This book asks what are key psychological attributes of creative individuals, from personality to cognitive abilities to motivation and values, to their self and identity development, and to mental health and well-being. Through nine chapters, leading scholars review existing research and discuss where the new science of creativity is heading. The book goes beyond description of creators in terms of broad personality traits and engages with the ongoing debates in creativity scholarship about domain generality vs. specificity, levels of creativity, and nature of creativity as a transformative power for good vs. dark and harmful creativity. Contributions addressing how creators see themselves, how they think, and what drives them are brought together to formulate a new model of the creative person. Using a systems approach to personality psychology as theoretical framework, this book shows how a more nuanced description of the creative person can support the development of creative individuals.

Play-based Teaching in Higher Education explores the transformative power of play in the education of future teachers. This volume brings together a collection of research articles that delve into the use of play-based teaching methods with adult students, particularly in teacher education programs.

The chapters present a compelling case for integrating play into higher education, highlighting its potential to enhance learning, foster critical reflection, and build strong relationships among students and educators. Through various studies and case examples, the book examines the benefits and challenges of playful pedagogy, offering insights into how play can be used to prepare students for their future roles as educators.

Readers will discover how play-based teaching can create a more engaging and collaborative learning environment, promote deeper understanding, and encourage creativity and experimentation. Play-based Teaching in Higher Education is an essential resource for educators, researchers, and anyone interested in innovative teaching methods that go beyond traditional approaches.

This book is a vital resource for anyone seeking to understand and navigate the complex dynamics of manipulative behaviour, whether in the workplace, at home, or in social settings. It offers practical insights and guidance for HR professionals, managers, supervisors, therapists, health, social care workers and service users who encounter individuals who lie, deceive, cheat, control, or manipulate, as well as those who have been harmed by such behaviour.

Drawing on real-world scenarios and psychological principles, the book explores how these behaviours impact personal identity, emotional wellbeing, and professional relationships. It empowers readers to recognize toxic patterns, regain control, and support others in doing the same, be they colleagues, clients, friends, or family members. With an accessible approach, this book speaks to the many who have experienced or witnessed manipulative behaviour and are seeking clarity, resilience, and recovery. It's not just a guide - it's a lifeline for reclaiming autonomy and fostering healthier, more authentic connections.

This 2^nd Edition of the Little Black Book of Neuropsychology: A Syndrome-Based Approach offers a long overdue revision of this pinnacle text in clinical neuropsychology. Neuropsychology is a field that is critical to psychology, neurology, neurosurgery and psychiatry and is expanding at an unparalleled rate. Considerable advancements continue to be made in neuropsychological assessment, with application to the understanding of diagnosing and managing trauma and illness affecting the central nervous system. Simultaneously, neuropsychological research has made remarkable progress in unraveling the cellular and systematic functions of the human nervous system. The interaction between neuropsychology and neuroscience is driving an emphasis on evidenced-based neuropsychology practice. This 2^nd edition of The Little Black Book of Neuropsychology: A Syndrome-Based Approach provides students, clinicians, and researchers with updated information for this rapidly advancing field. The text updates the original in assessment, diagnosis, research and clinical practice critical to clinicians, educators and researchers in the area of Brain-Behavior relationships and disease.

This book explores globalisation, cultural diversity and social justice, and the implications for democracy and equality. It draws on diverse paradigms and focuses on cultural diversity, democracy, and social justice in schools. The book critically examines dominant ideologies and practices that define power, domination, and control in culturally diverse societies, and their impact on the nature and quality of teaching cultural diversity in schools, both locally and globally. Offering a synthesis of research and policy analysis, this book is an essential guide for educators, researchers, and policymakers interested in educational practice for cultural diversity globally.

