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Multicultural practice and the renewal of humanistic psychology

Every discipline embraces particular values that reflect on the science or discipline itself, but that also reflect on the cultural context in which the discipline or science is primarily conducted.

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Colonel Russell Williams' criminal psychology and escalating pattern of violence

Camouflaged Killer: The Shocking Double Life of Colonel Russell Williams offers a thorough treatment of a disturbing story from both criminal psychology and criminal justice perspectives.

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Vinchur's chronological analysis of psychology in employee selection practices

History of Psychology Applied to Employee Selection" appears in Historical Perspectives in Industrial and Organizational Psychology. Although it is a chapter in the book, it provides detailed information and can be used as a stand-alone text in an analysis of the subject.

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Ethnographic research methods in organizational psychology

Qualitative research is conducted according to several different philosophical orientations, one of which is phenomenology. The science of phenomenology studies the consciousness of individuals according to a first-person point-of-view.

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Women's increasing participation in psychology from the 1970s onward

The research problem is clearly stated by the author and in this case, the article set out to investigate the change or the shift in gender composition of psychology and look at the implications or the effects of this shift to the subject of psychology.

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Scientific validity of contemplative psychology in clinical practice

My thoughts and feelings about contemplative psychology are somewhat conflicted. On the one hand, there are several tenets with this particular approach to psychology that I think are valid. However, I am not sure that many of them have a place in true psychology.

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The stepmother's psychology in Grimm's Cinderella story

According to Morrison and Thompson-Guppy, the difficulties of being accepted into a ready-made family can bring about a number of psychological issues yielding "a clinical picture similar to depressive illness," (521).

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The role of language and intelligence in psychology practice

The author of this report is to answer to two general questions relating to psychology and how much (or little) it interweaves with thinking, language and intelligence. Indeed, being able to process information and being able to prod patients in the right way is important.

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Mindfulness and third-wave psychology as alternatives to affirmations in life coaching

Affirmations and other signature practices of the self-help movement "are rarely based on even one iota of scientific evidence," (Williams, 2013).

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Psychobiography and political psychology's influence on individual radicalization

In the world of international relations, there are numerous ideas and concepts that are used to illustrate a certain kind of political psychology. This is focusing on the relationship of politics and psychology.

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