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  2. Legal psychology - Wikipedia

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    Legal psychology is a field focused on the application of psychological principles within the legal system and its interactions with individuals. Professionals in this area are involved in understanding, assessing, and questioning suspects, evaluating potential jurors, investigating crimes and crime scenes, conducting forensic investigations, and handling other legal contexts.

  3. David Rosenhan - Wikipedia

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    Swarthmore College Princeton University Haverford College University of Pennsylvania Stanford University. Thesis. Some perceptual correlates of anxiety (1958) David L. Rosenhan (/ ˈroʊznən /; November 22, 1929 – February 6, 2012) [ 1 ] was an American psychologist. He is known best for the Rosenhan experiment, a study challenging the ...

  4. United States patent law - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. Under United States law, a patent is a right granted to the inventor of a (1) process, machine, article of manufacture, or composition of matter, (2) that is new, useful, and non-obvious. A patent is the right to exclude others, for a limited time (usually, 20 years) from profiting from a patented technology without the consent of the ...

  5. Theoretical psychology - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Theoretical psychology is concerned with theoretical and philosophical aspects of psychology. It is an interdisciplinary field with a wide scope of study. It focuses on combining and incorporating existing and developing theories of psychology non-experimentally. Theoretical psychology originated from the philosophy of science, with logic ...

  6. The Conscious Mind - Wikipedia

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    The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory was published in 1996, and is the first book written by David Chalmers, an Australian philosopher specialising in philosophy of mind. Although the book has been greatly influential , Chalmers maintains that it is "far from perfect", as most of it was written as part of his PhD dissertation ...

  7. Donald Winnicott - Wikipedia

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    Donald Woods Winnicott (7 April 1896 – 25 January 1971) was an English paediatrician and psychoanalyst who was especially influential in the field of object relations theory and developmental psychology. He was a leading member of the British Independent Group of the British Psychoanalytical Society, President of the British Psychoanalytical ...

  8. Patent - Wikipedia

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    A patent is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of time in exchange for publishing an enabling disclosure of the invention. [1] In most countries, patent rights fall under private law and the patent holder must sue someone ...

  9. Glossary of patent law terms - Wikipedia

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    An application for a patent, or patent application, is a request by a person or company to the competent authority (usually a patent office) to grant them a patent. By extension, a patent application also refers to the content of the document which that person or company filed to initiate the application process.