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Authors: Mahouton  Norbert  Hounkonnou, Dragana Martinovic, Melanija Mitrović, Philippa Pattison
Publisher: Springer

Language: English

Softcover ISBN 978-3-031-37794-5
eBook ISBN 978-3-031-37792-1
Hardcover ISBN 978-3-031-37791-4

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37792-1

Published: 2024
Number of Pages: XVIII, 276



Description

This book addresses interconnections between contemporary advances in mathematics, especially algebra, with applications in the social sciences and the arts. It promotes the idea that knowledge cannot remain in disciplinary silos, rather, it belongs to all people, and is dedicated to associative relationships in a variety of mathematics applications, from sociology to linguistics, including anthropology, semiotics, education, and cognitive science. Contributions illuminate some of the ways in which algebra is developed, learned, understood, communicated, and applied in the social sciences and the humanities.

The first part of this book addresses algebraic and mathematical thinking, specifically learning and practicing mathematics from a cognitive science perspective, as well as illustrative applications to distinctly human concerns, like education and semiotics. The second part focuses on algebraic semigroups and some of their generalizations. This book and the conference that engendered it provide an example of a fruitful collaboration, in which the skills and deep knowledge of algebraic structures, modeling, social sciences and arts brought in by the authors from different countries and continents merge in harmonious ways. These expositions are a rich resource and are of interest both to mathematicians and non-mathematicians.

From Introduction

Regardless of our readers believing that mathematical objects exist independently of humans or are created by human minds, they would probably agree that mathematics is a ‘language of science.’

Apart from astronomy and physics, which always relied on mathematics to the extent that they were considered its parts, that was not the case for some other sciences.

The book Mathematics for Social Sciences and Arts - Algebraic Modeling addresses several contemporary topics, centered in the broad domains of algebraic structures and semigroups in social sciences and the arts. These encompass some rapidly developing, versatile areas without, of course, well-defined boundaries. They present algebraic structures and modeling in different aspects of human life (e.g., history, education, governance), as well as in diverse applications in day-to-day life, such as in architecture, agriculture, finance and music.

About the editors

Mahouton Norbert Hounkonnou is a Full Professor at the University of Abomey-Calavi, Benin. His works deal with noncommutative and nonlinear mathematics, mathematical physics and complexity. He was a member of UNESCO Scientific Council for International Basic Sciences Programme and member of the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) working group on Harnessing Science, Engineering and Medicine to Address Africa’s Challenges. He is also a member of several academies, including the Academy of Science of South Africa, Hassan II Academy of Science and Technology, Morocco, African Academy of Sciences, The World Academy of Sciences. He is the co- chair of the Network of African, European and Mediterranean Academies for Science Education, President of the Network of African Science Academies and former President of Benin National Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters. He is member of the IAP Science Education Global Council, and representative for Africa of the International Mathematical Union (IMU) Commission for Developing Countries (CDC). He was awarded several international prestigious Prizes, the last being the American Institute of Physics 2023 Tate Medal for his efforts to build and maintain an enduring transnational African mathematical physics research and education community.

Dr. Dragana Martinovic is Professor Emerita at Faculty of Education, University of Windsor. She is a Fellow of the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences and a Co-Director of the Fields Centre for Mathematics Education. She is a founding and current Co-Editor of the Springer book series, Mathematics Education in the Digital Era. Dragana serves on the Editorial Boards for Brill’sStudies in Mathematics in the Arts and Humanities book series, Springer’s Mathematics in Mind book series, and journals such as Participatory Educational Research (PER) and Semiotica. Dragana is also the Chair of the GeoGebra Institute of Canada/Institut de GeoGebra du Canada (GIC-IGC). Dragana has co-chaired various national and international conferences. In her research, Dragana explores knowledge for teaching mathematics, ways in which technology can assist in teaching and learning of mathematics, and epistemologies of Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) in relation to teacher and K–12 education. Dragana’s research is funded by SSHRC, KNAER, the Fields Institute, and various Canadian government organizations. She has published edited books and books of conference proceedings and multiple book chapters, refereed journal papers, and research and technical reports.

