Topic: Psychology

Found 8 articles
It's All Over Now, Baby Blue: Psychoanalyzing Connie in Joyce Carol Oates's "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?"
02/24/10 - 1809 words
It is perhaps an understatement to say that the character Connie in Joyce Carol Oates’s short story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” has a lot of issues. Oates has provided the perfect character to... Go to Article »
Decision Making: Factors that Influence Decision Making, Heuristics Used, and Decision Outcomes
02/23/10 - 3647 words
Every day, people are inundated with decisions, big and small. Understanding how people arrive at their choices is an area of cognitive psychology that has received attention. Theories have been generated to explain how people... Go to Article »
Online Social Support: An Effective Means of Mediating Stress
02/17/10 - 7114 words
It is estimated that in North America, alone, there are currently 251 million people who use the internet (Miniwats Marketing Group, 2009).  Individuals utilize the internet for many reasons, including information, social... Go to Article »
Examining Oppression Through the Lives and Stories of Sylvia Plath and Charlotte Perkins Gilman
01/05/10 - 5131 words
Sylvia Plath‘s The Bell Jar is about a young woman named Esther Greenwood entering college in the early 1950’s, a time before the second wave of the women’s movement had been implemented. Esther has dreams of... Go to Article »
Enhancing the Recall of Presented Material for Undergraduate Students
12/13/09 - 1018 words
In Enhancing the Recall of Presented Material, Larson (2009) examined the effects of different styles of note-taking and which ones seemed to benefit undergraduates when tested on the material they were expected to know. ... Go to Article »
The Relationship Between Stockholm Syndrome and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Battered Women
11/05/09 - 5289 words
Every year, 10-50% of women suffer intimate partner violence (Bargai, Ben-Shakhar, & Shalev, 2007). It is important to understand what conditions affect these battered women and how any resultant conditions interact with... Go to Article »
Life as Art as Life: Dramaturgy as Psychology
11/04/09 - 1942 words
Aristotle played with the idea of human life as a drama and its role on the Greek stage in his Poetics, defining tragedy—the highest form of drama, of art, and of life—as “a mimesis of an action that is serious... Go to Article »
Sublime Inauthenticity: How Critical is Truth in Autobiography?
11/03/09 - 1597 words
In the autobiography, time and history, at first glance, seem paramount. After all, autobiography is the account of the things that have happened in a person’s life, selected and made ready for public consumption, usually... Go to Article »