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Fowles's fifteen emotional appeals in advertising analysis

Emotional Appeals," JIB Fowles outlines that advertisers place emphasis on fifteen core emotional appeals. Advertisements can be analyzed on the basis of these appeals to understand how the advertiser is trying to reach consumers.

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The existence and nature of the criminal mind

Criminal Mind"? There is much controversy regarding the concept of a criminal mind and its existence, as while some prefer to believe that criminals can be corrected, others are certain that some individuals actually have a criminal mind, which is responsible for them being predisposed to…

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Neil T. Anderson's approach to integrating spiritual and secular counseling

Dr. Neil T. Anderson's book, Discipleship Counseling. In this book, the author explores the role of spiritual counseling in a secular world as well as the role of secular psychological treatment in spiritual health endeavors. They also explore the idea of mental health in both senses.

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Theoretical perspectives on the development of psychopathic personality disorder

"Psychopath" is a colloquial term that is often used in popular parlance and entertainment media to describe extremely deviant social behavior.

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Teaching strategies from Glasser and Redl and Wattenberg's classroom management approaches

Glasser indicates that teachers can be guilty of seven deadly habits, but must develop seven connecting habits instead. What can teachers do to ensure they develop these connecting habits?

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Comparing the Bender-Gestalt test and RBANS for neuropsychological assessment

The Bender Visual Motor Gestalt Test is one of the five or six most frequently-used tests of mental functioning.

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Siegfried Sassoon's "Suicide in the Trenches" and war trauma

Suicide in the Trenches by Siegfried Sassoon addresses the problems young men encountered during the First World War. Ironically, society hailed the broken spirits of these boys as heroes, while ignoring the deeper-lying problems that they brought home with them, if indeed they returned at all.

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Assumptions about human nature in psychological theories

What various assumptions about human nature do psychological theories make and from whence have these assumptions come? Different psychological theories make different assumptions about human nature.

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Physical attractiveness bias in the employment interview process

The modern business world is a social construct, where interaction between various group members of diversified power show patterns which can then be measured and used in predictors.

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Identity conflict and the Rwandan genocide

In 1994 the Rwandan genocide resulted in the death of hundreds of thousands of Rwanda's Tutsis and Hutu political moderates by Hutus. Estimates of the death toll have ranged between 500,000 and 1,000,000,

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