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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	New York : Nova Science Publishers, Inc., c2013.
Description:	1 online resource.
Language:	English
Series:	Psychology of Emotions, Motivations and Actions Psychology of emotions, motivations, and actions series.
Subject:	Threat (Psychology) Threat (Psychology) Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11180297

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Other authors / contributors:	Hunter, Bryan O., editor. Romero, Tony J., editor.
ISBN:	9781622573745 1622573749 9781622573448 1622573447
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
Summary:	In this book, the authors present current research in the psychology of threat. Topics discussed include the processing of threatening health information which promotes disease preventive behaviours; psychological reactions to threats of self-integrity; human reactions to threat from a group-level perspective; stereotype threat; cognitive self-regulation skills; and measuring threat as it relates to social policy.
Other form:	Print version: Psychology of threat Hauppauge, N.Y. : Nova Science Publishers, c2013. 9781622573448 (hbk.)
Standard no.:	40021930899

Table of Contents:

Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 The Self-Fortress: Motivational Responses to Threats to the Self / Bernhard Streicher
ch. 2 Attention Processes for Threatening Health Information
A Neuroscientific Approach / Robert A.C. Ruiter
ch. 3 Diversity is Bliss: How a Mixture of Personality Traits in Group Contexts May Promote Our Survival / Adi Perry
ch. 4 Stereotype Threat Beyond the Laboratory: Do Single-gender Colleges Signal a Safety in the Air? / Nisaa Kirtman
ch. 5 Cognitive Self-Regulation Skills and the Big Five Personality Traits: A Joint Factor Analysis / Yoshinori Sugiura
ch. 6 Measuring Threat as it Relates to Social Policy: Psychometric Considerations / Christopher L. Aberson.

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