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Methods and issues in applied psychological research

"It is difficult to turn the pages of a newspaper without coming across a story that makes an important claim about human nature" (America Psychological Association, 2003, par. 1).

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Data analysis procedures in psychological research

In all areas of scientific endeavor, the collection and analysis of relevant, objective data is a rather obvious necessity.

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Paul Haggis's Crash: race relations and interpersonal conflict

The 2004 film Crash, written and directed by Paul Haggis, earned high critical praise and many prominent awards following its release. The complexity of the film's plot and the real-world issues it explores make it well worth viewing.

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Psychological trauma of colonialism in Things Fall Apart and Petals of Blood

Colonialism is one of the most traumatic events that can befall humanity. It takes a once peaceful existence and plunges it into chaos. Like a robber that breaks into a house, colonialism steals away the victim's sense of security.

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Durkheim's concept of social facts and collective consciousness

Durkheim, E. 1895. What is Social Fact? Rules of the Sociological Method. In Anthropological Theory: An Introductory Theory. Fourth Edition. R. McGee and Richard Warms. McGraw Hill

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Dialectical change theory and university governance conflicts

Six main types of change theories exist: (1) evolutionary, (2) teleological, (3) life cycle, (4) dialectical, (5) social cognition, and (6) culturally-based models.

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Men's empathic accuracy and sexual harassment perpetration

Farrow and Woodruff (2007) state that 'empathic inference' is the 'everyday mind reading' that people do whenever they attempt to infer other people's thoughts and feelings." 'Empathic accuracy' according to Farrow and Woodruff is "...the extent to which such everyday mind reading attempts are…

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Parental lexical input and early childhood vocabulary development

Experts agree that language formation, like many aspects of child development, is consistent with the classic "Nature through Nurture" theory. That is, all children have an in-built biological capacity to learn language within the context of environment.

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Workplace discrimination and perceived bias against Latino workers

The fact that Latinos experience discrimination in the workforce is not disputed, and this paper will point to research that provides verifiable data on that subject.

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Comparing the APA ethical code and Saint Leo University's general education program

We will compare the two codes by highlighting the similarities as well as the differences that exist between both programs.

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