This book uses narrative inquiry to unpack the story of the Accomplished Study Program in Research Excellence (ASPIRE), an innovative, personalised mentorship initiative developed by Black academics to address the underrepresentation of Black students in UK doctoral study. By integrating theory, data-driven outcomes and personal narratives, this work contributes to scholarship on equity in education, intersectionality and anti-racist practices. It provides a replicable framework for addressing intersectional inequalities across global contexts, making it valuable for academics, policymakers and institutions committed to fostering inclusive and anti-racist educational environments. The book's interdisciplinary nature bridges educational research, race studies and institutional change, offering both theoretical insights and practical applications.

Universities are in a unique position to be agents of change in their communities and to contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This edited collection features an up-to-date collection of in-depth case studies from universities in the MENA region, as well as comparative global cases, which demonstrate the impact of higher education on the SDG agenda.

Addressing an important gap in otherwise limited and fragmented literature on the MENA region, this collection provides a comprehensive overview of the role of universities in achieving the SDGs in the MENA region - showcasing specific initiatives, case studies, policies and research efforts from a wide range of universities in the region. The chapters focus on themes such as the role of universities in achieving the SDGs, how universities integrate sustainability goals into their strategic plans, the challenges that universities face in implementing the SDGs, SDG implementation differences between developed and developing countries, partnerships between universities and other stakeholders in order to achieve the SDGs, and assessment of the methodology and impact of Times Higher Education's Impact Ranking on university strategies to achieve the SDGs.

Highlighting and celebrating examples of good practices and effective strategies from different universities and providing practical recommendations and policy suggestions, this is a roadmap for higher education institutions to engage in community and international development work. It serves as a reference for faculty and students in higher education institutions around the world, as well as practitioners in the field of community engagement.

This book delves into the realm of Assessment for Learning (AfL) within English as a foreign language (EFL) classrooms in Chinese universities. It explores the viewpoints of both Chinese EFL teachers and learners regarding AfL practices, shedding light on how these practices are perceived, implemented, and contribute to the EFL learning experience. It considers the influence of contextual factors on assessment practices and their alignment with AfL principles, and examines sociocultural conditions, educational contexts, and individual factors in Chinese universities that shape assessment practices.

This book offers a nuanced understanding of Assessment for Learning practices, bridging research and practice and serves as a valuable resource for educators, researchers, and policymakers alike.

What if psychology isn't as liberal as we think?

Psychology is often seen as a progressive discipline - a champion of social justice, diversity, and liberal values. But this provocative book challenges that assumption. It argues that psychology, from its historical entanglements with eugenics and colonialism to its modern-day focus on individualism, has long served to reinforce the status quo.

Even as many psychologists identify as politically liberal, the field's methods, theories, and institutions often promote a worldview that downplays inequality, pathologizes dissent, and resists structural change. Psychology's emphasis on personal responsibility, resilience, and self-help frequently aligns more closely with conservative ideals than with progressive ones.

This book explores how the myth of a "liberal bias" in psychology has been weaponised in today's culture wars - and how it distracts from the field's real political blind spots. It asks: what would it mean for psychology to truly live up to its promise of promoting human welfare?

Accessible, deeply researched, and sharply argued, Psychology's Quiet Conservatism is essential reading for anyone interested in how science shapes society - and how society shapes science.

This book presents principles that offer an alternative approach to current academic practices by fostering thoughtful engagement with scholarly work and collegial relationships. Academic work exists within a system of substantial workloads, publication expectations, funding requirements, workforce casualization, structural inequities, and academic rejection. These systemic barriers affect staff wellbeing and job satisfaction while creating challenging work contexts. This edited volume examines eleven key principles: Be upfront and honest about the things you do not know; Acknowledge the intrinsic value of others' knowledge bases even if they do not seem important to you from your institutional context; Do not feign mastery where you have none; Respect the gaps in others' knowledge bases; Be generous with others; Be generous with yourself; You overwork yourself at the risk of legitimising a culture of overwork; Privilege voices and perspectives that have historically been left out of the academy; Nothing is ever neutral or apolitical; Support the progress of other scholars; and Collaboration over competition.

