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Gender roles and inequality in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre

A whole array of classical English, Russian, Polish and French writers populated my parent's library and I owe a great deal of my understanding of the world and my formation later in life to those books.

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Female reproductive choice and human sexual evolution

Since Darwin first posited his theory of evolution via natural selection, the field of human evolutionary psychology has grown from the realm of mere speculation into an entire branch of academic research capable of explaining myriad elements of modern behavior.

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Comparing Myers-Briggs, Rorschach, and self-help books for personality assessment

Human personality assessment is a field that encompasses peer-reviewed concepts and techniques as well as pseudo-scientific theories that are untested, and of dubious value.

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Alfred Adler's theory of individual perfection and future-oriented motivation

Alfred Adler was an Austrian psychologist born in 1870 who died of a heart attack in 1937. He argued, intriguingly, that all motivation is a product of a singular drive to achieve individual perfection or a personal ideal (Boeree, 2006).

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How friendship closeness affects communication success perceptions

How is the research described in your chosen article an example of social psychology? Social psychology is often seen as the study of how people's feelings, outlooks, and behaviors are influenced by the definite, likely, or indirect presence of others.

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Defining emotions and major psychological theories of emotion

In this paper, we have chosen to discuss on the topic of emotions in the field of psychology. We will discuss many different aspects in describing the definition of emotions and will also argue on various types of emotions like being excited, happy, sad, angry, scared, tender and so on.

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Karen Horney's theory of self-actualization and neurosis

Karen Horney was a leading reformer and theorist in the field of psychology and psychoanalysis. One of the first major proponents of feminine psychology, Horney's ideas can be considered neo-Freudian. Horney was much concerned with the concept of Self-Actualization.

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Psychological principles in television, advertising, employment, and the legal system

Typically when one hears the word "psychology" one immediately is drawn to thoughts of psychotherapy, people on a couch, Sigmund Freud like analysts using terms like "how does that make you feel?" And similar associations.

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Biological and evolutionary explanations of criminal behavior

Criminal behavior has been the subject of interest for psychologists for a very long time. In a manner, it is quite intriguing question that what are the reasons and causes that lead a person to display criminal behavior. Many theories have been presented over the decades to answer this question.

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Psychological approaches to defining religion in counseling practice

It is difficult to marry two very different systems and try to use one to explain the other.

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