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Daily Life, Research Methods for Studying
Carla Arredondo, Gloria Luong
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2019-04-24
Research Methods for Studying Daily LifeIntroductionMethods for studying daily life have blossomed since the 1980s. Although these methods have been a...
Data Science Methods for Psychology
Jeffrey Stanton
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2020-02-26
Data Science Methods for PsychologyIntroductionThe term “data science” refers to an emerging field of research and practice that focuses on obtaining,...
Data Sharing in Psychology
Joy Kennedy
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2021-02-24
Data Sharing in PsychologyIntroductionNarrowly defined, data sharing is the practice of making scientific research data available to other researchers...
Death and Dying
Sheldon Solomon, JS Piven
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2014-01-13
Death and Dying Introduction Human beings are uniquely aware of death, for they can conceive the future, imagine the death of loved ones, and ...
Deceiving and Detecting Deceit
Bella M. DePaulo, Charles Bond
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Deceiving and Detecting Deceit Introduction People have been fascinated by the topic of deception for millennia. Issues of truth and deception...
Defensive Processes
E. Samuel Winer, Leonard Newman, Rikki H. Sargent
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
Defensive ProcessesIntroductionDefensive processes may be defined as an underlying series of mental operations, occurring primarily outside of a perso...
Depression
Lauren M. Bylsma, Vanessa Panaite
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2013-02-26
Depression Introduction Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is a highly debilitating, chronic, recurrent, and prevalent disorder. This article pro...
Depressive Disorders
Lawrence P. Riso, Matthew Vaughn
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2015-07-28
Depressive DisordersIntroductionDepression is distinguished from ordinary sadness by its greater duration, severity, and impact on functioning. It is ...
Development, Prenatal
Victoria Molfese, Amanda Prokasky, Kathleen Moritz Rudasill, Ibrahim Hakki Acar, Xiaoqing Tu, Kate Sirota, Brian Keiser
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2013-11-27
Prenatal Development Introduction For decades, researchers have investigated how events in the prenatal period impact women and their infants....
Developmental Psychology (Cognitive)
Catherine M. Sandhofer, Natsuki Atagi, Christina Schonberg, Lauren Krogh Slone
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2016-04-28
Developmental Psychology CognitiveIntroductionCognition refers to a broad range of processes that can generally be understood as processes involved in...
Developmental Psychology (Social)
Philip C. Rodkin, Glenn I. Roisman
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2013-02-26
Developmental Psychology (Social) Introduction The central questions of child social development bear upon the essential nature of human exist...
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)
Thomas Widiger
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) Introduction Mental health professionals and scientists must have a common languag...
Discrimination
John Dovidio, Elif Ikizer
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2019-01-15
DiscriminationIntroductionDiscrimination refers to an act, policy, practice, or social structure that creates, maintains, or reinforces an advantage f...
Disgust
Daniel Linford, Mallory Parker, Daniel Kelly
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2019-09-25
DisgustIntroductionResearch on disgust connects to a surprisingly large variety of topics across the behavioral sciences and humanities. It serves as ...
Dissociative Disorders
Steven Jay Lynn, Reed Maxwell, Anne Malaktaris, Colleen Cleere, Peter Lemons, Jessica Baltman, Liam Condon
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2015-03-30
Dissociative Disorders Introduction From the seminal writing of Pierre Janet (b. 1859–d. 1947) to the present, dissociative disorders have fas...
Drugs and Behavior
Charles F. Levinthal
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2013-09-30
Drugs and BehaviorIntroductionPsychoactive drugs are chemical substances that, when consumed, alter neurochemical processes in the brain and hence pro...
Eating Disorders
Kelly R. Theim, Lisa M. Ranzenhofer, Marian Tanofsky-Kraff
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2014-02-25
Eating Disorders Introduction Eating disorders are psychiatric conditions of clinical significance. Over the past several decades, knowledge i...
Ecological Psychology
Harry Heft, Michael Richardson
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2013-10-29
Ecological Psychology Introduction Ecological psychology refers to the theoretical approach and research program in perceptual psychology deve...
Educational Settings, Assessment of Thinking in
Gregory Schraw
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
Assessment of Thinking in Educational Settings Introduction The study of thinking and thinking skills is one of the most important topics in ed...
Effect Size
David B. Flora
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2019-05-29
Effect SizeIntroductionSimply put, effect size (ES) is the magnitude or strength of association between or among variables. Effect sizes (ESs) are com...
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