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Bad Behavior by Mary Gaitskill

to pay her for her sexual favors. They are, however, friends it seems. He tells her, "Stephanie, its very simple. I have a lot of ...

Modifying Behavior and the Debate Regarding Rewards and Punishment

technique and what happens when there is no threat of punishment or promise of a reward (Brandenburg, 2006). When children are g...

Drug Abuse Among Adolescents and Behavior Therapy

reported that behavior therapy follows "a format of therapist modeling, behavior rehearsal, specific therapy assignments, self-rec...

Literature Review on Social Behavior

parental influence. Particularly pertinent to the notion of behavior theories is the way they rely upon a system of rewards and p...

Media Takes a Constructionist View When Reporting on Sexual Behavior

sexual behavior that conforms with their personal desires. Obviously, when a child would be harmed, or even murdered, such tendenc...

Deviant Behavior: Crime

"Albert Cohen found that deviant subcultures occur more often in the lower classes and are based on values that oppose the dominan...

Adolescent Depression And Cognitive Behavior Therapy

29 percent of the entire group of patients at the beginning of the study (Weeks, 2004; NIMH, 2005). This rate was reduced in all f...

Factors of Organization Behavior and Job Satisfaction

organizations unconscious beliefs, perceptions, thoughts and feelings. Changing culture cannot be done by edict, but estab...

Behavior Modification: Walking A Dog Three Times A Day

three-times-a-day schedule of walks at 7:00 am, 6:00 pm and 10:00 pm. The first walk was the shortest of them between Monday and ...

Organizational Behavior - Trends

beginning with the recognition that an ethical issue exists and how does that issue affect the people and the company (Markkula Ce...

Sexual Behavior in "The Godfather"

the Mafia Don, his close knit family who are also in the "business"; the women who are decorations, not people - are crude, they a...

Media Violence and Aggressive Behavior in Children and Teens

2006). The media is in fact a catalyst for violent expression on more than one societal front (DuRant, Champion and Wolfson, 2006...

"Smoking Among Chinese Americans: Behavior, Knowledge, And Beliefs" - Summary And Response

The authors recognize how utilizing this single Chicago community is not sufficient to represent the entire Chinese American popul...

Dissociative Identity Disorder: Behavior Analyst Explanation

in a single multidimensional self" (Stephens, 2005). Key indicators include: * The presence of two or more distinct identities, ...

How to Encourage Organizational Citizenship Behavior

as it respects this issue and they are generalized compliance and altruism (DiPaola & Hoy, 2005). Altruism is important because it...

Employee Behavior Management; The MARS Model

Glinow, 2005). Motivation has long been accepted as an important influence on the way an employee will behave. This was consider...

Health-Promotion Behaviors that Promote Self-Healing

for its victims. Diabetes is caused by imbalances in glucose levels. Rapid fluctuations of glucose levels can result in either h...

Relationship Between Biology and Behavior

In two pages this paper discusses the cerebrum, genes and their role, and the endocrine system's role in a consideration of what c...

Confidentiality, Disclosure, and Professional Behavior

In five pages this paper examines confidentiality and disclosure within the context of Rules 1.6, 3.3 (a) and 4.1 of professional ...

Antisocial Behavior Prediction

In five pages this paper critiques a longitudinal study of a thousand boys ages 6 and 7 regarding antisocial behavior and how to p...

The Impact of Fear on Social Behavior

This research paper examines the issue of fear in politics and society. The author references theorist Mark Edmunson and discusse...

W. Andrew Harrell's 'Physical Attractiveness, Self Disclosure, and Helping Behavior'

In five pages this article is critiqued and its research strategy is presented along with a variable description and evaluation of...

Aspects of Antisocial Behavior

In six pages this paper examines antisocial behavior with discussions of various acts, personality characteristics, interventions,...

Meditation and Cognitive Behavior Therapy

of psychology as well as the evolution of practice" (Resnick, 1997, p. 463). Psychology as a discipline has come to be an e...

Helping Behaviors and Gender Differences

Current research is relayed in this paper that examines several areas. Helping behaviors are explored and differences between the ...

Behavior That Is Behaviorally Based v. Cognitively Based

In five pages this paper examines the argument that as people grow older their behaviors become less based upon behavioral emulati...

The Modeling of Behavior

This is a comprehensive literature review on behavior modeling. The model is discussed in addition to steps necessary when trainin...

Suicidal Behavior Predictive Variable and Adolescent Depression

In five pages the links between adolescent depression and suicide are considered and the recommendation that interventions are bes...

Influences of Gender and Parental Interaction on Behavior and Attitudes

et. al., 1997). Parental influence is a particularly strong influence in shaping the child and in determining the attitudes tha...

Research on Childhood Behavior

In seven pages this paper summarized various influences on childhood behavior development including genetics and the environment. ...