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Social Psychology and Cults

individual zealously devotes himself to some leader or ideal" reveals the inherent social bigotry that has long obscured cults and...

Motivation Behind Cult Membership

Recent stories of mass suicides of cult members has led to an interest in the people who join cults and their rationale. Tis paper...

Issue in Social Psychology

with the group existed with two people, and compliance and conformity existed with the third one. On the one hand, two were confor...

Practice of Psychology

behind human behavior and learned a great deal within the setting of the laboratory. Psychoanalysis began with Freud and gained de...

Branches of Psychology

psychology is social psychology, which also includes sub-disciplines such as environmental psychology which have become quite prom...

Jigsaw Classroom

other groups to get together and discuss what they have learned (Aronson, 2012). Cooperative learning techniques have been found ...

Social Psychology - An Overview

a synthetic viewpoint along the nature vs nurture spectrum, holding that while some types of personality might be oriented towards...

Social Psychology of Identity, An Article Analysis

is a cognitive skill necessary for survival. This innate tendency is the root cause for the formation of in-groups, people similar...

Social Psychology

Social psychology is the study of what affects human behavior in social settings. This paper discusses what this field is about an...

Health, Environment, and Law

But Romanov notes that the problem with todays system is that family care and primary care physicians are little more than gatekee...

Cross-Cultural Psychology

There is a direct relationship between cultural and cross-cultural psychology. It is cultural psychology that provides the basis f...

David Koresh's Branch Davidians and Persuasive Techniques

In ten pages this cult's history and its techniques of persuasion are analyzed. Ten sources are cited in the bibliography....

Examination of Charismatic Leadership

and the power of the government to act; it is the implementation of formal rules by the society. The second type of authority that...

Suicide and Cults Explained

Religious cults have been a fact of life for years, but the phenomenon of mass suicides has recently engrossed the public. This pa...

Religious Topics

this movement, they are turned against their families, their grades fall and they drop out of school, and they "surrender" their w...

How Cults are Formed and Maintained

of society. How do these cults form? Often, there is one spiritual leader who attracts the group. The newly emerging gurus are m...

Afghanistan National Development Strategy (ANDS)

Security; Governance Rule of Law & Human Rights; Infrastructure & Natural Resources; Education; Health; Agriculture & Rural Develo...

American Psychology - Considering Three Streams

also divides Humanistic Psychology into three divisions: transpersonal psychology, somatic and experiential therapies and radical ...

Experimental Social Psychology

of flawed findings that other methods might produce. It is a matter of personal opinion which data collection method a social psy...

Social Psychology

an individual? For example, is the group a set of friends, family, or a set of co-workers? How an individual relates to a group ca...

Freudian and Social Psychology

correct? If he is, then social psychology has little meaning. After all, everything would be tied to Freuds models that really do ...

Psychopharmacology and Other Topics

a stereotypical image they held in their own minds. We are not always aware of our own prejudices but some people are and take s...

Social Psychology's Beneficial Aspects

twelve (2003). Standards of course have changed a great deal and while Twiggy only briefly became the new female icon in the 1970s...

Social Psychology Issues

as they are living in a world with others who also eat well. There is a sense that when there are great numbers, responsibility is...

Comparative Analysis of 3 Psychological Theories

someone ... we are not saying that he or she is in a particular internal state or condition. Instead, we are characterizing the pe...

Social Psychology As A Discipline

world to how a vulnerable person winds up on the other side. Cliques are composed of a specific - often superficial - element tha...

The Contributions of Abraham Maslow

danger, job security, stability in life and even a degree of structure that one can depend on (Boeree, 2007). The next level inclu...

Industrial Organizational Psychology

1921, James Cattell founded the Psychological Corporation for the purpose of advancing psychology and promoting its value in indus...

Communnication, Technology, and Social Changes

and the society. The Planned Parenthood Federation could produce a short documentary that reports the services they provide that a...

Selection and Training in Organizational Psychology

fit with the organization in question. In the context of training, employees are better able to learn and master new skills when t...