Psychology: Concepts and Applications 3e   Halonen
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The Dance of Anger (1985)

The Dance of Anger is written mainly for women about the anger in their lives, both their own anger and the anger of people they live with, especially men. Lerner describes styles of anger that don’t work for women and motivates women to cope with anger in more positive ways.

Emotional Intelligence (1995)

Goleman argues that emotional intelligence is just as important as intellectual intelligence. The book includes many insights about how we can live more emotionally healthy lives.

Even Eagles Need a Push (1990)

This is an excellent book to get you motivated. A number of exercises and stories serve to get you energized and directed.

Flow (1990)

Flow is about the optimal experiencing of life. Csikszentmihalyi has been investigating the concept of flow for more than two decades. Earlier in the chapter we discussed the author’s view of what flow is, namely a deep happiness people feel when they have a sense of mastering something.

National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF)

This is the oldest national gay and lesbian civil rights advocacy organization; it lobbies, provides grassroots organizing, publishes materials, and offers referrals.

The New Male Sexuality (1992)

The New Male Sexuality is a very up-to-date, comprehensive book about male sexuality.

Why We Eat What We Eat (1996)

Experts cut through popular myths about eating to present the latest research on how eating patterns develop. Topics include the development of food preferences and aversions, how eating patterns develop in childhood, how biology affects eating behavior, and how social contexts influence eating patterns.

Telling Lies: Clues to Deceit in the Marketplace, Politics, and Marriage (1985)

Ekman explains how to read facial expressions and gestures to determine whether people are lying.

For Yourself (1975)

For Yourself provides advice for women about how to achieve sexual fulfillment. Barbach addresses the worries that often distress nonorgasmic women and tells them how to achieve orgasm. Barbach attacks the negative cultural attitudes that say women should not enjoy sex.

Internet Resources

http://www.sexuality.org/

Society for Human Sexuality runs a popular home page for Web-surfers over 18.

http://www.clark.net/pub/sluggo/anger.htm

Slugnet offers anger management tips with the motto, "Why count to ten when you can break something right away?"

http://newciv.org/GIB/BOV/BV-366.HTML

A list of psychology-based resources about being happy.

http://www.biology.demon.co.uk/Biology/mod1/thermo/homeo.htm

Learn about how homeostasis works in maintaining a constant temperature.

http://www.trauma-pages.com/

Explore what happens to motivation following trauma.

http://www.carleton.ca/~tpychyl/

Visit this Web site when you need help on overcoming procrastination.

http://www.psych101.com/hum/maslow.html

Read about the life of a founding father of humanistic psychology, Abraham Maslow.

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