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Empathy - Advanced Research and Applications is a compilation of recent experimental studies and theoretical models on the concept of empathy and its implication in various aspects of social life. The book describes the multifaceted construct of empathy and presents arduous concepts in a fluent and understandable way to reach readers who may not be familiar with the subject. Through this book, readers will understand the importance of empathetic skills and the neurological and psychological mechanisms of empathy. There is even the possibility to learn and improve one's empathetic ability. Empathy is vital for society's wellness and we hope that this book serves as a springboard for future research in the field.

Psychology --- Psychology / Social Psychology --- Social Psychology.

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This volume takes readers on a journey into a central aspect of life in China, so-called "self-development." Whether prompted by the cultural values of educational success, capitalist competition for wealth, or the Chinese Communist Party's prescriptions for "good" citizenship, few people in China are immune to the impetus to "improve" themselves and thus bring about a better future. Contributors to this volume, interdisciplinary sinologists, draw on materials from practices in education, labor, and self-help as they spotlight "keywords" by which individuals make sense of their self-development journeys " including new forms of resistance to social norms. Rather than simply classify self-development by different activities or groups, the chapters map together ethical features that cut across Chinese society. Contributors explore the nuanced and ambivalent attitudes towards self-development of individuals navigating various requirements and pursuing more complete forms of existence. In so doing, they offer a snapshot of China that intersects with timely global concerns.

Citizenship --- PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology. --- Self-actualization (Psychology).

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"What motivates violence? How can good and compassionate people hurt and kill others, or themselves? Why are people much more likely to kill or assault people they know well, rather than strangers? This provocative and radical book shows that people mostly commit violence because they genuinely feel that it is the morally right thing to do. In perpetrators' minds, violence may be the morally necessary and proper way to regulate social relationships according to cultural precepts, precedents and prototypes. These moral motivations apply equally to the violence of the heroes of the Iliad, to parents smacking their child, and many modern murders and everyday acts of violence. Virtuous Violence presents a wide-ranging exploration of violence across different cultures and historical eras, demonstrating how people feel obligated to violently create, sustain, end, and honor social relationships in order to make them right, according to morally motivated cultural ideals"--

Violence --- Moral and ethical aspects --- PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology. --- Violence. --- Moral and ethical aspects.

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What drives us to do good things, and to avoid doing bad? This book offers an integrative examination of the role of motivation in shaping moral cognition, judgment, and behavior.

Moral development. --- Motivation (Psychology) --- Ethics --- PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology --- PSYCHOLOGY / Movements / Behaviorism --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Psychological aspects.

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In Lesson Plans, Judson G. Everitt takes readers into the everyday worlds of teacher training, and reveals the complexities and dilemmas teacher candidates confront as they learn how to perform a job that many people assume anybody can do. Using rich qualitative data, Everitt analyzes how people make sense of their prospective jobs as teachers, and how their introduction to this profession is shaped by the institutionalized rules and practices of higher education, K-12 education, and gender. Trained to constantly adapt to various contingencies that routinely arise in schools and classrooms, teacher candidates learn that they must continually try to reconcile the competing expectations of their jobs to meet students' needs in an era of accountability. Lesson Plans reveals how institutions shape the ways we produce teachers, and how new teachers make sense of the multiple and complicated demands they face in their efforts to educate students.

PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology. --- PSYCHOLOGY / Education & Training. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services. --- EDUCATION / Professional Development. --- Educational accountability --- Teachers --- Education --- Psychology. --- Study and teaching (Higher) --- Training of