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Cultural competency in counseling an African-American male client

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Cloninger's hypothesis and the addictive personality concept in Berglund et al.

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The social power of language: humor, hate speech, and manipulation

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Church congregation's influence on spiritual development and self-control in young children

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Validity, utility, and fairness in comprehensive and compensatory staffing selection systems

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Job performance evaluation for retail shop attendants using rating scales

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Hopf et al.'s longitudinal study of media violence and juvenile delinquency

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Threats to internal validity in a residential reading intervention study

Is maturation a possible threat to the internal validity of the study? Why or why not? For measures of academic achievement, six months (which is the intended length of the study) is not a long enough period of time to be very concerned about maturation as a threat to internal validity.

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The difference between playing and coaching in sports

Coaching vs. playing: What is the difference? One of the paradoxes of coaching is that many great players have gone on to become mediocre or ineffectual coaches while many mediocre or ineffectual players of the game went on to become great coaches. Coaching requires different skills than playing.

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