Encyclopedia - Critical Psychology: Encyclopedia - Critical Psychology
Critical psychology is both a critique of "mainstream" psychology and an attempt to apply psychology in more progressive ways (based, for...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Psychology - Criticisms Of Psychology
Although modern mainstream psychology largely endeavors to be a scientific endeavor, the field has a history of controversy. Some critici...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Psychology - Criticisms Of Psychology
Although modern mainstream psychology largely attempts to be a scientific endeavor, the field has a history of controversy. Some criticis...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Psychology: Encyclopedia - Psychology
Psychology (ancient Greek: psyche = "soul" or "mind", logos/-ology = "study of") is an academic and applied field involving the study of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Energy Psychology: Encyclopedia - Energy Psychology
Energy psychology is not a specific field of study but rather refers generally to a collection of techniques and therapies that are often...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cognitivism Psychology: Encyclopedia - Cognitivism Psychology
In psychology, cognitivism is a theoretical approach to understanding the mind, which argues that mental function can be understood by qu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Color Psychology: Encyclopedia - Color Psychology
Color psychology is a field of study devoted to analyzing the effect of color on human behavior and feeling, distinct from phototherapy (...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cognitive Poetics: Encyclopedia - Cognitive Poetics
Cognitive poetics is a relatively new school of literary criticism that applies the principles of cognitive science, particularly cogniti...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Criticisms Of Charismatic And Pentecostal Belief: Encyclopedia - Criticisms Of Charismatic And Pentecostal Belief
Charismatic is an umbrella term used to describe Christians who believe that the manifestations of the Holy Spirit seen in the first cent...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ego, Superego, And Id: Encyclopedia - Ego, Superego, And Id
The ego, superego, and id are the tripartite divisions of the psyche in psychoanalytic theory compartmentalizing the sphere of mental act...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ego Superego And Id: Encyclopedia - Ego Superego And Id
The ego, superego, and id are the tripartite divisions of the psyche in psychoanalytic theory compartmentalizing the sphere of mental act...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Addiction: Encyclopedia - Addiction
Addiction is a compulsion to repeat a behavior regardless of its consequences. A person who is addicted is sometimes called an addict. Ma...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Xenogears: Encyclopedia - Xenogears
Limited two-player battle mode Xenogears (ゼノギアス Zenogiasu) is a role-playing game released on the Sony PlayStation. It was rele...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Noam Chomsky: Encyclopedia - Noam Chomsky
Avram Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) is the Institute Professor Emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technolog...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Neurotheology: Encyclopedia - Neurotheology
This article is about Neurotheology. Go here for Neuroethology. Neurotheology, also known as biotheology, is the study of the neural basi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Strategic Management: Encyclopedia - Strategic Management
Strategic management is the process of specifying an organization's objectives, developing policies and plans to achieve these objectives...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Psychological Egoism: Encyclopedia Ii - Psychological Egoism - Criticism
Critics of psychological egoism often reject it on the grounds that it is non-falsifiable; in other words, it is designed in such a way a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Transpersonal Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Transpersonal Psychology - Criticisms Of Transpersonal Psychology
Criticisms of transpersonal psychology has come from several commentators. One of the earliest criticisms of the field was issued by the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cognitivism Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Cognitivism Psychology - Criticisms Of Psychological Cognitivism
Cognitivism has been criticised in a number of ways. Phenomenologists and hermeneutic philosophers have criticised the positivist approac...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Humanistic Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Humanistic Psychology - Criticism And Debate
Criticism of Humanistic psychology has come from several commentators. Among these we find sociologist Roy Wallis who has questioned the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cognitivism Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Cognitivism Psychology - Theoretical Approach
Cognitivism has two major components, one methodological, the other theoretical. Methodologically, cognitivism adopts a positivist approa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Humanistic Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Humanistic Psychology - The Development Of The Field
