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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Psychology- Philosophy"”.
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Virtue Resonance: Friendship in the Context of Adversity
… In Part I, I provide an overview of positive psychology, and how my capstone topic fits into the science of well being. In Part II I gather the research and literature on friendship from positive psychology, philosophy and evolutionary psychology and bring forward their wisdom on how adversity …
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The Therapist's Emotional Experience: A Compass to Navigate Therapy with Eating Disordered Clients
… and practitioner perspective using counselling psychology philosophy to understand and enlighten the therapeutic process when working with these clients. Rizq (2005) said that counselling psychology concentrates on two aspects in therapy, as it promotes the use of the therapist’s self as a tool …
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Exploring fathers' experience of behavioural family therapy
… in this field, with reference to counselling psychology philosophy. The findings highlighted specific reservations fathers have about the process of family therapy, and drew attention to the significance of engaging fathers in family interventions. This study contributes to knowledge by …
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Boredom Escapes Us: A Cultural Collage in Eleven Storeys
… in the subject and experience of boredom from psychology, philosophy, the arts and popular culture. Classical sociological concepts of alienation, anomie and disenchantment are related to boredom, but do not address it directly. The history of the word boredom itself is not clear, though it …
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The nature of temptation and its role in the development of moral virtue: an exploration in analytic moral theology
… This study aims to fill this gap in moral philosophy and theology by offering an analytic moral conception of temptation and explicating its connection to the development of virtue. This project deploys a new iteration of an older methodology of integrating philosophy and theology that may …
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Online Social Networks News Spreading: Modeling and Data Analysis
… The topic is of interest in multiple areas: psychology, philosophy, politics, marketing, business, finances, and so on. Social networks are constantly modifying the way users create, share and consume information, and were become powerful instruments for understanding social trends and the …
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Modeling social norms in real-world agent-based simulations
… studies have been a classic topic in sociology, psychology, philosophy and law. Various theories have been put forth about the functioning of social norms. Although an extensive amount of research on norms has been performed during the recent years, there remains a significant gap between current …
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Non-Being and Memory: A Critique of Pure Difference in Derrida and Deleuze
The psychology philosophy split has restricted viable readings of today's psychological research. My project (within the philosophy of psychology) is to provide these readings. Specifically, in this dissertation I analyze the data and the interpretations of a large number of contemporary memory …
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A synthesis of the reflective and scientific counselling psychologist practitioner: dynamics in research, practice, and clinical supervision
… participants from various schools of training (psychology, psychotherapy, and counselling). Collectively, these views helped in the construction of a new ‘therapist awareness therapeutic alliance scale’ tested through exploratory factor analysis (EFA). A mixed qualitative and quantitative …
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A holistic view of the creative potential of performance practice in contemporary music
… basis for my investigation from the fields of psychology, philosophy, media science and sociology, together with the evaluation of my own and other artists’ performance practice. In this way I hope to develop an academic foundation and a comprehensive, systematic approach that can be applied to …
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Memoria e forme dell'esperienza: dalla filosofia alla psicologia
Il tema della memoria umana è oggetto d’interesse di differenti discipline, quali la filosofia, le scienze umane e la psicologia le quali hanno contribuito ad arricchirne il significato. Non esiste una definizione precisa ed ultima della memoria: ci riferiamo a essa parlando di ricordi, quando …
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The Attribution of Intentionality in Relation to Culture and Self
… of intentionality. In addition, studies in philosophy have implicated the self as influential in the perception of intentionality. The self is also a product of culture and cultural value orientations (e.g. individualism and collectivism). Markus and Kitayama (1991) identified two construals …
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Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation: Abraham Lincoln as an Adult Learner
<p>Over the last two decades, research has identified factors that foster versus undermine human motivation and well being with important implications for learning and performance. Much of the research is concerned with intrinsic versus extrinsic motivation and autonomous versus non-autonomous …
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From Case Study as Symptom to Case Study as Sinthome: Engaging Lacan and Irigaray on "Thinking in Cases" as Psychoanalytic Pedagogy
<p>This dissertation accomplishes two goals. First, this dissertation articulates a Lacanian account of the epistemological and historical presuppositions of the psychoanalytic case study genre, while engaging reflexively with extant Foucauldian scholarship on this genre as well as feminist …
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Syntax and Semantics of Perceptual Representation
<p>This dissertation is a defense of <em>perceptual pluralism</em>, the thesis that perceptual systems deliver multiple types of representations including those used in thought. In particular, it argues that perceptual systems output iconic (i.e., image-like, analog) representations as well as …
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The Death Drive Revisited: A Reexamination of Psychoanalytic Drive Theory and its Implications for Critical Theory
This dissertation is a reexamination of Sigmund Freud's mature drive theory, also known as his theory of the death drive, and its relevance for critical social theory, and in particular that of the so-called "Frankfurt school." By tracing the emergence of Freud's theory in his enigmatic Beyond the …
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Motivation in organisations : the need for a critical systemic approach
The purpose of this thesis is to evaluate by critical consideration the suitability of various approaches of inquiry for exploring and enhancing motivation intervention in contemporary organisations; in particular, to spell out the need for a critical systemic approach of inquiry in relation to a …
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The Moral Psychology of Implicit Bias: Interpretations, Obligations, and Responsibilities
In recent years, psychologists have developed indirect measures to observe unconscious prejudices that diverge from the egalitarian views directly reported by test subjects. This unconscious prejudice is termed implicit bias. It has been used to scientifically explain a variety of broad social …
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Inherited Ontologies and the Relations between Philosophy of Mind and the Empirical Cognitive Sciences
A productive relationship between the philosophy of mind and the empirical cognitive sciences not only is possible, but also is pursued productively by practitioners from both sides. In the first two chapters, I consider two examples of sets of concepts (“folk psychology” and the “architecture of …
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