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Children's identification with aggressive media characters and violent video games

This statement pretty much shows us how children, in this case a seven-year-old, copes or reduces his own fear by pretending he is Freddy Krueger. The child concludes that through this mechanism, he successfully overcomes the feeling of being scared.

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Reality therapy and other counseling strategies for substance abuse

"This is your brain. This is your brain on drugs." "Don't drink and drive." The slogans are familiar, yet these Madison Avenue buzzwords have not eradicated the problem of substance abuse in American society -- or the problem of substance abuse around the world.

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Causes and psychological effects of intergenerational versus isolated abuse

An Investigation and Analysis of the Common Identified Causes and Effects of Intergenerational Abuse Intergenerational abuse, abuse that appears to be an inherited behavior passed from one generation in a family or other close relationship of individuals to the next, has been identified as a major…

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Socio-economic status disparities by age and gender in the United States and Japan

As defined in the Merriam-Webster dictionary, status is a person's position or rank relative to others. It also refers to the condition of a person as seen by society. In general, people refer to socio-economic status or income status when talking about status.

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Strategic management, benchmarking, and leadership styles in public institutions

The objective of this work is to examine strategic management and the essential elements of strategic planning and to examine the concept behind benchmarking and how benchmarking can achieve the improvement of public sector efficiency and effectiveness.

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The internal contradiction of the FCC's current indecency standards

FCC indecency enforcement proceedings and the First Amendment: The programmers of television content have become increasingly comfortable with a certain degree of explicitness not formerly considered acceptable on the airwaves.

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Four motivation theories applied to the Whinslo Ltd. case study

Motivating employees is one of the most essential tasks for any manager, and can be a difficult one to approach. At the Whinslo Ltd. company as presented in the case study, Lesley Watt has felt a definite lack of motivation, and a large part of the fault rests with her boss, Mr. Foreman.

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Psychological and behavioral effects of parental divorce on children

Before going any further, I believe that it is fitting to first introduce the concept of divorce. In the context of social sciences, divorce is known to be a "definite crisis period during which the nuclear family disintegrates.

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Stokols et al.'s study on environmental support for workplace creativity

In the article entitled, "Qualities of Work Environments that Promote Perceived Support for Creativity," author Daniel Stokols et. al. (2002) probed into the phenomenon of promotion of creativity as resulting to quality work environments.

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Procrastination as a self-perpetuating problem and its solutions

One of the biggest problems I face in my day-to-day life is my procrastination. I am not lazy; it often feels as though I have too much to and I am almost always working on something.

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