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Near-death experiences: hallucinations or evidence of afterlife

Near-Death Experiences -- Real or Imagined? The much-discussed near-death experience is not one of the world's great mysteries on a par with the Abominable Snowman or flying saucers. But since so many people claim to have had these occurrences, it is a topic certainly worth researching.

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Gender differences in sexual promiscuity: biological and social explanations

Promiscuity is a sexual behavioral trait which has often been induced with a distinctly negative connotation.

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Genetic influences on personality, addiction, and human behavior

While the debate continues over nature vs. nurture, the science of the genetics of behavior has gained tremendous momentum with the advancements in the refinement of DNA analysis and genetic sequencing.

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The MMPI-2 and Beck Depression Inventory in clinical assessment

The deployment of psychological testing in clinical settings is common. The MMPI-2 (Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory: Version 2) is one of the most common types of evaluation instruments.

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Women's suffrage movements and ongoing gender discrimination in voting

Today there are still a few countries in the world that deny women's right to vote or condition it based on education grounds, like Lebanon or age, like the United Arab Emirates, but in the vast majority of the countries women have earned the same right to vote as men have.

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Benjamin Carson's rise from failing student to pioneering neurosurgeon

At the tender age of thirty-two, Benjamin Carson became the Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins Hospital.

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Chodorow and Butler's theories on gender development and social work practice

Both Nancy Chodorow and Judith Butler present their own theories. These theories can then be used to strategically create a defined relationship between the social worker and client.

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Ethical implications of marketing strategies targeted at children

It is futile to state that the modern day business community is anything but dynamic, fierce and highly competitive. In order to cope with the emergent requirements of both market and industry, economic agents develop and implement a wide series of strategic courses of action.

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Gender differences in susceptibility to male-dominated group conformity pressure

Even before the conclusion of the Nuremberg Trials a decade and a half after the end of World War II, psychologists began studying the concept of moral responsibility in relation to obedience to help shed understanding into the Nazi atrocities committed during the war years.

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Norman Bates's dissociative identity disorder in Hitchcock's Psycho

Psycho is without a doubt one of Alfred Hitchcock's most well-known and well-loved (for lack of a better term) films.

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