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Rehabilitation Psychology
Dana S. Dunn
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
Rehabilitation Psychology Introduction Rehabilitation psychology is a subfield of psychology dedicated to developing therapeutic interventions ...
Religion, Psychology and
Kathryn A. Johnson, Adam B. Cohen
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2012-05-23
Psychology and Religion Introduction Interest in the psychology of religion seems to wax and wane with current trends in psychological researc...
Research Methods
Dana S. Dunn
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
Research Methods Introduction Psychology is an empirical science, one dealing with the prediction of behavior in humans and animals. Conducting...
Resilience
Anthony Mancini
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
Resilience Introduction Resilience is the capacity to maintain stable levels of functioning, as well as positive emotions and generative experi...
Schizophrenic Disorders
Angus W. MacDonald, Ansam El Shaikh, Craig Moodie, Andrew Poppe, Ian Ramsay, Krista Wisner
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2013-02-26
Schizophrenic Disorders Introduction While allusions to psychoses in the West date back to ancient Greek medicine and literature, the modern c...
Self-Construal
Susan Cross
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
Self-Construal Introduction Self-construal refers to the grounds of self-definition, and the extent to which the self is defined independentl...
Self-Deception
Harry Triandis
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
Self-Deception Introduction Self-deception is seeing the world the way we wish it to be rather than the way it is. When people have a self-dece...
Self-Efficacy
James E. Maddux, Jennifer T. Gosselin
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
Self-Efficacy Introduction Self-efficacy theory was first described by Albert Bandura in 1977 in an article in the journal Psychological Review
Self-Monitoring
Christopher Leone
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
Self-Monitoring Introduction Although there are occasions when most people monitor the social self that they present to others and other occasi...
Self-Regulation in Educational Settings
Gregory Schraw
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
Self-Regulation in Educational Settings Introduction Self-regulation (SR) refers to controlling one’s own performance before, during, and after...
Self, Psychology of the
Corey L. Guenther, Mark D. Alicke
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2013-02-26
Psychology of the Self Introduction The “self” is surely one of the most heavily researched areas in social and personality psychology, even i...
Sex and Gender
Joan C. Chrisler, Alexandra Nobel
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
Sex and Gender Introduction Sex and gender are fundamental to the understanding of human behavior. Perhaps the first thing people notice wh...
Sexual Minority Parenting
Samantha Tornello, Rachel Riskind, Rachel Farr
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
Sexual Minority Parenting Introduction The study of sexual minority parenting is a relatively new area. Throughout this article, we will refer ...
Single People
Bella M. DePaulo
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
Single People Introduction For decades the proportion of single people in populations around the globe (especially in Western nations) has been...
Small Groups
Richard Moreland
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
Small Groups Introduction Much of life is shaped by the small groups to which we belong. These groups include families, work teams, and friend...
Social Class and Social Status
Carmi Schooler
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2013-02-26
Social Class and Social Status Introduction This article provides a selection of articles and books that deal with social class or social stat...
Social Cognition
Gordon B. Moskowitz
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Social Cognition Introduction Social cognition is concerned with the study of the thought processes, both implicit and explicit, through which...
Social Neuroscience
Greg Norman, Gary Berntson, John Cacioppo
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
Social Neuroscience Introduction The field of social neuroscience seeks to understand the relationship between social behavior and the physiolo...
Somatoform Disorders
Karl Julian Looper, Laurence J. Kirmayer
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Somatoform Disorders Introduction Around the world, physical symptoms are the most common manifestation of psychological distress. This seemin...
Stereotype Threat
Amy M. Williams, Ines Jurcevic, Jenessa R. Shapiro
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2013-03-19
Stereotype Threat Introduction Stereotype threat, a social psychological phenomenon, is a concern about being viewed through the lens of a neg...
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