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Spirituality as individual experience beyond the physical

Kessler defines spirituality as a phenomenon that takes human psychology beyond the level of physiological concerns. Importantly, he also defines religion as "one" form of spirituality, rather than equating it with spirituality.

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Patient care simulations and role-playing in nursing education

I once attended a continuing education lecture in the area of psychology where the lecturer made use of a multiple choice clicker. He used a multiple choice clicker in order to measure class opinion and performance on certain questions.

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Nature and nurture's influence on personality and self-confidence

Since the inception and throughout the existence of the field of psychology, the nature vs. nurture debate has been a topic of huge controversy. While nature is described as the heredity factors i.e.

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Robert Cialdini's "Influence": psychological principles of persuasion

Robert Cialdini, a psychology professor at Arizona State University, applies his technical background to the task of explaining in everyday terms a subject that impacts all of us: persuasion, and the psychological principles that make it work.

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Psychological and biological factors in violent crowd formation

The phenomenon of violent crowds proves a vexing problem for psychology, biology, and sociology, because the ostensible reasons behind the formation of a violent crowd seem entirely unrelated.

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Comparing emotional intelligence and IQ in education

One of the most difficult concepts in education and psychology to define is that of human intelligence. Theories abound as to what constitutes human intelligence and the resulting definitions vary to a great extent.

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Parental influence on children's behavior and eating habits

Stephen Everson (1991) writes, "Psychology is, as one might expect, an ancient discipline.

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Communication as an interdisciplinary field of study

Therefore, psychology and sociology grew as a discipline in the 1800s because of the evolution of trends in society and culture.

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Psychological suffering and obsession in Sandra Cisneros's "Never Love A Mexican"

Sandra Cisneros provides a thorough excavation into the psychology of a mistress in her short story "Never Love A Mexican." This prolonged look into the pathology involved in constantly being a secondary, and never the primary, woman in a lover's life, leads the reader to some fairly scary…

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Carl Jung's personality type theory and introversion-extroversion attitudes

Carl Gustav Jung is a well-known pioneer of analytical psychology who was born in 1875 in Kesswil, Switzerland and the only child of a Swiss clergyman.

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