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Art and Aesthetics, Psychology of
Pablo Tinio, Jeffrey Smith
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
Psychology of Art and AestheticsIntroductionThe psychology of art and aesthetics is the study of the perception and experience of the visual arts, mus...
Assessment and Clinical Applications of Individual Differences in Attachment, Turning Points in the
Patricia Crittenden, Susan J. Spieker, Steve Farnfield
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2021-02-24
Turning Points in the Assessment and Clinical Applications of Individual Differences in AttachmentIntroductionAttachment may have reached a turning po...
Attachment in Social and Emotional Development across the Life Course
Ashley M. Groh
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2017-11-29
Attachment in Social and Emotional Development across the Life CourseIntroductionAttachment theory is one of the few remaining grand theories in psych...
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in Adults
Laura Eddy, Dane Hilton, Anne Stevens, Anne Sorrell, John T. Mitchell, Will H. Canu
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2012-11-21
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in AdultsIntroductionAttention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a highly heritable, heterogene...
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in Children
Daniel A. Waschbusch, Sara King
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2014-05-29
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in Children Introduction Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is one of the most co...
Attitudes
Jay K. Wood, Leandre R. Fabrigar
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2012-06-26
Attitudes Introduction The attitude construct is one of the oldest and most-studied constructs in social psychology, and as such, it has had a...
Attitudinal Ambivalence
Nicoletta Cavazza, Vincent Pillaud, Fabrizio Butera
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2019-10-30
Attitudinal AmbivalenceIntroductionResearch on attitudinal ambivalence started in the early 1970s, forty years after the first wave of research on att...
Attraction in Close Relationships
Pamela C. Regan
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2015-01-15
Attraction in Close Relationships Introduction Interpersonal attraction—liking or positive sentiment—plays a fundamental role in human life. T...
Attribution Theory
Bertram F. Malle, Joanna Korman
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2013-03-19
Attribution Theory Introduction In social psychology, the term attribution has at least two meanings. The first, usually labeled “causal attri...
Authoritarian Personality
John T. Jost, Joanna Sterling
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2015-01-15
Authoritarian Personality Introduction Research on the “authoritarian” (or “anti-democratic”) personality has experienced periods of lively, r...
Autism
James D. Herbert
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2013-03-19
Autism Introduction The term “autism” refers to a heterogeneous class of related neurodevelopmental disorders that emerge early in childhood a...
Bayesian Statistical Methods in Psychology
Sarah Depaoli
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2021-02-24
Bayesian Statistical Methods in PsychologyIntroductionThe use of Bayesian statistics within psychology is on the rise, and this trajectory will likely...
Behavior Therapy, Rational Emotive
Daniel David
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2014-01-30
Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy Introduction Rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT) is the first form of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT...
Behavioral Economics
Guy Hochman, Shahar Ayal
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2013-03-19
Behavioral Economics Introduction Behavioral economics is concerned with the impact of psychological factors (e.g., motives, emotions) on econ...
Behavioral Genetics
Lisabeth DiLalla
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
Behavioral Genetics Introduction Behavioral genetics is the study of genetic and environmental influences on behaviors. By examining genetic in...
Belief Perseverance
Corey L. Guenther, Abigail M. Smith
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2020-02-26
Belief PerseveranceIntroductionPeople’s proclivity to passionately cling to, and advocate for, beliefs or attitudes that exist in the absence of evide...
Bereavement and Grief
Kathrin Boerner
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
Bereavement and Grief Introduction The field of bereavement and grief focuses on the human experience of loss in response to the death of a lov...
Biological Psychology
James Kalat
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
Biological PsychologyIntroductionBiological psychology approaches behavior and experience with the assumption that they are products of the nervous sy...
Birth Order
Catherine Salmon
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2013-10-29
Birth Order Introduction Birth order, defined as an individual’s rank by age among siblings, has long been of interest to psychologists as wel...
Body Image in Men and Women
Linda Smolak
Subject: Psychology »
Date Added: 2013-09-30
Body Image in Men and Women Introduction What we believe and how we feel about our bodies affects multiple aspects of our psychological and ph...
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