicide. Individual differences in social dominance orientation (SDO) interact with the socio-structural, political context to produce support for group-based dominance among members of both dominant and subordinate groups. This may help explain why, in one specific context, some people commit and endorse terrorism,...

It is the "developmental" component of developmental psychopathology that distinguishes this discipline from abnormal psychology, psychiatry, and even clinical child psychology. At the same time, the focus on individual patterns of adaptation and maladaptation distinguishes this field from the larger discipline of developmental psychology. In this essay a developmental perspective is presented,...

Conservation biology and comparative psychology rarely intersect, in part because conservation biology typically emphasizes populations whereas comparative psychology concentrates on individual organisms. However, both fields could benefit from their integration. Conservation biology can profit from an enhanced understanding of individual-level impacts of habitat alteration and the resulting im...

In this paper, the authors investigate a basic assumption underlying most models based on social or mathematical psychology that consumers are rational in the sense of choosing the most economically efficient brand. Using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) for measuring the efficiency of individual consumer choice, they report the results of two empirical studies, one involving the social psycholo...