... a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." This quotation from the mouth of Juliet Capulet in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is a prime example of the assumptions that society makes about labels. If something or someone is labelled a particular name, then those around them will expect the named object or person to have all of the characteristics - especially the bad - that ... embedded deep in our culture, have a tremendous influence over how we react to people around us." (Kliewer, p83) As such, labels and classifications are generally applied to objects and individuals believing ...

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... e put into mathematical function to model the understanding of social behavior. Three games were invented to be conducted for research purposes on trust, coordination and punishment; the games were designed for social, unsocial and a control. BPD patient and healthy control that were playing were randomly assigned to each round. The outcome of the experiment wasn't significantly different from ... reinforcement including maternal or romantic suggestions of socially rewarding cues. Deregulation of Basal and Corticostriatal has been associated with causing aggressive behaviors in Schizoph...

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... experiences (with the parent being involved in the creation of various learning scenarios). Unschooler's hold that such instruments of traditional schooling are not conducive to a student's utmost learning, and that the removal of such educational features represents a method that allows each student to discover their desire to learn from within. The unschooling method effectively utilizes natural learning capabilities ... natural learners. After all, this is a basic part of our genetic makeup. Long before any sort of schooling system was introduced into modern society, human beings (inc...

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... to groups on the basis of the outcome. Ingroup and outgroup members were unanimous except for a group code and a number. The results showed that even though the groups were purely cognitive, in group favouritism occurred in relation to the allocation of money, as did outgroup discrimination. The results suggested that there was a strategy of competition with the outgroup rather than economic gain for the ... socially forbidden bigotry, prejudice may be considered the forbidden pleasure as this theory argues that sometimes what is outside the social norms can become a banned pleasure. E...

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... , as every psychotherapist well knows, with the degree to which such maladaptive behavior is resistant to correction by rational argument. In attempting to understand practical intelligence, we were influenced by a theory of personality called cognitive-experiential self-theory (CEST; Epstein 1973, 1980a, in press). For present purposes, it is sufficient to note that, according ... and then irrationally blaming themselves and others in a way that exacerbated the problem. Such reactions have been well described by cognitive therapists such as Beck (1976), Ellis (1962), and Meichenbaum (197...

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