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The Making and Breaking of Minds: How social interactions shape the human mind

By: Isabella Sarto-Jackson

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The Making and Breaking of Minds: How social interactions shape the human mind

By: Isabella Sarto-Jackson

The human brain has a truly remarkable capacity. It reorganizes itself, flexibly adjusting to fluctuating environmental conditions – a process called neuroplasticity. Neuroplasticity provides the basis for wide-ranging learning and memory processes that are particularly profuse during childhood and adolescence. At the same time, the exceptional malleability of the developing brain leaves it highly vulnerable to negative impact from the surroundings. Abusive or neglecting social environments, as well as socioeconomic deprivation and poverty, cause toxic stress and complex traumas that can severely compromise cognitive development, emotional processing, self-perception, and executive brain functions. The neurophysiological changes entailed impair emotional regulation, lead to heightened anxiety, and afflict attachment and the formation of social bonds. Neuroplastic changes following severely adverse experiences are not something that a person grows out of and gets over. These experiences alter the neurobiological and biochemical makeup and cause people to live in an emotionally relabeled world in which the evaluation of any social cue, their behavior, cognition, and state of mind are biased towards the negative. Even more worrying, detrimental neurophysiological consequences are not limited to the traumatized individual but are often transmitted to subsequent generations through a process of social niche construction, thereby creating a vicious cycle. Thus, the making and breaking forces of the brain are epitomized by parents, alloparents, peers, and our socioeconomic niche. This book expounds on the formative role that the social environment plays in healthy brain development, especially during infancy, childhood, and adolescence. Based on scientific findings, the book advocates for bold measures and responsible stewardship to combat child abuse, maltreatment, and child poverty. By bringing together insights from neuroscience, evolutionary biology, and social education work, it lays out a fact-based, transdisciplinary endeavor that aims at rising to the societal challenge of providing a rewarding perspective to youth at risk. It will be a valuable resource for academics from social education, pedagogy, cognitive science, neuroscience, as well as professionals in the fields of social work, pedagogy, education, child welfare.

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Vernon Press

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164889402X

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9781648894022

the Global Leadership-Lab

A comparative analysis of leadership styles across nations

By: Aynur Doğan,Sander Schroevers,Isabella Venter,Ольга Ярос

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the Global Leadership-Lab

A comparative analysis of leadership styles across nations

By: Aynur Doğan,Sander Schroevers,Isabella Venter,Ольга Ярос

This third issue in our leadership series provides you with a comprehensive analysis of management practices in Argentina, China, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Malaysia, Russia and Singapore. This book shows how domestic leadership conventions often differ significantly from those in other countries. Comparative desk research, focus interviews with, and online polling of C-level professionals in the aforementioned countries made us realise how much cultural factors, can affect leadership strategies accros the globe. This book provides a reference for those aiming at a cross-border career, or interested in international management issues.

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153

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CCBS Press

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9079646334

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9789079646333

Linking Leadership

to cross-cultural expectations across nations

By: Aynur Doğan,Sander Schroevers

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Linking Leadership

to cross-cultural expectations across nations

By: Aynur Doğan,Sander Schroevers

‘Linking Leadership’ provides a reference for senior executives or those aiming at a cross-border career, to understand cultural differences across selected countries. Each semester we report on our quantitative survey-based global study, on our analyses of existing in-country leadership literature, preferably written by locals in the target language. Besides we try to obtain empirical validations through expert interviews with native specialists. This new issue of our leadership series presents country-specific analysis of culturally endorsed leadership practices for the countries: Afghanistan, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Brunei, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Ghana, Japan, Jordan, Luxembourg, Mauritius, Myanmar, Oman, Poland, Puerto Rico, Singapore, Slovakia, Spain and Vietnam, This publication contains contributions from around 125 researchers from sixteen countries who participated in the Cross-Cultural Business Skills elective offered by the Part-time Academy of the Faculty of Business and Economics at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (HvA). The following people contributed: Aboadje Dwomor; Abou Tawakoli; Achraf Ahayan; Amine Bouzraa; Andreea Andrieş; Ane Gibelalde Eraso; Anouk Spieker; Arash Jamali; Arbaaz Ghafoor; Arnout Roorda; Arvind Nohar; Asad Khan; Atakhan Akkaya; Ayoub Rahmoun; Ayşen Çavuş; Bente Smit; Bjorn Gootjes; Bloem Westerman; Callum Cope; Daniar Said; Dario Snel; Davey Verbruggen; Deniz Çekiç; Diëva Groenberg; Donna Frederiks; Edwina Okyere; Elizabeth Arends; Elle van der Geest; Emily Cheung; Emmarald Kotzebue; Eva Ebeling; Evgeniya Chashnikova (Евгения Чашникова); Fabienne Schulze-Wermeling; Fariel Groenefelt; Fatih Kaya; Filip Drożdż; Fleur Tuin; Floor van Heugten; Floris Quentin Looije; Gongli Wang（王宫丽）; Hamed Yousefi Alizé; Haydir Malik; Ilham Rahebi Aghniuni; Imane Amallah; Iñigo de la Presilla Echeberria; Inti Peralta Jacelga; Irfan Salim; Iris Haijemaije; Iris Santaularia Malet; Iris Vos; Jaydey Braams; Jesse Jonker; Jesse Schabracq; Jildou Hanzens; Joep Dortmans; Joey Wong (黄宝儿); Joy Zevenster; Kaiet Iglesias Baraibar; Kalok Liu (廖家樂); Karan Rhuggernaath; Kaya Todorovic; Kelvin Agyei; Kenza Waller Diemont; Kevin Chapagain; Kristof Dely; Laura Dabaj; Leire Astigarraga Iriondo; Lilly Krasenova (Лили Красенова); Lily Kluit; Lindiana Ziba Asani; Luis Mink; Maarten Vercouteren; Mark van Diest ; Max Versteeg; Mert Ayvaz; Mert Özbalaban; Miles Silvagni; Mohamad Darwish; Mostafa Zafar; Mourad Benali; Mubashar Butt; Najoua Chamlal; Naomi Houssart; Nastassia Panfilov (Настассиа Панфилов); Natifah Nicholas; Nawid Hafizi; Niels Francken; Nilesh Awadhpersad; Noah Jacob op ten Berg; Paula Mancisidor Yeregui; Pauline den Hartog; Philip van Rijk; Rins Tiemersma; Risa Matsumoto (松本梨沙); Rogier Brinkers; Sabien Melenhorst; Sander Peters; Savrina Asmara, Serkan Yaşar; Sharon Pertijs; Sheza Mahmood; Sidney Ortse; Sinan Gürsoy; Sjoerd Wiggers; Soliana Ashame; Staś Wojciechowski; Stylianos Kouloundis (Στυλιάνος Κουλουντής); Subt Ihsan ul-Haq; Tarik Engin; Tim Weijermars; Valeriia Gushcha (Валерия Гуща); Victor Poelmann; Viktoriya Tsolkovska; Vincent de Rie; Wakako Suita (吹田和嘉子); William Bæk Jensen; Yamina Fatni; Yason Andreadis (Ιάσονας Ανδρεάδης) and Yassine Ballouti.

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9079646504

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The Making and Breaking of Minds: How social interactions shape the human mind

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