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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...
Embodiment and Embodied Cognition
Stephen Flusberg
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
Embodiment and Embodied Cognition Introduction Embodied cognition (EC) is a movement within the field of cognitive science that seeks to explor...
Emerging Adulthood
Elizabeth Mazur
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2016-09-28
Emerging AdulthoodIntroductionJeffrey Arnett and Susan Taber first introduced in print the term emerging adulthood in the article “Adolescence Termina...
Emotion
Keith Oatley
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2013-10-29
EmotionIntroductionEmotion is central to our experience of others and of ourselves. Since the early 1950s it has come fully onto the agenda of psychol...
Emotional Intelligence
Marc Brackett, Peter Salovey
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2013-09-30
Emotional Intelligence Introduction Emotional intelligence (EI) emerged from the premise that emotions impact nearly every aspect of human exp...
Empathy and Altruism
Eric L. Stocks, Taylor Clark
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2020-02-26
Empathy and AltruismIntroductionThe word empathy has been used as a label for many different phenomena, including feeling what another person is feeli...
Employee Stress and Well-Being
Wheeler Nakahara, Steve Jex, Kristin Horan
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2021-04-21
Employee Stress and Well-BeingIntroductionThis article provides a general overview of overarching topics in the literature on stress and well-being. B...
Environmental Neuroscience and Environmental Psychology
Marc Berman, Daniel J. Hayes, Katherine Krpan
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2015-08-31
Environmental Neuroscience and Environmental Psychology Introduction The external environment can have a profound impact on our brains and beh...
Ethics in Psychological Practice
Samuel Knapp, Leon VandeCreek
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2013-09-30
Ethics in Psychological Practice Introduction Professional ethics refers to the laws, regulations, and standards that govern the profession (i...
Event Perception
Lauren Richmond, Jeffrey Zacks
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2018-06-27
Event PerceptionIntroductionEvents are part and parcel of everyday life. Research on event perception has roots in social perception and in the percep...
Evolutionary Psychology
Zachary Hohman, Bruce Ellis
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
Evolutionary Psychology Introduction Evolutionary psychology is the application of the principles and knowledge of evolutionary biology to psyc...
Expansive Posture
Sally D. Farley
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2020-07-29
Expansive PostureIntroductionMuch can be gleaned about the affective, cognitive, and motivational states of others by attending to various channels of...
Experimental Existential Psychology
Cathy R. Cox, Robert B. Arrowood
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2018-10-25
Experimental Existential PsychologyIntroductionExistential psychology developed in an attempt to understand how people cope with the realities of exis...
Exploratory Data Analysis
Chong Ho Yu
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2017-11-29
Exploratory Data AnalysisIntroductionExploratory data analysis (EDA) is a strategy of data analysis that emphasizes maintaining an open mind to altern...
Eyewitness Testimony
Adele Quigley-McBride, Laura Smalarz, Gary Wells
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
Eyewitness TestimonyIntroductionEyewitness testimony is critically important to the justice system. Indeed, it is necessary in all criminal trials to ...
Eysenck, Hans
Rod Buchanan
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2020-03-25
Hans EysenckIntroductionHans Jurgen Eysenck (b. 1916–d. 1997) was a towering figure in personality psychology, notable for the audacity of his theoriz...
Factor Analysis
Ronald D. Porter, Leandre R. Fabrigar
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2012-11-21
Factor Analysis Introduction Factor analysis is a term used to refer to a set of statistical procedures designed to determine the number of di...
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