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Self-handicapping in academic performance and student behavior

Urdan, Tim, and Carol Midgley. 2001. "Academic Self-Handicapping: What We Know; What More There Is to Learn." Educational Psychology Review 12:2, 115-130.

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Sigmund Freud and the foundations of psychoanalysis

Sigmund Freud is the undisputed father of psychoanalysis. Should this statement seem to contradict assertions regarding the age-old status of psychology, it must be clarified that Freud was the first theorist to formalize the process of analysis, a practice that is not used in all modalities of…

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Gender discrimination in the workplace: evidence and case studies

Maltby Lauren E., Elizabeth Lewis, and Tamara Anderson. "Women and Work: Supporting Female Colleagues in Psychology." Journal of Psychology and Christianity, 28.3 (2009): 72-79. Print.

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Psychodynamic and cognitive perspectives on personality theory and research

Describe and discuss the basic characteristics, tenets and methods of investigation/research for psychodynamic and cognitive perspectives regarding personality psychology, and the benefits/strengths and limitations/weaknesses of each approach.

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Play therapy and emotional development in Dibs in Search of Self

Dibs in Search of Self by Virginia Mae Axline is such a profoundly interesting book because it demonstrates one of the most challenging cases I've ever encountered within the realm of child psychology and an effective yet, gradual method of dealing with this case.

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Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences in education

The theory of multiple intelligences is a good way to explain the different ways that people learn. This theory has been used in education, psychology and business to help people understand how they learn, and how others learn.

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Managers' stereotypic perceptions of women and men leaders

Psychologists who are in management would receive the most benefit from the information and articles provided in the journal. The articles contained in it would generally not be of interest to anyone who was outside the field of academic psychology.

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Big data analytics in Obama's 2012 presidential campaign strategy

The volumes, rapid velocity and variation of data otherwise referred to as Big Data has been used in the electioneering process especially in terms of directing the trends of voter psychology and the subsequent voting patterns, a specific example being the Obama reelection process that took more of…

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Embodied cognition theory and its psychological implications

The embodied cognition movement: What is it and what is its significance? The embodied cognition movement in psychology and philosophy seeks to challenge the conventional ways in which the mind-body connection is viewed.

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Emotional skillfulness and intimate safety in marital satisfaction

This report discusses the 2005 paper by Cordova, Zee, and Warren addresses "Emotional Skillfulness in Marriage: Intimacy as a Mediator of the Relationship between Emotional Skillfulness and Marital Satisfaction," from The Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology.

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