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Teaching "Bread and Jam for Frances" to preschool children

Bread and Jam for Frances is about a little badger named Frances who decides she only wants to eat bread and jam. Her parents let her have her way, using a bit of 'reverse psychology' on their daughter.

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Eyewitness testimony reliability and cross-racial identification in criminal cases

Eyewitness testimony, or the sworn oath of persons who believe they have witnesses a crime, or portion of a crime, has long been studied in both the fields of criminology and psychology.

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Why the Scientific Revolution couldn't occur in China

Ethno- or cultural-centricity can take many forms, and it is not simply in the realms studied by the "soft sciences" -- sociology, psychology, and other investigations of human action, motivation, and community -- that problems and biases from such thinking emerge.

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Technology and human consciousness in Robert Zemeckis's Contact

There are a slew of Hollywood movies that directly or indirectly address the role of technology and its impact on human society and individual psychology. From 2001: A Space Odyssey to Wall-E, films about technology cause viewers to think about their own relationship with machines.

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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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