The humanistic approach has its roots in existentialist thought (see Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Sartre). It is also sometimes...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Humanistic Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Humanistic Psychology - Counselling And Therapy
Humanistic psychology includes several approaches to counselling and therapy, among these we find the categories mentioned by Aanstoos, S...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Transpersonal Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Transpersonal Psychology - The Development Of The Field
Among the thinkers who are considered to have set the stage for transpersonal studies are William James, Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Abraha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Transpersonal Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Transpersonal Psychology - Contributions To The Academic Field
Although any model of human development can only be understood as an intellectual abstraction of reality, transpersonal psychology has ma...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sociobiological Theories Of Rape: Encyclopedia Ii - Sociobiological Theories Of Rape - Criticisms
Sociobiological theories of rape - Criticisms from within evolutionary psychology. The distinguished proponent of evolutionary psycholo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Color Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Color Psychology - Cultural Contexts Of Colors
Here are some common cultural connotations attached to colors in Western cultures, particularly in the United States: Various cultures se...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Criticisms Of Charismatic And Pentecostal Belief: Encyclopedia Ii - Criticisms Of Charismatic And Pentecostal Belief - Medical/scientific Criticisms
Criticisms of Charismatic and Pentecostal belief - Faith Healing. The following articles are useful in examining the possible reasons w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Criticisms Of Charismatic And Pentecostal Belief: Encyclopedia Ii - Criticisms Of Charismatic And Pentecostal Belief - The Nature Of Criticism
Pentecostal and Charismatic Christians and organizations have, either fairly or unfairly, been subjected to numerous criticisms by both t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Criticisms Of Charismatic And Pentecostal Belief: Encyclopedia Ii - Criticisms Of Charismatic And Pentecostal Belief - Criticisms From Evangelical Christians
See also: Cambridge Declaration A number of critics of Pentecostal / Charismatic beliefs have established themselves in Discernment Minis...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Stranger In A Strange Land: Encyclopedia Ii - Stranger In A Strange Land - Criticism
Stranger in a Strange Land - Lack of psychological realism. Two related criticisms that have been made are that the book steps outside ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Bell Curve: Encyclopedia Ii - The Bell Curve - Responses
Upon publication, The Bell Curve received a great deal of positive publicity, including cover stories in Newsweek ("the science behind [i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Age Disparity In Sexual Relationships: Encyclopedia Ii - Age Disparity In Sexual Relationships - Motives
There are many factors which draw both young and old into such age-disparate relationships. Age disparity in sexual relationships - Fert...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Structuralism: Encyclopedia Ii - Structuralism - Structuralism In The Philosophy Of Mathematics
Structuralism in mathematics is the study of what structures (mathematical objects) are, and how the ontology of these structures should ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Testosterone Poisoning: Encyclopedia Ii - Testosterone Poisoning - Prestigious Use
References to testosterone poisoning can be a convenient way to criticize men. Magazine editor Tina Brown uses the phrase thematically in...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Psychiatry: Encyclopedia Ii - Psychiatry - Opposition To And Criticism Of Psychiatry
Psychiatry - Anti-psychiatry. Main article: anti-psychiatry Unlike most other areas of medicine, there is a politicised anti-psychiat...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Structuralism: Encyclopedia Ii - Structuralism - Structuralism After World War Ii
Throughout the 1940s and 1950s, existentialism like that practiced by Jean-Paul Sartre was the dominant mood. Structuralism surged to pro...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Testosterone Poisoning: Encyclopedia Ii - Testosterone Poisoning - Humor And Criticism
More often, men use the phrase about themselves and each other with gentle self-deprecating humor. Two examples from National Public Radi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Structuralism: Encyclopedia Ii - Structuralism - Structuralism In Anthropology
See the main article at structural anthropology According to structural theory in anthropology, meaning is produced and reproduced within...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Psychiatry: Encyclopedia Ii - Psychiatry - Opposition To And Criticism Of Psychiatry
