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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"American psychology"”.
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A loss of will: "Arminianism," nonsectarianism, and the erosion of American psychology's moral project, 1636--1890
<p>The concept of "the will" dominated American moral psychology for nearly three centuries. To possess a will was, among other things, to be made in the image of God and to have moral responsibility. College textbooks, as tools of moral inculcation, conveyed this moral psychology from the …
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Contextualized Risk Assessment in Clinical Practice: Utility of Actuarial, Clinical, and Structured Clinical Approaches to Predictions of Violence.
… and doctoral students attending the American Psychology Law Society conference were asked to make several ratings regarding the likelihood of future sexual and nonsexual violence based on data derived from actual defendants with known outcomes. Using a mixed factorial design, each of …
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Intergenerational influences of second-generation Chinese American academic and career exploration : using a career genogram as a guiding tool
… have explored career decision making for Asian- Americans, there is much less qualitative research on their lived experiences, particularly regarding intersectionalities such as second-generation immigrants. Using the Asian American Psychology of Working Theory (AAPWT; Tu & Okazaki, 2021) as a …
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Personal Politics: The Rise of Personality Traits in the Century of Eugenics and Psychoanalysis
This dissertation documents personality psychologys development alongside psychoanalysis and eugenics, offering a disciplinary and cultural history of personality across the twentieth century. Using the psychological concepts of neurosis and introversion as an organizational framework, personalitys …
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Outside looking in: case studies of the effects of study abroad on female African American university students’ identities
… theory. Therefore this study uses African American psychologists (instead of White psychologists) to examine the participants’ understanding of their identity. Specifically I utilise intersectionality and Africentric theory to understand how these women regard themselves in relation to …
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Jungian dream analysis and the prose of Jorge Luis Borges
The purpose of this study is twofold. First, it attempts to provide the basis for an approach to literature according to the psychological theories of Carl Gustav Jung. Second, because Borgesian criticism lacks a psychological dimension, the thesis attempts to fill the gap by furnishing a …
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Social Identity, Scientific Practice, and the Production of Social Knowledge: An Ethnographic Investigation of American Social Psychology Laboratories
… everyday life. Therefore, the science of social psychology—influential due to its impact in education, social and public policy, and the law—rightfully foregrounds the presence of social identity categories in the theorizing and empirical work of the discipline. Many researchers consider social …
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Buffering Effect of Relational Support in African American Marriages
… is a common experience for African Americans in this country. Racial discrimination can have a negative effect on the physical and mental health of marital partners, as well the quality and stability of the relationship. Few studies investigate relational support as an important …
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Co-Constructing Cultural Attunement with Latino Clients in Couple Therapy
… for couple’s therapy with Mexican/ Mexican-American people (Falicov, 2009). However, there have been few theoretical frameworks to conceptualize cultural attunement, and attunement has been primarily understood as a skill or as an attitude rather than as a relationship or as a series of …