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Self-management interventions for appropriate classroom behaviors

Briesch, a. & Chafouleas, S. (2009, June). Review and analysis of literature on self-management interventions to promote appropriate classroom behaviors. School Psychology Quarterly, 24(2), 106-118.

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Masculinity ideology and men's attitudes toward career counseling

Graef, S.T.; Tokar, D.M.; Kaut, K.P. (2010). "Relations of masculinity ideology, conformity to masculine role norms, and masculine gender role conflict to men's attitudes toward and willingness to seek career counseling." Psychology of Men & Masculinity, Vol.11, No. 4. Pp. 319-333.

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Parole agent career path: education, motivations, and daily work

Where did you go to school and what was your major? I have a B.S. In criminal justice. That's pretty typical -- you pretty much have to have a degree from a college in something like criminal justice, although there are a couple of agents with other degrees, like one in psychology.

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Self-esteem development and differentiation in young children

Pallas, a.M., Entwisle, D.R., Alexander, K.L & Weinstein, P. (1990). Social structure and the development of self-esteem in young children. Social Psychology Quarterly 53(4).

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Attention allocation and conversation type effects on simulated driving performance

Drews, F.A., Pasupathi, M., and Strayer, D.L. (2008). Passenger and cell phone conversations in simulated driving. Journal of Experimental Psychology 14(4).

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Michael Foucault's archaeological and genealogical approaches to knowledge

Michael Foucault was born in France, on October 15, 1926 to a surgeon father, who wanted his son to enter the same profession. Academically brilliant, the young man was awarded his degree in Philosophy in the year 1948, and in 1950, his degree in Psychology.

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Semiotic analysis of signs and meaning in Donnie Darko

Semiotics is essentially the study of signs involving words, sounds, and body language or mannerisms. It involves the examination of the roles that signs play as components to social life. Therefore, semiotics may be considered an extension of social psychology and linguistics.

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Carl Rogers and the development of person-centered therapy

Born on January 8, 1902 and dead on February 4, 1987, Carl Rogers was one of the most influential American psychologists. He founded, along with Abraham Maslow, the humanistic approach to psychology.

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The Scopes monkey trial and the modern intelligent design debate

In the early 1920's the older Victorians, called Traditionalists, became alarmed at the social chaos they found in society, with Intellectualism, women beginning to feel less restricted, with jazz, dancing the Charleston, smoking, drinking, flaunting prohibition, abstract art, Freudian psychology…

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Edgar Schein's three-level model of organizational culture

Organizational Culture and Behavior: Author Edgar H. Schein, professor of management at the Sloan School of Management, MIT, believes that organizational culture has in the recent past embraced themes from a number of disciplines, including sociology, social psychology, anthropology and cognitive…

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