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Fundamental Attribution Error/Correspondence Bias
Glenn D. Reeder
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2013-03-19
Fundamental Attribution Error/Correspondence Bias Introduction The fundamental attribution error (FAE) suggests that social perceivers attribu...
Gambler's Fallacy
Ulrike Hahn
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
Gambler’s Fallacy Introduction The Gambler’s Fallacy is a mistaken belief about sequences of random events. Observing, for example, a long run...
Happiness
Shigehiro Oishi
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
Happiness Introduction In psychological science, “subjective well-being” is the term most often used in place of the popular term “happiness.” ...
Health Psychology
Regan Gurung
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
Health Psychology Introduction Health psychology is an interdisciplinary subspecialty of psychology dedicated to promoting and maintaining heal...
History of Psychology
David C. Devonis, Wade Pickren
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2013-02-26
History of Psychology Introduction At its inception as a specialty within psychology in the first decades of the 20th century, the history of ...
Hypnosis
Steven Jay Lynn, Liam Condon, Michelle Accardi, Colleen Cleere, Anne Malaktaris, Jaime Benjamin
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2012-10-25
Hypnosis Introduction From the days of Franz Mesmer (b. 1734–d. 1815) to the present, the seemingly profound alterations in consciousness that...
Implicit Association Test (IAT)
Steven Lehr, Mahzarin Banaji
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
The Implicit Association Test (IAT) Introduction Starting in the 1970s, as microcomputers made possible the measurement of mental computations ...
Industrial and Organizational Psychology
Kurt Kraiger
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
Industrial and Organizational Psychology Introduction Industrial/organizational (I/O) psychology addresses individuals’ attitudes, behaviors, c...
Intelligence
Amber Esping, Jonathan Plucker
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2013-02-26
Intelligence Introduction What is human intelligence? There is no indisputable answer to this fundamental question, and there will not be an a...
Language
Cindy K. Chung, James Pennebaker
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
Language Introduction Although language is the primary medium by which we communicate with others and reveal our thoughts and feelings, remarka...
Law, Psychology and
Edie Greene, Kirk Heilbrun, Anna Heilbrun
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2013-03-19
Psychology and Law Introduction The field of psychology and law involves the application of scientific, clinical, and policy aspects of psycho...
Learned Helplessness
J. Bruce Overmier
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2013-03-19
Learned Helplessness Introduction The term “learned helplessness” appears in about three thousand articles in the PsycINFO database, applying...
Life-Span Development
Kathleen Stassen Berger
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
Life-Span Development Introduction Life-span development studies human development from the moment of conception to the last breath. The goal i...
Memory, Human
Jeffrey D. Karpicke, Melissa Lehman
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Human Memory Introduction “Memory,” broadly defined, is the ability to use the past in the service of the present. Memory can manifest itself ...
Metacognition
Lisa K. Son
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2013-02-26
Metacognition Introduction Metacognition, generally defined as cognition about one’s cognition, has been linked and compared in the past with ...
Mindfulness
Amanda Ie, Christelle Ngnoumen, Ellen Langer
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
Mindfulness Introduction Mindfulness is a quality of consciousness whose spiritual concept is most firmly rooted in Buddhist psychology, and wh...
Moral Development
Cameron Richardson, Melanie Killen
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2013-01-28
Moral Development Introduction In the field of moral development, morality is defined as principles for how individuals ought to treat one ano...
Moral Psychology
Chuck Huff, Owen Gaasedelen
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
Moral Psychology Introduction It is surely the case that the field of moral psychology is in flux today. It was abandoned by personality and so...
Moral Reasoning
Lene Jensen, Jessica McKenzie, Niyati Pandya
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
Moral Reasoning Introduction Morality is fundamental to the human condition. From early on, children make distinctions between matters of right...
Motivation
Michael Richter, Rex A. Wright, Kerstin Brinkmann, Guido H. E. Gendolla
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2013-02-26
Motivation Introduction References to the construct of motivation are ubiquitous in most domains of life. Parents worry about how to motivate ...
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