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Obsessive-Complusive Disorder (OCD)
Jeannette M. Reid, Andrea M. Nave, Katherine B. Crowe, Dean McKay
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2014-01-30
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) Introduction This article begins with a review of the diagnosis, symptom manifestations, and epidemiology ...
Occupational Health Psychology
Irvin Sam Schonfeld
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2018-04-26
Occupational Health PsychologyIntroductionOccupational health psychology (OHP) is a cross-disciplinary subspecialty within psychology. OHP derives fro...
Olfaction, Human
Leslie Cameron, Richard Doty
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2022-01-12
Human OlfactionIntroductionOlfaction, or sense of smell, is one of the many sensory/perceptual systems that humans use to process external stimuli. Hu...
Operant Conditioning
Jesse Dallery, Brantley Jarvis, Allison Kurti
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
Operant ConditioningIntroductionThe study of operant conditioning represents a natural-science approach to understanding the causes of goal-directed b...
Optimism and Pessimism
Julie K. Norem
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2013-03-19
Optimism and Pessimism Introduction In psychology, the most commonly used optimism/pessimism construct is dispositional optimism, which is the...
Organizational Justice
Deborah Rupp, Meghan Thornton-Lugo
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
Organizational Justice Introduction Organizational justice refers to employee perceptions of fairness in the workplace. These perceptions can ...
Parenting Stress
Kirby Deater-Deckard, Nan Chen, Shereen El Mallah
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2013-11-27
Parenting Stress Introduction Parenting stress is a normal part of the parenting experience. It arises when parenting demands exceed the expec...
Parenting Styles
Michelle Givertz
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2021-05-26
Parenting StylesIntroductionParenting styles reflect variations in the attitudes and practices of parents, and comprise discrete parenting behaviors. ...
Path Models
Rex B. Kline
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2015-05-29
Path Models Introduction Path analysis belongs to the family of statistical techniques known as structural equation modeling (SEM). Path analy...
Peace Psychology
Daniel J. Christie, Noraini M. Noor
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2013-11-27
Peace Psychology Introduction Since the inception of modern psychology, psychologists have distinguished between thoughts and actions. Similar...
Perception
Elyssa Twedt, Dennis R. Proffitt
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2013-03-19
PerceptionIntroductionPerception is the study of how sensory information is processed into perceptual experiences. In some cases, actions are guided b...
Perception, Person
Sheila Cunningham
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2013-11-27
Person PerceptionIntroduction“Person perception” is an element of social psychology concerning how we process information about people. The term is so...
Performance Appraisal
Caitlin Sockbeson
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2018-05-24
Performance AppraisalIntroductionPerformance appraisal, the process by which employees are evaluated for their performance at work, is ubiquitous in o...
Personality and Health
Dietlinde Heilmayr
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2018-06-27
Personality and HealthIntroductionWhy do some people seem to contract the flu annually, suffer from chronic aches and pains, or die prematurely, while...
Personality Disorders
Edelyn Verona, Sean McKinley, M. Sima Finy
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
Personality DisordersIntroductionPersonality disorders (PDs) are defined in the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disor...
Personality Psychology
Robert D. Latzman, Yuri Shishido
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2013-10-29
Personality Psychology Introduction The title of “Godfather of Personality” may well be ascribed to Gordon Allport, who was the first to make ...
Phenomenological Psychology
Darren Langdridge
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2018-04-26
Phenomenological PsychologyIntroductionPhenomenological psychology refers to an approach to psychology that draws on phenomenological, existential, an...
Placebo Effects in Psychology
Elisa Frisaldi, Diletta Barbiani, Fabrizio Benedetti
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2017-07-26
Placebo Effects in PsychologyIntroductionThe history of prescientific medicine is in fact the history of the placebo effect, as most, if not all, trea...
Play Behavior
Gordon M. Burghardt
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2018-10-25
Play BehaviorIntroductionPlay behavior has fascinated people since ancient times, yet the scholarly and scientific study of play has remained elusive ...
Positive Psychological Capital (PsyCap)
Carolyn Youssef-Morgan, Cody Siewert, Fred Luthans
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2018-07-24
Positive Psychological Capital (PsyCap)IntroductionPositive psychological capital (PsyCap) is an individual’s positive psychological state of developm...
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