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Gender differences in inmate reactions to prison confinement over time

Reactions of Male and Female Inmates to Prison Confinement -- Further Evidence for a Two-Component Model Male and female inmates were tested for reactions to prison confinement from the initial stages of incarceration and then again after four months.

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Interview with Ralph about reckless driving and tragedy

This interview took place in the second week of March 2012, on the front porch of a house where "Ralph" lives with his parents. The parents were out of town and I ran a digital recorder after promising him his real name would not be used.

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Expressive writing and romantic relationship stability in college couples

The writers assert that writing about one's emotional experiences is normally associated with many positive outcomes. The study thus tries to examine and analyze the social effects of writing through looking at reality of romantic relationships.

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Realistic depiction and character development in two memoirs

There are a number of admiral facets regarding memoir No. 2. The author did a highly credible, and realistic, job of depicting the streets and the sentiments that pervade the city of New York on its subway lines.

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Human learning styles and methods of knowledge acquisition

Learning - Learning has been integral to the survival and evolution of the human being. It is acquiring new, or modifying existing knowledge, behavior, skills, or values -- or even modifying past knowledge in a new manner.

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Albert Bandura's Bobo doll experiment and social learning theory

Few research psychologists have been as directly and as singularly influential in shaping the way we think about learning and behavior as Albert Bandura, and few single experiments have been as significant and noteworthy as the Bobo experiment he conducted with his colleagues in 1961.

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Cognitive dissonance and opinion change under forced compliance

The article presented for the purposes of this paper, below, is written by two Stanford University scholars and focuses, as one can see from the above title, on "Cognitive Consequence of Forced Compliance." While the title sounds very academic, and is deeply pensive, one must ask exactly what this…

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Common mistakes in correctional group leading

In "Common mistakes in correctional group leading," Jacobs and Spadaro discuss some of the challenges in leading a group in the correctional facility setting and how to avoid the common mistakes one finds in those settings.

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Information security behaviors and consumer behavior theory

Johnston and Warkentin (2010) for instance studied the influence of elements of fear appeal on the level of compliance of various end-users with the specific recommendations aimed at enacting specific individual IT security actions towards threat investigation.

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Nursing lesson plan for patient-centered maternity care education

Lesson Outline: View "The Business of Being Born" and discuss the perspective of consumer patients. Brainstorm ways that nurses can help bridge the gap described in the movie.

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