Psychiatry - Anti-psychiatry. Unlike most other areas of medicine, there is a politicised anti-psychiatry movement opposed to the pract...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Psychiatry: Encyclopedia Ii - Psychiatry - Practice Of Psychiatry
Psychiatry is one of the clinical medical disciplines which involves the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of mental and behavioral dis...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Structuralism: Encyclopedia Ii - Structuralism - Structuralism In Linguistics
Ferdinand de Saussure is the originator of the 20th century reappearance of structuralism, specifically in his 1916 book Course in Genera...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Psychiatry: Encyclopedia Ii - Psychiatry - Practice Of Psychiatry
Psychiatry is one of the clinical medical disciplines which involves the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of mental and behavioral dis...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Age Disparity In Sexual Relationships: Encyclopedia Ii - Age Disparity In Sexual Relationships - Social Criticism
In some societies age-disparate relationships are seen as aberrant or even perverse. Historically, the "gold digger" mentality has been f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Age Disparity In Sexual Relationships: Encyclopedia Ii - Age Disparity In Sexual Relationships - Slang Terms
A number of slang terms exist to describe pairings in which one individual is much older than the other: Gold digging refers to a relati...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Human Potential Movement: Encyclopedia Ii - Human Potential Movement - Criticism
The movement has received criticism in two forms. The first is from researchers in psychology, medicine, and science who often dismiss th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ego Superego And Id: Encyclopedia Ii - Ego Superego And Id - The Ego Psychologists
After Freud, a number of prominent psychoanalytic theorists began to elaborate on Freud's functionalist version of the ego. Extensive eff...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ego, Superego, And Id: Encyclopedia Ii - Ego, Superego, And Id - The Ego Psychologists
After Freud, a number of prominent psychoanalytic theorists began to elaborate on Freud's functionalist version of the ego. Extensive eff...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sigmund Freud: Encyclopedia Ii - Sigmund Freud - Books About Freud And Psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud - Psychoanalysis: theory and practice. Philip Rieff, Freud: The Mind of the Moralist, 3d ed. (Chicago: University of Chi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Testosterone Poisoning: Encyclopedia Ii - Testosterone Poisoning - Psychological Research
Is there a kernel of truth to this? No one suggests testosterone poisoning is an actual medical or psychological condition, yet the phras...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Noam Chomsky: Encyclopedia Ii - Noam Chomsky - Contributions To Psychology
Chomsky's work in linguistics has had major implications for psychology and its fundamental direction in the 20th century. His theory of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Psychiatry: Encyclopedia Ii - Psychiatry - Contrast With Psychology
Psychiatry is practised by psychiatrists, who are medical doctors specializing in mental illness and who are therefore trained to prescri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Psychiatry: Encyclopedia Ii - Psychiatry - Contrast With Psychology
Psychiatry is practised by psychiatrists, who are medical doctors specializing in mental illness and who are therefore trained to prescri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Personality Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Personality Psychology - Personality Tests
Types of personality tests include the Holland Codes, the Rorschach test, the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, the Myers-Brig...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Noam Chomsky: Encyclopedia Ii - Noam Chomsky - Chomsky's Influence In Other Fields
Chomskyan models have been used as a theoretical basis in several other fields. The Chomsky hierarchy is often taught in fundamental comp...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sigmund Freud: Encyclopedia Ii - Sigmund Freud - Freud's Legacy
Sigmund Freud - Psychotherapy. Freud trained as a medical doctor, and as such, he believed his research methods and conclusions were sc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sigmund Freud: Encyclopedia Ii - Sigmund Freud - Freud's Legacy
Sigmund Freud - Psychotherapy. Freud trained as a medical doctor, and as such, he believed his research methods and conclusions were sc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Psychiatry: Encyclopedia Ii - Psychiatry - History
Psychiatric illnesses are sometimes characterised as disorders of the mind rather than the brain, although the distinction is not always ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Bell Curve: Encyclopedia Ii - The Bell Curve - Summary Of Contents
The Bell Curve is fairly large for a book of its popularity, weighing in at 845 pages in the first printing and 879 in the revised paperb...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Bell Curve: Encyclopedia Ii - The Bell Curve - Miscellanea
