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Parental affection and adult heterosexual relationship development

Affection is considered to be the characteristics of the human mind that is frequently connected with feelings and emotions of love. In terms of psychology, it is defined as an emotion or the state of mind, in which the human mind connects with another human mind on basis of love.

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Spiritual community and mission statements in Pipes and Lee's family counseling approach

Pipes, Jerry & Victor Lee. (1999). Family to family. Alpharetta: North American Mission Board, The Christian-focused psychology text Family to family offers family counseling with a spiritual orientation.

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Online versus traditional personnel selection methods in Fortune 100 firms

Piotrowski, C. & Armstrong, T. (2006). Current Recruitment and Selection Practices: A National Survey of Fortune 100 Firms. North American Journal of Psychology, 4(3), 489-496.

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Lacan's mirror stage theory in Poe's "The Purloined Letter"

Edgar Allen Poe's short mystery story "The Purloined Letter" offers an ideal location in which apply some of Jacques Lacan's theories regarding human psychology, and in particular his theory of identification outlined in the essay "The Mirror Stage as Formative of the I Function." Although Lacan is…

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Classroom social networks and student academic adjustment

Van Rossem, R. & Vermande, M. M (2004). Classroom Roles and School Adjustment. Social Psychology Quarterly, 67(4):396-411.

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The role of attitudes and job satisfaction in organizational behavior

What is Organizational Behavior? The foundations of organizational behavior are predicated on the best practices from the fields of psychology, social psychology, sociology and anthropology.

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Descartes and Spinoza on mind-body dualism

There can be little doubt that Rene Descartes' role in the emergence of modern science was instrumental in the perception of a definition of psychology being at variance with that which was existent during the time of St. Thomas Aquinas and Aristotle.

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John B. Watson's behaviorism and infant motor development conditioning

Motor development and developmental behavior analysis is an important behavior related concept and much of the profound work on this field has been done by John. B. Watson. Behaviorism which can also be termed as learning perspective is regarded as a philosophy of psychology.

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Web-based resources and etiology of emotional behavioral disorder

American Psychological Association (APA). http://www.apa.org/. APA is a scientific and professional organization that represents psychology in the United States.

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Informed consent in psychotherapy and group development transitional stages

Fisher, C. And Oransky, M. (2008). Informed Consent to Psychotherapy: Protecting the Dignity and Respecting the Autonomy of Patients. Journal of Clinical Psychology in Session. 64 (5): 576-88.

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