Melanija Mitrović is a Full Professor at the University of Niš, Serbia, having received her PhD degree at the same university. She works in the field of classical and constructive algebra. Her innovating work within the theory of constructive binary structures with apartness positions her among the pioneers of constructive mathematics in Serbia. She develops interdisciplinary research investigating applications of algebraic structures to problems in engineering space, social sciences and humanities. She is, also, the Head of the Center of Applied Mathematics of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Niš, CAM- FMEN (since 2019), a member of the Editorial Board of Mathematics in Mind, Springer; a member of the Fields Cognitive Science Network. She holds the status of Permanent Full Professor at the International Chair in Mathematical Physics and Applications (ICMPA-UNESCO Chair), University of Abomey-Calavi, Benin Republic. She has held visiting professor positions at Linköping University and Malardaren University, Sweden; Bar-Ilan University, Israel; TU Wien, Austria; UTAD and University of Minho, Portugal; and Politecnico di Milano, Italy. She is member of the Grant Selection Committee (GSC) of the International Mathematical Union (IMU) Commission for Developing Countries (CDC).

Philippa (Pip) Pattison is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Melbourne and University of Sydney, having retired in 2021 as Deputy Vice-Chancellor Education at the University of Sydney.  Pip’s research is focussed primarily on the development of mathematical and statistical models for social networks and network processes. Following early work on algebraic models for social networks, she developed in collaboration with others a hierarchy of statistical models for social networks that recognise the potential endogeneity of network processes and can reproduce a wide variety of their observed characteristics.  She and her colleagues have extended these models to a variety of data structures and forms and have developed methods for estimating models from partial network data resulting from snowball sampling designs.  These developments are now being widely applied across a number of social and behavioural science domains.  Pip’s work has attracted a number of awards, including the University of Melbourne Special Thesis Award in 1983, the Australian Psychological Society Early Career Award

Authors: Mahouton  Norbert  Hounkonnou,  Melanija Mitrović, Mujahid Abbas, Madad Khan
Publisher: Springer

Language: English

Hardcover ISBN978-3-031-39333-4
eBook ISBN978-3-031-39334-1

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39334-1

Published: 2023
Number of Pages: XXXVII, 570

Description

This book gathers invited, peer-reviewed works presented at the 2021 edition of the Classical and Constructive Nonassociative Algebraic Structures: Foundations and Applications—CaCNAS: FA 2021, virtually held from June 30 to July 2, 2021, in dedication to the memory of Professor Nebojša Stevanović (1962-2009). The papers cover new trends in the field, focusing on the growing development of applications in other disciplines. These aspects interplay in the same cadence, promoting interactions between theory and applications, and between nonassociative algebraic structures and various fields in pure and applied mathematics.

In this volume, the reader will find novel studies on topics such as left almost algebras, logical algebras, groupoids and their generalizations, algebraic geometry and its relations with quiver algebras, enumerative combinatorics, representation theory, fuzzy logic and foundation theory, fuzzy algebraic structures, group amalgams, computer-aided development and transformation of the theory of nonassociative algebraic structures, and applications within natural sciences and engineering.

Researchers and graduate students in algebraic structures and their applications can hugely benefit from this book, which can also interest any researcher exploring multi-disciplinarity and complexity in the scientific realm.

From the Preface

Introduction to nonassociative algebra or playing havoc with the product rule? For modern mathematics, thick intertwining of very many directions and subdisciplines is typical. So the algebraic structures, nonassociative algebras among them, are percolating other branches of mathematics accommodating special demands and purposes, and acquiring new features and properties to serve ‘for the simplification of theoretical constructions, wrote Bernard Russo in 2012.

The history of nonassociative algebraic structures can be traced at least to the middle of the nineteenth century. The theory of nonassociative algebraic structures  is an enormously broad and greatly advanced area. Interesting new algebraic  ideas arise, with challenging opportunities to discover connections to other areas of mathematics, natural sciences, and engineering. Besides, computer-assisted methods proved useful in the development of the theory of nonassociative algebraic structures, e.g., in finding proofs and constructing examples and applications.

