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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"psychological analysis"”.
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Smoke and Mirrors: A Cultural-Psychological Analysis of Tobacco Use
… a leading cause of preventable death. While most psychological schools of thought advance explanations and therapies for tobacco use based on their respective guiding assumptions, the author proposes that tobacco use is not a disease to be treated or cured, but is a symptom of the cultural frame …
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A Socio-Psychological Analysis of Eating Behaviors at Fast Food Restaurants
The purpose of this study was to explore the mutual interaction of attitude toward taste and the nutritional information of fast foods to explain fast food consumption behavior. The Health Belief Model (HBM) was used to examine from the mutual interplay of attitude toward taste and nutritional …
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Defining Self Through Symbol: A Psychological Analysis of the Cinderella Fairy Tale
… with the conscious, the ultimate goal of psychological maturation.</p> <p>Through a synthesis of Jungian theory and Object Relations theory, the fairytale will be analyzed in an effort to bridge collective symbolic material to individual understanding and maturation, the purpose and value …
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A psychological analysis of political violence : a narrative case study of an apartheid policeman
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 104-112).
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Patterns of delay and non-use of prenatal care services among underclass women: a social psychological analysis
This study attempted to determine the relation between womens' anticipation of Esteem-Threat, their level of satisfaction, and their utilization of prenatal care services in the public assistance setting. One-hundred twenty-six women completed a battery of questionnaires during an initial clinic …
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A psychological analysis of the effects of memory retrieval prior to extinction on the reacquisition of a conditioned fear association
The successful reduction of fear is the aim of clinicians treating people with anxiety disorders such as post-traumatic stress disorder or phobias. Existing treatments for these conditions, however, require many treatment sessions and are prone to relapse. A new technique, first demonstrated in …
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The Social Psychological Dimensions of US-Iranian Relations
… conflict between the parties and that a social-psychological analysis can explain why there is so much conflict between the parties. The social-psychological perspective is a different lens than that provided by more traditional approaches to peacebuilding and can address aspects of conflict …
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Family Systems Theory in Chekhov’s ‘Big Four’ Plays
… systems theory and its application to character analysis and family relationships in drama. Chekhov’s plays are renowned for their psychological realism. Each character has his or her own unique history, which was a boon to the creation and development of the Stanislavski acting system. This …
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Drawings from Syria's Lost Generation: Psychological Impacts of the Refugee Crisis
… A potential solution in mitigating these psychological impacts is the reintegration from refugee camps into non-camp host communities or the resettlement into other countries. Through the psychological analysis of children‟s drawings, this research project hopes to study the mitigating …
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Constructions of fatherhood during the 'transition to the empty nest' stage of parenting
This thesis presents a discursive psychological analysis of the ways in which fatherhood is constructed in a variety of contexts during the transition to the ‘empty nest’. The body of the data used in the study consists of thirty three Internet articles describing parenting challenges related to …
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THE "FACT OF BLACKNESS" DOES NOT EXIST: AN EVOCATIVE CRITICISM OF RESISTANCE RHETORIC IN ACADEMIC POLICY DEBATE AND ITS (MIS)USE OF FRANTZ FANON'S BLACK SKIN, WHITE MASKS
… Frantz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks for its psychological analysis of the "Fact of Blackness." Attributing this supposed facticity to a fundamental mistranslation of the original French text, this thesis explores the implications of scholar's adherence to Fanon within elements of resistance …
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How is a Woman Like a Watermelon?: Advocating a Psychological and Comparative Examination of Brautigan's Novels
… first person, this study advocates an analytical psychological analysis aimed at discerning underlying emotion within apparent personal detachment, the use of projection as a defense mechanism, and the psychological associative value of words, images and memories. An inclusive and comparative …
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Psychological Aspects of Gambling Behaviour // Психологически аспекти на хазартното поведение
The current psychological analysis of gambling behaviour (GB) is based on the need to identify a characteristic pattern of behaviour, considered not so much in its pathological form, but rather before it. The author's idea is related to the study of predictors embedded to one degree or another in …
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Adolescents' and young adults' moral thinking in typical everyday-life moral dilemmas
… principles) were employed as tools for psychological analysis. In Study 1, 42 preliminary groups of adolescents and young adults (14-16 years and 18-21 years) provided moral dilemmas that they had experienced during a past year. Among 42 dilemmas, two dilemmas (the homework and the video …
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The Moral Foundations of Knowledge: Seeking and Avoiding COVID-19 Information
… to knowledge engagement. By providing a cultural psychological analysis on moral foundations, this work could serve as an intellectual spark for future research on political ideology and moral foundations from a cultural stance.
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A behavioural analysis of computer game playing competence, experience and related physiological processes
… research programme represents a rst step in the psychological analysis of on-line game playing. In the literature review presented in Chapter 1, Network Latency and 'game challenge' were identied as two important variables affecting participants' enjoyment of on-line games. The experiments …
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Immigration Discourses in the U.S. and in Japan
… Potter (1992), and I employed their discursive psychological analysis as the methodology for this study. The present study included 14 pairs of self-identified white Americans in the U.S. and 17 pairs of self-identified Japanese in Japan. I provided each pair with a discussion guide and asked …
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