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An Overview of Sociobiological Criminology

tension between the need to maintain social order and the actions of some individuals which threaten that social order. This tensi...

Communications and Consistency Theory

Austrian psychologist Fritz Heider developed one of the earliest consistency theories, balance theory, which focused on the relati...

James and Adler - A Comparison of Viewpoints

made by many prominent psychologists. He derided the quality of their experiments and famously made the claim that psychology was ...

The Use of Real Options Theory in Financial Management/Modeling

may be hypothesised that real options theory may be seen as a theory more suited to real world applications than the discounted ca...

The Application of Realist and Liberalist Approaches in International Relations

This is a generally pessimistic approach to international relations, with statism being any central tenet of the theory, with the ...

Dividend Policies and the Interpretation of Dividend Signaling

the firms performance (Lintner, 1956, p98). The basic hypothesis, based in research with a sample of 28 firms and interviews with ...

Modern Developments within Organizational Theory

are significant limitations, and the most common approaches appear to be building on existing theories in order to better than, as...

Child Development Learning Theories

This paper reports four sets of theories, Piaget, behaviorism, nativism Vygotsky, and neo-Vygotsky. The major tenets of each are d...

Cognitive Growth Theories

a term applied to the education of handicapped children who had neurological, sensory, cognitive, and/or physical handicaps (Gindi...

Existentialism vs Humanism

Numerous theories have been purported in an attempt to explain human personality. Existentialist and...

Theory of Constraints (ToC)and Use to Assess the Value of Hedging

The theory of constraints is examined as a suitable theory to be used in an assessment of the value of airline fuel hedging and t...

Bruner Piaget Vygotsky

steps (Bandura, 1999). His theory went against the prevalent theories of the day. One of the best known cognitive theorists is Je...

Vygotsky and Piaget

societal and academic endeavors" (Commons and Ross, 2008, p. 321). Piagets perspective on formal operations appears to have been ...

Social Bonding Social Control Labeling

an outcast. They are not allowed to bond back into the society so they become more entrenched in crime (OConnor, 2006). Hirschi...

Overview of Jean Watson's Theory of Transpersonal Caring

a noun and a verb, is inextricably intertwined with nursing. Nurses provide care, that is, the actions necessary to attend to pati...

Marx vs Castoriadis

freedoms, which, in effect "shook individuals in their political and social foundations." It ended the feudal system, and it drama...

Can Depersonalized Bullying in the Workplace be Explained by Critical Management Theory?

and Clegg and Dunkerley (1980) who sought to study organizations using this paradigm. The Marxist approach is one that embodies so...

ORGANIZATIONAL THEORY AND MANAGEMENT

In recent decades, organizational theory has become a booming business, with researchers and writers postulating all kinds of reas...

Leader-Member Exchange Theory

to as the Vertical Dyad Linkage Theory (ChangingMinds, 2010; Rothbauer-Wanish, 2009). This is a leadership theory that focuses on ...

Explaining and Comparing Three Approaches to Leadership

have some commonalities are the transformational leadership model, the team leadership model and leader member exchange theory. By...

MOTIVATIONAL THEORIES: EXPECTANCY THEORY AND INTRINSIC MOTIVATION

relationship with expectancy theory; people will generally perform a task in the expectation that a reward will be offered at the ...

Why Adolecents Commit Crimes

is about one-fourth of the entire population. Of those, over two million are arrested each year. That accounts for about 17 percen...

Three Personality Theorists Compared

responsible for their own personality development and for the things that happen to him, i.e., no scape-goating; life-style which ...

Websites on Nursing Theorists Margaret A. Newman, Betty Neuman, and Virginia Henderson

are not listed on this introductory website. This theory remains relevant to contemporary nursing practice because it is client-c...

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...

Relevant Theories to Support International Expansion

theory. The foundations of what was to become the theory of comparative advantage start with the Scottish economist Adam S...

Comparing Four Early Psycholigical Theorists

of experiences we have as the human species, it is knowledge that a person is born with (Boeree, 2006). The collective unconscious...

Theories of Personality: Horney and Sullivan

riddles in the study of psychology. While much work has been done in the categorization of temperaments, moods, emotions, and trai...

Personality Theories of Jung and Allport

a collective unconscious, eschewing the categorizations of Freud (Boeree, 2010a). The collective unconscious is likely his most me...

Coach Krzyzewski's Leadership

Minds, 2011). Coach K says that he spends time at the beginning of every season to get to know each player and what they are capa...