About the editors

Mahouton Norbert Hounkonnou is a Full Professor at the Catholic University of Abomey-Calavi, Benin. He holds a PhD from the University of Louvain, Belgium. His works deal with noncommutative and nonlinear mathematics, including differential equations, operator theory, coherent states, quantization techniques, orthogonal polynomials, special functions, graph theory, nonassociative algebras, nonlinear integrable systems, noncommutative field theories, and geometric methods in physics and complexity.

Melanija Mitrović is a Full Professor at the University of Niš, Serbia, having received her PhD degree at the same university. She has held visiting professor positions at Malardaren University, Sweden; Bar-Ilan University, Israel; TU Wien, Austria; UTAD and University of Minho, Portugal; and Politecnico di Milano, Italy. She develops interdisciplinary research investigating applications of algebraic structures to problems in engineering space. Her lines of research are in basic classical and constructive algebraic structures.

Mujahid Abbas is a Full Professor at the Government College University, Pakistan. He holds a PhD from the National College for Business Administration and Economics, Pakistan. His research is focused on fixed-point theory and its applications, topological vector spaces and nonlinear operators, best approximations, fuzzy logic, and convex optimization theory.

Madad Khan is an Associate Professor at the COMSATS University Islamabad–Abbottabad Campus, Pakistan. He holds a PhD from Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan, and did post-doctorate studies at the University of Birmingham, UK, and the University of Chicago, USA. His research interests lie in biomathematics, fuzzy mathematics, computational mathematics, group theory, and generalizations.

Proceedings of the Workshop held at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Niš, Niš, 21 of October 2020

Authors: Mahouton  Norbert  Hounkonnou,  Melanija Mitrović
Publisher: DE GRUYTER

Language: English

eBook ISBN: 9783110734119
Hardcover ISBN: 9783110738629

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110734119

Published: 2023
Number of Pages: XVI, 201

Description

The International Chair in Mathematical Physics and Applications (ICMPA - UNESCO chair), University of Abomey-Calavi, Benin, and the Center for Applied Mathematics of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Niš, CAM-FMEN, organized a webinar on Mathematics for human flourishing in the time of COVID-19 and post COVID-19, 21 October 2020, supported by the City of Niš. The objectives of the webinar were to give precise information about the work that scientists do to cure the disease, to push forward technology, to understand our society and create new expressions of humanity, and to question the role of mathematics in the responses to this pandemic.

From the Preface

The goals of the webinar were clearly defined. COVID-19 has fundamentally affected our lives. We faced this unprecedented challenge. Overcoming COVID-19 and its consequences is impossible without science and scientific work. The scientific response to COVID-19 should be multi-disciplinary, involving health sciences, engineering, social sciences, and basic sciences such as mathematics. The objectives of the webinar were: to give precise information about the work that scientists do to cure the disease, to push forward technology, to understand our society and create new expressions of humanity, and to question the role of mathematics in the responses to this pandemic. Explaining the latter, we paraphrase the words of Mark Turner (The Origin of Ideas: Blending, Creativity, and the Human Spark, Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2014): we, mathematicians, we did not make galaxies, we did not make viruses, the sun, the DNA, or the chemical bond. But we do make new ideas—lots of them. Our ideas stem from our scientific ability to combine existing knowledge coming from different scientific fields in order to make new ones.

About the editors

Mahouton Norbert Hounkonnou is a Full Professor at the University of Abomey-Calavi, Benin. His works deal with noncommutative and nonlinear mathematics, mathematical physics and complexity. He was a member of UNESCO Scientific Council for International Basic Sciences Programme and member of the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) working group on Harnessing Science, Engineering and Medicine to Address Africa’s Challenges. He is also a member of several academies, including the Academy of Science of South Africa, Hassan II Academy of Science and Technology, Morocco, African Academy of Sciences, The World Academy of Sciences. He is the co- chair of the Network of African, European and Mediterranean Academies for Science Education, President of the Network of African Science Academies and former President of Benin National Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters. He is member of the IAP Science Education Global Council, and representative for Africa of the International Mathematical Union (IMU) Commission for Developing Countries (CDC). He was awarded several international prestigious Prizes, the last being the American Institute of Physics 2023 Tate Medal for his efforts to build and maintain an enduring transnational African mathematical physics research and education community.

