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Showing 1 to 20 of 69 for “"Psychological literature"”.
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Loss separation termination : A portfolio on endings
… be explored. The issue of gender is prevalent in psychological literature. Such classification regarding reactions to relationship breakups is ambiguous and research should turn to individuals and relationships when exploring breakups.
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Comparison of Parafac2 and Tucker3 models using multiple personality data
… no publications of the usage of Parafac2 in the psychological literature. This thesis demonstrates the use of the Parafac2 model using multiple personality data published by Osgood & Luria (1954), just as Kroonenberg (1985) demonstrated the use of the Tucker3 model. In addition, the Parafac2 …
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Causal Inference: A New Name for an Old Concept?
… experimental designs by testing an idea from the psychological literature in a paradigm utilizing a cat behavior model from the neuroscience studies.
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Women’s Experience of Psychological Homelessness and Identity Management: A Portfolio of Research and Therapeutic Practice
… The empirical study is titled ‘Exploring psychological homelessness through the experience of Israeli women living in the UK’. This qualitative project explores a novel concept which has received almost no attention in the psychological literature. For this purpose, a population with a …
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Jewish Perspectives on Christian Privilege: a Consensual Qualitative Study
… to explore religiosity as a component of the psychological literature. Using Consensual Qualitative Research (CQR) the authors set out to gain an understanding of Christian privilege and the impact it has on Jewish Identity. A sample of 12 adult, American, non-Orthodox Jews were interviewed …
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Exploration of Atheism as a Diversity Issue and its Implications for Best Practice in Psychotherapy: Trajectories and Strengths
… with systemic nonbelief and sense of pride. Psychological literature has only begun to reflect the larger societal changes in perception and value over the past decade. As such, research has yet to adequately examine Atheism from a cultural perspective, creating an injustice in the …
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The fat of the land : sizeism in Canada
… and loathed condition in North America. The psychological literature has focused extensively on the stigmatization of obesity, but it has been relatively ignored in sociology. Studies typically involve questioning thin people, usually college students, about their feelings towards fatness. …
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Assimilative demands: The psychological impact of legal decisions on lesbians’ lives
… that has been absent from the empirical psychological literature, is the pressure to or act of downplaying characteristics associated with a stigmatized identity (Goffman, 1963). This research investigated the covering demand in lesbian-identified women drawing on four related …
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Perceptions of Mother-Daughter Relationships in the Art of Adult Incest Survivors
… of the collusive mother is pervasive in the psychological literature on incest. This notion has been further examined in this thesis which entails a critical study of the literature supporting the idea of the colluding mother in incestuous families. In addition, a field study was undertaken …
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Dialectics of Eco-anxiety: Encountering Uncertainty and Negotiating (Im)possible Futures
… This project will contribute to sociological and psychological literature on the nature of eco-anxiety and the process of coping with uncertainty to enhance understandings of the impact of eco-anxiety on individual and collective well-being. In closing with a discussion of the implications for …
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Stigmatized Space: Negative Heritage in Historic Preservation
… largely been borrowed from anthropological and psychological literature, are evaluated in terms of their clarity and applicability, and rewritten to tailor the concept — now widely disseminated but still poorly defined — to historic preservation discourse. Precedents in disparate contexts trace …
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“I will show you how great I am”: motivation from negative expectations
In three studies, I examined the psychological state of being energized by negative expectations of others. Although there is a large body of psychological literature available on the effects of expectancy beliefs that elicit behaviors consistent with those beliefs, relatively little attention has …
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Emotion regulation transmission in the context of parenting behaviors as predictors of adolescent substance use
… use is not clearly understood in extant psychological literature. The present study hypothesizes that parents transmit their emotion regulation skills to their adolescents via the mediator of parenting behaviors and that adolescents who are better emotion regulators are less likely to use …
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Exploring infertility through art
… the use of art to explore the psychogenic, psychological and physiological aspects of infertility and the psychosomatic avenues of expression possibly resulting in, or contributing to, infertility. The term psychogenic means "pertaining to disorders which are functional in origin" (Chaplin, …
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Shared education within Northern Ireland: a grounded theory study of integrated education
… study contributed to the body of integrated and psychological literature in making visible and modelling the views of pupils who are central to the whole concept of integrated education. It is suggested that integrated education in Northern Ireland can be a unique vehicle for change, that is an …
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Effects of Perceived Poverty and Chaotic Living Conditions on Externalizing Problems in At-Risk Adolescents
… both poverty and family dysfunction within the psychological literature; however, the distinction between the effects of objective poverty and perceived poverty on adolescent behavior is relatively new. The current study aimed at understanding the relationship between adolescents’ perceived …
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Machine Learning And Natural Language Methods For Detecting Psychopathy In Textual Data
… out major trends that appear in the classical psychological literature. I look at ways to meaningfully visualizing important features within the corpus and examine procedures for statistically comparing the use of function words of psychopaths versus non-psychopaths. Second, I use a “bag of …
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A theoretical investigation of motivational patterns in athletes
… attempted to replicate findings in the education psychological literature indicating that ego involvement and low perceived ability produce a ""helpless"" oriented response to difficulty and test theoretical predictions for effort, performance and intrinsic interest that have not received …
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Cognitive variability
Throughout psychological literature there are many, and ever increasing, references to a variable, usually presumed to be related to certain personality phenomena, which has~ been described as flexibility, fluidity, rigidity, perseveration, variability, and other similar terms. Generally, all these …
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