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  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
  Perception
  Autism
  Disorders and Syndromes
  Psychology
  Child Development
   

  Empathy

  Empathy is the recognition and understanding of the states of mind, beliefs, desires, and particularly, emotions of others. It is often characterized as the ability to "put oneself into another's ... > more
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  Macroeconomics

  Macroeconomics is the economics sub-field of study that considers aggregate behavior, and the study of the sum of individual economic decisions. Macroeconomics can be used to analyze how best to ... > more
• Neuroscience
  Nervous System
  Psychology Research
  Intelligence
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  Amygdala

  The amygdala (Latin, corpus amygdaloideum) is an almond-shape set of neurons located deep in the brain's medial temporal lobe. Shown to play a key role in the processsing of emotions, the amygdala ... > more
• Psychiatry
  Depression
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  Bipolar Disorder
   

  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
• Diet and Weight Loss
  Nutrition
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  Obesity
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  Gluten-free, casein-free diet

  Many parents of children with autism have reported that a gluten-free casein-free diet helps their children. According to the theory, some children are unable to digest the protein in many cereals ... > more
• Addiction
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  Drug addiction

  Drug addiction, or substance dependence is the compulsive use of psychoactive drugs, to the point where the user has no effective choice but to continue use. Drug addiction has two components: ... > more
• Behavior
  Psychology
  Social Psychology
  Consumer Behavior
  Perception
  Anger Management
   

  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
• Child Psychology
  Intelligence
  Educational Psychology
  Child Development
  Mental Health
  Psychology
   

  Child prodigy

  A child prodigy is someone who is a master of one or more skills or arts at an early age. One generally accepted heuristic for identifying prodigies is the following: a prodigy is someone who, by the ... > more
• Psychology
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  Social cognition

  Social cognition is the study of how people process social information, especially its encoding, storage, retrieval, and application to social situations. There has been much recent interest in the ... > more

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