Melanija Mitrović is a Full Professor at the University of Niš, Serbia, having received her PhD degree at the same university. She works in the field of classical and constructive algebra. Her innovating work within the theory of constructive binary structures with apartness positions her among the pioneers of constructive mathematics in Serbia. She develops interdisciplinary research investigating applications of algebraic structures to problems in engineering space, social sciences and humanities. She is, also, the Head of the Center of Applied Mathematics of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Niš, CAM- FMEN (since 2019), a member of the Editorial Board of Mathematics in Mind, Springer; a member of the Fields Cognitive Science Network. She holds the status of Permanent Full Professor at the International Chair in Mathematical Physics and Applications (ICMPA-UNESCO Chair), University of Abomey-Calavi, Benin Republic. She has held visiting professor positions at Linköping University and Malardaren University, Sweden; Bar-Ilan University, Israel; TU Wien, Austria; UTAD and University of Minho, Portugal; and Politecnico di Milano, Italy. She is member of the Grant Selection Committee (GSC) of the International Mathematical Union (IMU) Commission for Developing Countries (CDC).

Authors: Stevo Najman, Vojislav Mitić, Thomas Growth, Mike Barbeck, Po-Yu Chen, Ziqi Sun, Branislav Ranđelović
Publisher: Springer

Language: English

ISSN 1612-1317
ISSN 1868-1212 (electronic)
ISBN 978-3-031-17268-7
ISBN 978-3-031-17269-4 (eBook)
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17269-4

Published: 2023



Description

This book reports on advanced biomaterials such as bio ceramics, hydrogels, biopolymers, nanomaterials, membranes, and other compatible materials for medical applications. It introduces materials as bioactive coatings that utilize or mimic natural mechanisms and structures important for tissue and organ healing and repair. One section of the book is devoted to bone substitutes and osteogenic biomaterials. It also describes biomaterial-cell-tissue interactions, which are of critical importance for various applications in regenerative medicine, orthopedics, and implant functions. The chapters present fabrication methods and testing of various materials for medical applications. Special emphasis is given to natural patterns, theoretical models, and new insights into material characterization, particularly on fractal natural boundaries and mimicry designs taken from nature and implemented in photonics science and engineering. This multidisciplinary book is written by leading researchers and experts in their fields, and serves researchers, students, physicians, and engineers.

From Preface

… The work on this book started already at the end of 2020 under the leadership and guidance of our late colleague Prof. dr Vojislav V. Mitić (1955–2021), who made great efforts, expended enormous energy, and exerted great influence. He initiated this book together with Prof. dr Stevo Najman. They invited and connected colleagues, co-editors, authors, and researchers from different scientific fields from all over the world to strengthen the research toward biomimetic and other biocompatible materials for medical purposes and applications. The result is now available in the form of this amazing collection of multidisciplinary research that provides a current cross section of the research in the field of biomimetic applications in medicine. While working on this book, Prof. dr Vojislav V. Mitić lost his battle with COVID-19…

About the editors

Stevo Najman is a Full Professor of Biology and Genetics at the Faculty of Medicine University of Niš and he is a partially engaged professor at Faculty of Science in Niš. At the Faculty of Medicine, he is Head of Department (Biology and Genetics) and Head of Scientific Research Center for Biomedicine. His research focuses on biomaterials biocompatibility, regeneration of skeletal tissues assisted by biomaterials and stem cells, tissue engineering models, as well as examination of biological activity of the substances in models in vivo and in vitro.

Vojislav Mitić obtained his B.Sc. degree in 1982 in Material Science at the University of Nis; M.Sc. degree in 1990 in Material Science at the University of Belgrade and Ph.D. in Material Science at the University of Nis. He has published nearly 500 scientific publications where he pioneered application of fractal geometry and analysis in study of ceramics materials, nanotechnology, and energetic issues.

