Action control: Often, we rely on internal cues to decide when an action should be terminated when we have done enough (for example, when disinfecting a place to prevent disease). But for those with OCD, such introspection does not work; thus, “they resort to using proxies, such as rule...
Is there a social unconscious? - From Freud's first work to the present, the attempt to establish a psychoanalytic form of social psychology has had difficulty finding a satisfactory solution for a number of conceptual problems born of the switch from a clinical/therapeutic to a supra-individual...
Loneliness in this view represents a state in which the individual is denied access to rewarding aspects of interaction. This study is based on 32 lifecourse interviews with Finnish students. It finds that loneliness as a failed microinteractional dynamic originates from students' previous negative ...
Yes, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) long predates germ theory; it is probable that OCD has existed for as long as human brains have existed, or...Become a member and unlock all Study Answers Start today. Try it now Create an account Ask a question Our experts can answer your ...
The last five years have seen substantive advances in the state of knowledge of all aspects of OCD and this volume brings together many of the recognised leaders in the field to provide a state-of-the-art account of theory, assessment and practice in treatment. A comprehensive text for ...
For many centuries, scholars and philosophers from wisdom traditions in different cultures have reported and discussed non-self states of consciousness. These states can be both short-term (state, transitory) and long-term (trait, lasting) conditions. However, in psychology, the importance of a he...
Reconceptualizing the museum from a theoretical perspective provides coherence and a basis for constructive development and critique. Innovation, in light of feminist theory, is compatible with proposals emanating from alternative sources. Illustrating how museums could benefit from application of feminist ...
Spearman (1904) first presented a theory of general intelligence which he later expended into what is now known as the two-factor theory. He developed the first statistical model for explaining the positive manifold among task performances. The underlying assumption of this model is that individual...
In 2017, Lindsay and Creswell proposed the Monitor and Acceptance Theory (MAT) of mindfulness, which proposed a unified and testable framework for interpre
Factlike rather than lawlike character of the physical irreversibility principle expressed by means of Bayes' principle, and considered as a boundary condition for integrating the macroscopic evolution equations. The Ritz-Einstein controversy reexamined and J. von Neumann's irreversibility of quantum ...