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Character anxiety and social integration in Allen, Moliere and Aristophanes

Woody Allen's characters tend to reflect the underlying anxiety of the existentialist world in the 20th century and especially during the 1960s and 1970s.

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Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems and their role in education

It is important for any teacher to understand that no child operates in isolation. A child's behavior for example can be influenced by environmental factors such as the parental home or the community at large.

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Contradictions in physical knowledge between infants and toddlers

Research involving very young children and their knowledge of visual events that are physically impossible vs. possible has been thus far contradictory.

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The development of the Myers-Briggs type indicator from Jungian theory

Myers Briggs Indicator test is based upon the psychological theories of Carl J. Jung, a contemporary and once student of Freud, and is among a group of several personality assessment tools that attempt to apply psychological theory to personality typing.

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The evolutionary basis of human mate selection

The concept of human love is ubiquitous to virtually all human social cultures and forms the basis of the nuclear family system.

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How gender, race, and culture shape individual worldviews

Worldviews shape personal values, identities, and priorities in life as well as relationships, career choices, behaviors, and cognitions. Religion, socioeconomic status, place of birth, culture, religion, and lifestyle all influence worldview.

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George Rekers' analysis of gender identity elimination in media and society

The site at http://www.leaderu.com/jhs/rekers.htm is sponsored by a George a. Rekers, Ph.D., whose academic credentials lend some credibility to the information on the site. Dr.

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Freud's theory of the id, ego, and superego in personality development

Sigmund Freud, who is one of the earliest psychologists, theorized personality development derived from his theories of the id, ego and superego and which focused on the unconscious and subconscious as agents of human behavior.

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The philosophical debate between free will and determinism

Free-will and determinism are issues of faith. Some people believe that each individual has unrestricted free-will to act as he or she chooses no matter the obligations or consequences of the act.

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Extrasensory perception: history, types, and scientific investigation

Extrasensory perception or ESP refers to a capability to receive external information through means or pathways not through the five physical senses (Ridgway 2008). The ordinary mind does not accept this concept because the world we live in is a physical world.

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