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Public trust, perceived vulnerability, and the psychology of rumor-driven panic

From the readings this week, it was easy to see that there are a number of ways people start to panic, often over issues that are really not threats to them.

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B.F. Skinner's contributions to behaviorism and psychology

All the early pioneers of behaviorism including Watson were important to the development of psychology as a social science (Moore, 2011).

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Rebecca's theory of child development: biology, psychology, and society

My Theory of Development My name is Rebecca, and I am currently a second-year student with a Bachelor of Education. My background is as a childcare worker and I have been working in childcare for five years.

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Spirituality, personality, and mental health in online psychology research

This study is being conducted by Dr. Human-Friedrich Unterrainer, Department of Psychology, Karl-Franzens, University Graz, Austria in collaboration with Heythrop College (University of London), United Kingdom. The Heythrop Ethics Review Board (University of London) approved of the study.

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Reliability, validity, and clinical assessment instruments in psychology

Why are reliability and validity important when choosing assessment instruments?

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Naturalistic observation, theory, and developmental risk in child psychology

The advantages of naturalistic observations are that they require researchers to draw their theories from 'real life' and the fact that empirical data can often challenge conventional wisdom.

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Gestalt therapy, thought suppression, and cognitive dissonance in social psychology

Gestalt therapy focuses on experiences in the present moment and relationships between individuals as a means of determining and healing psychological issues.

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Neil T. Anderson's approach to integrating theology and psychology in counseling

Anderson in his 2003 book of the same name. Discipleship counseling does not purport to replace traditional counseling relationships with church doctrine.

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Correspondence bias, cultural variations, and attribution errors in social psychology

Are there cultural variations in the correspondence bias? In the practice of social psychology, correspondence bias or also known as the theory of fundamental attribution error will refer to the over-valuing of explanations that are based from personality perspective under circumstantial…

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Experimental designs, statistics, and research methods in psychology

This paper describes different aspects of the experimental process. It discusses descriptive and inferential statistics; single case and small N. research designs; true experiments and experimental designs; and qausi-experiments.

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