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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Psychological studies"”.
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Die repräsentation der männlichkeit in Fassbinders Lola
… the definition of masculinity. Sociological and psychological studies have been referenced, in particular feminist, gender and current men's studies. The German director,·Rainer Werner Fassbinder's life and work are briefly illustrated to gain an insight into the main themes in his films. Lola …
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English Literature's Father of Authorial Androgyny: The Innovative Perspective of Chaucer and the Wife of Bath
… Tale,” I will argue that the Wife of Bath is a psychologically androgynous character. Moreover, I will assert that Chaucer, through his creation and deployment of the Wife of Bath, exhibits authorial androgyny. To support these observations and claims, I consider historical context, …
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Attitudes towards cosmetic surgery among Icelanders
… increased substantially the last few decades and psychological studies have increased accordingly. However, a lot can be added to the limited literature available. The aim of the study was to examine the attitudes towards cosmetic surgery among Icelanders with regard to the participants’ …
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Time perspective: its link to personality traits, age, and gender /
In Lithuania, as well as in other countries, psychological studies on time perspective are still making their first steps. Currently, no theoretical paradigm is extensive enough to serve well as a basis for further fundamental and applied research in this field. The goal of this study was to …
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Suicidal behaviour
… about him. His individuality denied, in many psychological studies man becomes a cipher. Science demands useful generalisations, and psychiatry is in part so unsatisfactory in discipline precisely because human life is complex. To affect an impression of simplicity when encountering …
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Design and Development of the Self-Efficacy for Musical Studies Scale
Scale development in psychological studies is an area of intense growth (Clark & Watson, 1995). This report builds upon academic interest in the value of producing viable measurement tools. The purpose of this research project was to evaluate a self-efficacy measurement scale intended to determine …
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Discovering the heart's truth : female initiation in the novels of Eudora Welty
… identifies in anthropological, mythological, and psychological studies--the loss of innocence (discovery of evil), crisis and confrontation, the gaining of wisdom however painful, becoming an outcast, yet reuniting with the community--she also adds her own elements regarding female initiation-an …
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A study of the detrimental impact of rape mythologies and victim stereotypes in the application of character evidence in jury trials in England and Wales
… evidence in rape trials and to utilise the psychological research behind cognition and perception to help explain why it is important that the law re-examine how it handles these topics. It is the combination of science with law and society that helps bridge a gap that exists in the current …
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"The worry that you are yourself": Darl's unforgivable neurodiversity in As I lay dying
… which the critics regard Darl. Sociological and psychological studies are used to provide scaffolding for the discussion of mental illness. The goal of conflating 21st - century social psychology with 20th-century literature is to condemn the atrocities committed against the character of Darl …
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Accounting for transsexualism
… other societies, recent biological, social and psychological studies on gendered and cross gendered behaviour, a medical history of transsexualism and 'sex reassignment surgery'. Psychological 'frames' for the study of cross gendered careers are derived from attributional theories, and symbolic …
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Empirical study of the aesthetic functionality on color trademarks
… address the first and second problems. I review psychological and economic research--psychological studies of color effects and economic measures of anticompetitive costs--to improve the process of diagnosing a color’s de-facto advantages and evaluating alternative colors’ substitutability. At …
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Ariadne's threads of identity : foreshadowing of social and individual identity theories in John Dos Passos' U.S.A.
… this struggle we see the foreshadowing of future psychological studies: the beginnings of identity theory. What I shall demonstrate is that through the work of John Dos Passos, connections can be made between the U.S.A. characters of Mac, J. Ward Moorehouse, Eveline Hutchins, and March French and …
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Association between the magnitude of the immune response and recurrent major depression disorder in humans and depression-like behavior in animals
… a series of three complimentary cross-species studies was conducted. Study 1 examined the associations between circulating levels of inflammatory markers and <em>in vitro</em> immune reactivity with women’s history of recurrent MDD (rMDD) and their current symptoms of anhedonia. The potential …
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AMD, analysis of mood dysregulation : a machine learning approach
… statement can be true with repeated exposures to psychological mood dysregulation, which can lead to or worsen stress related conditions such as heart disease and cancer. Therefore, mobile ambulatory assessment systems are actively being developed for various psychological studies. However, to the …
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Simulating Univariate and Multivariate Burr Type III and Type XII Distributions Through the Method of L-Moments
… (e.g., Skew and Kurtosis). In educational and psychological studies, the Burr families of distributions can be used to simulate extremely asymmetrical and heavy-tailed non-normal distributions. Conventional moment-based estimators (i.e., the mean, variance, skew, and kurtosis) are traditionally …
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Explanation for the cognitively bounded : psychology and the pragmatics of explanation /
… explanation. This dissertation brings recent psychological research on explanation to bear on audience-centered theories of explanation. I argue that psychological studies about explanation yield insights about the nature of explanation that are best captured if we assume that audiences are …
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Ideological dilemmas of alcoholics anonymous and narcotics anonymous recovery
… self and ethical selfgovernance. Other recent psychological studies have arrived at similar findings. AA/NA may, then, possess values that are more closely aligned with the humanistic ethic that informs counselling psychology and psychotherapy than is sometimes supposed. This is significant, …
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Combatting Anti-Indigenous Prejudice Through Imagined Contact: A Mixed-Methods Investigation
… legacy of colonialism. To date, no social psychological studies have examined techniques that could reduce this prejudice and its correlates in a Canadian context. To address this gap, an experimental study drawing on the imagined contact hypothesis was conducted. Participants (N = 307) …
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War on architecture : scenographic strategies in tracing post-war home in the former SFR Yugoslavia
… in the wars of the 1990s. It establishes case studies and frameworks for examining sites according to the significance of ‘home’ - before, during and after acts of violence. The research questions the aims, meanings and consequences of the phenomenon of violence against domestic space, in the …
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Language and behaviour : pragmatics and parole
… and social cognitive research, contemporary psychological studies, and burgeoning interdisciplinary explorations toward connections between language and behaviour. It innovates by assessing pragmatic dimensions of language in naturally-occurring, high-stakes data, and is able to go further as …
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