From 1986 to 1989, Murray was given an annual grant by the conservative Bradley Foundation of $90,000, rising to $113,000 by 1991, and th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Noam Chomsky: Encyclopedia Ii - Noam Chomsky - Opinion On Criticism Of Science Culture
Chomsky strongly disagrees with poststructuralist and postmodern criticisms of science: I have spent a lot of my life working on questio...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sociobiological Theories Of Rape: Encyclopedia Ii - Sociobiological Theories Of Rape - Rape As An Adaptation Among Animals
It has long been observed that some animals appear to show behavior resembling rape in humans, such as combining sexual intercourse with ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Strategic Management: Encyclopedia Ii - Strategic Management - The Psychology Of Strategic Management
Several psychologists have conducted studies to determine the psychological patterns involved in strategic management. Typically senior m...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Noam Chomsky: Encyclopedia Ii - Noam Chomsky - Academic Achievements Awards And Honors
According to the Arts and Humanities Citation Index, between 1980 and 1992 Chomsky was cited as a source more often than any living schol...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Noam Chomsky: Encyclopedia Ii - Noam Chomsky - Academic Achievements, Awards And Honors
According to the Arts and Humanities Citation Index, between 1980 and 1992 Chomsky was cited as a source more often than any living schol...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Noam Chomsky: Encyclopedia Ii - Noam Chomsky - Biography
Chomsky was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Hebrew scholar William Chomsky, who was from a town in Ukraine later wiped out...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Noam Chomsky: Encyclopedia Ii - Noam Chomsky - Political Views
Related article: Criticism of Noam Chomsky. Chomsky is one of the best known figures of radical American politics. He defines himself as ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Behavioral Finance: Encyclopedia Ii - Behavioral Finance - History
During the classical period, economics had a close link with psychology. For example, Adam Smith wrote an important text describing psych...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Noam Chomsky: Encyclopedia Ii - Noam Chomsky - Bibliography
Noam Chomsky - Linguistics. See a full bibliography on Chomsky's MIT homepage [38]. Chomsky (1955). Logical Structure of Linguistic Th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Noam Chomsky: Encyclopedia Ii - Noam Chomsky - Chomsky's Influence As A Political Activist
Noam Chomsky - Opposition to the Vietnam War. Chomsky became one of the most prominent opponents of the Vietnam War in February 1967, w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Noam Chomsky: Encyclopedia Ii - Noam Chomsky - Contributions To Linguistics
Syntactic Structures was a distillation of his book Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory (1955, 75) in which he introduces transformati...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Force Dynamics: Encyclopedia Ii - Force Dynamics - Context
Introduced by cognitive linguist Leonard Talmy in 1981, Force Dynamics started out as a generalization of the traditional notion of the c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Force Dynamics: Encyclopedia Ii - Force Dynamics - Theoretical Outline
Force Dynamics - Basic concepts. Expressions can exhibit a Force Dynamic pattern or can be Force-Dynamically neutral. A sentence like T...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Psychiatry: Encyclopedia Ii - Psychiatry - The Dsm System
In the United States, the standard system of psychiatric diagnoses is given in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Psychiatry: Encyclopedia Ii - Psychiatry - Professional Requirements
In the United States, psychiatrists are board certified as specialists in their field. After completing four years of medical school, phy...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Psychiatry: Encyclopedia Ii - Psychiatry - The Dsm System
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is a system of psychiatric diagnoses overseen and revised by the American...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sociobiological Theories Of Rape: Encyclopedia Ii - Sociobiological Theories Of Rape - Rape As An Adaptation Among Humans
Sociobiological theories of rape - A Natural History of Rape. The idea that rape evolved as a genetically advantageous behavioral adapt...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Xenogears: Encyclopedia Ii - Xenogears - Homages And Allusions
Xenogears - Psychological. Xenogears' characters were designed to allude to many psychological concepts, especially Freudian and Jungia...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - A Course In Miracles: Encyclopedia Ii - A Course In Miracles - Comparisons Of Acim To Other Spiritual Belief Systems
A Course In Miracles - Comparison of ACIM to Christianity. According to the historical theological roots of most Christian denominatio...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Capital Accumulation: Encyclopedia Ii - Capital Accumulation - Psychology Sociology And Ethics Of Capital Accumulation
