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Wisdom and foolishness in Bashevis Singer's Gimpel the Fool

Gimpel: Truly the Fool? Isaac Bashevis Singer's short story "Gimpel the Fool" is one of his most famous and enduring. It manages to encompass the titular narrator's entire life in the town of Frumpol -- and eventually beyond -- which is a testament both to human endurance and to compassion.

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Generalization problems in psychological research and solutions

What are some of the subject population generalization problems that a researcher might confront?

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Measurement and existence in psychometric theory: reconciling Galton, Thorndike, and Ludlow

That expression of professor L.H. Ludlow is actually an idea suggested much earlier by Edward Thorndike (1874-1949) and to even earlier arguments, such as those of Sir Francis Galton (1822-1911), for whom a strong case could be made that he was the first psychometrician (Ludlow, 1998).

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Binge drinking and cognitive development in middle adulthood

What is binge drinking? 'Everybody does it.' If all of your friends, or everyone at a party, is having a few beers, it's easy to miss the signs that your alcohol use is getting out of control. Binge drinking may be less than you think.

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Social Cognitive Theory in rehabilitative counseling practice

Social Cognitive Theory (SCT) was developed by Albert Bandura in an attempt to explain the cognitive process that influence how we present ourselves in our interpersonal interactions. It is a theory that is based on a combination of the self and of interpersonal relationships with others.

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Evaluating VandenBos's evidence for psychotherapy's effectiveness

Vanden Bos, Gary R. (1996, October) Outcome assessment of psychotherapy. American Psychologist. 51(10): 10005-1006. American Psychologist. 51(10): 1005-1006.

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Quicken's role in modernizing payroll administration efficiency

The intent of this paper is to analyze how Quicken, the computer software program, could be used by Payroll Administrators to make their task more automated, accurate and efficient.

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Brain injury awareness and support resources in Kane County, Illinois

In choosing to focus on brain injury, it is our desire that the general public's awareness of the serious of such injuries will be raised, as will the knowledge and understanding that symptoms might not be immediately visible.

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Mixed methods approach to studying post-tenure review effects

Mixed method approaches can bridge differences, focusing separately, yet intimately, on more than one group and how those groups can be affected in multiple ways. Thus, a mixed method approach would prove most effective for the study of post-tenure review.

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The loss of childhood wonder at age twelve

For most young children, birthdays are a time of extreme excitement and joy -- there is the endless amount of possibility that exists in each papered package before it is unwrapped, the special treatment throughout the day at home and at school (sometimes prolonging the festivities by a day or two,…

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