Popular culture and media is often an effective way to study certain phenomena and fraud and white-collar crime is no different.  There are many good examples in which white-collar crime is presented in film, some of them dramatizations of actual events and others that are purely fictional.  In either case, many of these films can […]

Physical unattractiveness, deformity, and disfigurement have been associated with evil since antiquity. In the Iliad, Homer described the wicked Thersites as possessing thin hair over a “misshapen head,” with one blinking eye and a lame leg. Physiognomy (the “science” of reading personality characteristics into facial features) traces its practice to Homer’s Greece. When Socrates was […]

   Social Psychology Project  Spring 2017 | Craig Fredin This handout helps explain your class project. Your task is to develop a creative project that demonstrates/comments on one of the social psychological phenomena we have covered in class (attitudes, attitude change, conformity, obedience, compliance). I encourage to you to scan through the chapters and explore […]

Developmental Psychology Copyright 1987 by the American Psychological Assooation, Inc. 1987, VOl. 23, No. 5,655-664 0012-1649/87/$00.75 Object Permanence in 3 1/2- and 4 1/2-Month-Old Infants Ren6e Baillargeon University of Illinois These experiments tested object permanence in 3 1/2- and 4 l/2-month-old infants. The method used in the experiments was similar to that used by Baillargeon, […]

SCHIZOPHRENIA SPECTRUM AND OTHER PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS APA Format 1-2 page critique of the film after analyzing the main character and completing a diagnostic impression as it best reflects the character’s clinical syndrome and how the character meets the diagnostic criteria for the particular disorder(s). **** Use the DSM-5 to develop the character impression. Provide your […]

The development of marriage as an ever-changing ritual in society can be projected onto future contexts through the millennial culture and the current social climate. Symbolic Interactionism projects marriage to be influenced by the environment and hence, the future of marriage to be a product of the culture and societal values. The increasing values of […]

Mergers/acquisitions are at the forefront of maintaining a sustainable competitive advantage, which often places management with the challenges of increasing job satisfaction and motivation among the subordinate ranks to insure acceptable levels of individual performance are maintained. An ingenious method of deducing various employees’ motivational triggers that are diverse within an organization is by conducting […]

Earlier understanding on human motivation was based on early psychological milestones: Freudian Theory of Id, Behaviorist Theory of Watson, Humanistic Theory of Maslow. For example, according to Freud, the basic biological urges, that he called “id” were instinctive by nature and drove human behavior according to uncontrollable urges, i.e, “negative” urges that humans needed to […]

The company’s policies have high profile projects, all organized in phases to require the use of work teams. The company has also a well-established human capital for the proper remuneration and motivation of the employees who work in work teams. The human capital caters for training the employees as the technology advancements may require. Training […]

On the night of February 4th, police responded to a call at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wilson. They had been shot and killed; the only other person in the home was the Wilson’s 25 year old son Edward. Subsequently Edward was arrested and charged with two counts of first degree murder. Edward was […]