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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 ...
Savoring
Jaime Kurtz, Kristin Layous
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2017-03-30
SavoringIntroductionSavoring is defined as a process through which people up-regulate their positive feelings by directing attention to emotionally re...
Schizophrenic Disorders
Angus W. MacDonald, Ansam El Shaikh, Craig Moodie, Andrew Poppe, Ian Ramsay, Krista Wisner
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2013-02-26
Schizophrenic Disorders Introduction While allusions to psychoses in the West date back to ancient Greek medicine and literature, the modern c...
School Psychology
Frank C. Worrell
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2013-09-30
School PsychologyIntroductionSchool psychology is one of four specialties of professional psychology—alongside clinical psychology, counseling psychol...
School Psychology, Counseling Services in
Tony D. Crespi, Mikayla Alicandro
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2020-01-15
Counseling Services in School PsychologyIntroductionSchool psychologists can provide an important contribution through the provision of counseling ser...
Self-Construal
Susan Cross
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
Self-Construal Introduction Self-construal refers to the grounds of self-definition, and the extent to which the self is defined independentl...
Self-Control
Ethan Kross, Darwin A. Guevarra
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2015-04-29
Self-Control Introduction One of the defining qualities that distinguish human beings from other species is self-control: the capacity to alte...
Self-Deception
Harry Triandis
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
Self-Deception Introduction Self-deception is seeing the world the way we wish it to be rather than the way it is. When people have a self-dece...
Self-Determination Theory
Michael L. Wehmeyer, Karrie A. Shogren, Jessica Toste
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2018-06-27
Self-Determination TheoryIntroductionSelf-determination theory (SDT) is a prominent approach to understanding human motivation. Unlike most motivation...
Self-Efficacy
James E. Maddux, Evan Kleiman, Jennifer T. Gosselin
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
Self-EfficacyIntroductionSelf-efficacy theory was first described by Albert Bandura in 1977 in an article in the journal Psychological Review titled “...
Self-Esteem
Virgil Zeigler-Hill, Christian Jordan, Jessica J. Cameron
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2013-08-26
Self-Esteem Introduction Self-esteem is one of the most widely studied topics in psychology; more than 35,000 publications deal with how indiv...
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