The second type is called 'Prajna', which is a broadening of focus, whereby the meditator provides themselves with a space and opportunity for self-reflective investigation, and through which they can establish a connection with their own personal truth and develop a deeper insight and clearer understanding of how things really are in their own reality and in the world around them. ... The result of gaining this connection with ourselves is self-empowerment. ... By practicing these techniques we learn to dis-identify or disconnect from our pain, fear and suffering, gaining the unde...

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In typically developing individuals, mirror neurons underlie imitation and facilitate translating another's behavior into an understanding of his/her intentions. ... I noticed the students tended to struggle with their perceptions of how they present during job interviews and, more broadly, with their understanding of how communicative body language is. ... Within this population, would an emotionally expressive partner enhance their empathic understanding? ... While a highly structured intervention may yield gains, a potential challenge may be generalizing and applying the skills to t...

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In addition to evaluating the role of the American Psychological Association (APA)'s Ethics Code for experiments, this paper seeks to qualify whether research gains initially made under the likes of Darley and Latane (1968) were in any way aided by the topical research experiment. ... Keywords: bystander apathy, deception, experiment, ethics code Considerations of Ethics in Research on Bystander Apathy Psychological research has long provided society with a way to ask questions in the hopes of understanding human behavior. ...

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Stainton-Rogers, 2001) Women however have nothing to lose by accepting rules ,conformity and concentrate on learning but rather a lot to gain by achieving a good education and so securing more powerful jobs. ...

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Assignment Billig has evaluated Tajfel and Turner's theorising of intergroup conflict as limited because of the emphasis placed on cognitive processes. Discuss Billig's evaluation and assess his arguments for a discursive psychological approach. Response Michael Billig was a student of Henri Tajfel...

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Jost et al. elucidate these ties in developing the overarching theory of motivated social cognition in order to gain a deeper, all-encompassing understanding why and how conservatives think the way they do. ...

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