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Exposure effect
Exposure effect is a psychological artifact well known to advertisers: people express undue liking for things merely because they are familiar with them. This effect has been nicknamed the ... > more -
Healthy Aging
Children's Health
Attention Deficit Disorder
Pregnancy and Childbirth
Child Development
Educational Psychology
Erikson's stages of psychosocial development
Erikson's stages of psychosocial development describes eight developmental stages through which a healthily developing human should pass from infancy to late adulthood. In each stage the person ... > more -
General anxiety disorder
General anxiety disorder or generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is an anxiety disorder that is characterized by excessive and uncontrollable worry about everyday things. The frequency, intensity, and ... > more -
Seasonal affective disorder
Seasonal affective disorder, or SAD, also known as winter depression is an affective, or mood disorder. Most SAD sufferers experience normal mental health throughout most of the year, but experience ... > more -
Narcissism
The word is derived from a Greek myth. Narcissus was a handsome Greek youth who rejected the desperate advances of the nymph Echo. As punishment, he was doomed to fall in love with his own reflection ... > more -
Dorian Gray syndrome
Dorian Gray Syndrome (DGS) denotes a cultural and societal phenomenon characterized by an excessive preoccupation with the individual's own appearance (dysmorphophobia) accompanied by difficulties ... > more -
Children's Health
Attention Deficit Disorder
Healthy Aging
Child Psychology
Controlled Substances
Sports Medicine
Child abuse
Child abuse is the physical or psychological maltreatment of a child by an adult, often synonymous with the term child maltreatment or the term child abuse and neglect. There are many forms of abuse ... > more -
Social psychology (psychology)
Social psychology is the scientific study of how people's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others. The terms thoughts, feelings, and ... > more -
Illusion of control
Illusion of control is the tendency for human beings to believe they can control or at least influence outcomes that they demonstrably have no influence over. The predominant paradigm in research on ... > more
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