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Procrastination
Piers Steel, Katrin Klingsieck
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2013-11-27
ProcrastinationIntroductionProcrastination is a common form of self-regulatory failure with references to it throughout the historical record. Typical...
Prosocial Behavior
Gilad Hirschberger, Uri Lifshin
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2013-03-19
Prosocial Behavior Introduction The elaborate nature of human societies requires high levels of cooperation, and our social system benefits fr...
Prosocial Spending and Well-Being
Lara B. Aknin, Kate Hanniball
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2017-06-27
Prosocial Spending and Well-BeingIntroductionIn a typical week, a person may spend money on other people in various ways. For instance, one might buy ...
Protocol Analysis
Peter F. Delaney, Robert J. Wallander, Gretchen A. Preheim
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2018-08-28
Protocol AnalysisIntroductionVerbal protocol analysis is a set of systematic methods for collecting and analyzing peoples’ thoughts during a task. Ver...
Psycholinguistics
Shelia M. Kennison, Rachel H. Messer
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2014-06-30
Psycholinguistics Introduction Psycholinguistics is the field of study in which researchers investigate the psychological processes involved i...
Psychological Literacy
Sue Morris, Kimberley Norris, Jacquelyn Cranney
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2021-11-23
Psychological LiteracyIntroductionUntil 2010, the phrase “psychological literacy” (PL) was used sparsely and in a variety of ways, including to refer ...
Psychology, Political
Ingrid J. Haas
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2016-02-25
Political PsychologyIntroductionThe field of political psychology explains political behavior as a function of both individual- and group-level psycho...
Psychophysics, Visual
Joshua A. Solomon
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2013-10-29
Visual Psychophysics Introduction Paradigms for attacking the problem of how vision works continue to develop and mutate, and the boundary bet...
Psychotherapy
Timothy Anderson, Andrew S. McClintock, Xiaoxia Song
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2014-06-30
PsychotherapyIntroductionPsychotherapy is a practice whereby communication (“talk therapy”) between a professionally trained therapist and a help-seek...
Psychotic Disorders
Deborah J. Walder, Marta Statucka, Maureen Daly, Beril Yaffe
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2014-04-28
Psychotic Disorders Introduction The term “psychotic disorders” refers to a broad conceptualization of conditions including primary psychoses,...
Race
Kira Hudson Banks, Richard Harvey
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2013-11-27
Race Introduction Within psychology, race is generally accepted as a social construct that is shaped by power structures and prevailing norms;...
Reasoning, Counterfactual
Ruth M.J. Byrne
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2013-09-30
Counterfactual Reasoning Introduction People often think about how things turned out and they imagine how they could have turned out different...
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 ...
Relationships
Benjamin Le, Lydia F. Emery
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2013-07-24
Relationships ...
Religion, Psychology and
Kathryn A. Johnson, Matthew J. Scott, Jordan W. Moon, Adam B. Cohen
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2012-05-23
Psychology and ReligionIntroductionInterest in the psychology of religion seems to wax and wane with current trends in psychological research. At the ...
Replication Initiatives in Psychology
Jennifer Bastart, Richard A. Klein, Hans IJzerman
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2018-05-24
Replication Initiatives in PsychologyIntroductionReplication is one key component toward a robust cumulative knowledge base. It plays a critical funct...
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...
Risk Taking
Valerie F. Reyna, Sharjeel A. Chaudhry, Priscila G. Brust-Renck, Evan Andrew Wilhelms, Caisa Elizabeth Royer
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2013-09-30
Risk Taking Introduction Engaging in risk-taking behavior throughout life can be related to a variety of negative short- and long-term physica...
Rumination
Elizabeth J. Lewis, Jutta Joorman
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2018-02-22
RuminationIntroductionRumination is a cognitive process that has been closely linked to an increased risk for the onset of psychopathology and to the ...
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