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Showing 1 to 20 of 72 for “"compulsion"”.
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The Horror, the Horror: The Repetition and Compulsion of a Genre
… pose questions about the universal psychological compulsion for horror movies and their remakes. It proposes that repetition compulsion and regression to childhood are interlinked motivations for the repetitious nature and popularity of horror.
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New addictions, dependence or compulsion? Neuroscientific and Psychosocial aspects [Nuove dipendenze, dipendenza o compulsione? Aspetti neuroscientifici e psicosociali]
Questa tesi di dottorato si concentra sull'analisi delle nuove dipendenze comportamentali, con particolare attenzione alla dipendenza da Internet, nota come Internet Addiction Disorder (IAD). Il lavoro mira a esplorare i vari aspetti neuroscientifici e psicosociali di questo fenomeno emergente, con …
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"Compulsion": The Fictionalization of the Leopold-Loeb Case and the Struggle for Creative Control of "The Crime of the Century"
… sold to. This thesis focuses on Meyer Levin‘s Compulsion, as it made the journey from being the first “documentary novel” and bestselling book into a Broadway production, and the author‘s struggles to maintain control over his written work. The intent of this thesis is to examine the numerous …
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The compulsion of the apartheid regime, its demise and the advent of a new political dispensation in South Africa, 1948-1996
… some paucity of empirical studies on apartheid’s compulsion, its demise and the rise of a new political era during the period from 1948 to 1994. Puzzlement and curiosity within the public mind in South Africa and the world, about the gross violation of civil liberties perpetrated by the apartheid …
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The compulsion of the Apartheid regime, its demise and the advent of a new political dispensation in South Africa, 1948-1996
… some paucity of empirical studies on apartheid’s compulsion, its demise and the rise of a new political era during the period from 1948 to 1994. Puzzlement and curiosity within the public mind in South Africa and the world, about the gross violation of civil liberties perpetrated by the apartheid …
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Rethinking Son Preference : Gender, Population Dynamics and Social Change in the People’s Republic of China
… fertility rates, SRB can be used to model “son compulsion”, which denotes that parents want to give birth to at least one son and take action in order to meet that goal. However, as demonstrated, there is no direct link between son compulsion and the institution of son preference, since son …
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Spatial characteristics that create & sustain functional encounters: a new three-layered model for unpacking how street markets support urbanity
… ability for people to ‘act together without the compulsion to be the same’. The study draws together and builds on three strands of literature – public space, difference and social encounters – to propose a new model of urbanity that provides a conceptual link between the physical characteristics …
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The Map is not the Territory: The Unconscious Moral Agent and the personal mythopoeic in the novels of Cormac McCarthy
… the unconscious ‘may be laboring under a moral compulsion to educate us,’ is a provocative theory posed by Cormac McCarthy in his recent work of non-fiction, the Kekulé Problem. He suggests that, for several million years — long pre-dating the arrival of complex language — the unconscious has …
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Pure Immanence
… and personal implications derived from the compulsion of self-mutilation. It is studied through research creation in the form of sculpture, photographs, videos and bio-art. Three bodies of work will be discussed, beginning with a critique of medical objectification and concluding on the …
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Players' Preference For Losses Disguised As Wins In Keno: A Concurrent Choice Procedure
… to be problem gamblers (NCPG, 2014). This compulsion can have a detrimental impact on the pathological gambler’s life. One factor that has been considered to lead to this compulsive gambling is the loss disguised as a win (LDW). These LDWs have been shown to increase slot machine playing in …
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The Bombs Bursting In Air: A History Of The Effects of Atmospheric Nuclear Weapons Testing On Washington County, Utah, 1951-1963
… Therefore, the historical philosophy behind the compulsion to treat the deserts of the American Southwest (and the populations that inhabit them and the surrounding areas) as expendable resources, valuable only insofar as they serve economic, militaristic, or propagandistic purposes for the …
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An explorative study of social workers' knowledge, experience and approach to factitious disorder
Factitious disorder is characterised by a compulsion with an unconscious motivation to intentionally fabricate signs and symptoms of physical or psychological illness. Factitious disorder by proxy is a form of abuse which usually presents as a parent portraying their child as being ill. Factitious …
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An Examination of Internet Pornography Usage Among Male Students at Evangelical Christian Colleges
… the general literature on sexual addiction and compulsion and specific empirical literature about college student sexual addiction and sexual compulsion. The descriptive statistical results helped to answer the first research question and demonstrated that 79.3 percent of male undergraduate …
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Mastery learning and the essentials of critical care orientation : a heuristic participant evaluation
… outweigh feelings of accomplishment and yield a compulsion to leave critical care practice. Discussion includes implications of findings and results, recommendations for the ECCO program improvement, and concludes with suggestions for future research.</p>
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The mother-daughter conflict in selected works by Doris Lessing
… The younger woman's task is to resist the compulsion to become like her mother and so lead a narrow, entirely domesticated life. The theme of the mother-daughter conflict is given its first extensive examination in this study. Three of Lessing's works are analysed in detail, while brief …
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The Rhetoric of Gallows Humor: The Settler Colonial Unconscious in Reservation Dogs
… death drive,” defined as the unconscious compulsion within settler society to reproduce eliminatory logics that render Native life precarious. Through close textual and contextual analysis, I demonstrate how Reservation Dogs uses humor to expose these conditions while fostering survivance, …
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The function of repetition in typology
… typology, in parallel to the role of repetition (compulsion to repeat) in the mechanism of instinctual repression of the Freudian model. The analogy will not serve as a claim for the nature of the productive mechanism in architecture , but as a vehicle for the analysis of the participating forces …
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The Impact of Values Clarification and Expression of Beliefs on Dysfunctional Leadership among Church Lay Leaders
… was used to measure the degree of codependence, compulsion, paranoia, narcissism, and passive-aggression tendencies (described as dysfunctions) while the Modeling-the-Way Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI) Self was used to measure the degree one can clarify and authentically express values and …
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Monetary Effervescence: A Sociological Theory of Religion Applied to Money
… religious nature which provides the moral compulsion for people to use, and continue to uphold, money as a socially constructed concept. This project is primarily descriptive and focuses on the religious nature of money by employing a sociological theory of religion in viewing money as a …
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