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Risk tolerance and cooperative behavior in the prisoner's dilemma

High Tolerance and Low Tolerance Risk-Taking Profile and Cooperator/Defector Prediction in the Prisoner's Dilemma Risk tolerance refers to the amount of risk one feels comfortable with in their business transactions. Everyone has a different risk tolerance profile.

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Mattaini and Lowery's multiple perspectives approach to social work practice

I have chosen to consider Mattaini's and Lowery's (2007) framework, which they call Perspectives for Practice, as a proxy for a model or theory of practice. For purposes of this document, I refer to Mattaini's and Lowery's framework as the multiple perspectives approach.

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The American Psychological Association's ethical principles and core values

The core values and ethical principles are a fundamental feature of any organization or profession. The purpose of ethical principles and core values is to facilitate the presence of guiding standards that are conducive to promoting honesty and integrity.

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Contrarian investment strategies and market reversal prediction

Over the last several decades a number of different investment strategies have evolved. All of them were designed to help investors be able to successfully time the up and down moves, that occur on the world equity markets.

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Interactions between the immune and nervous systems in human health

Interactions of the Human Immune System and Nervous System and their Implications on Biopsychology This paper presents information obtained through a review of current knowledge and literature in the areas of immune system response and general nervous system functioning in the human body, and the…

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Effects of childhood abuse on adolescent academic and social behavior

"A very disturbing secret is about to be exposed in downtown Sacramento. Make that several secrets. Secrets involving emotion, physical and sexual abuse.

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Diversity, personality development, and workplace management skills

During the second half of the 20th century, American social culture underwent tremendous change in relation to tolerance of diversity, particularly with respect to race, ethnicity, and culture of origin.

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Foucault's concept of authorship applied to Simone Martini's Saint John the Evangelist

Michel Foucault's essay "What is an author?" As its title suggests, Michel Foucault's essay "What is an author" questions traditional notions of Western authorship. Most individuals view 'the author' of a literary work as self-evident.

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Organizational change, stress, coping, and employee retention outcomes

Rafferty and Griffing (2006) note that there have been few studies that have identified the facets of organizational change that are important to individuals and influence well-being.

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Funeral rituals and psychological closure in grief recovery

Human societies represent myriad different cultures and social rituals but the degree to which they rely on those types of shared organized behaviors is much more consistent.

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