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The psychology of insight
Dissertation (Ph.D.)--University of Kansas, Philosophy, 1932.
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Counselling Psychology of Infertility
The central theme of this thesis is infertility. It links different areas of my work as a chartered counselling psychologist working with clients experiencing difficulties conceiving. I currently work in private practice specialising in this area. Previously I worked as an NF counsellor at the …
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Søren Kierkegaard's religious psychology of melancholy
Part One deals with social and historical aspects of melancholy in relation to the emergence of modernity. It is argued that one way of understanding modernity is in terms of the emergence of a characteristic world view associated with Copernicanism, and that this transformation 'from the closed …
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The psychology of physical risk taking behaviour
This study investigates the psychology of risk taking, and in particular the personality profiles associated with different physical risk taking behaviours. It was hypothesised that there may be three fundamental approaches to risk: 'Risk avoiders' avoid activities they perceive to contain risk, …
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The Psychology of Driving on Rural Roads
… road category with regard to the number of fatal accidents. In order to increase traffic safety on rural roads it is necessary to take into account not only their inherent properties but also their effect on behaviour. Gert Weller develops a psychological model for driving on rural roads …
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The Psychology of Anxiety & Pain in Fibromyalgia
… a chronic musculoskeletal pain condition of undetermined aetiology, and for which no single successful medical therapy exists. Most of what is known about fibromyalgia pain comes from psychophysical research of central sensitisation, a phenomenon of abnormally amplified pain following …
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Human knowing in the psychology of Jung
Abstract not available.
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Psychology of Learning and the College Teacher
… in DSpace on 2014-12-10T18:46:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7317236.pdf: 3654068 bytes, checksum: 3726311f9eb944d8e22d607e77f74fe8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1972
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Investigations linking the philosophy and psychology of mathematics
Recent progress in the field of cognitive science, specifically with respect to mathematical cognition, along with the turn in the philosophy of mathematics to a focus on mathematical practice, make for a great opportunity for interdisciplinary work that brings together the cognitive science of …
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Stress: the physiology and psychology of a training situation.
… aimed to assess the psychophysiological effects of offshore survival training, and to investigate whether responses of trainees differed according to age. A group of 99 subjects, randomly selected from across a wide age range, volunteered and subsequently were monitored during the training. The …
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Truth as Relationship: The Psychology of E. Graham Howe
Dr. Eric Graham Howe (d. 1975) was one of the most important psychologists in early 20th century Britain. Yet, for the most part, his work is relatively unknown. Howe was unjustly dismissed by the psychoanalytic community of his time. Howe was not only left out of the history of psychoanalysis, but …
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The Psychology of Self-Surrender: A Contemplative-Hermeneutic Study
… examines the psycho-spiritual significance of self-surrender as a mode of being and experiencing. The author seeks to generate meaningful knowledge of self-surrender through a methodology that follows from the distinct nature of self-surrender as a psycho-spiritual/religious phenomenon that …
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The psychology of satire: Epicurean ethics in Horace's Sermones
This study examines the role of Greek philosophy, specifically the ethical doctrines of the Epicurean sect, in Horace’s satiric poetry. It endeavors to highlight the important influence of one of Horace’s contemporaries and neighbor in Italy, the Epicurean philosopher and poet Philodemus of Gadara. …
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The Moral Psychology of Implicit Bias: Interpretations, Obligations, and Responsibilities
… been used to scientifically explain a variety of broad social phenomena (e.g. persisting inequality between various demographic groups). My dissertation is focused on the relationships between scientific characterizations of implicit bias, our moral responsibility for it, and how these accounts …
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