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Verbal threats and physical violence: linguistic and psychological patterns

Legal systems such as those used in the United States and Europe make a clear distinction in criminal law between what people say and what people do.

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Apuleius's Golden ass and post-Jungian psychotherapy for masculine integration

Jungian psychologists, and those who have followed them and constitute the much more loosely defined group of post-Jungian psychologists, have long found a rich source for clinical interventions in the realm of myth and fairy tale.

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Ontological and axiological assumptions in Levinson's developmental stage model

The ontological basis of Levinson's model is fundamentally a social constructivist model because he focuses on the ability (and even the necessity) that individuals have to make meaningful their own experiences.

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Social and psychological realism in Manet and Degas paintings

Nineteenth Century Paris in Cafe and Dance: A Social and Psychological Examination of the Works of Manet and Degas in the 1870s through the 1890s

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Stigma and underutilization of college career counseling services

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Psychological factors in effective advertising campaigns

In the hit television series Mad Men, clever, award-winning campaigns are the brainstorms of boozy account executives in smoke-filled rooms. They banter back and forth, drinks in hand, until someone proposes a tag line or roughs out a storyboard on the back of a cocktail napkin.

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How families construct and experience "family time": ideology versus reality

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Evaluating the "Use It or Lose It" hypothesis in mental aging

Mental aging is a natural process where as age increases, mental abilities tend to decline. It is however generally believed that higher mental activity or exercise to lead to better performance of mental faculties as age increases.

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Humor as a universal tool for achieving personal and professional goals

Humor has really somewhat of an elusive definition. For some, a simple action or phrase can be humorous. For others, humor involves irony, blasphemy, profanity, or even comes at another's expense.

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Psychoanalytic, behavioral, and cognitive approaches to Lamanda's depression

From a psychoanalytic perspective, Lamanda is suffering from ego identity confusion (Erikson, 1968) that is manifesting itself in symptoms of depression, marked by a lack of interest, anxiety and social isolation.

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