| Race/Archive 16 Talk:Race/Archive_16
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| List of Ig Nobel Prize winners list of Ig Nobel Prize winners from 1991 to the present day.A parody of the Nobel Prizes, the Ig Nobel Prizes are given each year in early October — around the time the recipients of the genuine Nobel Prizes are announced — for ten achievements that "first make people laugh, and then make them think." Commenting on the 2006 awards, Marc Abrahams, editor of Annals of Improbable Research, co-sponsor of the awards, said List_of_Ig_Nobel_Prize_winners
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| Health psychology Health psychology is concerned with understanding how biology, behavior, and social context influence health and illness. Health psychologists work alongside other medical professionals in clinical settings, work on behaviour change in public health promotion, teach at universities, and conduct research. Health_psychology
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| Rorschach test Talk:Rorschach_test
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| Ethical challenges to autism treatment Talk:Ethical_challenges_to_autism_treatment
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| Metacognition Metacognition is defined as "cognition about cognition", or "knowing about knowing." It can take many forms; "it includes knowledge about when and where to use particular strategies for learning or for problem solving." Metacognition
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| Edwin Boring Edwin Garrigues Boring (October 23, 1886-July 1, 1968) was an experimental psychologist who later became one of the first historians of psychology. Edwin_Boring
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| Race and genetics Notions of race based on Human genetic variation have replaced historical approaches such as craniology with the advent of human genetics in the 20th century. Race_and_genetics
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| Jeff Gannon James Dale Guckert (born 1957) posed as a conservative columnist under the pseudonym Jeff Gannon and was given credentials as a White House reporter between 2003 and 2005, eventually being employed by the news organization Talon News during the latter part of this period. Jeff_Gannon
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| LGBT rights opposition LGBT rights opposition refers to various movements or attitudes which oppose the extension of certain rights and privileges that are often taken for granted by many heterosexuals to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. The rights and privileges that are opposed tend to be those that do not conform to a heteronormative perspective, and include government recognition of rights to civil unions or partnerships, adoption by same-sex couples, access to Assisted reproductive technology and access to Sex reassignment surgery. LGBT_rights_opposition
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| Behavior modification facility A behavior modification facility (or youth residential program) is a residential educational and treatment institution enrolling adolescents who are perceived as displaying antisocial behavior, in an attempt to alter their conduct. As of 2008 there were about 650 nongovernmental, residential programs in the United States offering treatment services for adolescents. Some similar institutions are operated as components of governmental education or correctional systems. Behavior_modification_facility
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| Judith Rich Harris Judith Rich Harris (born February 10, 1938) is a psychologist and the author of The Nurture Assumption, a book criticizing the belief that parents are the most important factor in child development, and presenting evidence which contradicts that belief. Judith_Rich_Harris
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| Roper v. Simmons Roper v. Simmons, was a decision in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that it is unconstitutional to impose capital punishment for crimes committed while under the age of 18. The 5-4 decision overruled the Court's prior ruling upholding such sentences on offenders above or at the age of 16, in Stanford v. Kentucky, 492 U.S. 361 (1989). Roper_v._Simmons
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| Lovaas technique LOVAAS technique, a form of treatment guided by applied behavior analysis, is a therapy for children diagnosed with autism or related disorders. The technique consists of an intensive behavioral intervention which is carried out early in the development of autistic children. It involves discrete-trial teaching, breaking skills down into their most basic components and rewarding positive performance. It was also known for its use of aversives to punish unwanted behaviors. Lovaas_technique
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| History of psychology history of psychology as a scholarly study of the mind and behavior dates back to the Ancient Greeks. It was widely regarded as a branch of philosophy until 1879, when psychology developed as an independent scientific discipline in Germany and the United States. History_of_psychology
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| Destructive cult Destructive cult" is a term used to refer to religions and other groups which have caused harm to their own members or to others. Some researchers define "harm" in this case with a narrow focus, specifically groups which have deliberately physically injured or killed other individuals, while others define the term more broadly and include emotional abuse among the types of harm inflicted. Destructive_cult
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| Bigender Bigender (bi+gender) is a tendency to move between feminine and masculine gender-typed behaviour depending on context, expressing a distinctly "en femme" persona and a distinctly "en homme" persona, feminine and masculine respectively. It is a subset of transgender. Bigender
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| Educational music Educational music, is a genre of music in which songs, lyrics, or other musical elements are used as a method of teaching and/or learning. It has been shown in research to promote learning. Additionally, music study in general has been shown to improve academic performance of students. Educational_music
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| EHarmony eHarmony is an online dating site. eHarmony matches men and women with compatible singles of the opposite sex, taking into consideration what it considers key dimensions of personality. In addition to singles matching, eHarmony operates eHarmony Labs, a relationship research facility, and publishes eHarmony Advice, a growing relationship advice site. EHarmony
