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Authoritarian versus authoritative parenting and children's psychological adjustment

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Idiographic and nomothetic approaches in psychological assessment and clinical practice

As noted in Caltabiano & Shellshear (1998), there is a wide range of idiographic differences in terms of food preferences. Although cultural differences clearly affect food likes and dislikes, even within a culture such as ours there is a wide range of preferences.

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Max Nordau's analysis of Jewish psychological oppression and Zionist nationalism

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Effects of corporal punishment and psychological treatment on student behavior

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Henry James's "The Turn of the Screw": ambiguity and psychological interpretation

Screw by Henry James, due to its ambiguity and obscurity, is considerably one of literature's earliest focal points of New Criticism. This revered "Ghost Story" raised much a stink throughout the early part of last century (Publication date: 1898).

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Understanding addiction through biological, psychological, and social factors

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Peter Fonagy's research on infant attachment and psychological development

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Mandatory treatment for mentally ill individuals: social and psychological justification

Mental illness has long suffered the stigma of being an incurable kind of illness among humans; however, this stigma did not become strongly associated with the fact that mental illness is a human psychological condition that should receive mandatory treatment.

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Biological, sociological and psychological theories of crime causation

The Biological Theory of crime causation states that individuals commit crimes for the reason of genetic, biochemical, or neurological shortages (VonFrederick Rawlins, 2005). Early biological theories saw criminal activities as the consequence of a defect in a person.

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The September 11 attacks and modern terrorism's psychological impact

As Russian revolutionist Leon Tolstoy once said: "kill one, intimidate one thousand." In the modern world, the idea of terrorism has moved from the overt spark that caused World War I to the events of September 11, 2001.

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