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  2. Cross-cultural psychology - Wikipedia

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    The term "subjective well-being" is frequently used throughout psychology research and is made up of three main parts: 1) life satisfaction (a cognitive evaluation of one's overall life), 2) the presence of positive emotional experiences, and 3) the absence of negative emotional experiences. [44]

  3. Inoculation theory - Wikipedia

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    Inoculation is a theory that explains how attitudes and beliefs can be made more resistant to future challenges. For an inoculation message to be successful, the recipient experiences threat (a recognition that a held attitude or belief is vulnerable to change) and is exposed to and/or engages in refutational preemption (preemptive refutation, that is, defenses against potential counterarguments).

  4. Grand Unified Theory - Wikipedia

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    This can be divided into SU(5) × SU(3) F × U(1) which is the SU(5) theory together with some heavy bosons which act on the generation number. GUTs with four families / generations, O(16) : Again assuming 4 generations of fermions, the 128 particles and anti-particles can be put into a single spinor representation of O(16) .

  5. Behavior modification - Wikipedia

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    Behavior modification is a treatment approach that uses respondent and operant conditioning to change behavior. Based on methodological behaviorism, [1] overt behavior is modified with (antecedent) stimulus control and consequences, including positive and negative reinforcement contingencies to increase desirable behavior, as well as positive and negative punishment, and extinction to reduce ...

  6. Scientific theory - Wikipedia

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    The meaning of the term scientific theory (often contracted to theory for brevity) as used in the disciplines of science is significantly different from the common vernacular usage of theory. [5] [note 1] In everyday speech, theory can imply an explanation that represents an unsubstantiated and speculative guess, [5] whereas in a scientific ...

  7. Glasser's choice theory - Wikipedia

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    The term "choice theory" is the work of William Glasser, MD, author of the book so named, and is the culmination of some 50 years of theory and practice in psychology and counselling. Characteristics [ edit ]

  8. Community psychology - Wikipedia

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    Community psychology is concerned with the community as the unit of study. This contrasts with most psychology, which focuses on the individual.Community psychology also studies the community as a context for the individuals within it, [1] and the relationships of the individual to communities and society.

  9. Political psychology - Wikipedia

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    Political psychology originated from Western Europe, France, where it was closely tied to the emergence of new disciplines and paradigms as well as to the precise social and political context in various countries. [3] The discipline political psychology was formally introduced during the Franco-Prussian war and the socialist revolution, stirred ...