Reducing stigma is crucial for facilitating recovery from psychological problems. Viewing
these problems biomedically may reduce the tendency to blame affected persons, but critics …

Purpose To conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis to examine the strength of
associations between social network size and clinical and functional outcomes in …

Social Motivation, Justice, and the Moral Emotions proposes an attribution theory of
interpersonal or social motivation that distinguishes between the role of thinking and feeling …

When they experience service failures, customers look for causes. They seek to understand
whether the service firm could have prevented the failure (controllability attribution) and …

Expressed emotion (EE) is a measure of the family environment that predicts worse clinical
outcomes for patients with a range of disorders. This article describes the assessment of EE …

This comprehensive, authoritative text provides a state-of-the-art review of current
knowledge and best practices for helping adults with psychiatric disabilities move forward in …

It is evident that most motivational psychologists have accepted the belief that behavior is in
service of the pleasure-pain principle. That is, organisms seek to maximize pleasurable …

BackgroundCognitive models of the positive symptoms of psychosis specify the cognitive,
social and emotional processes hypothesized to contribute to their occurrence and …

After years of stagnation, labeling theory has recently gained new empirical support.
Simultaneously, new policy initiatives have attempted to restructure criminal record stigma to …

Much research has shown that spouses of combat veterans with posttraumatic stress
disorder (PTSD) have higher rates of psychological and marital distress than do spouses of …