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Counterproductive and organizational citizen behavior in the workplace

Counterproductive work behavior (CWB) is defined by an employee's actions causing harm to either a coworker or their employer (reviewed by Krischer, Penney, and Hunter, 2010).

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Tice and Baumeister's study of procrastination, stress, and academic performance

Procrastination, Performance, Stress, and Health" (1997) was that procrastinating is a cause for factors that affected people's health, stress level, and overall academic performance.

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Building a communications training program based on Dan Pink's Drive

One of the most challenging aspects of leadership is keeping employees engaged and experiencing ownership of their jobs. In defining a communications training program, the need for equipping managers with the skills necessary to excel as leaders who can keep motivation strong is addressed.

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Control theory and containment theory in criminology textbooks

Society as insulation relative to control theory is the subject of the sixth chapter of the Lilly text that is the current focus of the class underway for this student.

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Rational emotive behavioral therapy and Christian principles for young adults

The goal of rational emotive behavioral therapy (REBT) is to help people address and resolve behavioral and emotional problems so that they can lead fuller, happier, and better lives (Dryden, 2005).

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Television's impact on American family relationships and development

Among the many laments of the American media, the one that remains constant is that of the degradation of the family. Many issues combine to cause the problems of young children, teens, and adults resulting in behaviors of a magnitude from acting out in school to adolescent eating disorders.

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Keynesian and neoclassical approaches to closing recessionary gaps

The Keynesian approach to recessionary gaps is to increase government spending and lower taxes -- run a deficit -- in order to spur aggregate demand.

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Attachment theory and infant development: Bowlby versus Stern

There have been several attempts to understand the infant self and the formation of behaviors as the infants grow, right from birth through their childhood and adolescence.

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Japanese immigration and racism in early twentieth-century British Columbia

Racism is certainly not a new or exclusive phenomenon to contemporary world. Psychologically, humans seem to feel far more comfortable categorizing "the other" in order to subjugate or find reasons or justifications of control.

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Erik Erikson's theory of lifelong development and identity formation

The work of Erik Erikson is like that of Freud it touches upon the individual growth but while Freud analyzed himself, and stated the growth in terms of the very infant, after which he assumed that the mind does not adapt or grow, in the sense of the personality, except ego, though himself an ego…

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