1,474 words

Student help-seeking behavior in early adolescence and its causes

Avoiding Seeking Help in the Classroom: Who and Why?" appeared in the Educational Psychology Review in 2001.

~8 min read

View paper →

816 words

Management derailment: personality assessment and mitigation strategies

In an article titled "Management Derailment: Personality Assessment and Mitigation," which was published in the American Psychological Association Handbook of Industrial and Organizational Psychology in 2010, the research team of Joyce Hogan, Robert Hogan and Robert B.

~5 min read

View paper →

2,510 words

Piaget's theory of cognitive development and human intelligence

The theory of cognitive development by Piaget presents a comprehensive approach in evaluating human intelligence development and nature in developmental psychology. Piaget shares that children play active roles in growing of intelligence through learning by doing and by examples.

~13 min read

View paper →

742 words

Rediscovering my passion for law through self-discovery

EDUCATION: the University of Miami, BA communications major with a minor in psychology and sociology (year) When I was just eight years old, I fell in love with law after watching the hit American TV show Matlock. That was the year my mother signed me up to play the violin and I hated.

~4 min read

View paper →

2,172 words

Freud and Erikson's theories of human developmental stages

Sigmund Freud and Erickson are the leading psychologists to have ever lived in the history of human psychology. The two had their differences as well as similarities regarding the stages that the human beings go through as they grow up.

~11 min read

View paper →

942 words

Power struggles between aspiring leaders in cross-functional teams

Leadership is an incredibly complex concept that has been the focus of study from many different academic disciplines -- Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Social Psychology, Business, Sociology to name a few.

~5 min read

View paper →

1,676 words

Framing strategies in political campaigns and public persuasion

An important part of getting the message across in political campaigns is an approach referred in as 'framing' (a psychology terminology). Individuals listen and hear the speech logic, but they do also respond, albeit subliminally, to the manner in which the issues are presented.

~9 min read

View paper →

1,938 words

Why audiences are attracted to violent entertainment

Goldstein, Jeffrey 1999 'The Attractions of Violent Entertainment', Media Psychology, vol.1, no.3, pp. 271-282.

~10 min read

View paper →

1,371 words

Behavior modification in children through operant conditioning and reinforcement

Modifying and upholding the behavior of children is a subject held in very high regard in the psychology, social work and other communities.

~7 min read

View paper →

1,001 words

Psychological manipulation techniques used by terrorist group leaders

In his article, War, Psychology, and Time, Friedman (2007) shows how Osama bin Laden employed a psychological strategy in an attempt to create a massive Islamic empire in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union.

~6 min read

View paper →