There have been numerous psychological and sociological studies of the motivations of investment behaviour by individuals. Most of these ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Capital Accumulation: Encyclopedia Ii - Capital Accumulation - Psychology, Sociology And Ethics Of Capital Accumulation
There have been numerous psychological and sociological studies of the motivations of investment behaviour by individuals. Most of these ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Person-centered Psychotherapy: Encyclopedia Ii - Person-centered Psychotherapy - Core Concepts
Person-centered psychotherapy - Congruence. Rogers thought there were three selves in us: the self-concept, the real self, and the idea...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Age Disparity In Sexual Relationships: Encyclopedia Ii - Age Disparity In Sexual Relationships - History
Historically, unequal pairings are quite common, if not the rule. In Classical Greece men would typically marry around the age of thirty,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Age Disparity In Sexual Relationships: Encyclopedia Ii - Age Disparity In Sexual Relationships - Modern Times
The United States Census Bureau's March 2000 statistics show some 800,000 unmarried American couples are more than five years divergent i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cult: Encyclopedia Ii - Cult - Definitions Of Cult
In the English-speaking countries since about the 1960s, especially in North America, the term cult has taken on a pejorative and sometim...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Qualitative Psychological Research: Encyclopedia Ii - Qualitative Psychological Research - Arguments Against Quantitative Psychological Research
Nevertheless, many other psychological researchers reject statistically-based research in favour of qualitative research. They argue that...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Capital Accumulation: Encyclopedia Ii - Capital Accumulation - Harrod-domar Model
In macroeconomics, following the Harrod-Domar model, the savings ratio (s) and the capital coefficient (k) are regarded as critical facto...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Evolutionary Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Evolutionary Psychology - Controversies
Animal behavior studies have long recognized the role of evolution; the application of evolutionary theory to human psychology, however, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Neuro-linguistic Programming: Encyclopedia Ii - Neuro-linguistic Programming - Criticism
Critics say NLP is simply a half-baked conflation of pop psychology and pseudoscience that uses jargon to disguise the fact that it is ba...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Neuro-linguistic Programming: Encyclopedia Ii - Neuro-linguistic Programming - Criticism
Critics say NLP is simply a half-baked conflation of pop psychology and pseudoscience that uses jargon to disguise the fact that it is ba...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Neurotheology: Encyclopedia Ii - Neurotheology - Criticism
An attempt to marry a materialistic approach like neuroscience to spirituality naturally attracts much criticism. Some of the criticism i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Psychotherapy: Encyclopedia Ii - Psychotherapy - History
Most psychotherapies are either direct descendants of psychoanalysis, or their founders started out in areas of psychoanalysis before dev...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Stranger In A Strange Land: Encyclopedia Ii - Stranger In A Strange Land - Impact
Like many influential works of literature, Stranger made a contribution to the language: specifically, the word "grok." In Heinlein's inv...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Stranger In A Strange Land: Encyclopedia Ii - Stranger In A Strange Land - Plot
The story portrays Valentine Michael Smith's adaptation to, and understanding of, humans and their culture, which is portrayed as an ampl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Psychology - Scope Of Psychology
Psychology is an extremely broad field, encompassing many different approaches to the study of mental processes and behavior. Below are t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Psychology - Scope Of Psychology
Psychology is an extremely broad field, encompassing many different approaches to the study of mental processes and behavior. Below are t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Psychology - History
Main article: History of psychology Rudolf Goclenius, a German scholastic philosopher, is credited with inventing the term 'psychology' (...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Psychology - History
Main article: History of psychology The late 19th century marks the start of psychology as a scientific enterprise. The year 1879 is comm...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Psychology - Research Methods
Psychology is conducted both scientifically and non-scientifically, but is to a large extent wholly rigorous. Mainstream psychology is ba...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Psychology - Principles Of Psychology
Psychology - Mind and brain. Psychology does not necessarily refer to the brain or nervous system and can be framed purely in terms of ...   » Read the article