The Psychology of Wisdom by Robert J Sternberg

The Psychology of Wisdom by Robert J Sternberg

The Psychology of Wisdom: An Introduction is the first comprehensive coursebook on wisdom, providing an engaging, balanced, and expert introduction to the psychology of wisdom. It provides a comprehensive and up-to-date account of the psychological science of wisdom, covering wide-ranging perspectives. Each chapter includes extensive pedagogy, including a summary, a glossary, bolded terms, practical applications, discussion questions, and a brief description of the authors' research. Topics include the philosophical foundations, folk conceptions, and psychological theories of wisdom; relations of wisdom to morality and ethics, to personality and well-being, to emotion; wisdom and leadership, wisdom and social policy. These topics are covered in a non-technical, bias-free, and student-friendly manner. Written by the most eminent experts in the field, this is the definitive coursebook for undergraduate and graduate students, as well as interested professionals and researchers.

Robert J. Sternberg is Professor of Psychology at Cornell University and Honorary Professor of Psychology at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. His PhD is from Stanford University and he holds 13 honorary doctorates. He was awarded the Grawemeyer Award in Psychology, and the William James and James McKeen Cattell Awards of APS. He is past-president of the American Psychological Association, the Federation of Associations in Brain and Behavioral Sciences, and the International Association of Cognitive Education and Psychology. Judith Glück is Professor of Developmental Psychology at University of Klagenfurt, Austria. Her research investigates how wisdom develops, how it can be measured, how it manifests itself in real life, and how it can be fostered in individuals as well as communities. She has held several grants from the Austrian Science Fund and is published in journals including Annual Review of Psychology, Developmental Psychology, and The Journals of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences.

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ISBN 13	9781009088008
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Titel	The Psychology of Wisdom
Autor	Robert J Sternberg
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Cambridge University Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2022-06-09
Seitenanzahl	300
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