PsychologyHeuristicsWhite-Collar crimeTheoryPurposeThis paper aims to add to the theoretical discussion of white-collar crime by introducing modern psychological decision-making literature and the potential effect on white-collar offending.Design/methodology/approachUsing a theoretical approach, literature on ...
Well, psychology says it’s true. Our minds are terribly good at creating excuses for not doing things, and these excuses inevitably develop into feelings of dread. Dread, in turn, prevents us from getting started at all. However, the the tasks that need to be accomplis...
Freud and others believed that what had happened in your childhood was so awful that you deeply repressed it. And it was so well defended against that you only got clues into what was going on through slips of the tongue, dreams and, sometimes, resistance to therapy. For example...
“Paleo recipes,” on the other hand, has a much lower degree of interest. This doesn’t mean it’s a bad idea—some bloggers prefer to write for a more specific crowd if they have a unique specialty—but it does mean there are fewer people interested in that particular subject area....
This book reports the results of a global research effort that McKinsey has undertaken to make sense of the digital revolution in retail. The authors anchor their analysis in the origins and underlying workings of the retail business model, the technology drivers that are changing it permanently, ...
This theme is associated with a persuasive paper that is also called argumentative. This type of writing has much in common with an expository essay, where you also need to provide statistics or accurate data to confirm a particular point of view. ...
The politician who has some grasp of heuristics and behavioural psychology is at a huge advantage over the one who hasn’t. Just as, at some point in the 1970s, it became more or less necessary for MPs to have a rough sense of economics, we are...
Reality-tunnels are also influenced by “imprint vulnerability,” periods in our lives when early childhood/adolescent experiences “bond neurons into reflex networks which remain for life.”21 The psychological researchers, Lorenz and Tinbergen, won a Nobel Prize in 1973 for their research into impri...
Our sample of books was generated using online search engines that parents in the U.S. are likely to use when choosing bilingual picture books in English and Spanish for their children. Previous research has indicated that there are many different types of bilingual books (Domke 2018;Jeffers 200...
. In support of these results, as shown in Figure 3a,b, emotional engagement had stronger relations with psychological withdrawal when self-control was low than was high, and the relationship between cognitive engagement and psychological withdrawal was not significantly influenced by self-control. ...