Thomas Groth is Full Professor of Biomedical Materials at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. He obtained his PhD in Biophysics at Humboldt University Berlin. His research interests are focussed on modification and use of biopolymers for making cell-instructive surfaces and hydrogels for engineering of musculoskeletal tissues. He is Past President of the European Society for Artificial Organs, currently Secretary Treasurer of the International Federation for Artificial Organs and Speaker of the International PhD School AGRIPOLY at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg.

Mike Barbeck is Co-Founder of the company BerlinAnalytix GmbH and research group leader at the Clinic and Polyclinic for Dermatology and Venereology at the University Medical Center Rostock. He has a long experience in regenerative biomedical research working at institutes and companies in Germany. He works on the research on the principles of biomaterial-mediated tissue regeneration (mainly many different bone substitute materials and collagen materials). His research leads to further elucidation of cellular fundamentals of the foreign body response to different biomaterials. 

Po-Yu Chen is a Full Professor and currently the Chair of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan. His research interests include multi-scale characterization of biological materials, synthesis of bio-inspired composites and scaffolds, surface science and technologies, biomineralization, biomechanics, multi-scale modeling and A.I.-assisted approaches. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Materials Science from University of California, San Diego, USA in 2005 and 2009, respectively.

Ziqi Sun is a full Professor and the ARC Future Fellow at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia. His research interests include developing bio-inspired smart nanomaterials and 2D metal oxide nanomaterials for sustainable energy and environmental applications, such as rechargeable batteries, oil-water separations, and catalysis. Ziqi received his Ph.D. degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2009.

Branislav Randjelović is Associate Professor of Mathematics at the Faculty of Electronic Engineering Nis, working partly also as a Professor at the Faculty of Teachers Education, Leposavic, University of K. Mitrovica, where he is a Head of Department for Mathematics and Natural Science. He is also a member of various professional bodies and associations. He received his Ph.D. degree in Applied mathematics and Technical science in 2015. He works as a Head of the Institute for Education Quality and Evaluation of Republic of Serbia and his research interests are applied mathematics, discrete mathematics, algebra, graph theory, fractal theory, neural networks, material science, as well as methods of teaching and large-scale studies in education.

Authors: Mihailo Antović
Publisher: Routledge

Language: English

ISBN: 978-0-367-46738-8 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-032-28260-2 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-1-003-03076-8 (ebk)
DOI: 10.4324/9781003030768

Published: 2022

Description

Multilevel Grounding develops a new approach to musical meaning—Multilevel-Grounded Semantics, addressing the well-known paradox that music seems full of meaning yet there is little consensus among listeners on what exactly it is that this meaning communicates. Offering a balance between formalist and referentialist approaches, Antović’s theory proposes that musical signification emerges from constant cross-space mappings between the musical structure and the listener’s experience. The process is crucially constrained by several hierarchical and partly recursive levels of grounding: perceptual, schematically embodied, affective, conceptual, culturally elaborated, and individual. These levels are responsible for a range of phenomena that increase in complexity, from involuntary bodily responses to the manipulation of musical expectancies over cross-modal inferences relating the musical parameters to spatial domains to full-fledged experiential narratives accompanying the music, as in opera or film scoring. The book combines cutting edge insights from the fields of philosophy of mind, cognitive science, semiotics, linguistics, and music cognition, using a broad range of examples from traditional, classical, and popular world musics, into a theoretical system that shows how the focus on the grounding problem may help researchers convincingly resolve the apparent ungraspability of musical semantics.

About the author
Mihailo Antović is Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy, and Head Researcher at the Centre for Cognitive Sciences, University of Niš, Serbia. He has published extensively in the areas of cognitive linguistics, semantics, semiotics, and music cognition, including three books in Serbian and numerous articles in international journals and edited volumes. He is the recipient of Fulbright and Humboldt Fellowships.

