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Logic of Life by Tim Harford

successfully wean people from this dangerous habit. He reports that economic analysis finds that "advertising for nicotine patch a...

LEADING GROUPS IN A CRIMINAL JUSTICE ORGANIZTION: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES

departments (and elsewhere, for that matter), leaders are "expected to be competent managers who inspire their followers to do eff...

Accounting for Human Behavior

they do? This question has been debated by psychologists, research scientists and philosophers for many years. This paper looks at...

How to Encourage Smokers to Give Up Smoking

be used and then consider how the campaign may take place. 2. The Problem The overall lifetime risk of developing lung cancer ...

ELABORATION LIKELIHOOD MODEL AND DRINKING/DRIVING EDUCATION

Uses the elaboration likelihood model of consumer behavior for suggestions on how to encourage teens not to drink. There are 7 sou...

GLOBALIZATION AND IMPACT ON ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR

such methods, however, is a lack of specific and standard organizational procedures, as well as a lack of mutual trust, cultural a...

Juvenile Crime and the Court System

juvenile crime and the juvenile justice system; often it seems like society is being overwhelmed by children who have turned into ...

Managing Challenging Behavior

the classroom and to replace those behaviors with prosocial skills. If this approach can be implemented successfully, it will redu...

Psychological Evaluation of Hughes

age 70. He was a legend as well as a mystery throughout his lifetime. He was a millionaire several times over as soon as he inheri...

Addiction Behaviors and Two Psychological Theories

up with them. They will become compulsive and obsessive about getting their drug or drink. Classical conditioning theory would e...

Classical Conditioning

their salivary glands and what response it had when food was presented. Naturally, he quickly discovered that each time he brought...

Tonya: A Case Study

she took the food, Tonya replied that it was because she was hungry. Tonya reacted to hunger by pilfering food from the easiest av...

The Psychology Of Quitting Smoking

an alteration of sensations, awareness, and perceptions with the same biopsychosocial, integrative properties that allow people to...

Hyper-rationality in the Capital Markets

decisions there is a process he referred to as satisficing. In this model the individuals making the decision do not shoos the opt...

HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY: ETHICAL BEHAVIOR AND TOUGH MANAGEMENT CHOICES IN TODAY’S ECONOMY

lag in any recovery. Employers are reluctant to hire. This particular trend is especially true in this recession - employers arent...

Milgram’s Shock Experiment and the Stanford Prison Experiment

Human interaction varies in accordance with a number of factors. Not surprisingly, this interaction is one of the favorite subjec...

Psychologists and Social Change

earn a good deal less for doing the same job. Lips (2003) reported that the earnings gap has persisted for decades and it does not...

Effectiveness of CBT With Schizophrenia

that precedes the first episode of psychosis in schizophrenia is referred to as the "preprodromal period...and the prodrome" and i...

Are Genes Involved in Aggressive Behaviors

the links between genetics and environment in human behavior. This is why human behavioral genetics explores and analyzes the fami...

Efficacy of CBT with Bulimia

could impede progress in therapy (Martin, 2011). Beck coined the term cognitive therapy. As the theory evolved, it was soon appa...

Assessing Abnormal Behavior

even schizophrenia. While Hippocrates approached the issue with a scientific bent, seeking to use medicinal practices to relieve a...

Antisocial Behavior in Children

behaviors. MAOA is the structural gene for production of this enzyme. Four other chemicals, epinephrine, norepinephrine, serotonin...

School Bullying/The Effect on Bullies and Victims

(Ahmed, 2008). Witnesses may participate in bullying, either by providing verbal support for the bully; remaining silent and tryin...

Research in Classroom Behavior Management

classroom management. The key to managing misbehavior is to discern the motive behind the action, that is, determine the purpose t...

Hypersexuality in Sexual Offenders

In a four page paper, the author considers the issue of hypersexuality in sexual offenders. Many sexual predators have been the v...

Insights about Teaching and Educational Psychology

of performance measures that reflected a practical motivation, often creating a disconnect between learners and the educational fo...

A Girl with ADHD: A Case Study

sometimes problematic, and found that she can react physically to other children, sometimes grabbing and pushing them. In the scho...

Counseling: Exploring the Therapeutic Value

therapeutic value primarily because it is built upon a foundation of solid psychological premises and ideas. It is these ideas whi...

Qualitative Observations: Age-Related Behaviors

for most of the night, a group that spent their evening at the bar, and a group that appeared marginalized, and spent their time o...