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Metaphor, Psychological Perspectives on
Brian Bowdle
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2019-04-24
Psychological Perspectives on MetaphorIntroductionMetaphors are commonly defined as figures of speech in which one thing is described in terms of anot...
Mindfulness
Amanda Ie, Christelle Ngnoumen, Ellen Langer
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
Mindfulness Introduction Mindfulness is a quality of consciousness whose spiritual concept is most firmly rooted in Buddhist psychology, and wh...
Mindfulness and Education
Katherine Weare, Felicia Huppert
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2019-02-27
Mindfulness and EducationIntroductionThis article focuses on the literature on mindfulness and mindfulness meditation with children and young people i...
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)
David M. McCord
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2013-10-29
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) Introduction The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) is the most widely used...
Money, Psychology of
Erik Bijleveld, Lena Schäfer, Dorottya Rusz
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2019-03-27
Psychology of MoneyIntroductionAround ten thousand years ago, several communities around the world transitioned from a hunter–gatherer lifestyle into ...
Moral Conviction
Lindsay Keeran, Linda J. Skitka
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2021-02-24
Moral ConvictionIntroductionMoral conviction refers to the perception that one’s feelings about a given attitude object are based on one’s beliefs abo...
Moral Development
Cameron Richardson, Riley Sims, Melanie Killen
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2013-01-28
Moral DevelopmentIntroductionIn the field of moral development, morality is defined as principles for how individuals ought to treat one another, with...
Moral Psychology
Chuck Huff, Owen Gaasedelen
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
Moral Psychology Introduction It is surely the case that the field of moral psychology is in flux today. It was abandoned by personality and so...
Moral Reasoning
Lene Jensen, Jessica McKenzie, Niyati Pandya
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
Moral Reasoning Introduction Morality is fundamental to the human condition. From early on, children make distinctions between matters of right...
Motivation
Michael Richter, Rex A. Wright, Kerstin Brinkmann, Guido H. E. Gendolla
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2013-02-26
Motivation Introduction References to the construct of motivation are ubiquitous in most domains of life. Parents worry about how to motivate ...
Narcissism
Virgil Zeigler-Hill, Christian Jordan
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2013-02-26
Narcissism Introduction Narcissism is generally considered to be a pathological form of self-love that is characterized by arrogance, self-abs...
Narrative
Vincent W. Hevern, Ruthellen Josselson, Dan P. McAdams
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2013-11-27
Narrative Introduction The broad movement that has been variously called the discursive, cultural, or linguistic turn in the social sciences c...
Neuroscience of Associative Learning
Gabrielle Weidemann, Gavan McNally
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
Neuroscience of Associative Learning Introduction Associative learning involves the encoding of relationships between events, for example, betw...
Nonparametric Statistical Analysis in Psychology
Gregory J. Privitera, James J. Gillespie
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2018-08-28
Nonparametric Statistical Analysis in PsychologyIntroductionNonparametric testing was first introduced in the early 1700s in a paper that utilized a v...
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...
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 ...
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