Authors: Robert J. Sternberg, Aleksandra Kostic
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Language: English

ISBN-13 978-3030944919
ISBN-10 978-1-119-66636-8

Published: 2022

Description

This book is an up-to-date compendium of knowledge on the secret language of close relationships, namely nonverbal routes of communication. In close relationships, as everyone learns sooner or later, the usefulness of words can be somewhat limited, because people (a) mean different things by the same words, (b) mean the same thing by different words, (c) sometimes find it hard to express their feelings in words, and (d) lie. Nonverbal signals therefore often provide the best means of communication. The book points out how decoding (interpreting) nonverbal signals is a major key to success, because often what people say wholly belies how they feel―nonverbal signals reveal their true feelings rather than what they want other people to think their feelings are. This book helps decode those secret signals. The book is written by the leading worldwide experts in the field of nonverbal communication to ensure accuracy, comprehensiveness, and timeliness.

Editorial Reviews
“Looking at a wide variety of nonverbal behavior, Nonverbal Communication in Close Relationships: What Words Don’t Tell Us considers the ways in which nonverbal signaling and decoding function within close relationships. With a world-class array of contributors, the book convincingly shows that it’s often not what we say, but how we act nonverbally that determines the course of human relationships.” - Robert S. Feldman, Senior Advisor to the Chancellor Professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Massachusetts

“The list of authors contributing to this work includes some of the world's top researchers in the field of nonverbal communication” - Robert Rosenthal, University Professor and Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside

“This perceptive book gathers two dozen top experts on nonverbal communication to uncover why love looks not only with the eyes, but also with the mind, and why a lover’s ear will hear the lowest sound but can also sometimes sense too much, from the neurochemical symphony to the interactional synchrony, from flirting to courting to touching, thus providing unmasked cues to key movements of social life. Excellent innovative scholarship” - Howard S. Friedman, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor, University of California, Riverside

“This volume brings together world experts, as well as new voices, to address the many aspects of nonverbal communication in close relationships. The content is a perfect companion to courses in nonverbal communication, interpersonal relationships, or the psychology of close relationships and belongs on the library shelves of leading scholars in these areas.” - Judee K. Burgoon, Professor of Communication, Center for Identification Technology Research, University of Arizona

About the editors
Robert J. Sternberg is Professor of Psychology at Cornell University and Honorary Professor of Psychology at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. He is past president of the American Psychological Association and the Federation of Associations in Brain and Behavioral Sciences. His PhD is from Stanford University. He holds 13 honorary doctorates.

Aleksandra Kostić is Retired Professor of Social Psychology (University of Niš, Serbia). She taught courses on social perception, nonverbal behavior, and psychology of interpersonal behavior. Her research interests include examining the accuracy in perception of nonverbal clues; social, emotional, and perceptual judgments, especially the judgments of primary emotions from the face; emotional intensity; and antecedent events and reaction to emotion.

Authors: Aleksandra Kostic, Derek Chadee
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Language: English

eBook ISBN 978-1-119-66636-3
Hardcover ISBN 978-1-119-66636-8

Published: 2021

Description

Bringing together today’s most prominent positive psychology researchers to discuss current themes and issues in the field.

Positive psychology is the scientific study of the strengths, rather than the weaknesses, in human thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. For much of its history, psychology has focused on the negative, completely overlooking the positive attributes that allow individuals and communities to thrive. Positive Psychology is a collection of essays that together constitutes a much-needed theoretical rationale and critical assessment of the field. This book reassesses what we already know and provides directions for the future. Contributors are leading international authors, including Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Robert Sternberg, Vittorio Caprara, C. Daniel Batson, and Illona Boniwell, among others. These luminaries write in a way that is rigorous enough for academic use but accessible to professionals, policymakers, and lay audiences as well.

The content of Positive Psychology include both theoretical applied contributions focusing on a range of areas including altruism, positive creativity, science of well-being, forgiveness, coaching for leadership, cyberpsychology, intelligence, responding to catastrophes like COVID-19, time perspective, physiological and epigenetic, youth civic engagement, ups and downs of love, flow and good life, global perspectives on positive psychology, self and collective efficacy, positive psychology interventions and positive orientation. The book is pitched to senior undergraduates, graduates, academics and researchers and provides insights and perspectives into neglected and unresolved questions.

