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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"individual psychology"”.
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Daimonion : A multi-disciplinary perspective on aggressive evil and its interconnection with individual psychology and criminal behavior
… and its understanding by connection to the inner psychology of the person and criminal behavior. The main theoretical sources of the present thesis come from the studies of P. Zimbardo on the good nature versus the evil nature of people, S. Milgram’s work on obedience to authority, H. Arendt’s …
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The Effect of Perceived Privacy Breaches on Continued Technology Use and Individual Psychology: The Construct, Instrument Development, and an Application Using Internet Search Engines
This dissertation involved the development of a new construct, perceived privacy breach (PPB), to evaluate how a person perceives breaches of privacy in terms of whether they perceive any exchange of information was fair or not and how they believe it will impact people whose information has been …
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Selective memory : ten short stories about avoidance
… and mood (the fantastical, the surreal) then by individual psychology or causality; and conventional realistic fiction, which explores character through that complex of social interrelations we have become accustomed to calling plot. Some methods used to avoid facing loss are alcohol, religion, …
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A social identity approach to understanding physical activity.
… are characterised by a predominant focus on individual-level factors (e.g., cognitions, attitudes, motivations). These approaches largely fail to account for the possibility that these factors—that is, our individual psychology—are not only influenced by us (i.e., as individuals) but also by …
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Psychology and the Theatre: A Qualitative Experiment in Actor Training
Psychology and theatre have a remarkable amount in common. In using the basic concepts and theories of psychology, actors can develop more concrete, logical approaches to characters. This thesis is a summation of the course I developed, "Psychology and the Theatre," which was an attempt to teach …
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Strategic service partnerships and boundary-spanning behaviour: a study of multiple, cascading policy windows
This study explores the role of boundary-spanning individuals in the development of Strategic Service Partnerships (SSPs). SSPs are the latest manifestation of Public- Private Partnerships (PPPs). However, these partnerships are remarkably underresearched. Furthermore, the role of key …
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Bodies of Refusal: Food, Power, and the Paradox of Female Agency
… that restrictive food behavior extends beyond individual psychology to function as a culturally embedded form of protest. Drawing on Susan Bordo’s theoretical framework, this thesis looks at the female body as a site disciplined by patriarchal norms, where the refusal of food becomes a …
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Psychological Birth Order and Career Adaptability in an At-Risk College Population
… birth order is a main construct from the Individual Psychology of Alfred Adler (1927, 1946). Adler posited that individuals discover life differently when they perceive the world from different birth positions. The literature on psychological birth order outlined four birth order …
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Executive coaching : crafting a versatile self in corporate America
… executive coaching brings together theories of individual psychology and of organizational efficiency in order to increase functionality and productivity at work. Executive coaching is: a) a new form of professional expertise, b) a management tool to increase productivity and efficiency at work, …
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Seeds of truth : J. Krishnamurti as religious teacher and educator
… in argument and an over-emphasis on individual psychology as an explanation for social phenomena. It is also argued that Krishnamurti's educational discourse owes much to the New Education Movement which flourished in the 1920s and that he made few contributions to educational theory …
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Rethinking cognitive style in psychology
… are stable, general, and pervasive properties of individual psychology. Chapter 2 focuses on the construct of intolerance of ambiguity, and shows how - in the manner of Danziger's (1985) "methodological circle" - universalistic assumptions have become incorporated into measurement instruments; and …
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A Structural Equation Model of Contributing Factors to Adolescent Social Interest
The focus of the present study was to test through SEM the relationships between family influences (FI) and school influences (SI) on factors hypothesized to be associated with adolescent social interest: school belonging (SB), extracurricular participation (EP), and peer/romantic involvement …
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The Formation of "Outsider" Through Labeling and Sentence Lengths for Immigrants of Hispanic Descent.
<p>The purpose of this study was to determine if individuals who supported denying citizenship to children of foreign parentage and making English the sole language spoken in the United States held the opinion that a sentence length over 15 years was appropriate for non-U.S. individuals. Other …