This book deploys the analytic model of centres and peripheries to study medieval southwestern Europe and, more specifically, the Iberian Peninsula. Here, the reader will find engaging, up-to-date scholarship on the monastic management of landscapes and hydric resources; the diffusion of fishing techniques; the roles of epigraphy and consecrations in establishing territorial, cultural, and jurisdictional boundaries; the symbolic aspects of royal legitimacy in late antiquity; the identitarian and memorialistic strategies deployed by trans-national aristocratic dynasties; the expansion of corso-piracy in the Mediterranean; and the transformation in the organization of feudal landscapes.

Within this diversity of themes, the intrinsic tension between centres and peripheries serves as a common thread. This inherently comparative approach facilitates the construction of geographical and political systems, inter-regional hierarchies and connections, and, ultimately, a more comprehensive view of past societies. Indeed, medieval societies, territories, and cultures are particularly well-suited for these approaches due to the fragmented and highly localized nature of power, development of diverse languages and cultural systems, and exploitative nature of economic relations.

A groundbreaking framework examining the role of religion in national and global political spheres

A Companion to Religion, Politics, and Nation is an essential resource for understanding the profound and evolving interactions between religion, politics, and the concept of the nation. Unlike conventional approaches that treat religion as an ideological outlier in political systems, this innovative volume centers the nation as a transformative force on religious identities and political dynamics. Through a multidisciplinary lens that draws from political science, anthropology, history, and religious studies, a diverse panel of scholars illuminates how national communities continuously reshape intersections between civic morality, political power, and collective religious identity.

The Companion spans diverse historical periods and religious traditions while addressing urgent contemporary issues such as multiculturalism, race and ethnicity, gender rights, and the globalization of religious communities. By breaking down traditional dichotomies-such as the assumption that religion's political presence is abnormal or isolates domestic from international influences-the Companion offers a novel analytical framework to navigate these complex interactions. In-depth chapters synthesize and critique leading theories, bridge critical gaps in existing scholarship, and present comparative case studies that explore both well-studied and underrepresented regions and contexts.

With a focus on pluralism, tolerance, and post-national dynamics, A Companion to Religion, Politics, and Nation:

• Offers a fresh perspective on the global reconfiguration of religion's role in modern politics
• Examines the impact of national communities on religious practices and political behaviors
• Provides critical analysis of the relationship between domestic and international politics
• Features comprehensive case studies and cutting-edge research contributions

A Companion to Religion, Politics, and Nation is essential reading for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in political science, religious studies, anthropology, and history. It is also a valuable resource for scholars, researchers, and policymakers working in the fields of religion, governance, and international relations.

Presents cutting-edge research methods in developmental science

The Handbook of Research Methods in Developmental Science delivers a fully revised and expanded exploration of the latest methodologies in human development research. Twenty-four entirely new chapters by renowned experts introduce innovative approaches that reflect the dynamic evolution of developmental science methodologies. Part of the Blackwell Handbooks of Research Methods in Psychology series, this authoritative resource is indispensable for those seeking to apply state-of-the-art methods to the study of human development.

The second edition of the Handbook builds upon the strengths of its predecessor while incorporating significant updates to address emerging research challenges. It offers a comprehensive review of traditional and contemporary developmental research designs, including cross-sectional, longitudinal, and quasi-experimental methods, as well as advanced topics such as the Multiphasic Optimization Strategy (MOST) framework, time-varying effect modeling, and integrative data analysis. Additionally, the authors present fresh insights into causal inference, observational methods, and intervention research, providing a more nuanced understanding of how developmental scientists can study change over time.

Capturing the latest theoretical and technological advancements in the discipline, the Handbook of Research Methods in Developmental Science:

• Features a multidisciplinary approach, integrating perspectives from psychology, human development, and family science
• Addresses challenges in developmental intervention research, including implementation science and adaptive intervention design
• Offers practical guidance on participant recruitment, panel maintenance, and best practices for obtaining reliable developmental data
• Includes real-world examples and case studies demonstrating the application of various research methods

The Handbook of Research Methods in Developmental Science, Second Edition, is an essential resource for graduate students, researchers, and professionals in developmental science, psychology, and human development. It is particularly relevant for courses in research methods, developmental psychology, and intervention science within psychology, education, and social sciences degree programs.