• Brings together the latest viewpoints and research findings on positive psychology, from the leading thinkers in the field
• Offers both theoretical and applied insights, for a well-rounded reference on this new and fast growing field
• Contains contributions from well known authors like Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Robert Sternberg, and Vittorio Caprara
• Appeals to academic, professional, and lay audiences with an interest in acquiring a profound knowledge of positive psychology

No other book currently on the market addresses such a breadth of issues in positive psychology. Positive Psychology represents a significant theoretical boost to this exciting field.

About this book:https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Positive+Psychology%3A+An+International+Perspective-p-9781119666448

About the editors
Aleksandra Kostić is Professor of Social Psychology at Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Psychology, University of Niš, Serbia. She teaches courses on Social Perception, Nonverbal Behavior and Psychology of Interpersonal Behavior. Her research interests include examining the accuracy of the social psychology of nonverbal behaviour, social, emotional, and perceptual judgments, especially the judgments of primary emotions from the face, emotional intensity and antecedent-events and reaction to emotion. She is particularly interested in cross-cultural study of facial expression, questions of universal antecedents of the emotions, research on deception and facial clues to deceit.

Derek Chadee is Professor of Social Psychology and Director of the ANSA McAL Psychological Research Centre at the University of the West Indies. He is a Fulbright Research Scholar and has published several books in the area of social psychology. He has a robust research agenda on the psychology of fear of crime and has published in several international journals including: Journal of Applied Social Psychology, Psychology of Popular Media Culture British Journal of Criminology, International Victimology, Media and Culture, Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. He has a strong interest in social psychological theories and his second edition of Theories in Social Psychology, Wiley, is forthcoming in 2021.

Editors: Sternberg, Robert J., Kostić, Aleksandra (Eds.)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Copyright 2020
eBook ISBN 978-3-030-34964-6
Hardcover ISBN 978-3-030-34963-9
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-34964-6
Number of Pages: XI, 465

About this book
This book offers a comprehensive overview of the latest developments in the social psychology of nonverbal communication. It explores topics including social skill, empathy, adaptive advantage, emotion-reading and emotion-hiding; and examines personal charisma, memory and communicating with robots. Together, the authors present diverse, cutting-edge research on nonverbal social intelligence as an adaptive strategy for survival and success. The collection provides an effective demonstration of the interdisciplinary nature of this topic, and it’s relevance to researchers across the social sciences and beyond.

Editorial Reviews
“This book on people's wisdom in using and understanding nonverbal communication marks a new level of maturity in the nonverbal field. First we figured out how to measure such ability, then we asked about its correlates, and finally we are asking what it's actually good for. Kudos to the field and to these talented authors!” - Judith Hall, University Distinguished Professor of Psychology, Northeastern University, USA

“This book is a ‘must have’ resource for anyone seeking a greater understanding of how we accurately (and inaccurately) send and receive messages. A remarkable cast of distinguished international scholars clearly report the most recent research on a variety of fascinating topics ranging from the evolutionary roots of social intelligence to human-machine interaction.” - Mark L. Knapp, Jesse H. Jones Centennial Professor Emeritus and University of Texas Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus, USA

“I wholeheartedly recommend this new compendium of research and theory on the non-verbal communication dimension of social intelligence. This book is essential reading for both academics and laypersons wishing to have a clearer and more profound understanding of modern society as a whole.” - Philip Zimbardo, Emeritus Professor of Psychology, Stanford University, USA and author of The Lucifer Effect

About editors
Robert J. Sternberg is Professor of Human Development at Cornell University, USA and Honorary Professor of Psychology, University of Heidelberg, Germany. He has won the Grawemeyer Award in Psychology and the William James and James McKeen Cattell Awards from the APS.

Aleksandra Kostić is Professor of Social Psychology at the Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Psychology, University of Niš, Serbia. Her research interests include nonverbal communication, emotional experience, time perspective, ethnic identity, and similarities and differences between cultures in perception of category, intensity and antecedents of emotion.