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Why IS/IT Professionals Must Be Renaissance Thinkers

Explores how 16 reference disciplines—from psychology to economics—inform IS/IT practice and why technology professionals need a broad, humanistic education.

Technology

~8 min read

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John Watson's Behaviorism: Critiques and Environmental Views

Explores Watson's critiques of introspective psychology, his behaviorist solutions, and his famous claim that environment shapes all human development.

Psychology

~4 min read

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Bridging Research and Practice: The Scientist-Practitioner Model

Argues the scientist-practitioner model is clinical psychology's most defensible training framework, using Boulder 1949, CISD

Science

~11 min read

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Positive and Negative Punishment: Definitions and Examples

Explore positive and negative punishment in behavioral psychology, with real-world examples like verbal reprimand, community service, and removal of privileges.

Psychology

~6 min read

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Adolescent Development Themes in the Film Thirteen (2003)

Analyzes Hardwicke's film Thirteen through adolescent psychology, covering identity, egocentrism, self-harm, family dynamics, and Arnett's developmental framework.

Psychology

~4 min read

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Bundy's Blueprint: How a Killer Reshaped Criminal Profiling

Analytical essay on Ted Bundy's criminal psychology, methods, capture, and lasting impact on FBI profiling and forensic criminology

Social Issues

~11 min read

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2,966 words

Inanna's descent myth in psychoanalytic perspective

Myth in psychoanalysis and depth psychology has a fascinating modern history that has involved the recognition of the importance of ancient myths and mythical structures in the understanding of the human psyche and the structure of the ego.

~15 min read

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Biological and environmental factors in human personality development

The formal academic study of human psychology is not much more than a century old, with most of its fundamental concepts evolving only in the 20th century.

~11 min read

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648 words

Foot-in-the-door, door-in-the-face, and low-balling compliance techniques

One common compliance technique used in social psychology is that of the so-called 'foot-in -- the door' approach. An example of such a technique was manifest in one experiment comparing different types of solicitation strategies to garner financial support for a museum.

~4 min read

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442 words

Profiling appearance-enhancing drug users: typologies and predictive limitations

Is criminal profiling an acceptable practice within psychology? According to Thomas Hildebrandt, James W. Langenbucher, Sasha J.

~3 min read

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