This book offers a comprehensive and structured approach to mastering English language proficiency, tailored to academic, professional, and applied communication contexts. Organized into four key sections, it begins with Impactful Speaking, which provides foundational insights into phonetics, pronunciation, discourse markers, and practical speaking scenarios such as presentations and group discussions. Structural Nuances deepens grammatical understanding through detailed analysis of sentence construction, verb usage, and syntactic accuracy. In Effective Writing, readers refine their ability to produce clear, persuasive, and professionally relevant texts, ranging from reflective essays to formal reports. The final section, Pragmatic Considerations, integrates core language skills-speaking, listening, reading, and writing-while emphasizing vocabulary development, test preparedness, and communicative confidence.

With practical exercises, real-world applications, and expert insights, this volume serves as an essential resource for students, educators, and professionals seeking to improve their English fluency, enhance academic performance, and succeed in global communication contexts.

This guide features a unique, interconnected system of resources. The Human-AI Collaboration & Synergy (HAICS) Guide contains core frameworks for mastering AI use across teaching, learning, assessment, research, and administration (TLARA), plus a Crash Course in AI Ethics & Literacy. The User Experience (UX) Workbooks guide users through strategic planning, implementation, piloting, and scaling GenAI, while the Personalized Adaptive Learning Sessions (PALS) Workbooks employ AI as a partner to help users customize frameworks and solutions for their unique contexts.

This book explores groupwork in tertiary education, charting its evolution, purpose, psychological foundations, and practical application, and enriches global perspectives with insights from 47 Caribbean lecturers. It begins with definitions, historical roots of group learning, and then examines major pedagogical approaches such as cooperative and collaborative learning. Subsequent chapters explore the psychology of group dynamics and the stages of group development. Attention is given to the effective group formation, the benefits and drawbacks of group work, and the challenges of fair and meaningful assessment. This book is grounded in mixed-methods research, with both quantitative findings and rich qualitative narratives from Caribbean professors. Later chapters explore the transition from academic collaboration to professional readiness and conclude with a forward-looking discussion on the role of artificial intelligence in enhancing group work. This book offers a timely, comprehensive resource for educators, researchers, and policymakers invested in improving collaborative learning in higher education.

This book is a comprehensive introduction to the theoretical, methodological and epistemological aspects of the Theory of Subjectivity created by Fernando Gonzalez Rey (1949-2019). After the publication of the book Epistemologia Cualitativa y Subjetividad [Qualitative Epistemology and Subjectivity] by Fernando Gonzalez Rey in 1997, which marked the beginning of efforts to incorporate the topic of subjectivity from a cultural-historical perspective, research grounded in this approach has multiplied. This book aims to highlight the development of the Theory of Subjectivity since its initial formulation and to further deepen and clarify the relationship between the Theory of Subjectivity, Qualitative Epistemology, and the Constructive-Interpretive Methodology.

This volume also intends to delve deeper, in a didactic way, into the process of constructing information from the perspective of the Theory of Subjectivity. To this end, it discusses the results of studies based on this framework with the aim of delving into this complex process of theoretical construction in research, overcoming the idea of 'empirical research' so widespread in the empirical-instrumental paradigm.

Rejecting the logic of data collection as the accumulation of fragments, the authors emphasize the research as a theoretical construction, in which dialogue constitutes a subjective and relational space. In this space, participants and researchers become agents whose singular productions make possible the emergence of information relevant to the purpose of the research. The theoretical model emerges as the living core of research, constantly constituted by new indicators, hypotheses, and constructions that integrate empirical expressions with conceptual elaboration.

This is an English edition of a book originally published in Portuguese. The translation of the original manuscript into English was done with the help of artificial intelligence. The technical and stylistic revision was carried out by the specialists Daniel Magalhaes Goulart, Jose Fernando Patino Torres, and Bruno Reis Bernardo Cobucci.