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| Diana Deutsch Diana Deutsch is a perceptual and cognitive psychologist, born in London, England. She is currently Professor of Psychology at the University of California, San Diego, and is one of the most prominent researchers on the psychology of music. She is probably most famous for the musical and auditory illusions that she has discovered, which include the octave illusion, the scale illusion, the glissando illusion, the tritone paradox, and the cambiata illusion, among others. Diana_Deutsch
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| Lucian Leape Lucian Leape is a physician and professor at Harvard School of Public Health, who has been very active in trying to improve the medical system to reduce medical error. In 1994 he had an article Error in Medicine published in JAMA. In 2000, he testified before a subcommittee of the US Senate with his recommendations for improving medical safety. Lucian_Leape
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| Charles Darwin's illness Charles Darwin's illness repeatedly affected him with an uncommon combination of symptoms, leaving him severely debilitated for long periods of time, incapable of normal life and intellectual production, staying in bed most of the time for months. Charles Darwin wrote that "Constant attacks.. Charles_Darwin's_illness
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| School violence School violence is widely held to have become a serious problem in recent decades in many countries, especially where weapons such as guns or knives are involved. It includes violence between school students as well as physical attacks by students on school staff. School_violence
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| Parental alienation syndrome Parental alienation syndrome (abbreviated as PAS) is term coined by Richard A. Gardner in the early 1980s to refer to what he describes as a disorder in which a child, on an ongoing basis, belittles and insults one parent without justification, due to a combination of factors, including indoctrination by the other parent (almost exclusively as part of a child custody dispute) and the child's own attempts to denigrate the target parent. Parental_alienation_syndrome
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| Exodus International Exodus International is a nonprofit, interdenominational Christian organization founded by Michael Bussee, Gary Cooper, Frank Worthen, Ron Dennis, and Greg Reid. Exodus international promotes "the message of Freedom from homosexuality through the power of Jesus Christ." Exodus_International
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| Stereotype threat Stereotype threat is the fear that one's behavior will confirm an existing stereotype of a group with which one identifies. This fear can sometimes affect performance. Stereotype_threat
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| Kentucky v. Wasson Kentucky_v._Wasson
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| Fantastic Four Talk:Fantastic_Four
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| Self control Self control is the ability to control one's emotions and desires, is the capacity of efficient management to the future. psychology it is sometimes called self-regulation, and exerting self-control through the executive functions in decision making is thought to deplete a resource in the ego. Self_control
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| Beck Depression Inventory The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI, BDI-II), created by Dr. Aaron T. Beck, is a 21-question multiple-choice self-report inventory, one of the most widely used instruments for measuring the severity of depression. Its development marked a shift among health care professionals, who had until then viewed depression from a psychodynamic perspective, instead of it being rooted in the patient's own thoughts. Beck_Depression_Inventory
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| Emission theory (vision) Talk:Emission_theory_(vision)
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| Transtheoretical model transtheoretical model in health psychology is intended to explain or predict a person's success or failure in achieving a proposed behavior change, such as developing different habits. It attempts to answer why the change "stuck" or alternatively why the change was not made.The transtheoretical model is also known by the acronym "TTM" and by the term "stages of change model". Transtheoretical_model
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| Race and intelligence/Archive 5 Talk:Race_and_intelligence/Archive_5
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| Same-sex attraction Same-sex attraction (SSA) is a term used to refer to a person's feelings of sexual attraction to members of the same gender identity. The term SSA may also be used in situations where the person is also attracted to the opposite gender. The term SSA is used as an alternative to using labels for sexual orientation involving attraction to the same gender, such as gay or bisexual. Same-sex_attraction
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| Oona King Talk:Oona_King
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| K-complex K-complex is an electroencephalography (EEG) waveform that occurs during stage 2 of NREM sleep. It is the "largest event in healthy human EEG". It consists of a brief negative high-voltage peak, usually greater than 100 µV, followed by a slower positive complex around 350 and 550 ms and at 900ms a final negative peak. K-complexes occur roughly every 1.0–1.7 minutes and are often followed by bursts of sleep spindles. They occur spontaneously K-complex
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| Reference desk archive/May 2005 Wikipedia:Reference_desk_archive/May_2005
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| School psychology Talk:School_psychology
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| Allocation voting Allocation voting is any voting system in which voters are assigned a number of "points" or other unit of account, and are expected to allocate these among a number of alternatives. Unlike preference voting the numbers do not represent ranks but weights.Unlike Range voting, the total number of votes is fixed. A voter may cast all votes for a single candidate or option, or may spread the votes out among multiple candidates or options. Allocation_voting
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| Martha Beck Talk:Martha_Beck
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| Self-defeating prophecy self-defeating prophecy is the complementary opposite of a self-fulfilling prophecy:A self-defeating prophecy can be the result of rebellion to the prediction. If the audience of a prediction has an interest in seeing it falsified, their actions upon hearing it will make the prediction less plausible. Self-defeating_prophecy
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