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Falun Gong meditation and personal identity development

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Community policing success and challenges in police-community relations

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Critical period hypothesis and age effects on language acquisition

The critical period for learning language has been shown by research that examined the fluency of non-native English speakers according to their age upon arrival in the United States.

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Cross-cultural organizational values at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Jude hospital is one of the leading research hospitals helping to find ways of dealing with and managing childhood cancer (St. Jude Hospital, 2015). The Hospital has spent over 50 years in finding cures and helping children to live to adulthood.

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Ethics of Using Animals in Psychological Research

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Gender Identity, Nature vs. Nurture, and the Brenda/David Case

Explores gender identity formation through biology and socialization, analyzing the Brenda/David case from John Colapinto's As Nature Made Him.

Psychology

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Leadership style and psychological strengths in organizational change

This website offers a serious, research-based assessment of some of the ways in which management style and decision-making strategy affect people's willingness to follow a leader. This seems to be an aspect of leadership that is often overlooked, especially within the literature of management.

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Barbie's effect on body image in young girls

The purpose of this paper is to critically review research published by Dittmar, Halliwell, and Ive (2006) on the effects Barbie has on the body image of five- to eight-year-old girls.

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Stress management techniques and their effects on health outcomes

Stress is a significant part of daily life for most people. It can take its toll on a person if he or she does not understand good techniques that can be used to mitigate its effects.

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Conversational patterns and relationship dynamics in elderly couples

To have the opportunity to observe elderly individuals in the latter stages of life, the observer arranged to have dinner during the "early-bird" discount period at a local restaurant where retirement-age people typically frequent the establishment.

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