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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...
Self-Monitoring
Christopher Leone
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
Self-Monitoring Introduction Although there are occasions when most people monitor the social self that they present to others and other occasi...
Self-Regulation in Educational Settings
Gregory Schraw
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
Self-Regulation in Educational Settings Introduction Self-regulation (SR) refers to controlling one’s own performance before, during, and after...
Self, Gender and
Sylvia Beyer
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2013-11-27
Gender and SelfIntroductionIn social psychology, the self as an area of serious empirical inquiry dates back only about thirty to forty years. Signifi...
Self, Psychology of the
Corey L. Guenther, Mark D. Alicke
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2013-02-26
Psychology of the Self Introduction The “self” is surely one of the most heavily researched areas in social and personality psychology, even i...
Sensation Seeking
Joseph Glicksohn, Marvin Zuckerman
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2013-10-29
Sensation Seeking Introduction Many personality traits are popular sources of research for a short time, and then, like the constructs on whic...
Sex and Gender
Joan C. Chrisler, Alexandra Nobel Murray
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
Sex and Gender Introduction Sex and gender are fundamental to the understanding of human behavior. Perhaps the first thing people notice wh...
Sexual Minority Parenting
Samantha Tornello, Rachel Riskind, Rachel Farr
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
Sexual Minority Parenting Introduction The study of sexual minority parenting is a relatively new area. Throughout this article, we will refer ...
Sexual Orientation
Allen M. Omoto, Christopher S. Lamb, Elizabeth S. Chamberlin
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2015-03-10
Sexual Orientation Introduction This entry focuses on recent psychological theory and research on sexual orientation and lesbian, gay, and bis...
Signal Detection Theory and its Applications
Harold Stanislaw
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2018-03-28
Signal Detection Theory and its ApplicationsIntroductionSignal detection theory (SDT) was originally developed to describe the performance of radars, ...
Single People
Bella M. DePaulo
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
Single PeopleIntroductionFor decades the proportion of single people in populations around the globe (especially in Western nations) has been growing,...
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